The Apple GPU And The Impossible Bug
- Alyssa Rosenzweig tl;dr: Alyssa dives into the rabbit hole uncovered by reverse-engineering AGX to build open source graphics drivers. "The driver fails to render large amounts of geometry. Spinning a cube is fine, low polygon geometry is okay, but detailed models won’t render. Instead, the GPU renders only part of the model and then faults."featured in #317
Always-on Processor Magic: How Find My works While iPhone Is Powered Off
tl;dr: A look into Apple's Always-on Processor (AOP). "The AOP has a special role. It connects to almost every other chip in the iPhone. For some chips, it only does basic tasks like power management, and for other chips, it acts as a transparent proxy that wakes up iOS when needed."featured in #261
Mental Health Impacts Of A Big Tech Job
- Jake Preston tl;dr: "I got to a point where I needed to leave and focus on myself." Jacob talks about the toxic work culture during his time at Apple and recounts a story where work was valued over employee's mental health. Much of this was exacerbated due to the fact that he could never switch off from work while at home.featured in #254
An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
tl;dr: "While child exploitation is a serious problem, and while efforts to combat it are almost unquestionably well-intentioned, Apple's proposal introduces a backdoor that threatens to undermine fundamental privacy protections for all users of Apple products."featured in #244
Dissecting The Apple M1 GPU, Part I
- Alyssa Rosenzweig tl;dr: "A few weeks ago, I purchased a Mac Mini with an M1 GPU as a development target to study the instruction set and command stream, to understand the GPU’s architecture at a level not previously publicly understood."featured in #221
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Building The NPR MacOS App, Part 1
- Connor Montgomery tl;dr: 2-part series where Connor guides us on how to build a menubar macOS app that streams NPR stations.featured in #187
Apple Will Require HTTPS Connections for iOS Apps By the End of 2016
- Kate Congerfeatured in #87.1