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chrisgervais

@chrisgervais@hachyderm.io

Dad, #Mac #VintageMac nerd, #musician, GenX, recovering software engineer, CTO @ various. Beef loyalist. Prolific sneezer. #Boston.

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ChanceHMiller, to random
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Some paparazzi-style shots I captured of Tim Cook in the demo area at Steve Jobs Theater yesterday

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chrisgervais,
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@ChanceHMiller Kinda interesting that we never got to see Steve in the selfie era. Would he have been as open, friendly, and willing to do this? Hard to imagine him having the patience for that whereas really is a natural and it's an asset

steven_aquino, to random
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@imyke @jsnell Listening to the Apple event Upgrade. Re: double-tap on Apple Watch, I was explicitly informed by Apple yesterday that feature is, like the iPadOS pointer, something that was passed on by the accessibility group to be build out for broader adoption.

chrisgervais,
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@steven_aquino @imyke @jsnell Is it feature locked to the new Watches only?

collin, to random
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I got a Quip smart toothbrush from Target that syncs with Apple Health for $50. I don't feel like it gets my teeth any less clean than my Oral-B electric, I can travel with it, and the tracking is kind of fun. It's got to be one of the cheapest ways to get the Health integration.

chrisgervais,
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@collin I’ve been thinking about getting one of those, too, but hadn’t looked in a while and totally forgot about HealthKit integration. My Sonicare base unit is getting nasty…

ChanceHMiller, to random
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what a dumbass tweet about olivia rodrigo

chrisgervais,
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@ChanceHMiller Seriously? GUTS is an incredible album

collin, to random
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I think when your editor starts taking 60 seconds to launch, there’s no clear way it can ever be fixed, and it hasn’t had a release in two years, that’s a pretty good indication it’s time to look at alternatives.

It’s a shame because TextMate had so much going for it if it had just kept up with the times. I really do get why people love it so much.

chrisgervais,
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@collin Sigh, same. I’m probably going back to BBEdit. I rediscovered it on Mac OS 9 recently and forgot how much I loved it

hotdogsladies, to random
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Y'all are super-nice and very welcoming.

Seriously, thanks.

This is weird.

chrisgervais,
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@danielpunkass @hotdogsladies We suck less! We suck less!

gedeonm, to random
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Know how every person who interviews Trump should always ask as the very first question “Did Biden win the 2020 election fair and square? Yes or no?”

Every person who sits down with Tim Cook or Phil Schiller from now on should ask them as their very first question “Will Apple stop advertising on Twitter? Yes or no?”

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/betteridge-apple-twitter

chrisgervais,
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@gedeonm I can only hope and pray that Tim Cook feels ZERO amount of threat from whatever Musk says.

Hell, at this point, it would be a fantastic use of Apple's cash pile to buy it from Musk and shut it down. They can write it off as part of their environment impact spend -- it would definitely clean up the Super Fund site that's been created there. Future generations will be better off

popsci, to random

Say goodbye to 'Ted Lasso' and save some money. https://t.co/m9ZBiXRfU1

chrisgervais,
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@popsci Yikes, if you really care about some good content this would be a mistake. Dollar for dollar, Apple TV+ is a better spend for some great content versus the landfill offerings elsewhere. But I guess if you just watch TV to watch TV, I can see how most of their shows can go over viewers’ heads

daniel, to random
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Thinking a lot about VisionOS user Interfaxes now

chrisgervais,
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@daniel You laugh, but the only way Vision Pro will be adopted in healthcare is if it supports faxing

chrisgervais, to macos
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Anyone know of an #http parsing library or code for classic #macos? After decrypting a #SSL #TCP stream I’d love to shove it into a lib that can parse it all out and let me extract the relevant bits. I found HTTP sample code for OpenTransport but not sure if that’s right path. I may also not be thinking of the problem correctly but having fun experimenting and kinda don’t want to write it from scratch #RetroComputing #macintosh

dansup, to random
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Winter please, so tired of this wildfire smoke

