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dbarros

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iOS code wrangler, and sometime pizzaiolo. Living in Melbourne, Australia.

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nixCraft, to random
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The best coding language, without a doubt, is _______.

dbarros,
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@nixCraft 6502 assembler.

dbarros, to random
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An intersection I know very well.

TIL that Springvale was previously known as Spring Vale.

From: @philip
https://aus.social/@philip/112438408462295265

dbarros, to random
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@hotdogsladies hey Merlin. In a recent podcast you mentioned a card that you can put in your wallet and use Find My to find it. Could you please share which card that is?

dbarros,
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@hotdogsladies Thank you! Sounded like a good idea when you mentioned it.

daringfireball, (edited ) to random
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Sam Altman Puts the Kibosh on Reuters Story Claiming OpenAI Is Launching a Search Engine Next Week
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/altman-openai-new-product

dbarros, (edited )
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@daringfireball When it comes to writing in all lowercase, Sam Altman is just a Jerry Yang wannabe. https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/21/jerry-yang-email-to-all-yahooers/

dbarros, to random
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Stack Overflow originally came about to replace sites like the shit-show that was Experts Exchange. Stack Overflow has now become a shit-show.

dbarros,
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@georgeharito True. The moderators turned it in to a shitty site long ago with their mightier than thou attitudes.

nixCraft, to random
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One day my code works, the next the world is on fire. This is not what I signed up for!

dbarros,
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@nixCraft you must be using React Native. Because that is what life is like with that POS.

paulrickards, (edited ) to RaspberryPi
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I’ve been rebuilding a #RaspberryPi installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄

I used to use the awesome #MacIPGW image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like #netatalk. But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.

I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a #TashTalk 2 hat for #LocalTalk devices.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

dbarros,
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@paulrickards The site is down at the moment?

dbarros,
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@paulrickards Cool, thanks. I'll check out the post then.

dbarros,
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@paulrickards 👍🏻

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple got fined $2B for its illegal pre-DMA conduct on this issue, and still thinks it can withhold 'following the law’ until you sign up for an entitlement, a 27% Apple tax, and give Apple audit rights to your company. Which is all completely illegal under the DMA.

lol

The fines can't come quick enough or heavy enough.
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112328353754517763

dbarros,
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@stroughtonsmith “So if Spotify puts a link in its app and a user clicks it and subscribes, Spotify would owe Apple a 27 percent commission”

Does that mean that if someone tapped that link and subscribed to Spotify, Apple gets 27% every month of the subscription period?

dbarros,
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@stroughtonsmith Apple is acting more like the mobster that comes to your business to demand monthly protection money.

georgeharito, to random
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Staring into the abyss that is auth0 / Salesforce / Laravel / SAML.

dbarros,
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@georgeharito I've been browsing some of the Laracasts, and I must say, having solid PHP frameworks sure is tempting. As opposed to living int he React/React Native hell I live in.

These JavaScript kids switch frameworks every other day.

dbarros,
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@georgeharito Vue.js is also interesting. Maybe a bit too close to Angular (which I just don't get, and hence don't like (?!))

superbetsy, to random
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I just walked past a shop selling a tshirt that said, “I paused Zelda to be here” and I didn’t buy it. I’d like to register this as demonstrable personal growth.

dbarros,
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@superbetsy or missed opportunity?

grammargirl, to random
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Russell Harper just revealed the cover for the upcoming 18th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. #ACES2024

dbarros,
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@grammargirl I guess be concise is not one of the recommendations.

Meyerweb, to food
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My possibly controversial opinion is that mayonnaise brings nothing useful to the creation of a grilled cheese sandwich. Everything it claims to do, butter already does better, salted butter doubly so.

dbarros,
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@Meyerweb only recently did I learn that some Americans use mayo in a grilled cheese sandwich. Butter is the better option. Embrace butter.

dbarros, to apple
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If you’re working 80 hour weeks then you’re doing something terribly wrong.

dbarros,
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@georgeharito I can see that sort of life for a bit for a startup, but someone as big as Apple?

gruber, to random
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Kubrick predicting iPad-like tablets and vertical video in 1968.
https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112168316108705131

dbarros, (edited )
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@gruber interesting video of Arthur C. Clarke speaking about the future. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Uo2DXNlyp

dbarros, to random
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@gruber The new Apple Style Guide you linked-to. If you open the PDF in Safari on macOS, press CMD-F, search for the word 'title', does the browser tab freeze-up on you?

It does on mine. Cannot find anything in the PDF, cannot scroll the document, nothing. Works on Firefox and Chrome.

dbarros,
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@gruber I've been experiencing some bad performance issues with Safari lately.

https://mastodon.social/@dbarros/112131629280612767

https://mastodon.social/@dbarros/112131649958260051

dbarros, to random
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@jensimmons I noticed something interesting (at least to me) with Apple’s new documentation site.

The blue rectangle below is shown when I select an option. But it only shows in Firefox and Chrome. Is this as a result of ambiguity in the standards that two browsers do it this way, and Safari does not show it?

dbarros,
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@georgeharito @jensimmons Thanks for the details. I just found it curious and wondered whether it was the old thing of browsers interpreting specs differently (whether due to ideals, or due to interpretation on vague docs).

You're right, Safari completely skips all the image icons for the various products, whereas FF/Chrome focus on each one.

Safari only highlights the down arrows in the menu items (pic 1), where FF/Chrome focus on the label (pic 2) and down arrow separately as you Tab.

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