dave

dave, 24 days ago to random

T and I went into Wellington, my first time in the city to shop and mooch in ages. Nice and easy, and managed not to use all of my spoons either !

dave, 1 month ago to random

Only the web interface is working for me with this @mastohost instance - very odd, and annoying 😅

dave, 9 months ago to random

I’m Dave, I live in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa New Zealand with my wife, our two children, and our two cats Monty and Stevie. We emigrated from the UK a few years ago, but NZ is my heart and home.

I like to help people find their way in tech. I mentor people looking to get into the industry, and particularly like to help those going into iOS and Swift development. The more the merrier!

For me, #BlackLivesMatter, and #TransRights are human rights. Bigots can get in the sea.

#introduction

dave, 25 days ago to random

Whelp. Looks like I accidentally blocked mastodon.social.

If I refollow you, please don’t be offended !

dave, 3 hours ago to random

Eyes rolling in the back of my head seeing RNZ use the editorial phrase “since COVID”, as if we’ve not also had things reported like school closures and bus cancellations haven’t happened in the last week here, due to COVID.

Which one is it ? 🤔

dave, 17 days ago to cochlearimplants

I setup a runner for my Forgejo instance on our home server (an intel 2018 Mac mini).

My unit tests for my video pipeline check the output of the pipeline, against a previous output. Images snapshotted to png.

All the tests fail on the home server. They pass on my M2 Studio. The output images appear the same, no major fail in the pipeline.

My suspicion is this is a png encoding difference in the simulator between intel and apple silicon 🧐

#iOSDev #IndieDev #CI

dave, 22 days ago to aotearoa

First kūmara harvest from my veggie garden !

#GardeningNZ #Aotearoa #Gardening

dave, 10 days ago to random

I'm finding the best reaction I can give to new tech right now is, "I don't care." or "I'll check it out when I feel I need to." there's very little really pushing new things in a way I'm truly interested in at the moment.

e.g: I missed the iPad event because getting up at 5AM in NZ for a product advert, for something I don't need right now, would've been a silly idea.

A lot of what Apple does, isn't motivating me like it once did. They're still the least worst option for me right now, though.

dave, 13 days ago to random

After many years of not touching or dealing with Windows at all, seeing it on my wife’s work machine has me remembering why I hate it

dave, 20 days ago to random

Everyday I check the news and ask myself something akin to “are we out of the bad timeline yet?” and everyday the answer is “No”.

It’s been like this for years now, you’d think I’d learn my lesson

dave, 8 days ago to random

Asahi Linux (Fedora 40) installed on my M1 Air.

So far so good, although really I’m just enjoying having a look around and seeing what modern Linux is like. Hats off to the Asahi team and everyone involved, it’s a neat and considerate install

dave, 26 days ago to music

New St Vincent just dropped, one more track from the forthcoming album

https://songwhip.com/st-vincent/big-time-nothing

#Music #StVincent

dave, 8 months ago to random

Stevie giving her best blep for #Bleptember

#CaturdayEveryday

A tabby cat looking to the side, with her tongue poking out

dave, 17 days ago to music

Enjoying this a lot at the moment, very much that nuskool breaks sound (which is of course, old now)

https://songwhip.com/ufoproject/the-future-is-now

#NowListening #Breaks #Music

dave, 15 days ago to random

I had someone I know go off on one about “men wearing dresses” and “I wonder what his pronouns are!” derisively about someone else.

“I don’t have a problem with it but” kinda triggered me to be honest. I shared my own opinions.

Anyway, for the avoidance of doubt here: fuck any of that sort of noise and casual bigotry. “Real men” support folks being their authentic selves.

dave, 10 days ago to random

A team retro call ended up with a few of us wearing straw hats and sunglasses… I have no idea why as I arrived late to the call, but it was fun 😅

dave, 9 days ago to random

If Apple are doing a deal with OpenAI, and we end up with ChatGPT in the OS in a way I can’t switch off, I’m going to have some big personal tech decisions to make, I guess.

It’s something I don’t want to be interacting with, just to get shit done.

dave, 8 days ago to random

I’ve reached an internal decision on all of my side project dev and tech stack stuff:

• Gonna stick Asahi Linux on my M1 air so I can fart around with something speedier in that environment.

• Going to keep on with my iOS apps, and get ProVJ out after GoVJ 3 is released.

• Next project beyond that will be trying to get a version of Go/ProVJ on Windows/Linux and potentially Android tablets

dave, 18 days ago to random

A friend told me reported covid numbers in Norway have been in the 20’s, for the last few weeks. This is a couple orders of magnitude less than NZ.

I’d love our levels in NZ to be this low. Without having much real knowledge of things there, can anyone tell me if the Norway ones accurate or cooked in some manner?

#COVID #COVIDIsNotOver

dave, 17 days ago to random

A new desk buddy just dropped 🦞

dave, 4 months ago to random

I could practically hear the Windows XP login sound when on my walk this morning

dave, 5 days ago to random

Researching things... Looks like only the Pixel 8 Android phones have HDMI output on them, out of that range.

I don't want to buy one yet, but I can envision getting one for cross-platform dev later this year and HDMI output combined with the ability to install Grapheneos or some other more degoogled OS will be what I'm after.

dave, 2 months ago to random

dave, 3 days ago to random

Slacks move on privacy with training AI models on folk’s messages is going to end up with too many people having to use Teams. I really don’t want to have to use Teams.

dave, 6 days ago to random

It appears we’re in the breathless adulation of GPT in the Apple tech press, and big PR pushes too.

So many folks are going to lean into it all believing they’ll make good $$.

Some will. Many won’t. Same as every other bubble and hype cycle.