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dave

@dave@social.lightbeamapps.com

Developer of GoVJ, a Lightbeam app ✨

One half of Waiting For Review, a podcast about indie iOS development 🎙️

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amerpie, to random
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My Favorite Man https://louplummer.lol/post/my-favorite-man Without a doubt, my favorite man in the whole world is my son Drew. He texted me photos from an art exhibit tonight and when I asked him if he'd had a good day. He replied "Yep! Just rode with a buddy for 20 miles around one off the coolest...

dave,
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@amerpie damn Lou, something in my eye over here. Thanks for a lovely read

stg, to random
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“We are wasting our collective time and talent making things that have no value. That sucks.

This industry used to sell solutions. Now it sells nothing, disguised as possibility.”
https://lmnt.me/blog/distracted.html

dave, (edited )
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@stg 💯 all of this !

I make a video mixing app for iOS, as a side project: https://govjapp.com

It’s been in the App Store since 2015, and I love working on it.

It’s a tool that helps anyone run visuals for a show.

I love it because it helps others to do jobs, to make visual art, and to have fun.

I want companies with orders of magnitude more money and people and resources than I, to make things that help folk do things too. Otherwise what’s the point?!

dave,
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@stg

In 2016, I quit my job and went full time indie/freelancer in iOS.

I wrote something inspirational to myself on my whiteboard then.

It still resonates with me, although carries a naivety I don’t feel I have any more.

It said: “software should give people super powers!”

The message meaning, to me, that software should facilitate someone in doing something they couldn’t do otherwise.

(Apologies for blowing up your post here!)

borland, to random
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@gruber - totally missing the point here with https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/spotify_car_brick.

The EU wasn't forcing Apple to do anything in 2008. They're forcing them now, based on the fact that a smartphone (either iPhone or Android) has become a key enabler of modern life. It's literally harder to live without one. If spotify's dumb car thing (or an Xbox/PlayStation, etc) ever became a crucial tool in day-to-day life, then you bet the EU would force that too. But they won't because they're not that kind of thing.

dave,
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@borland @gruber steady now, you’re applying critical thought Orion 😅

dave, to random
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Watching the Kotlin Multiplatform ‘24 keynote.

It’s a breath of fresh air after years of Apple’s super-highly-polished WWDC ones.

Specifically: people falter naturally like real humans giving talks, multiple companies involved showing some industry collaboration. Something that’s just not present at WWDC re: Swift.

dave,
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@obrhoff absolutely. For me it’s a lot of things that have been building for a while - and that realisation that the Apple and iPhone I fell in love with for development circa 2012, isn’t quite there now.

I’m far from done with iOS and Apple development, but I’m absolutely starting my cross platform journey this year

dave,
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@obrhoff @TonyVladusich

Hello Android, Windows, Linux 🤩

dave, to random
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Interesting to note a few more folks masked up in the supermarket today than in recent weeks. When you’re usually the only one, it’s easy to pick up on.

Also: NZ is currently in another wave. Maybe consider reducing your odds of being part of spreading it folks 😷

dave,
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Also 😅

dave,
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@Phil_Tanner

I mean, obviously my recommendation would be to always mask in the office, regardless of the wider situation tbh. Unless you’re able to mitigate otherwise with an air purifier + nasal spray etc, and the number of different folks you’re exposed in the office is small.

But yeah. It is what it is, folks aren’t taking much consideration any more and they really should 🤦‍♂️😬

dave,
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@provuejim Yup, for the moment, we still have https://poops.nz monitoring waste water.

Really, for me, it doesn’t matter if we’re in a wave or not. I’m not altering mitigations based on that, as it’s still in wide enough circulation even at the bottom of each wave. Folks who do routinely lower their guard, and are lax with it all, are also to the creating that next wave, unfortunately 😬

dave,
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@Phil_Tanner I know mate, I’m coming at all of this from a “Long Covid fucking sucks.” view point and just want folks to stay out of the club 😬

dave,
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@provuejim yeah, it’s criminal to have had it, and then have it taken away I think

dave, to random
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I’ve released version 3.0 of my video mixing app for iOS, GoVJ 🙌

https://govjapp.com

dave, to random
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To whoever it was uploaded a sample of Darude - Sandstorm with subtitles… I salute you 🫡

Darude sandstorm music sample playing in my browser with each beep captioned as “beep beep boop” in time to the music

dave,
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@helplessduck glad to oblige - also, me too! 🫠

TomSullivan, to random
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front page from May 24, 2020, four years ago.

dave,
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@TomSullivan My grandchild: “What happened next, Grandpa?”

Me: “Everyone stopped counting and naming folks, and decided it was fine to keep spreading the disease.”

aby, to random
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So.

Don't put your heat pack in the washing machine because it will cook the rice inside it, and you'll just end up with a risotto stuffed fox.

Just sayin'.

dave,
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@aby pics !!

Melissabeartrix, to random
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I'm sick of covid, can't wait for the fowl plague to start

Hugz & xXx

Reluctantly 🤡 ... Giggles

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix

I’m sick of folks carelessness with Covid - almost looking forwards forward as to the fowl plague as a reminder to folks to stop ****ing around

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix

It’s not the past, with COVID, unfortunately

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix given how folks in the supermarket etc stare, then back the heck off if I cough … they do know 😅

Even if it’s subconscious now, it’s all “ah I’m not afraid of Covid it was mild!” And “nobody worries about it anymore” until my asthmatic wheeze goes off 😂

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix don’t mind me, I’m just increasingly embittered - I wish most of the actively ignorant folks a dose of the pain I’ve had from long COVID for a few days to concentrate their minds tbh

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix 💯 - fwiw I acknowledge the privileges I have, and I’m certainly not doing this as hard as many are.

I’m just so tired of seeing folks cheerfully spreading a virus that disables and damages folks as if it’s no big deal

dave,
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@Melissabeartrix and yup, I know you go through more than a lot could manage - amazes me you do so well to keep your head up with it, at least in positive posts and all here ! ❤️

ghorwood, to random
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look, i’m obviously one of those crusty, old command-line-first linux guys, but hear me out: you don’t need to be “culturally linux” to use linux. you can just install it and use it and not make it part of your identity.

any of those distros people talk about will work fine, great even, right out of the box: popos, mint, fedora, elementary, zorin. it doesn’t really matter.

dave,
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@ghorwood 💯, it’s like normal folk can watch Star Trek, without being needing to be Trekkies

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