make build a directed-acyclic build graph (DAG) of dependencies, and uses file modification times to decide whether or not the outputs need to be rebuilt.
Source: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles, an article by Matt Rickard.
Lockdown Mode is a new Apple feature you should hope you’ll never need to use. But for those who do, like journalists, politicians, lawyers and human rights defenders, it’s a last line of defense against nation-state spyware designed to punch through an iPhone’s protections.
Source: Hands-on with Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, an article by Zack Whittaker.
Running a Linux VM from my MacBook Pro is how I spend much of my time during software development. In this post, I compare multiple solutions to this problem, with a focus on how they perform with I/O operations.
Source: Comparing Linux Environments on macOS Host, an article by Shane F. Carr.