Introducing the Safari MCP server in Safari Technology Preview. A Model Context Protocol server that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerful. https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team at Apple! We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. It's systems programming in C++ and Swift and the team is local to Cupertino. Please retoot so that people looking for a new job can see this. 🙏🏼 https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200651137-3401/webkit-privacy-adtech-engineer
The audiobook version of my hacker thriller "Submerged" is finally out! Just in time for the holidays. My narrator Kristin Price has done a phenomenal job.
Audible: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7M5ZZWH/
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/show/3TEIdTlVtFm9HK10jdoBE0
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/submerged-42
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/submerged-a-hacker-thriller-unabridged/id1861941684
This claim is getting legs so I checked. Indeed, Google Trends in the US is currently very close to the February 2009 peak for "help with mortgage." 😔 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=help%20with%20mortgage&hl=en-US
Create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac with Container. Open source, written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. No Docker or similar needed.
· GitHub repo: https://github.com/apple/container
· Intro presentation: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/346/
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color? Well, now you can, with contrast-color(). Here’s how it works. https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
It's finally out on Google Books! https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=HaxWEQAAQBAJ
The day has come – my new hacker thriller is out! Including hardcover and paperback.
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-hacker-thriller-John-Wilander-ebook/dp/B0F5BLSYGY/
· Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6745112316
· Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/submerged-38
This is near-future fiction involving internet sovereignty, superpower cyber conflict, real hacking, and the continued personal saga of West William Wilder.
Pre-orders for my new hacker thriller "Submerged" are active!
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-hacker-thriller-John-Wilander-ebook/dp/B0F5BLSYGY/
· Apple Books:https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6745112316
· Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/submerged-38
Release on May 3rd. That's when the paperback and hardcover become available too. @bookstodon
Safari now supports CHIPS – opt-in partitioned cookies!
Cross-site resources that aren't from known tracker domains can set cookies with response headers like this:
Set-Cookie: TestCookie=12345; SameSite=None; Secure; Partitioned
See under "Networking" in this post:
https://webkit.org/blog/16574/webkit-features-in-safari-18-4/#networking
I'm in a cozy loft in central Germany (AirBnB), going through the copyedit of my upcoming novel. 👨🏻💻📖
Sitting under an angled window, the nano-texture display of my MacBook Pro is so darn good. Very happy with that upgrade.
With the massive personal data leak from Volkswagen Group we’ll finally see what GDPR is worth. As an EU citizen and VW owner, I hope we see real consequences that drive change. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/12/whistleblower-finds-unencrypted-location-data-for-800000-vw-evs/
Safari 18.2 on iOS/iPadOS connects over HTTPS by default.
Also, there’s a setting for HTTPS-only which prompts the user to accept or deny a fallback to a non-secure connection.
https://webkit.org/blog/16301/webkit-features-in-safari-18-2/