@kkolakowski Am using DevCleaner again today and found a small bug:
I noticed that selecting an item with space bar does toggle the checkbox (nice!) but also unfocuses the list, so that I cannot go through things with the keyboard but need to click into the list again first.
Found a new use for ChatGPT: ancient code spelunking. I was working on the scale for my minute-by-minute rain graph and I remembered that I'd solved this in Check the Weather. Dug around in its ObjC source code and found the section responsible (which git tells me was written in April 2013).
It involved a complicated formula I didn't recognize or understand. So I asked ChatGPT what it meant and it did a surprisingly good job of giving me a starting point to now go and research again.
@_Davidsmith In this case modern Swift code would be almost exactly the same (I mean the formula) but yeah, it would easily rewrite this part in Swift probably as well 🤷♂️
This is incredibly useful tool for some cases. It WON'T write the app for us, but can solve a lot of tedious and boring stuff - explaining it along the way! Awesome
@stroughtonsmith Wait - so if you want to create your own browser (engine) - even if you'll publish it only in the Apple AppStore - you still need to accept CTF and all that stuff? 🙃
@markgurman And that's a good decision IMO! Apple can still push CarPlay which is probably way more accessible way of getting Apple stuff into cars anyway.
With Apple Car being a thing, I bet that much more motor companies would start to not having them in their cars.
For the past couple of years, I have been watching TV shows and movies on the iPad.
The worst thing to happen to me was the introduction of multitasking. Since then, whenever there is a slow part in the movie, I would open a social media app and scroll. And then, if I found something good, I would stop the show.
A 2-hour show takes me about six hours to watch over a week or so.
With vision in theater mode, I found myself without any desire to multitask and can now finish shows on time.
@Migueldeicaza What about battery time with Vision when watching movies? Apple says 2.5h (?) which is "barely" just enough to watch a full-time movie, and some of them - won't fit in 😅
@Migueldeicaza Yes but if I want to watch movies on the go, 2.5h is really not that great 😉 I don't have outlets everywhere, and it's definitely a limiting factor.
Is it just me that I use built-in #macOS#TextEdit basically all the time? It's set to "plain" text mode and I use to various kind of notes and temporary text, except code. I would love some improvements for this app in the future!
/It is not the user's fault that SpringBoard craps up your launcher with stale app thumbnails going back to the dawn of history./
This is and has always been Apple's fault, and it’s beyond silly to complain that users are doing the wrong thing. They're not.
It's Apple's decision to clutter the launcher, to keep stale thumbnails for months and years, and to tie discarding thumbnails to force-quitting instead of a lighter abstraction. Bad UI
@stroughtonsmith Agree, although I always have anxiety when people doing that nearby 😅
When I talked with my sister-in-law about it, she said that she's aware that she is closing the apps, but she simply wants to have ORDER in her task switcher - which makes perfect sense, and confirms what you said 🤷♂️
It should be a simple fix:
swiping up apps shouldn't close it, just remove from the list
Spent some time today redesigning TextCorrect, my app that uses OpenAI to correct texts and then highlights the differences between the original text and the corrected text. I think this design refresh makes the app way more coherent.
The macOS app has received to configure a global hotkey that brings the app to the foreground in order to quickly correct a text.
And lastly, both apps now have two Shortcuts actions: Correct Text and Diff Text 😀