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stroughtonsmith

@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

I make apps, paint minis, and hack things. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. I make https://mastodon.social/@broadcastsapp, https://mastodon.social/@pastelapp, https://mastodon.social/@graceapp, and more.

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A 15” MacBook Air certainly feels to me like it might become the most popular Mac in the lineup. If only the damn thing came in brighter, more-fun colors, even seasonal color changes like iPhone… /concepts via @parkerortolani

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Is there any reason an app would suddenly stop receiving push notifications? No error messages on the push server that I could see. Once I called unregisterForRemoteNotifications, then registerForRemoteNotifications to receive a new device token, the app was able to receive notifications just fine.

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@brianmueller I've seen it on macOS where notifications were being delivered to a different copy of the app on disk (in the Archives folder, of all places) when I haven’t incremented the build number

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Oh no, the Audible app added support for Spatial Audio in a way that breaks the faux-surround ‘Spatialize Stereo’ mode on iOS 😰 I was wondering why my books sounded so much worse this week…

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@b3ll it’s great in bed, in the dark. Like being in a room with the narrator. Books sound broken now

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@jeffmerola 👀

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@jeffmerola 🥰

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@stroughtonsmith Back in the day when there were real Macs, all-in-one mono units, I used a utility called QED/M, which was similar to grep. Is grep part of current MacOS? Or anything like it for iPadOS?

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@mikecane …I think you're looking for Keyboard Maestro and/or BBEdit? The grep commandline tool is part of macOS though, yes. And you have Spotlight for full text search

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This magnetic 12.9” iPad arm from Kuxiu looks like the stand of my dreams; it's the perfect kind of mount to float above my painting desk. Anybody have one of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZpXTcWNyvw

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@nextleveltye that's Leica, who just turned 3

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@stroughtonsmith Is there a URL for the ATP live stream that works with Broadcasts? We get this question from listeners, but I don't know the answer.

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@siracusa I have a TinyURL that brings up UI to add it: https://tinyurl.com/addATPToBroadcasts

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I know it's just an iOS app, but man I really appreciate having the Audible app on macOS. It just makes listening to audiobooks while working in my painting area effortless, and its position sync hasn't failed me yet

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@stroughtonsmith Look at this AI art from the other place. It's like those things you paint!

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@mikecane it's from Midjourney, I approve of Midjourney; cut out the middleperson. I've made a few of my own

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@stroughtonsmith Still rumors of 15" iPad Pro or no?

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@mikecane nothing credible, just vague ‘larger iPad' that may not even be in the Pro lineup

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Taking the little bit of downtime I have to write a version of the @broadcastsapp watch app in SwiftUI. Initial bringup was pretty fast, so I can now investigate expanding into new features. Still experimental, not committing to anything just yet

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Potential upsides: being able to create more interesting layouts, and expanding the Now Playing screen

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It is nice to break out of the older constraints with the watchOS app. SwiftUI is marginally better than WatchKit 😝

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Now Playing view is a work in progress, but it's all for nought if there's no way to show an audio route picker on watchOS 😕

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I finally plugged GPT-3 into @pastelapp to generate color palettes from text prompts, and it just does exactly what I hoped it might do. How I wish I could do this with an on-device Siri API call; I don't intend to ship with a dependency on OpenAI, so for now this is a 'maybe someday’ feature

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Today's task in @pastelapp is to rewrite the color wheel to move it off third-party ObjC code and bring it in-house in Swift. Almost done — it’s so much smoother to interact with now, even if there are still a couple bugs to work out. Pastel is still a ways off being Swift-only, about 6,000 lines to go, but it’s nice to be able to get major improvements as I do-over each class

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@mladen they aren't available in that way, and you can't customize them

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An evening of edge highlighting later, and I’m almost ready for the next step. Gonna try to push these through my painting desk to clear up space #minipainting

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A reasonable-looking head, complete with stubble! 😄👌

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It’s taken longer than I’d hoped, but I’m nearly done with these guys. 70%/80%/90% respectively. Bare head leader guy is going to get some fancy checkerboarding on the knee, which is going to extend the process a bit

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@nevison I use sable brushes for all mini work — Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky. Size 1 for normal painting, Size 0 for chunky highlights, Size 000 for fine highlights. I also got a cheap wet palette from Amazon which helps keep the paint thin and flowy. My current battle is with dust, as I paint minis bit by bit over a week or so and that starts to interfere with the brush, so I've taken to storing the models in sealed plastic containers when I'm not actively painting. But, practice!

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@nevison if you want to make life a little easier, use a basecoat spray rattlecan like Macragge Blue for a consistent, thin base layer. Brushes + palette should neaten up the paint job for sure, but mostly it's gonna be about getting familiar/confident with the process. You'll know you're facing a tooling issue when the tools just aren't able to do the thing you're trying to do (/copy from YouTube), and it's not just you 😄

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Checkerboard: success!

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