Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch

They put deprecation warnings in the headers starting with 10.7, and I'm pretty sure there was a WWDC talk (hopefully still available) mentioning it. These two links roughly explain the issues/reasoning: http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-apples-tec… http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2011/08/mac-os-x-lion-and-openssl.…

Might be referring to the Mogenerator case[1]. [1] http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/82453434093/apple-claims-mogenerators-…

The link: http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/12955002148/death-and-resurrection-of-…

Apple has a few frameworks floating around, internally and out. See http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/286536824/apples-myriad-javascript-fra…

Rentzsch (developer of Click To Flash) posted his thoughts on this a bit ago. http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/382362022/persistent-mobilesafari-page… I agree it is very frustrating though. Hopefully it will be addressed in the next update.

I think Marco missed the point. He's taken a decline in Apple & iOS specific conferences, then assumed that means all conferences in general are over. But web development conferences are still going fine. PyCon & DjangoCon & JSConf & Laracon all seem to be doing okay, and even have regional conferences. Indie developer conferences like FemtoConf are selling out. Business Of Software is still going strong. Even niche conferences like the Xojo programming language are holding annual conferences on multiple continents. There's still plenty of conferences for digital nomads & travel bloggers & Etsy makers & songwriters & authors out there. It's Apple-specific conferences that are disappearing. (I tweeted that last October [1] and I'm now kicking myself for not blogging about it instead.) Some of the Apple conferences pivoted to include Android and web-dev - for example, iOSDevCamp became Developer Camp and was hosted at Google premises. Maybe this is just part of a cycle, Apple-related conferences have disappeared before (like Wolf Rentzch's C4 conference did in 2010, [2] [3]). Or perhaps it's an early indicator that developers are moving on from Apple to other platforms. [1] https://twitter.com/syneryder/statuses/919474979086798848 [2] https://www.macworld.com/article/1151210/c4_end.html [3] http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/592949476/c4-release

> There just isn't anything on the web that compares. (or if there is, please please tell me!) The breadth and depth of well-written technical information available on the web is far, far beyond what was available in Byte in its heyday. Consider: http://lwn.net/Articles/428530/bigpage http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/category/programming http://hackermonthly.com/issue-10.html http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ http://prog21.dadgum.com/ http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/ http://diveintomark.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://www.facebook.com/Engineering http://research.google.com/video.html http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/ http://www.exampler.com/blog/ The big difficulty these days is not getting access to well-written, broad-ranging tech material; it's choosing which well-written, broad-ranging tech material you want to read out of all the immense quantity of material out there, and avoiding spending all of your time reading it. Services like HN, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Delicious, and Slashdot basically exist to solve this filtering problem (although not, obviously, limited to the tech press). > What gets funded on the web isn't determined by what users want - it's what advertisers will pay for. That's true, but fortunately it's irrelevant, because what gets written about on the web isn't determined by what gets funded—it's what people want to write about.