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mackuba

@mackuba@martianbase.net

Independent Mac/iOS & web developer. Building useless random stuff in Swift, Ruby or JavaScript and wasting time. Currently also learning Rust 🦀 I'm mostly hanging out on Bluesky these days and hacking things on the AT Protocol, so follow me there 😎 🐦 @kuba_suder 🦋 @mackuba.eu

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mackuba, to random
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What devil gave me the idea to buy a MacBook with 8 GB RAM, I should've known better… 😩

mackuba, to random
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Hello from a desert 🏜️🐪🌵😃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Błędów_Desert

A desert-like area with sand or sandy soil and some sparsely growing dry grasses
White sand with wind "wave" patterns
Selfie in sunglasses, with sand and some grass behind me

mackuba, to bluesky
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I sometimes wonder how things would've looked on if the first beta had been ready just 6 months earlier, if all those people who left Twitter for Mastodon could have gone there…

I've just checked the hashtag feed for and apparently there were 19 posts in total… (and 9 of those from me) 😕

mackuba,
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There is a lot of activity there, active users and posts daily, some communities are active there, but there is very little programming talk that's not ATProto-related, very few indie iOS/Mac devs, Swift and Ruby programmers etc… A lot of accounts I recognize that signed up around April too, but ended up not posting there.

mackuba,
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@pshadov … you know what… I haven't actually checked, because I assumed it would be just Taylor Swift, but there's actually quite a lot of relevant posts on apparently 😄

mackuba, to random
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😬😬 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3ksnbjtnvlx2z

b3ll, to random
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✨

mackuba,
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@timonus @b3ll 💯

marioguzman, to random
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Ooooof 🥵 the new iPad Pro is hot! It is noticeably thinner and feels much nicer. But at the end of the day, I really just want the new Magic Keyboard with the Function Keys row. The OLED is alright. Just wanting the keyboard is not enough to justify my configuration of $2,000. Maybe in a couple months when discounts go online at other retailers. Pretty solid & very refined iPad.

I will say the keyboards give me that cheap, Amazon-sold wannabe Apple Magic Keyboards though. Just a vibe though.

mackuba,
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@marioguzman I'm thinking about getting the previous-gen MiniLED one at a discount… 🤔

marioguzman, to random
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Gonna go check out the new iPad Pros at the Apple Store to get the FOMO out of my system.

But I should at least wait until Amazon or Best Buy have a nice/decent discount in a couple months. They always do it seems.

mackuba,
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@marioguzman just did that today too https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/112452110714853522 ;)

I like how thin they are, but tbh… I'm somehow not a fan of this new metallic keyboard, it's… cold and metallic (the case). I think the old one might have been nicer (but has no function row…).

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I don't need an iPad, I don't need an iPad… 😅

marioguzman, to random
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Look at my croissant. 🥐

mackuba,
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@marioguzman 🥹

migratory, to bluesky Spanish
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I clicked a toot or whatever they're called and it turns out they've implemented the most critical twitter feature: in-page loading spinners that make you wait several seconds for no fucking reason before you can read less than a kilobyte of text

mackuba,
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@migratory Officially "post", unofficially "skeet" 🙃

mackuba, to random
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Ok, I've got a 4th instance of the same firehose client running (with only one really being used) 🫠

I'll let it run for a little bit, and then I want to do some experiments with how the performance changes if I use MySQL or Postgres instead of SQLite 🤔 (I had a bit too little space for that before)

mackuba, to random
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Truly, AI is the new crypto… (in the meaning that every day I now see someone on my timelines complaining about AI, just like in 2021 everyone was complaining about crypto 😜)

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Very cool stuff! https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/15/ios-18-accessibility-features/

mackuba, to random
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So, 5 years later, have apps consumed the Mac or not yet? 🤔 (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/14/desktop-apps-post-catalyst/)

mackuba, to random
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Current status: beta-testing DMs on Bluesky by making API calls to sendMessage and getMessages in the Ruby irb console, because I didn't feel like messing with npm and React Native, and I figured I'd rather dig into the code and do it manually 😆

mackuba,
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I haven't had that much geek fun in a while as I'm having there since I joined last year 😄

mackuba,
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@jglypt yup 😄

mackuba,
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@jglypt Yeah yeah, I was chatting there e.g. with Samuel who is using the normal UI version :) He kinda invited us to do it on the API devs Discord, he mentioned that they've removed the "gate" yesterday that only allowed people from the team to use this API.

Here's me chatting with @edavis (and two other chats on the list):

mackuba, to random
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Working with git is sometimes a bit terrifying 😬

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"Apple's design folks couldn't really understand why anybody would want to use an iPad for anything but Pencil work" 🫠

Well there you have it - you probably shouldn't expect them to ever make it a "real computer"… https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112423537107545654

emmecola, to bluesky
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I have tested @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy and I really like the idea. However, now I would like to quit and delete my mirrored account on . How can I do it? I have blocked @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy so that he can't follow me, but I still see my mirrored account on Bluesky.

mackuba,
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@emmecola I think this might not be implemented yet, but probably coming soon, I think it's this: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1027

I've pinged the Bridge author on Bluesky.

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Federico Viticci on why iOS still makes iPads much less useful vs. MacBooks than they could be with that hardware: https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

hgrsd, to bluesky
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I'm trying to get a sense of what Bluesky is like. Do I have any followers who are active there, too? Would love to connect.

I'm at @hgrsd.bsky.social :)

Not leaving here, just exploring the world of social media.

mackuba,
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@hgrsd 👋 I'm here and there (more there) :)

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