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danielpunkass

@danielpunkass@mastodon.social

Founder of Red Sweater Software and punkass of lore

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danielpunkass, to random
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I go to fix one bug and pretty soon I'm revamping an entire interface. It's the story of my life. This is what happens when indie developers don't have product managers telling them what to do. The agony and the ecstasy.

jessegrosjean,
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@danielpunkass At least you didn't start a new app!

lexfri, to random
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I'm pleased to share Lex.Games is now available for iPhone and iPad!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lex-games/id6498941705

Featuring six daily word games and puzzles, including Conlextions, Lexicogs, By A Vowel, Six Appeal, Letter Opener, and Mind Control.

lexfri,
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Mind Control, like the endless "Rando" versions of Letter Opener and Six Appeal, is limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe on the web or in the app.

Subscribers also get the ability to appear on the leaderboards, and play a full-size daily crossword puzzle on the web (or in the amazing Black Ink app from @danielpunkass).

DeepDishSwift, to random
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🚨 Pizza Alert 🚨

So many of you asked for it so… will be coming back in the spring of 2025!

And with a new year comes an updated logo design!

Want stay to be informed when dates and tickets are announced? Let us know below 👇

https://ti.to/deep-dish-swift/2025

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mathowie, to random
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This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/

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danielpunkass, to random
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Cleanest BART car ever.

jeffkibuule,
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@danielpunkass I’ve started taking BART into work in the last month or two. They are all actually that clean. They just sent off the last of the old cars in April. Far more reliable than driving.

I honestly don’t want to drive my car anymore.

danielpunkass, to random
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I agree that Governor Noem's killing of her dog was savage, and her defiance against our judgment is telling. But what if it had been a pig? We have a mixed up moral code about which animals are OK to slaughter, and when.

Gte,
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@danielpunkass If it had been as a pet I think you’d still have seen a backlash. Less of one for sure. But the reaction is to the killing of a creature she’d taken into her care. When it didn’t behave the way she wanted she killed it. It is the abdication of a responsibility she took upon herself to care for the life of another that is awful. Even among meat eaters and even farmers.

thomasfuchs, to random
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NYPD is right now about to storm Columbia University in NYC after protesters against genocide occupied a university building.

Here’s something interesting from the Uhiversity website.

mccarron, to random
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The Chicago Swift conference @DeepDishSwift is this weekend, not too late to get your ticket. Plus you get to see James Dempsey perform Live!
https://ti.to/deep-dish-swift/2024

lexfri, to random
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Today's Black Ink update is worth a look if you've been looking to solve my full-size crosswords and/or Minis in @danielpunkass's lovely app!

https://redsweater.com/blog/4088/lexs-puzzles-and-other-improvements

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-ink-crosswords/id312142427

danielpunkass, to random
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Just posted Black Ink updates for iOS and Mac featuring support for Lex.games puzzles, and a number of other improvements: https://redsweater.com/blog/4088/lexs-puzzles-and-other-improvements

scottwillsey,
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@danielpunkass I bought the app today because of the addition of @lexgames ! Thank you!

danielpunkass, to random
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Given the widespread reports of Apple ID problems, corroborated by articles in reputable publications, often by victims of the very problem, it's absurd that Apple's status page reflects no problems. There should be systemic change to prevent this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

chrisphin,
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@danielpunkass It’s also bad security practice. It affected me, so I checked the status page. If it had showed an error, I’d have been much happier knowing it was a legitimate bug, not a security compromise, and this is the behaviour I want big tech companies to train their users to expect. (But honestly the fact that they haven’t commented on it makes me think it WAS some kind of security issue, which may yet be ongoing. cc @glennf)

bagder, to random
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Over the last five years of 's bug-bounty we have received 489 submissions. For these 489 submissions the median first-response time has been, as calculated by Hackerone: 0 (zero) hours. If this does not ooze of awesomeness from a security team I don't know what does.

I presume they round or truncate to the nearest integer hour. Still means more than half of them got answered within an hour. Whenever or from wherever they were filed.

We take security seriously.

danielpunkass, to random
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Any Mac developers ever get frustrated that you can't embed the WebKit Web Inspector in the same window as your WKWebView if you're using Auto Layout? I submitted a fix! https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/27105

danielpunkass,
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@nighthawk Call this in your app to enable "Inspect Element" and the rest "just works" (like in Safari):

webView.configuration.preferences.setValue(true, forKey: "developerExtrasEnabled")

I mean it "just works" (for now) as long as the WKWebView isn't laid out with constraints :)

lexfri, to random
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Is it insane that I'm making a full-size crossword every day for Lex Games subscribers? Yes. Yes it is.
https://mastodon.social/@lexgames/112218324574770098

danielpunkass, to random
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I was excited about the prospect of revisiting Apple's Infinite Loop campus, where I spent about 7 years of my professional life. They're having a welcome reception there for badge pickup!

