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EshuMarneedi

@EshuMarneedi@mastodon.social

Technology blogger, writing lengthy digressions on the intersection between technology and society; chief blazer of glory https://mastodon.social/@TodayInTwitter. Pastry connoisseur.

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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🎙️ Been working on an awesome visionOS app that you'd love to show off now that device preorders are only a week away?

Drop it in the replies here; if you'd like to be boosted, include:

1️⃣ a screenshot or video
2️⃣ a link-out to your site or App Store page
3️⃣ use the hashtag

Assume the reader knows nothing about you or your projects: what is your app, what does it do?

Remember you can edit posts if you forget something, and mute the hashtag for a period if you don't want to participate

EshuMarneedi,
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@stroughtonsmith Little late to this, but I’m bringing my citation creation app for school papers to visionOS. I don’t expect much of a market, but thought I’d share it anyway since there are so few apps on this platform.

Citations lets you make citations in a variety of formats and is completely free. (It’s already available on iOS and macOS.)

I look forward to downloading all of these other amazing indie apps when I get my Vision Pro in a couple weeks! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/citations/id6444069568

An image of Citations on visionOS with a finished citation.

EshuMarneedi, to random
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CNET has gone to shit. Truly. Which is a real shame — CNET used to be the tech news website, alongside The Verge (This Is My Next) and Engadget (where This Is My Next came from). Now, it's SEO spam written by AI bots to get you to click affiliate links.

They know what gets the clicks, they know they don't have to exert effort writing that content themselves, and they know how to make money from those clicks. It's dirty, cheap, and frankly disgusting. Shame.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo

EshuMarneedi, to random
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BBEdit is one of the best Mac applications ever made. I don't think I've ever had an issue with it.

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Having an existential crisis with periods in acronyms. NYT Style adds periods (P.V.D.) and AP doesn’t (PVD).

writing is hard!

gruber, (edited ) to random
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My Apple Card is expiring this summer, and the replacement physical card arrived in the mail today. Activating was super-duper easy—just bring it in close proximity to your iPhone and tap a button or two on screen. Done.

But what do I do with the old card? It's titanium so it's not easily destroyed.

I've had metal Amex cards since 2010 or so. When Amex sends a replacement card, they include a return envelope custom made for mailing them your expired card for recycling.

[See thread for update]

EshuMarneedi, (edited )
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@gruber Wasn’t it in the news that Apple is offering free recycling for Apple Cards? Just box it up in the package the new one came in and send it back?

EshuMarneedi, to random
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gonna feast on halloween candy throughout tomorrow’s apple event who’s joining me

nobody? that’s ok

EshuMarneedi, to random
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everything is fine

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Absolutely dying at these sentences in the NYT today: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/politics/george-santos-expel-debate.html

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Interesting. Apple says the visionOS Simulator will include a beta version of the App Store in a later build coming “this fall.” I’m excited! https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/05/visionos-app-store-coming-in-fall/

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Back on the action button during these stupid-ass game demos:

This is actually very nice. I always keep my phone on mute and if you don't, you're a stupid heathen and I want you to unfollow me. This finally makes that space on iPhone useful.

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Huzzah, iPhone day! Oh wait, eSIM.

Unable to transfer eSIM on iPhone 15 Pro.

EshuMarneedi, to random
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The personalized Apple Music station I think is Apple Music's best feature. I do wish it acted more like a never-ending playlist instead of a station, however, similar to the “Autoplay” feature, where you can rewind and see which tracks are coming next.

Here's hoping for iOS 60 (more like visionOS 37) when we're all dead and gone and our great, great grandchildren finally remember that “Music” is an app Apple makes.

EshuMarneedi, to random
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App Store Connect continues to be Apple's finest work.

(It's been doing this for three minutes.)

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Mastodon bois be like: ”We want to spread the fediverse, but we hate the service that showed the word ’fediverse’ to 90 million people.”

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Proof of the political horseshoe theory in action: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/us/politics/senate-ukraine-aid-bill.html

EshuMarneedi, to random
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This company is so moronic, holy shit. I’m genuinely furious.

My app, Citations, just got rejected by App Review because I mentioned Apple Vision Pro in the goddamn release notes. WHAT?! How is Apple Vision Pro “pre-release” when I can buy it?

Also, ALSO, Apple Vision Pro is marketed on THE FRONT PAGE of the App Store!

No wonder everyone is pulling their apps off of this thing! What the hell is this moronic policy? When can I submit and not get rejected?

@rejected, this one’s for you!

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EshuMarneedi, to random
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You know your website is poorly paywalled when the og:description for social media literally says “Are you a robot?” https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/112482069488694632

EshuMarneedi, to random
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Step aside periscope, hello tetra prism.

gruber, (edited ) to random
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I still go to the File menu to quit an app if I'm mousing (as opposed to ⌘Q’ing).

EshuMarneedi,
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@gruber When you're mousing, that's OK. But when your hands are keyboard, god no.

eshumarneedi, to random

This is absolutely psychotic. There are four iPads in the lineup as of now, but four Apple Pencils. Unbelievable.

EshuMarneedi,
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@sass Who wants a stylus? You've got to get 'em, put 'em away, yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

christianselig, to random
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Is it a visionOS bug or a me bug that if you disable a button in a navigation bar it gains a weird hover state? If me, how do you fix it?

Code: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/7f79bf92e71550f3d3f0749b312e8969

EshuMarneedi,
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@christianselig I've had the same problem. Just in navigation bars too. Very annoying.

marcoarment, to random
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Lots of people (including Apple) put full-color icons on each top-level row in Settings these days.

I'm experimenting with using monochrome SF Symbols there. I may not ship it this way, but it's kinda fun, and it lets me use the same icons that are used for the corresponding features throughout the rest of the app.

Maybe that improves consistency and understanding, especially since I don't currently have localized strings.

EshuMarneedi,
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@marcoarment I’m not the biggest fan. Looks a bit bland.

ChanceHMiller, to random
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Due to some personal reasons, I won’t be able to attend in-person WWDC after all. Super jealous of everyone who will be there, and can’t wait to watch it all from home!

EshuMarneedi,
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@ChanceHMiller <3

gruber, to random
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My guess is that Sam Altman will not be in the WWDC keynote, but if he is, how awesome would it be if he wears two or three stacked polo shirts?

EshuMarneedi,
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@gruber You don't think anyone from OpenAI will be in the keynote, or just not Altman? I'm betting Mira Murati or Greg Brockman.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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How are we this many years into Windows 11 and there's still no quick dark/light mode toggle in the Action Center?

EshuMarneedi,
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@stroughtonsmith How are we this many years into Windows 11 without auto light/dark mode? (Proof that Windows wasn't designed.)

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