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agiletortoise

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I turn inputs into outputs. Make Drafts (indieapps.space/@drafts), and a few other things (https://agiletortoise.com) (he/him)

Texas, USA

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designatednerd, to random
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As I was flying back from London, I got some iMessages from my wife with pics that didn’t download because w on plane WiFi, and then a message that says “Call me as soon as you can.”

I turned my cell service back on at ORD with trepidation, but apparently we just used all the good karma we’ve accumulated for about the last decade.

Somehow, our house is in one piece and nobody got hurt.

The other side of our house, with the boom resting on our fence and cars in a neighboring parking lot, again probably a foot over our roof.
A view from inside our house of the tipped over orange truck, which high also had a bunch of boards fall off it that somehow did not hit our house.

agiletortoise,
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@designatednerd omg

agiletortoise, to random
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“If this movie were cheese, I'd be the cell in a mouse's olfactory dedicated to recognizing that specific kind of cheese.”
https://boxd.it/6xbtMb

agiletortoise, to random
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Turned off the school alarm for the year. My youngest is now a senior. His older brothers are college graduates. I am in possession of emotions.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Here's the great Jeff Rosenstock covering "Not Too Soon" by Throwing Muses.

Which is my favorite song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCyJ2znoqWA

agiletortoise,
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@hotdogsladies it’s load bearing walls all the way down.

kenryall, to random
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Last week of school and suddenly our kids discover how to get up and get ready on time.

agiletortoise,
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@kenryall This acquired knowledge will not accrue to the next school year.

matt1corey, to random
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This is how I chop garlic now, and I’m not apologizing

agiletortoise,
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@matt1corey Not gonna lie, this is how I chop garlic now.

joesteel, to random
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If you ever get the chance to have your Mac run out of disk space and RAM, but say it didn't run out of disk space and RAM, I highly recommend it. You see, the files are managed for you, so you don't have to worry, except when your desktop wallpaper breaks, and you can't quit or launch apps, but under the hood it definitely is taking care of things.

agiletortoise,
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@joesteel @dan Did you try turning off and not back on again?

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]

agiletortoise,
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@gruber Toss it in the fire pit? (Sorry for the very Texas answer)

agiletortoise,
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@gruber If it doesn’t, the fire is just not hot enough (and all the identifying information is not titanium)

agiletortoise, to random
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AI voice assistant with the Peanut’s adult voice

matt1corey, to random
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What are folks' strategies with using the StoreKit 'requestReview' call? Given that Apple controls when the user sees this, I often see advice that you should be pretty aggressive with calling this - is this how you call it?

Have you seen any evidence that you're penalized with this strategy? I have an app that gets pretty decent volume, and is calling this aggressively, but is getting very few ratings 🤔

agiletortoise,
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@stroughtonsmith @matt1corey Variation on Steve's approach. I currently have it setup in most of my apps to request a prompt monthly, and the user has to have launched the app at least 15 times. I also usually tie the request trigger to the completion of action or process in the app successfully.

BenRiceM, to random
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I just remembered I have to localise all the App Store screenshots 😵

agiletortoise,
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@BenRiceM that sort of terrifying statement deserves a content warning 😁

inferis, to random
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Me: oh, it's nice out and I took my allergy meds, so let's sit outside for a while.
Allergies, after realizing I'm outside: yeah, no.

sigh

agiletortoise,
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@inferis Me: Ok, I can work through the allergies

Outside: mosquitoes

agiletortoise, to random
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I looked at a list of movies coming out this Summer to figure out what was going to get me to the theater, and as far as I could tell it was all sequels. I’m sure some of them will be good, but where’s the new stuff?

agiletortoise,
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@joesteel I’m sure Kevin Costner’s ego project will turn Hollywood around.

agiletortoise,
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@matt Maybe next year the Barbenheimer effect will have had time to affect the production cycle and we’ll see some new-ish big projects? I'm not optimistic in the current market.

agiletortoise,
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@matt …says the guy who watched two movies this weekend, and they were Gene Hackman and Walter Matthau vehicles from the 70s.

bens, to random
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Day 4 without power, we have to return today and really don't wanna 🫨

agiletortoise,
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@bens That sucks. Glad you all are safe.

hotdogsladies, to random
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  1. Messages should have a "Known and Unread" tab, and I should be allowed to pin it, and it should be mostly the only messages I ever have to see.

  2. The President is personally disappointed in me.

agiletortoise,
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@hotdogsladies I’ve had to add a few more triggers but this has been working surprisingly well for me. https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/112288917057014294

agiletortoise, to random
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I’m so old I remember when the web was useful.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Angus and Malcolm Young hit guitar strings so fucking hard.

AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live, 1977)

https://youtu.be/CHo2EqDpK7g?si=rHOF31f9oxZ5lJBP&t=20

agiletortoise,
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@hotdogsladies least pretentious band ever

danblondell, to random
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Big boy got a camera

agiletortoise,
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@danblondell i believe this child is about to engulfed by the tree roots

agiletortoise,
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@danblondell I think you are supposed to play Kate Bush and they re-emerge or something like that

tchaten, to random
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@agiletortoise Are there any special toggles needed to enable an iOS app to be installable via TestFlight on visionOS? Have a few apps that are enabled for visionOS, but only in the App Store version and not allowed to install via TestFlight.

agiletortoise,
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@tchaten Yes. There are toggles in TestFlight group configuration for whether you want to allow install on Vision Pro (and also Apple Silicon Macs).

agiletortoise, to random
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This is a stupid great playlist. I don't know who made it, but they have a stunningly great set of playlists that dive deep on interesting genres niches. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/looking-for-the-magic-american-power-pop-in-the-seventies/pl.u-d2b06WLF1REpr

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