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collin

@collin@ruby.social

I coined the term โ€œMac Assed Mac Appโ€.

A software developer from Portland Oregon. Iโ€™ve been writing iOS and Mac apps since 2008 and Ruby since 2021.

๐Ÿ“ฑ #Swift (iOS and Mac).
๐Ÿš‚ #Ruby (and Rails)

Cohost of the #RooftopRuby podcast. Friend of DeSoto.

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Okay. It seems like YouTube is the way to go, so hereโ€™s that song if you want to hear it. Iโ€™ll be posting more covers and originals as I record them. https://youtu.be/Sdko1Jcp15I?si=47C7b3cdRdeNf1wv

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    collin,
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    @gwcoffey I was looking for some thing that is just an upload service. If I was going to do Vimeo, Iโ€™d just link out to YouTube.

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    i have a feeling that something like 96% of AI product launches are just rebrands of existing features that werenโ€™t so good to begin with

    collin,
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    @exchgr ๐Ÿ’ฏ! Iโ€™m already tired of every app for writing or doing other creative things getting generative AI features put front and center.

    The last thing I want when Iโ€™m trying to be creative is to hit a button and have a robot do it for me, but all of these apps seem to think itโ€™s the most exciting thing.

    adarsh, to random
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    Iโ€™m on an extremely clean, affordable, fast, and timely monorail train to the airport in Naha, Okinawa. It even has these gated walls to prevent injury.

    Sometimes when I see what is possible elsewhere, I canโ€™t believe the state of US transit.

    collin,
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    @adarsh Weโ€™re making progress in a lot of places, but itโ€™s so slow and depressing to live with in the meantime.

    collin, to random
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    Why is that my Elgato capture card would work through the Apple USB-C Multiport Adapter, but not through my Anker hub when there is nothing else plugged into it? I feel like I'm missing something?

    collin,
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    @mzarra That's what I thought maybe too. It has a PD in port that I'm using. Very strange.

    collin,
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    I've tried plugging my 140w MacBook Pro charger into the PD-in port of the Anker dock, so if the capture card freezes now, I think that's pretty definitive that this setup isn't going to work.

    collin, to random
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    If you want to hear one of my songs, I posted this one called โ€œLove is the Reasonโ€. Itโ€™s a little more country than my others, but I like it. Everything I say in it 100% happened. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7DX6mPrD7i/?igsh=MTJtN2t1azl4dXI2Zw==

    collin, to random
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    This doesn't happen often, but I am willing to concede that I may look pretty hot in this photo.

    collin, to random
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    If the EU wants to make everyones lives better, they should make it illegal to sell a cable with a USB-C connector that doesn't support at least USB 3.1.

    collin, to random
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    Is the USB-C connector the greatest monkey's paw in computer history?

    collin,
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    @mdstevens0612 Only the devil could have come up with this. You'll have a small, attractive, reversible connectorโ€ฆ but every cable will support different speeds ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

    collin, to random
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    Making the two things I love most โ€” music/audio and computers โ€” both of which require the thing I hate most โ€” cables โ€” was potentially a miscalculation.

    collin, to random
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    It's pretty incredible how much mileage we've gotten out of a seven note scale and many many songs using some version of a 1-4 or 1-4-5 progression.

    collin, to random
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    I know I want to record music and publish it, but I find the whole publishing part a bit confusing.

    Should I put out a single first? If I put up a single on streaming and then want to add that as a part of an EP, is that easy to do?

    collin,
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    @muz4now @skryking That's helpful! Thank you.

    collin, to macos
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    When a app supports versions, it's really quite cool and useful. I wish more did.

    collin,
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    @jonhendry I think it's all part of NSDocument. My impression is it's pretty trivial if you're already doing all the other document stuff, but I could be wrong.

    collin, to random
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    So I think what I'm going to do is record demo versions of the songs I have that feel finished or close to it and put those on Soundcloud. See if I can get some feedback, make adjustments, and then re-record the ones I want to put on streaming.

    collin, to random
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    I donโ€™t know if itโ€™s the best a journaling app could be, in fact itโ€™s definitely not, but the Apple Journal app is the only one of these things Iโ€™ve used over a period of time somewhat consistently.

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    The thing that JetBrains IDEs really fuck up UI wise is that they mix your global IDE settings and project settings into the same panels. I should have a place for project settings and a place for IDE settings. Seems basic?

    collin,
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    @hboon yeah, thatโ€™s okay for those kind of settings, but I mean things like target SDK or whatever that only lives in the editor.

    baweaver, to random
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    Hello Ruby Kaigi!

    collin,
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    @baweaver Jealous!

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    Tomorrow is 8 hour make thing. Iโ€™m gonna broadcast myself doing mad things.

    collin,
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    @Kowfm Well don't get too mad, then you might break things :)

    collin, to random
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    It seems like the Elgato Cam Link/Game Capture devices really need to have the entire USB bus to themselves to work properly. If anyone knows an alternative that isn't ludicrously expensive and does 4K, Iโ€™m all ears.

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