Cykelero

Cykelero, 10 months ago to random

Indie devs who are running a TestFlight/beta program: are you getting much in the way of feedback? Any suggestions on how to get testers to speak their mind?

Retcon's beta now has more than a few users, but very, very few have said anything, mostly defeating the purpose ☹️

#IndieDev

Cykelero, 8 months ago to random

A fun/psychotic thing to do: copy the iOS 17 release notes into a note, and make them into a checklist. Now you can make sure you try out everything you're interested in!

Cykelero, 7 months ago to macos

Huh, how long has this been a feature?! In macOS Sonoma, if you hover the left edge of a window with a native sidebar: the sidebar will peak a little, allowing you to grab and expand it.

Tested in Disk Utility, Safari, Mail, Notes, so it's pretty standard. Never seen that before!

#macOS

A recording of the described behavior, in Disk Utility. The selected disk is called “Hammond”, and its icon is an image of the Overwatch hero of the same name. The disk is almost full.

Cykelero, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

For weeks now, this banner has been regularly popping up in Xcode. When that happens, autocomplete is almost completely helpless.
This does NOT seem related to an Xcode update. Does anyone know how to diagnose the issue?

(Looking online, nothing's helped so far. Clicking “Report a bug” opens the feedback website, but seemingly without generating a report. In Console, filtering by “Xcode”, “SourceKit” or “SK” shows nothing significant. I just don't know what in my code is causing this!)

#Xcode

Cykelero, 8 months ago to random

My kingdom for a hack to force the macOS menubar to be light. It feels so wrong to have a dark menubar when in light mode; but so many wallpapers prompt the system to turn the menubar dark.

Cykelero, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to macos

Say, how do you currently rewrite your Git history?

(and, I should have asked from the start: please do reply with the name of the app/extension you use, if you're in that case!)

#macos

Cykelero, 11 months ago to random

How long are git branch names? Here's a terrible frequency graph based on data scraped from top GitHub repos.

You can see spikes where “main” (4 chars) and “master” (6 chars) are; and also one at 11 characters, maybe for “development”.

(I'm doing some crude research for the design/layout of @Retcon)

Cykelero, 3 months ago to random

git diffs typically show, for every line, two line numbers: the old number, and the new number.

Do you have an example of a time when the old line number was useful to you?

#git

Cykelero, 4 months ago to random French

@b0rk collected a list of the most common mistakes people make using git: https://gist.github.com/jvns/f7d2db163298423751a9d1a823d7c7c1

To me, half of the list is to-do items for Retcon, and the other half is straight up marketing material 😃 (either “this can't happen in Retcon” or “just press ⌘Z when that happens”)

Cykelero, 1 year ago to random

Passively providing context is something the GUI excels at!

A very unassuming example is the Finder: whenever you open a folder, you instantly see its contents. Even if you're not paying attention, you'll probably notice if you've wandered into the wrong folder.

In contrast, on the command line, all you get is the current directory name—it's like walking around with your eyes closed. Noticing mistakes requires much more concentration. Getting your bearings means consciously running ls.

Cykelero, 1 month ago to design

I've been making a small, hopefully nice-to-have Safari extension, and it needed an icon. Here's a some progress shots!

You might be able to guess what the extension does, based on the icon.

#icon #design #MadeWithSketch

A timelapse of an icon evolving. It depicts an arrow curving to the right at the intersection of two white lines. The top line, which the arrow avoids, is overlaid with a white-and-orange striped rectangle.

Cykelero, 8 months ago to swift

The pictured deletion made that function go from multiple minutes of execution time, to just around seven milliseconds.

I keep thinking I can predict lazy performance, but no!

#Swift

Cykelero, 6 months ago to random

Whoa—just realized that on Sonoma, screenshots you capture sometimes have the “hidden” flag set. They don't show up in the Finder at all, unless you reveal them with ⌘-period.

So over the months, I've accumulated over 40 screenshots that never showed up! That actually explains a lot 😅

Cykelero, 4 months ago to iPhone

In my experience, enabling "Use for development" in Xcode substantially lowers my iPhone's battery life. It's been that way since at least 2018, when I first noticed my battery drained faster when on work Wi-Fi.

