By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Brian Krebs reports that the guy behind November’s “Month of Kernel Bugs” is planning a similar stunt for January, this time featuring a daily stream of “previously undocumented security hole[s] in Apple’s OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it”.
Philly Ryu on my MacHeist numbers:
I think it’s important to note how wildly inaccurate his estimations are. Seriously. Doubling his estimation of dev fees would bring it closer to reality, but even then, not quite.
Doubling the developer fees I reported would reduce MacHeist’s share of the profits from 87 to 75.
Regret the Error:
Gather ’round for our annual collection of the funny, shocking, sad and disturbing media errors and corrections from the past year.
Crazy recursive Xcode build script that lets the source code for an application live within the application’s own bundle. (Via Rentzsch.)
He’s had the domain since 1998; now that they’re making a sequel to 1983’s War Games, they’re trying to take it from him in court.
Guess it’s a good thing I went with Yahoo’s API for Daring Fireball’s search.
They did call it a “beta”, though.