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mergesort

@mergesort@macaw.social

“Apps genius” - Colleen. I used to work on making Twitter a bit healthier, then that all went to hell. Now I make puns and indie apps https://indieapps.space/@redpandaclub.

Born and raised New Yorker, just trying to do a little good and be the friend you made along the way. 🐶 🍕 🐱

Formerly https://macaw.social/@mergesort on Twitter, now https://threads.net/@mergesort/ or @mergesort.me on Bluesky.

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film_girl, to random
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Gawker Media Company -> Gizmodo Media Company -> G/O Media -> / Media? Or maybe they can rename it based on the assets they haven't sold yet where the staff doesn't actively hate management like checks notes Quartz? Should they just rename themselves Quartz but with an asterisk so no one confuses it with the original Quartz?
https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112559953065962054

mergesort,
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@film_girl @ernie Qu*rtz

harshil, to random
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Mr. Bean would be a great name for a cat

mergesort,
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@harshil Still is.

mergesort, to random
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Just married 🚙

mergesort,
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Thank you for all the kind words and well wishes. I can't describe how truly perfect everything was from sunrise to sunset, these photos from our friends and family barely capture all the beauty that was on display. It almost felt surreal, so much so that I've cried a whole lot once the emotions caught up with me this weekend. Anyhow, I won't ramble on longer, I'll just share a few photos of me getting to marry the love of my life, Colleen.

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harshil, to random
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The :nodg: and :nodg-sad: Slack reactions have been the greatest social innovations in my life in the last 5 years

mergesort,
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@harshil :nodg:

TheiPhone_Dev, to random
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I'm working on FastScanner 2.1, public beta coming soon.

What's new:

Multi language support, supported languages:

  • 🇮🇹 Italian
  • 🇳🇱 Dutch
  • 🇪🇸 Spanish
  • 🇩🇪 German
  • 🇷🇺 Russian
  • 🇯🇵 Japanese
  • 🇵🇹/🇧🇷 Portuguese

Added an integration for the Plinky app (amazing app by @mergesort). Now when you scan a code, you can save the link right into Plinky.

Many features are still in the making.

If you speak one of the languages mentioned above, please submit a feedback if the words aren’t correct.

mergesort,
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@TheiPhone_Dev Whoa, this is so cool Pietro! Very excited to try this out if you want to get me on a TestFlight, I'd love to see how it works. Also if you'd like for me to include your app in the list of Plinky Integrations email joe @ redpanda.club so I can find the best way to describe the integration.

Palleas, to random
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I’m not an anxious person expecting the worse when I travel but let me double check that New York still exists just in case.

mergesort,
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@Palleas Fox News says we're a hellhole, stay away.

mergesort,
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@Palleas You can still come, I just can't promise you'll survive.

mergesort, to random
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Can't believe I have to fight app review to approve a TestFlight for my wedding app. 🤦🏻‍♂️

mergesort,
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@bealex The app isn't really built for public consumption since it's tied to one specific event, so it's not an app they would approve for the App Store. Which is fair, but I asked if we could make this an Unlisted App and they didn't say no. Now they have some other concern now that I don’t want to publicize too widely but I think I can work around.

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@bealex I think that's what Unlisted Apps are meant to do, unless I'm misunderstanding what you'd like.

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@bealex That's true, but I assume it's unlikely to be found if you don’t tell anyone. Or you can gate access to it with a login code or something to prevent people who find it from using it.

mergesort,
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After four denials I asked Apple "can you clarify what I should do to get this app approved, I'm happy to make any changes necessary" and they approved it without even responding to my message… This system is ridiculous.

mergesort,
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@cocoawithlove I'm not traditionally an "app review is irredeemably broken" person, and it's not always popular but I'm generally pro the App Store model. But over time it's stuff like this that makes me side with the "let there be ways to distributed without the App Store too" people, because I had written three long explanations of how the app works and asked what changes to make to specific functionality, hearing crickets, before frustratingly replying a fourth time, and getting approved.

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Who says empty state screens have to be boring? Coming soon to a Plinky near you, an updated look and feel you can play around with once you've reached Inbox Zero.

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mergesort, to random
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Did you know that on iOS and macOS URL will take the string view-source:<https://xyz.com> and properly say this is an invalid URL when using URL(string: "view-source:https://xyz.com"), but on Linux it will say, oh that's fine, totally valid URL?

Well that's the story of how I fixed a bug where a user was able to save an invalid URL into Plinky's database last night — fixed with an extra layer of validation and some tests.

mergesort,
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@kylebshr I thought back to that and while I didn't test it, I assume that these changes never got ported over to URL on Linux for compatibility reasons, especially with a new Foundation on the horizon.

mergesort,
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@NeoNacho Yep, yep, I caught onto that here. https://macaw.social/@mergesort/112487445030618779

dlx, to random
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Hello California

mergesort,
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@dlx Do NOT check into a hotel.

mergesort,
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@dlx Sam Böhnkman-Fried would be less suspicious.

mergesort, to random

Important to have such a well-represented diverse group of white men in tech to oversee the future of AI.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@jimprosser/post/C7R8BRypUZT

mergesort,
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@kyle I think you can verify that condition with a colonoscopy.

kyle, to random
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The last episode of Back to Work was on April 3. If this is the end…

🫡

mergesort,
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@kyle They finally got back to work. 🫡

mergesort, to random
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The crash I fixed had an interesting property, it was somewhere Swift’s type system couldn't help.

The .accessibilitySortPriority() modifier takes a Double, so in an effort to ensure Plinky's bottom toolbar was always read first while avoiding magic numbers I used .greatestFiniteMagnitude. Due to some internal mechanics this led to a crash 1/20 times I displayed a View using accessibilitySortPriority.

And of course I filed a radar, FB13805753 for all you Apple folks.
https://indieapps.space/@redpandaclub/112480795811881912

mergesort, to random
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Hey, this is me! My top two pieces of advice for leading a good app marketing strategy are:

  1. Do a lot of user research to understand the actual needs your users have versus your perceived needs of their problems.
  2. Marry an amazing product marketer.
    https://c.im/@leogdion/112479602603471736
mergesort,
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@johnbrayton @leogdion That's really neat to hear, thanks for listening and the kind words John! 🙇🏻‍♂️

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