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deurman, 14 hours ago to mastodon

Mastodon feature question of the day: why can't I 'follow' or 'subscribe' to a toot? Like if I somebody asks a question and I want to keep up to date with that people answer to it, why can't I subscribe to that toot so I get a notification if somebody comments something.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #fedilab

santiago, 1 day ago to random

So my wife deleted FB & Instagram apps and decided to use them only on computer to avoid getting trapped. Works well except there’s just about half the stuff you just can’t do on Instagram on the computer (add a music to a post etc).

We settled on installing the evil apps on a secondary phone (Swiss SIM). It’s really hard to just post some stuff and not get drawn again in the infernal feed. Glad I left this world. Even gentle Mastodon is causing addiction issues for me.

santiago, 1 day ago to random

I honestly don’t know how people can use Mastodon without a client that automatically expands CWs. I understand one can have triggers to avoid but there are just so many that without this option I’d be just tapping 20% of the messages passing by because they mention one thing or another. Filtering keywords makes more sense. I guess if you auto expand CWs but filter some words in the same CWs it’ll work fine.

christianselig, 1 day ago to random

Does launching a build with the debugger attached on Vision Pro take forever for anyone else? It's near instant on the simulator, but even after the data is transferred to the device, the actual launch screen hangs out for like 10 seconds (so I don't think dev strap would help?)

dzamir, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Can someone at Google please disable the fucking automatic translations for the developer pages?

My Italian colleagues and I always have to manually disable the translation every time we open an Android developer page; I'm sure there will be a KPI showing higher engagement, and the PM of this change will be super-happy instead of worried about ruining the product.

dzamir, 2 days ago to random

What's the point of Xcode having plugins if I'm being punished by those screens?

I also like how they imply that only Apple's code is of superior quality; as we all know, Xcode is a very stable and powerful IDE. /s

craiggrannell, 2 days ago to random

Quick question: what are you hoping for Apple to reveal at WWDC this year? I’m writing a piece and it’d be useful to get insight into improvements devs and anyone else hopes Apple makes or new things it introduces (and how they are achieved).

dzamir, 3 days ago to random

Why haven’t they still renamed Google I/O to Google A/I?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/11/24154219/google-i-o-2024-what-to-expect-where-watch-livestream-ai-android-search-gemini

gedeonm, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Have you replaced some or all of your passwords with pass keys yet?

finestructure, 5 days ago to random

Folks who squash their #git merges, I’m curious why you are making that trade-off. I’m guessing the pro argument is a cleaner merge graph?

The big argument against it for me is that you lose granularity for git bisect. I've often been able to narrow down breakage (sometimes long past the merge) due to individual commits in the merge. If I'd merged in a giant blob all I'd have had to go by is that giant blob. (1/2)

dzamir, 6 days ago to random

It's the time of year when new super-fast iPads are released, but they are held back by the current iPadOS version, which will surely be fixed with the changes that will be announced on WWCD. Then September will come, and everyone will realise the iPad is the same mess as always.

dzamir, 6 days ago to random

This is why I haven’t bought any new iPads in the last six years. Sharing an iPad with the family is an abysmal experience, and it doesn’t make sense to buy an iPad for each family member.
https://mastodon.social/

matthew, 6 days ago to random

I still don’t understand the hype around GitHub #CoPilot.

Like lots of AI, it’s taking away the stuff that programmers generally enjoy (writing code) and giving us more of what we generally don’t enjoy (code review).

Am I missing something?

vandal, 7 days ago to random

While I really like my Watch Ultra, there are 2 things that irritates me.

Note: I need to wear it on my right wrist because of my tattoos on my left arm.

1. I keep hitting the Action button long press when exercising (doing push ups, for example). At least I turned off the siren trigger.

2. The crown is super sensitive and long sleeve clothes will turn it.

Am I wearing it wrong?

nicklockwood, 7 days ago to random

Does anyone know of a really nice tool for doing presentations with a lot of code in them (including transitions, etc)?

I generally use Deckset because it takes care of syntax highlighting at least, but otherwise it's very limited.

Keynote can do anything, but only with a huge amount of fiddly effort put into each code sample and animation.

I ideally just want something that takes a markdown document as input and "magic moves" all the transitions for you automatically with minimal effort 😅

cocoadog, 8 days ago to random

Xcode is sad about my constraints.

kylie.robison, 9 days ago to random

it's real real now https://www.theverge.com/authors/kylie-robison

cosmocatalano, 11 days ago to random

Yes it needs to contain wheat or we can’t turn it into Jesus

superbetsy, 11 days ago to random

sinbad, 13 days ago to random

Ranged enemy logic is coming along. Projectile is a placeholder for now. Generally happy with the results although I'm sure I can make it better with more time. They're not clever enough to co-ordinate, they just try to avoid shooting each other but don't always succeed 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I7unSyXYbo

dvrzan, 15 days ago to random

✨New blog post!

I wrote about creating a reusable button and how SwiftUI makes it easy to do that.

Now we're going to expand on that same approach to create a configurable button with different states. Update the state in your code and see the magic 🪄
https://www.danijelavrzan.com/posts/2024/05/configurable-button-swiftui

marcel, 16 days ago to random

Remember how I moved to a small city and Might Have Made an Oopsie?

Here's part 3:
The Possibilities

https://marcel.io/posts/the-possibilities-imhmao

craiggrannell, 16 days ago to random

I was waiting for this one. Netflix kills the legacy Basic plan and gives you to pick between a shitty ‘with ads’ plan (crowing that you’ll save 35%) or nudging you towards the more expensive Standard.

Fortunately, the child (our only Netflix viewer) has just started watching a lot of iPlayer and for the first time doesn’t care about the propect of losing Netflix. So we will be switching to the ‘no plan’.