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ross

@ross@okla.social

I help build https://mastodon.social/@RadarScope. Powered by coffee and craft beer. I post about music that none of y’all listen to too much.

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matt, to random
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Update: the shirts are good 🤗
https://isfeeling.social/@matt/112303928297842812

ross,
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@matt which ones did you get? I have been trying to find replacements for my old Ugmonk Essential Tees.

ross, to random
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Global warming is definitely a bad thing, but that doesn’t mean I won’t sit out in my garage and enjoy a 70° evening in February.

agiletortoise, to random
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Us: Would be more fun if we had someone to watch the Super Bowl with.

Also us: Our friends care about sports even less than we do.

ross,
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@agiletortoise up for driving north three hours? 😛

mergesort, to random
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The sheer amount of bugs I run into trying to make a SwiftUI app just run in a Mac Catalyst environment makes me question whether anyone at Apple is actually using SwiftUI on the Mac. 🤦🏻‍♂️

ross,
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@mergesort why are you negating the targetEnvironment call?

ross, to random
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I just had a legitimately incredible moment with the Apple Vision Pro. I have my Mac display and a few apps displayed around me at my desk. I adjusted my desk from a sitting to a standing position. I was expecting to have to adjust all of the windows for the new position, but they followed my desk up as I moved it. 🤯

stroughtonsmith, to apple
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Piano: Flowing Tiles

"Interactive Note Display: Experience the thrill of a game-like environment as notes float onto your piano, guiding you through each song.”

I love how it calibrates where your piano keys are positioned without having access to the camera.

/via https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6472594978

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ross,
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@stroughtonsmith Any idea how it is doing that?

ross, to random
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@gruber On the Apple Vision Pro, can you use the Mac connection with a laptop in clamshell mode?

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Just posted on Six Colors: Two e-readers that made me reconsider why I use e-readers

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/two-e-readers-that-made-me-reconsider-why-i-use-e-readers/

ross,
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@jsnell perhaps strangely, one of the use cases that I’m really looking forward to trying on the Apple Vision Pro is reading.

Not sure how nice it will be, but laying in bed with a giant page above me that I don’t have to hold that I can turn with a quick gesture has potential (depending on how easy the page turning gesture is).

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This evening my girlfriend and I kicked off our vacation with a visit to our favorite bar followed by a comedy sho. Looking forward to relax and explore London again next week!

A microphone on a stage.

ross,
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@simonbs Timing is perfect. Enjoy some good beers on your vacation and congrats on getting it done it time. I’ll be sure to try it out on Feb 2 for you!

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Nooo Qi2 battery packs are out but they don't support the handy MagSafe stuff like showing the pack's percentage when attaching it (or in the widget) 😢 At least the Anker one doesn't. Also it's a thicc boi

ross,
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@christianselig is that stuff in the spec? I kinda figured that was just for Apple’s products.

ross, to random
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Not sure how I can be expected to get back to work in these conditions.

ross, to random
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Any devs have any experience with widgets or watch complications disappearing when your app updates? We have been getting sporadic reports about this.

Restarting the device seems to fix it, but it’s an annoying bug.

ross,
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@agiletortoise ugh. That’s not very encouraging.

ross,
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@agiletortoise 😝 any chance you have a bug filed on it? I am going to today.

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Yesterday was George T. Stagg’s birthday — one of the old founders of what’s now known as Buffalo Trace Distillery. Today, his name lives on as a very limited release bourbon. One my favorite drinks on Earth.

Happy belated birthday, George!

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@sdw that is a nice collection. If you are ever able to tour their distillery, I highly recommend it. It’s spectacular.

ross,
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@sdw I have never had Michter’s. I’ll be on the lookout for a bottle 👍

ross, to random
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RadarScope 5.2 is out today. This one was a fun one for me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radarscope/id288419283

ross,
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It started with updating the Apple Watch app to use the new design language of watchOS 10. It was supposed to be quick change to the map view, but we ended up re-doing all of the UI and completely flipping the navigation paradigm.

The app now launches directly to the map with products, alerts, radars, maps controls, ect all available from there. It is bascially the phone UI, but shrunk down.

It makes quickly checking the radar much faster by moving advanced stuff off of initial view.

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The other big thing we wanted to add was Smart Stack widgets for the watchOS 10. These are built using the same technology as our iOS/macOS widgets, so getting that working was pretty trivial.

But I released that any Smart Stack widget can also be added to certain watch faces where they can be displayed in a tinted mode rather than full color.

Figuring out a way to make the radar view usable with a single color + white was a really fun design and engineering challenge.

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Once I did that, it was only a small amount of work to get it running on the iPhone lock screen. They work similar to the accented mode, but with only grayscale being available.

So at that point, we had rectangular widgets that could be displayed on the watch face, Smart Stack, and Lock Screen.

As a joke, I enabled the smaller circular size just to see what it would look like. It was immediately my favorite version of it.

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So we were left with small circular and medium rectangular widgets that could be displayed on the watch and the phone.

Being able to just glance at my wrist and see if there is any reflectivity near me has been really cool.

It is not big enough to show any detail, but it is useful enough to let me know ifI need to tap to open it to see the bigger view from the full app.

I have no way of backing this up, but I am calling it the smallest functional weather radar display in the world.

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ross, to random
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Should I read Old Man’s War or Red Rising next?

ross,
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@schwa oh that’s surprising. This is probably the first bad thing I have heard about it. I have not read any of his other stuff.

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The holidays always put us in the mood to enjoy a game with friends, which recently got us reminiscing about the work we did back in the day to bring the Coding Monkeys’ version of Carcassonne to iOS. From the menus to the gameboard we had a blast creating an immersive feel for the game. Sadly, their version isn’t available any more, but you can see some of the artwork below.

If you’re a dev who wants a fun and immersive feel for your own app or game, email us at design@iconfactory.com!

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@Iconfactory This version of this game was my favorite iOS game of all time. Y’all did such a good job with the design. It was perfect.

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    ross,
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    @schwa I have been really impressed with Canvas. We are using it to render our map and radar images for RadarScope on watchOS and widgets. I wouldn’t have been able to tell it wasn’t our Metal renderer if I didn’t know.

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