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Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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rhysmorgan, to random
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Can’t even mutilate people for money and stream it online any more. Because of woke.
https://mastodon.nuwus.org/@breaking/112410905066774591

rhysmorgan, to random
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Well, the new iPad Pro looks nice, but whether I bother getting one completely depends on what happens in iPadOS 18. Right now… I’m not even sure I’d replace my iPad Pro 2018 when it dies.

gernot, to random German
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Again, Xcode Previews break for some reason when using SPM, and it does again cost HOURS.

Every. Week. At. Least. Once.

This is the real Apple these days.

rhysmorgan,
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@gernot I love SPM in theory, but it’s SO slow and broken.

rhysmorgan,
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@gernot absolutely! I wouldn’t use something else, because xcodeproj is a horrible format and I don’t want to deal with the git conflicts. And I like the enforced separation that SPM gives modules.
I’m intrigued to see what happens with Tuist, though… I think it does go or is going beyond project generation.

rhysmorgan,
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@gernot lol, yeah, I've not seen on-device previews work for yeaaaaars.
It's just sad, because the theory of SPM (and, in some places, the practice) as a means of project structure is soooooo much better than the alternative. But then you hit a sharp edge, and it's horrible.

rhysmorgan,
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@gernot Specifically regarding previews, is that possibly because you didn't have that scheme selected in Xcode? This is the only way I get Previews working with SPM:

  1. Module is defined as both a target and a product.
  2. Scheme in Xcode (from products) is the one you want to preview
  3. The files currently visible in an editor are only from that given module. Somehow, hiding those editors is good enough too.
layoutSubviews, to random
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In Xcode 15.4, SPM now auto-generates Swift symbols for catalog assets.
That's great! Except they're declared internal, therefore they're useless in a package whose sole purpose is defining a Design System 😕

rhysmorgan,
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@layoutSubviews Arghhh. I don’t get why there’s no setting in the Package.swift to say which access modifier you want to use for generated symbols.

rhysmorgan, to random
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Picking up an old app codebase to tweak some fonts and colours on my last full day at the job, and what kind of hellish thing has happened to Interface Builder? It keeps crashing and failing to load the list of custom fonts.

rhysmorgan, to random
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This is my final week at my current job 🥲
Been here for almost five years! Worked on some very cool things, and been able to use a lot of tech that I really like. It's also been my first professional iOS developer role, too, so I've learned a ton in this time.
Still, it's time for a change, time for an exciting new job! Starting in a few weeks, and it should mean I'm in a London a few times a year!

xtaldave, to random
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Fucking wild this...

BREAKING 18:34
All members of the jury have been selected

BREAKING 18:40
Person reportedly sets themselves on fire outside court

BBC News - Trump trial live: Fire reported outside courthouse in New York - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68841535

rhysmorgan,
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@xtaldave conspiracy nut, apparently.

rhysmorgan,
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@xtaldave wot the fuck

rhysmorgan,
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@xtaldave Yeah, I did see 😬

harshil, to random
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Littlest Swift pet peeve: I simply cannot declare a variable’s type separately from the default value

🚫 var thing: SomeType = .value
✅ var thing = SomeType.value

rhysmorgan,
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@harshil @mergesort Definitely necessary for anything other than the most obvious Array assignments. Also useful if you use static methods/are storing enum cases.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Came across a neat-looking indie gamedev tool that I wanted to check out, but they dropped Mac support when Apple killed 32-bit apps 🤷‍♂️

The bridges Apple burned with indie game devs with the 32-bit cutoff and notarization still have repercussions today, and will far into the future

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rhysmorgan,
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@stroughtonsmith I wish they’d added an emulation layer of sorts, for games if nothing else.

rhysmorgan, to random
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What does the “Block" feature in Apple Mail actually do? I don't want these emails to even hit my Junk box, I just want them permanently deleted!

xtaldave, to random
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Pink Floyd slated after AI-created video wins Dark Side Of The Moon animation competition: "A spit in the face of actual artists"

https://guitar.com/news/pink-floyd-slated-after-ai-created-video-wins-dark-side-of-the-moon-animation-competition/

rhysmorgan,
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@xtaldave I think this is huuuugely overstated. He trained his own local LLM on his own artwork to achieve the particular psychedelic effect he wanted. There's no "stealing" from other artists here. It's just using a new tool for a particular purpose. The fact he didn't animate each (key)frame to get there doesn't mean it's fake or not worthy, IMO.

b3ll, to random
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Lmfao these App Store rules are getting to be comically complicated

Waiting for the day when you'll have to prove you live in a particular zip code before you can use an entitlement

rhysmorgan,
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@b3ll I wonder if they will ever give in and just make the rules global? Or will it take literally every country/trading bloc to force them to?
Like, if the EU, U.S., UK, Japan, South Korea etc. force these changes, will they make them global, or do you think they’ll still hold out in India, China, etc. Is there any threshold until they just make it universal? At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they hold on wherever they can, no matter how small the market.

rhysmorgan, to SwiftUI
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I still don't understand why SwiftUI Previews build the associated test targets as well.

rhysmorgan, to random
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git bisect is one of the most useful tools in any developer’s arsenal. Spent a few hours tweaking code to see if it would fix a bug that had been discovered, to no avail. Ran git bisect, and within about 10 minutes discovered the lines of code that caused it!

rhysmorgan,
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@jamesdoc It was sooo useful today! My code all looked like it should have worked. It should have. I tried some otherwise useful refactors to try and see if they’d help, but they didn’t.
Bisect found that I’d accidentally removed a line of code that works around a SwiftUI bug when I did some previous refactoring, by taking me to the exact commit I made the change in.

lapcatsoftware, to random
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I’m currently watching TV+… for free for two months.

https://www.imore.com/music-movies-tv/apple-tv/entertainment-expert-claims-nobodys-watching-apple-tv-plus-suggesting-numbers-are-much-lower-than-rivals

rhysmorgan,
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@lapcatsoftware For all the shit we rightly throw at Apple for their executives’ behaviour and attitudes, their TV content is soooooo good. They have a few stinkers I’ve heard, but on the whole, it’s really good!

glyph, to random
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As someone who genuinely loves many apple products and would like to see the company do better, this makes me very happy. As @mcc has previously noted, my expectations for the outcome of this process are low (the antitrust system in the US famously does not function very well) but the rhetoric alone here has the chance of changing some behavior. https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112134855225973806

rhysmorgan,
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@glyph @caseyliss Without a doubt. Simply allowing (heavily restricted!) third-party in-app payment processors, such as Stripe, PayPal, etc. and allowing companies like Amazon and Spotify to do IAPs by processing their own payments (without a huge, continual finder’s fee) would have stopped pretty much all of this.

I don’t get why Apple feel entitled to $$$ for digital goods that haven’t gone via their servers, that companies don’t want processed by Apple.

rhysmorgan, to random
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Wahoo!

robb, to random
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⭐ There is no EU cookie banner law https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law

"You absolutely don't have to suffer through this, it is a decision made by the companies to inflict it on you."

📌 https://rknight.me/links/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law/

rhysmorgan,
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@robb Saying this though, the EU should be legislating against this form of malicious compliance.

rhysmorgan,
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@robb Sure, but they could go after some high profile offenders, like basically every single newspaper which asks you “can we, or our 8000 partners, spy on you?”

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