I feel like I'm living in the prequel to Extrapolations, and every time we're hanging out or partying, I always bring up that show because nobody watched it and it's like a damn time machine into the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QP-xrG0kZk

chrisgervais,
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@dansup I thought it was a great show but hard to watch and then look out the window. More people should see it

chrisgervais,
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@dansup I love that version! The vocals and instrumentation are so chill and the lyrics are all “we so fucked…”. Marvin Gaye was a genius

santiago, to random
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I know SSL is supposed to be helpful but about twice a day I stumble upon a site which hasn’t automatically renewed its LetsEncrypt certificate and Safari iOS is refusing to let me see it anyway (nothing happens when I tap the option to do so). 🙄

chrisgervais,
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@santiago Yeah, I find that after I go through the Safari warnings to allow me to view the site I have to reload the page (where Safari’s warning is displayed) and then the underlying site will load

simonbs, to random
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The introduction of StandBy in iOS 17 makes me think that I should get a proper charger/stand for my night table and Anker’s 3-in-1 cube seems like a damn good candidate. https://www.apple.com/dk/shop/product/HQ3E2Z/A/anker-3-in-1-cube-med-magsafe

chrisgervais,
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@simonbs I just got one and love it. Can definitely recommend and I validated with them that iPhones mounted in landscape are supported for charging. It's also great for traveling - nice and compact

geekmomprojects, to FiberArts
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After several failed attempts using a complicated technique, I successfully sewed a simple pattern to make a SMD resistor phone case. I forget to fully include the seam allowance in the size computation, so it just barely fits my phone. It makes a nice set along with my PTH resistor glasses case!
#sewing #sewingproject

A cutting mat with two small zipper bags on it. The glasses case bag in the background looks like a 47 Ohm through-hole resistor with a zipper in the tolerance stripe and the phone case bag in the foreground looks like a surface mount resistor with black body containing the number "103", and silver faux leather ends, with a zipper in one end and small D-ring attached to one side.

chrisgervais,
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@geekmomprojects This is fantastic work 👏🏻

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

IT teams still deploying Server2016 in 2023

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chrisgervais,
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@SwiftOnSecurity lulz - I just filled out a security questionnaire asking if we were compatible with SQL Server 2008…

collin, to random
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I wonder if I had been able to talk my parents into getting me a G3 iMac as a kid what my life would look like now. I learned to program because QBasic was available on Windows 9x and there were lots of resources for me on the web.

If I was using Mac OS 8 or 9, I know it was possible to find something similar, but I wonder if the legwork required would have been more than 13 year old me was up for?

chrisgervais,
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@collin I’m a weirdo because I basically ignored the entirety of DOS and Windows until I entered the workforce in the mid ‘90s. I loved coding on classic Mac OS as a teen and have been doing more as of late. It did teach me a ton and ironically really led me to embrace OOP concepts (like encapsulation) because so much of the classic Mac OS was a free-for-all

chrisgervais,
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@nicklockwood @collin HyperCard was such a joy. In college, for a project, I built a guided tour stack to run on kiosks to help students navigate around campus. It sported videos that I shot on a VHS camcorder and digitized on my PowerMac 7100 and some custom XCMDs I wrote to sync elements on cards to video. So much fun. I wish I could find that code!

chrisgervais,
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@collin @arroz @nicklockwood HyperTalk, like AppleScript, is definitely something that, today, looks odd and difficult (ok, AppleScript is difficult) but at the time had big differentiators from state of the art BASIC - remember HyperCard came out in 1987 and VB in 1991, IIRC

icanzilb, to random
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Is there a "special place" where computer people meet and talk about mental health?

chrisgervais,
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@icanzilb Just the special places you make. I’m happy to talk any time as well!

chrisgervais,
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@icanzilb Do you have a Calend.ly or something so we can grab some time together?

gruber, to random
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This ad poster for the iMac is utterly perfect. Perfect photo, perfect slogan (the period at the end is key — “Yum” without the period wouldn’t quite play the same way), perfect relative scale and placement of the elements. Even the kerning is perfect — Apple Garamond never looked better or more timeless.

chrisgervais,
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@gruber it was perfect. You could almost pick them right off the page. Serif typography has lost its luster in our age but it is timeless and no company had owned a typeface like this since

chrisgervais,
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@JW @gruber Dare you question the hours spent in Quark Xpress and the numerous times Steve had his loupe out

davemark, to apple
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From @gruber, 12 years ago:

"Resigned"

Still shocking.

https://daringfireball.net/2011/08/resigned

chrisgervais,
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@davemark @gruber I remember the event making the NBC national news and all the speculation about his health. The grass stain detail is lovely and you can imagine how many walks Steve would have taken at Apple Park over the years, wearing his own path through the grass and trees

davemark, to apple
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In iOS 17, "the ‌Photos‌ app can recognize specific animals so you can have your pets automatically sorted into albums"

HOME RUN feature. Strengthens the Apple ecosystem.

About 2 weeks or so and this'll go public. Along with the rollout of the new watches, phones. Other stuff?

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-photos-and-camera/

chrisgervais,
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@davemark This will likely be the most used feature on my wife's phone. My kids are teens and they refuse to let us take their pictures. We have a shared photo album called Family Feed that has been mostly populated by dog photos so she's gonna love this

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