vandal,
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@danielpunkass We can have our own welcome reception, Daniel!

justkwin, to random
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I’ve been DTS’s Mac code signing primary for well over 5 years now, and I’m /still/ learning new stuff.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3127-inside-code-signing-requirements#Default-and-Xcode-designated-requirements

appleinsider, to random
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After originally claims that his split with Apple TV+ was amicable, Jon Stewart has now revealed that the company blocked topics and even guests he wanted to cover on "The Problem with Jon Stewart."
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/02/jon-stewart-opens-up-about-apple-interference-in-his-show?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

lexfri, to random
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If you've been thinking about upgrading to paid on Lex's Games, today's a great day to do it, for the following reasons:

  1. I think upgrading was broken since I moved to https://lex.games, and that is sad.

  2. It's a great way to celebrate Easter.

  3. You get access to a daily, full-size crossword, visibility on leaderboards, custom preferences, access to beta games, the ability to create shareable games of your OWN, and access to endless random versions of Square Dance and Six Appeal!

kfury, to random
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If Meta wanted to sell another 50,000 Quests this month they'd find a way to stream a live immersive video of the eclipse for people who can't be there.

Also paging Apple and Vive.

danielpunkass, to random
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I have neglected to promote Black Ink for iOS in part because I wanted it to be a "soft launch" and in part because I don't have time to do everything I want to do. If you are not aware, I shipped a crossword solving app for iOS, and it's pretty, pretty pretty good. https://redsweater.com/blog/4051/black-ink-for-ios-available-now

PlinyTheOlder,
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@danielpunkass I like it a lot! I use it for my AVC Crosswords, for the NYT, and for various crosswords I download from indie folks. It’s by far the best standalone crossword puzzle app for iOS I’ve ever tried. It’s actually getting me to do more and more puzzles than I normally do.

danielpunkass, to random
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There appears to be an AppleScript regression in Safari 17.4. References to documents aren't resolved correctly, so that for example:

name of document 1

Works, but

set d to document 1
name of d

Does not. FB13679244.

jeffmjeffmjeffm,
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@danielpunkass This should be fixed in the version of Safari in the macOS 14.5 beta that came out today.

danielpunkass, to random
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There's something unsettling about the way Apple shares presumably private details like Spotify's use of TestFlight and installation figures. These are relatively minor disclosures, but they send a subtle chill nonetheless. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify-and-europes-thriving-digital-music-market/

krisbrowne42,
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@danielpunkass I suspect those were already part of discovery in the EU already publicized. Spotify is not the good guy in this, any more than Amazon was when they used the DOJ to enshrine their dominance in ebooks.

ttscoff, to random
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Lately on the blog: The Black Ink giveaway winner!

https://brettterpstra.com/2024/03/01/the-black-ink-giveaway-winner/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon

hotdogsladies, to random
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Sometimes, I really enjoy responding to my email.

hotdogsladies,
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Done.

1. My Regular Answer I wish more people knew that being trans in America is, in some ways, like being anything else in America. There’s not one way to “be” trans. And I think that diversity is a strength and a gift. So, when we encounter people who are incurious about trans people’s actual lives, we oughtn’t always dash into finessing those experiences into something everyone will find effortless to integrate into their existing priors. Do the work.
2. My Nuanced Answer The clarity about binaries upon which western civilization is based is a model. It’s a very useful model, and it wouldn’t have caught on if it weren’t grounded in patterns that were as consistently observable to any neolithic person as they are to someone living today. What about all the really good examples and numerous religions that imply an immutable binary? That just suggests that it’s an interesting model that people usually like and generally find useful. But, it doesn’t mean that the model is actually real. That’s what makes it a model.
3. My Real Answer In order to talk with another person about our life, we need to find terms, analogies, or anchoring points that we can both understand. What you often arrive at is an unsatisfying, provisional third language that neither of you speaks but you agree seems close enough for now. In this instance, I wish trans people could tell me about their life without having to dumb it down to something I can mostly understand. Rather than just getting to let their life just be its own thing. It’s our need to “understand” that makes so much stuff seem weird, or dangerous, or irrational. Because, ultimately, everything sounds dumb when you have to explain it to a fucking idiot.

ZevEisenberg, to random
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The thing I and many smart folks have been working on for the last 9 months is out to all users today. Here it is: the NYT Games app’s new home screen. I’m especially proud of the accessibility work we put into it, including Dynamic Type and VoiceOver. And it’s all SwiftUI and has extensive snapshot test coverage, including for VoiceOver thanks to CashApp’s AccessibilitySnapshot library 😎

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