Is this a thing? A quick web search turned up nothing.

#iPhone #Xcode

Cykelero, 8 months ago to random

Just found this screenshot from 2010. Looks like I was into whitespace-based anarchy at the time.

Cykelero, 6 months ago to random

On Twitter, I really liked messaging people via public mention; it felt casual, and the openness actually felt nice, like someone else could benefit from reading the exchange.

On Mastodon I almost never do it! Having the message pop up in the timeline of anyone who follows me really doesn't feel right. I don't want to broadcast these, only have them be findable!

Cykelero, 3 months ago to gamedev

This one dev's custom toolchain is absolutely bonkers. Sure, it's optimized for a specific problem space, but this feels utopic.

Not spoiling the details (the video is full of delightful twists), but let's just say that two minutes in, the author casually mentions that the whole game is incrementally recompiled and hot-reloaded for every single keystroke in the code editor. It goes way, way crazier from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE

#development #gamedev

Cykelero, 8 months ago to apple

2010: Apple proudly lists apps that use WebKit, which at the time included Chrome! 😆 Google hadn't forked the engine, yet.

(this is from the WWDC session “Safari, Internet and Web State of the Union”. I listed off the apps I recognize as part of the alt text)

#Apple #WebKit

Cykelero, 4 months ago to random

@lx Heya! Thank you for creating your xkcd bot!

I was wondering—have you considered having the bot post the high-res (Retina) version of each comic, instead of the 1x version?

Cykelero, 4 months ago to macos

Just bought KeyCue. It makes adding custom app shortcuts so fast!
All you have to do is to hover a menu, and long-press the shortcut. Bam!

#macos

A screen recording of a macOS desktop. In Notes, the user opens navigates the menus to get to the “Format > Text > Strikethrough” item. It doesn't have a shortcut. The user holds the ⌥⌘U keys. An indicator appears, and after a few seconds and a few beeps, the menu closes. The user reopens the menu, and the item now has a keyboard shortcut, ⌥⌘U.

Cykelero, 4 months ago to macos

Fascinating: if I try to open System Settings while CodeRunner is in the foreground, then instead of just launching the app, macOS somehow asks CodeRunner to open it.

Feels like a launch services file type association bug—but what's being the active app got to do with it?

#macOS

Cykelero, 4 months ago to random

At first blush, after reading that whole document, Apple's new EU rules seem surprisingly good!
Alternate app stores, contactless payment apps, web browsers—apart from the pricing structure which I'm unclear on, everything is (on paper) actually reasonable, and sounds very well thought-out, in a good way.

If the fees turn out to be fair, and if Apple's implementation doesn't have surprise gotchas (e.g. scary warnings), this could be a huge, real-world change. Excited!

https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/

Cykelero, 3 months ago to macos

Sonar looks so good! Crazy how much better the workflow seems to be, with its completely rethought UI, even though the underlying data is the exact same.

The app's website has plenty of short videos; each one is almost enough to sell me on the app on its own. Delightful.

(via @tonyarnold)

https://www.sonartasks.com/

#macos #github #gitlab

Cykelero, 2 months ago to iOS

A tip, if you use music recognition on iOS: uninstall the Shazam app!

Without the app, the view that opens after recognition is much nicer. It's noticeably faster to load, and the “add to playlist” UI loads instantly. A nice quality of life improvement.

#ios

Cykelero, 5 months ago to macos

@Retcon β20 is out—it's a small update. Mostly bug fixes, but it does add this cute little palette for staging specific lines!

#git #macos

A screenshot of Retcon's update window. The release notes are: Retcon 1.0.0 β20 December 18th, 2023 NEW Stage or discard selected lines using the contextual palette Or, use spacebar and ⌫ as before IMPROVED Improved inline change highlights Commit description is now displayed with a maximum width Working directory is now selected after uncommitting Generated reflog messages are more detailed FIXED Fixed windows not automatically grouping into tabs Fixed working directory row display for long messages Fixed toolbar customization being reset at launch Fixed toolbar button widths in icon-only mode Fixed diff scrolling to the top when clicking in an empty area Fixed gutter checkboxes sometimes being missing Fixed flashing when scrolling some diffs Fix inactive scrollbars sometimes showing for commit description