Nuno

@Nuno@tweesecake.social

Hello everyone!
My name is Arkadiusz and I come from the beautiful land of Poland. I am blind and I have many interests, of which the most prominent are #programming, #literature, #history, #china, #russia, #math, #music, #psychology...
What else can I tell you about myself? In my free time i develop software that aims to help people with various disabilities, read books, listen to #TrueCrime podcasts and, most of all, play #WorldOfWarcraft.
I am also diagnosed with #depression and unfortunately

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Nuno, to random

CC @devontechnologies
DEVONThink: a document management solution for Mac I didn’t know I needed

I started using this tool a few days ago because I needed a new toy to play with. But it very quicly stopped being just a toy. For the last few days I am migrating all my stuff from many other apps to DT because its just amazing and, more importantly it just works. The databases are easy to backup and move which is pretty important in my setup as I move between two countries on a regular basis. Searches are fast, and I mean it, corcondance mode helps in my dirty writing, and countless organizational tools make my huge amount of papers organized.
But what do I organize so eagerly?

  1. My journal: I previously used Ulysses for this, but some accessibility quirks made me angry with this tool, plus the subscription. Eh, I have setapp but sometimes, just sometimes I have no Internet and grace periods of Setapp are nonexistent. The problem I had with Ulysses was that it required me to think of making a journal entry, whereas in DT I made a simple script, I press CTRL+E and I can just type away insults at whoever annoyed me. A nice advantage is that those are pure MD files, I can force them out of DT without DT itself if that makes sense. I also keep some kind of encyclopedia of people I have met (don't call me out but I love writing every fact about people I met). With DT's wiki features I see myself using that more. It will require huge amount of work to convert my current setup but it can definitely be done.
  2. University notes: I study Chinese at the university. I record classes and transcribe them with Audio Hijack. DevonThink can play audio, DevonThink can add so called annotations co audio which are separate documents but linked to the audio. What does that mean? It means I can read my classes, and play a given fragment only when I actually need to hear. I don't get distracted by teacher's slow speech, I read fast and listen only when I forgot how to pronounce a word. How I did it I made a simple conversion script that converts the transcript made by. audio hijack into MD link that DT can recognize and play my audio in a given time. I don't have any idea about AI, but if GPT is as good as people say it should be able to do it pretty easily.
  3. RPG planning: believe it or not, I am still working on my game. If I have time, I can convert my mess of TXTs, XLSXs and other data into DT. By combining Wiki features, custom metadata, crossreferences, concordance mode I can very easily have a grant perspective (pun intended, this tool aint worth your trouble though since its inaccessible) over my story, characters and balance. The thing I see it helping the most is the balance, since I can very easily see quests in a given chapter giving what rewards, then I can pretty easily foresee what level the player might reach upon reaching a given spot in the game. (1/2)
Nuno, to macos

I want to get into Vim. Any way of using this editor accessibly with on ?

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I think it’s faster to reinstall a newer version of a linux distro than it is to update an existing one.

Nuno,

@khalidabuhakmeh Confirmed, I was doing that some times before I decided no more linux in my private life.

Nuno, to macos

If you are a user, please! do not update to MacOS 14.2 beta 2 (build 23C5030f). They have completely broken the text box navigation, meaning that you cannot use your arrows to navigate the text. The cursor will indeed move, however the change will not be reported back, so you have to query your current line with VO+L.

Nuno,

@pitermach No! I tried that, no joy.

Nuno,

@pitermach .Ow, I need to reinstall my os then? I have no time to spare...

Nuno,

@miki @pitermach I have found the culprit. COuld you help me confirm? Try turning typing echo to nothing. Will the bug start occuring?

Nuno,

@pitermach @miki Stupidly annoying bug! I hopę they fix it son!

Nuno, to swift

So actually the defer keyword in is one of the prettiest gems I have found in the language sinceg god knows when. It can be used to execute some code whenever the current scope exits, no matter how that exit occurred e.g. when a guard check fails? SO if you have some cleanup code, file closing, socket closing, ETC, you can use defer to closet hat file or socket, no matter what happens in the scope. Of course, do no try to use defer keyword to exit the scope with return or the like, it won't work. For those familiar with .NET, its similar to the finally construct you might have seen in C#

Nuno, to random

What I love About MacOS? I download a program and I can be pretty certain it will be usable. I download a program on Windows and I can be pretty certain I’ll have to uninstall it. I Just discovered that DevonThink is accessible. I needed Such Ań organizational tool.

