Linked List: February 9, 2019

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Skillshare 

My thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this week at DF. With over 7 million members and more than 25,000 classes, Skillshare is one of the best ways to learn new skills. It’s like Netflix for online learning. Interested in web development or data science? How about UX design, mobile photography, filmmaking, creative writing, even coffee brewing? Skillshare has it all.

Skillshare’s production values and content quality are so much better than what you typically see on the web. High quality is obviously their first priority. Here’s a personal recommendation: “Customizing Type with Aaron Draplin: Creating Wordmarks That Work”. Just look at the cool wordmarks on the title image of the video. So sweet.

And for this week only, Skillshare is offering the first 1,000 Daring Fireball readers two free months of Skillshare Premium.

Apple Tells App Developers to Disclose or Remove Screen Recording Code 

Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch:

Apple is telling app developers to remove or properly disclose their use of analytics code that allows them to record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps — or face removal from the app store, TechCrunch can confirm.

In an email, an Apple spokesperson said: “Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem. Our App Store Review Guidelines require that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity.”

A lot of these notices went out last night (according to several DF-reading developers), and Apple’s only giving them 24 hours to submit updated apps before they’re removed from the App Store. I think Apple’s doing the right thing here, and it’s an impressive display of what the App Store review team can analyze, but given that this has been going on for years, I think 24 hours notice over a weekend is a bit drastic.