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chockenberry, to random
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Anyone who raves about the brevity and expressiveness of Swift has never written a framework with public classes, structs, and methods.

So much public. And subtle differences between classes and structs.

jsnell, to random
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I'm done with iPad Discourse™ for a while, but I will say this: When I'm working and listening to music on AirPods and I close up the iPad, the music keeps playing, a thing the Mac still can't do.

chockenberry,
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@jsnell And on a Mac with Apple Silicon, ssh connections to servers remain active while the device is “sleeping”.

The opposite problem.

chockenberry,
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@cabel @jsnell Both WorldWideWeb and iPulse on iOS use background audio to accomplish the same thing.

The future of productivity on iOS is noisy.

chockenberry,
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@jkohlmann @cabel @jsnell The worst part is that it’s holding back new and innovative platforms like visionOS (for another decade?)

joesteel, to random
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My “dos and don’t’s” opinions on presenting“AI” at WWDC based on the messy competitors and the rumors so far.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-dos-and-donts-of-ai-at-wwdc/

chockenberry,
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@joesteel Great list. I really hope they solve the context problem, but the fact that it’s been a decade since Handoff was introduced and you still can’t transfer what you’re listening to between devices, I’m not hopeful.

chockenberry,
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@tvaziri @joesteel My theory is that Apple’s other concerns, namely privacy and legal/licensing, are the root of the problem.

And none of those things get better with an AI assistant. In fact, they probably get worse.

chockenberry, to random
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I've seen a link going around about adding &udm=14 to Google searches to get a “web" view without the usual crap.

I played around with this a bit this morning and there's an important caveat: Google appears to be sniffing the Referer header (or something similar).

If you add the URL parameter in the browser's address bar, you don't get the “web” view. If you use it in a link on a Slack channel, you do.

It's absolutely criminal that they are calling this the “web" view, because it ain’t.

gedeonm, to random
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What the heck was observed static electricity called or thought of before the general discovery of electricity? 🤔

chockenberry,
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@gedeonm The answer will shock you!

marcoarment, to random
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Anyone using the SwiftUI SubscriptionStoreView with the “Restore Subscription" button?

i.e.

SubscriptionStoreView(…)
.storeButton(.visible, for: .restorePurchases)

Does the resulting "Restore Subscription" button in the UI, uh… work? For anyone?

I can't get it to do anything. Prompts for password, then does nothing, no IAP SwiftUI callbacks are called, and nothing is delivered to Transaction.updates.

chockenberry,
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@marcoarment Have you tried using another App Store?

chockenberry, to history
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A quick heads up that we released a new version of iPulse for the Mac yesterday:

https://ipulseapp.com/#history

It includes some nice improvements that were inspired by the iOS version.

And if you haven't checked iPulse out on your mobile devices, take a look at the nice things people are saying about it!

https://ipulseapp.com/#press

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad today is very reminiscent of the Mac of the 90s. A bewildering array of models and SKUs, a beloved operating system with core technology issues that severely limit the future of the product line, a dearth of the real apps professionals use, and a strong emphasis on the handful of creative niches it's carved out for itself. Unlike the 90s, though, all of these problems are masked by the success of the low-end. If you split iPad Pro out into its own product category, it would be in trouble

chockenberry,
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@stroughtonsmith This is a really great observation. In the early 90's I was using Windows at work and a Mac at home (making shareware!).

The Mac had some great apps, but you really felt the lack of true multitasking, memory management, and the other advantages of Windows/Unix that we now take for granted.

There's no NeXT to save the day this time. We're metaphorically stuck setting memory limits and hoping that processes cooperate.

chockenberry, to random
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A not fun fact: I didn't get a security bounty for a macOS release that was done specifically to address an issue I found.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/05/14/no-bounty-for-kernel-vulnerability/

The rational was that I disclosed the issue publicly. Which I did after reporting it in the beta releases, and after they said “we're unable to identify an issue in your report”, AND AFTER THEY RELEASED THE FUCKING VULNERABILITY.

https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/111580066311950281

I have no energy/desire to argue with Apple, but this ain't a good look for a $3T company.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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⭐️ I blogged: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)

https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20240514-The-iPad-Pro-Manifesto-(2024-Edition)

chockenberry,
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@stroughtonsmith Loved the write up, and agree 100%, but it’s pretty depressing to know that some of these things have been a problem for over a decade. It doesn’t give me much hope for the future.

gruber, (edited ) to random
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Thoughts on Apple no longer including stickers with new devices to reduce waste:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

chockenberry,
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@gruber Keeping these babies out of the landfill.

chockenberry, to random
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GEEZUS THEIR ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE TRIPPING BALLS TONITE

chockenberry, to random
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@hotdogsladies I still listen to those Cheap Trick MP3s I grabbed off your server so many years ago. The dude knew how to make a great album.

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

gruber, to random
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It has been a good day for Esc key fans.

chockenberry,
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@gruber @tambourineman @agiletortoise COMMAS ARE FOR LOSERS

chockenberry, to random
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@jsnell I really enjoyed today’s post on the iPad flexing into the Mac. Makes a ton of sense to me and I hope it happens.

But the recent comments about the MacBook Air being good at “AI tasks” worries me that marketing is not focused on how people actually use these devices and instead falling back on buzz words.

🤞that you’re right!

hotdogsladies, to random
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Gave myself a weird home haircut.

I was kinda thinking George Hurley and was ready to settle for Mike Patton but in the end I landed in an unanticipated third location.

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chockenberry,
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@hotdogsladies SO YOUR IN CHARGE OF THE SEA MEN THEN NICE

chockenberry, to random
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Looks about right:

http://foo.com

jamesthomson, to random
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Achievement unlocked, rolled a virtual dice with my hands.

A pair of hands made of bananas pick up a giant D20 and throw it, in VR.

chockenberry,
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@jamesthomson CAN YOU MAKE YOUR HANDS BIGGER

simonbs, to random
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I can't fathom that this still hasn't been fixed. It's not as if Xcode has a teeny tiny user base and this is an obscure edge case. Every single Swift developer experiences this all the time. It's our IDE failing to communicate whether our codebase could compile or not. That's kind of a biggie.

🤦‍♂️

chockenberry,
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@simonbs It won't eliminate the problem completely, but turning off “Show live issues" is a pretty great quality of life improvement.

chockenberry, to random
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Yesterday, a friend had an issue with gunk in their USB-C port.

A couple of years ago my dentist gave me this tiny toothbrush and I’m like “what the hell am I going to do with this?”

Turns out it works great on device ports and speaker grills.

It’s a cheap tool to do an important job: https://amzn.to/3WnadKG

chockenberry, to random
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The bad news: XML is going to be around forever.

The good news: XML is going to be around forever.

chockenberry,
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Speaking of which: https://github.com/chockenberry/XMLProcessor

gedeonm, (edited ) to random
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Boy the Apple Private Relay thing continues to be a problem for Tapestry Kickstarter backers. Don’t worry though, we’ll get your reward delivery sorted. 👍

chockenberry,
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@gedeonm Were you trying to add two numbers together while @bigzaphod and I were talking about value type hierarchies?

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