Nuno, to iPhone

Any recommendations for for the ? I know about Ambeo Smart, however that seems to be discontinued and I am scared it will stop working soon.

Nuno,

@FreakyFwoof I don’ know the technicalities of the whole iPhone microphone interface, hence I wonder if software can break compatibility easily. Thanks for your advice though. I will need them in a few days, hence I ask.

Nuno,

@FreakyFwoof Oh OK. I know that some iOS beta had broken compatibility with the microphone so I wondered. Thanks for clearing it up.

Nuno,

@FreakyFwoof Yeah. I will odrer them then. Thank you

Nuno, to macos

If you are a user please avoid 14 beta until further notice. LatestMacOS 14.1 Beta (23B5056e) includes a nasty bug which makes Voiceover extremely slow and unresponsive while using the braille display. The affected models are definitely Focus 40 and Seika Mini (both connected via USB) however my investigation lets me assume that this will affect all braille displays in the world, as the issue seems to lie in the Braille Translator service.

Nuno, to SwiftUI

I have already completedt he 100 days of but sincet he course is getting a massive! update for iOS 17 I want to try and complete every project once again with a fresh imnd and much more experience. Maybe I will discover something that can be fixed or improved? God I remember that day in June when I said to myself “haha, I want to learn writing iOS software". That was a few days after I wrote SS-Mac to switch soundcards on the fly on MacOS. Then I used HWS as yet another programming website that can help me iterate over an array in a language I never used. I never thought I will spend so much time on this website just a few days later. Thanks Paul for your amazing work.

Nuno, to random Polish

hey guys, any from @RogueAmoeba users here? I need the latest FC release asap. I have locked myself out of the program and i will need it in 40 or so minutes. Help me pls, just zip me the *.app file. I updated the system to beta before updating the software to FC, now I have the incompatible OS dialog, without a way to proceed.

Nuno, to random

So Swift Data by example is actually amazing! I have worked through many examples by now and I am so amazed by the framework and the book! I will still use CoreData this year, we'll see what iOS 18 brings in terms of Swift Data goodies, but I am impressed so far. Just too early to adopt the framework in production imo.

Nuno, to random

I am eagerly waiting for by example by @twostraws I want to learn this new framework, and I haven_.t been reading much on it except Apple docs because I am sure of the quality of the work we_.ll get today.

twostraws, to random
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I upgraded to watchOS 10, and it’s so interesting – like someone joined the team and said, “why do we do that?” 100 times.

  • Was side button multitasking useful? Not really.
  • Was the zooming grid an effective way to find apps? Nope.
  • Did we need the clock in the app list? Nuh-uh.

Controversially, I’m also glad “swipe to change watch face” is gone, because I never did it on purpose 🙈

It takes a lot of time, energy, and bravery to execute this kind of root to branch rethink – well done! 🙌

Nuno,

@twostraws I don’t like the fact that they took the ability to oswipe through faces.

Nuno,

@twostraws Since I am blind I use VoiceOver. Because of how the software operates, long press takes relatively long time. But one can get used to that change.

Nuno, to macos

I wrote a small #macOS #utility which blocks all mouse and/or trackpad input. This way, #blind #Macbook users will not brush the trackpad by accident while typing. I wroie it for my friend who had recently startedt o use MacOS and she was constantly changing windows and clicking stuff inadvernetently hence this tool is born. Sorry for not notarizing it, Xcode 15 RC has a bug which makes it crash. when signing a macOS app. The app is safe, the only reason why it requires #accessibility permissions is to be able to discard global mouse events. Hope you find this useful

https://transfer.sh/Y5hJGV0Ndw/Cornoc.zip

Nuno, to random Polish

Does anyone know how can I make make Capslock be recognised as the standard modifier key? I am setting up a machine for a friend who is using NVDA and I have no idea how to make Parallels recognise commands with capslock, such as Capslock + N

SingingNala, to random

Now updating to the MacOS beta to see if an issue I've seen on stable is also occurring in the beta. Wish me luck, Mac friends.

Nuno,

@SingingNala What issue is that?

Nuno,

@SingingNala Oh I understand. I had it only 2 to 3 times.

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