@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

gahms

@gahms@mastodon.social

Software Engineer and co-author of iOS app Month Calendar. Day-job at Miracle (Denmark). I make iOS and Android apps for a living.

For fun I make apps and ride mountain bike.

On Twitter: @nicolaih

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

stroughtonsmith, to random
@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social avatar

(Also do yourself a favor and don't read DMA-related news summaries from any of the 'preferred media’ toadies. Go to the original source)

gahms,
@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

@stroughtonsmith Or read your summary 😊 honestly, you are always spot on, in my opion.

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

this developer retired or resigned from software giant after 22 years 4 mos, and became a farmer. bro is living his dream. https://x.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947

gahms,
@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft Going strong twenty years as engineer but one year as architect and he wanted to be farmer.

simonbs, to random
@simonbs@mastodon.social avatar

My old Eve Weather (the white one with no screen) is starting to die. What’s the best weather station with HomeKit support these days? Netatmo?

gahms,
@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

@simonbs I have a Netatmo and I love it. Both HomeKit and Home Assistant support is great I think. Netatmo app works well and have good widgets.

daringfireball, to random
@daringfireball@mastodon.social avatar

The Best Simple USB-C Microphone: Audio-Technica’s ATR2100x-USB
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/19/atr2100x-usb-microphone

gahms,
@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

@daringfireball Do you have any idea how this would perform when recording music? Say my daughter playing the violin at home.

Currently I am using the built-in microphone in my iPhone 15 Pro.

layoutSubviews, to random
@layoutSubviews@mastodon.social avatar

I am sorry to be a downer, but I give @delta a week at most before it is hit by a Cease & Desist letter from Nintendo.
There’s no way in hell they’ll let emulators for their consoles exist in the App Store. And unless the developers (or the EU?) are ready to fight them in court, at huge costs, this will be a short-lived “freedom”.

gahms,
@gahms@mastodon.social avatar

@layoutSubviews Is “Cease & Desist” even a thing in EU? I was under the impression that in EU you had to go to trial to get anything like that through?

schwa, to random
@schwa@mastodon.social avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @schwa This is one of the things I love about Flutter. If there is a built-in widget that does something I want to replicate or better understand I can always step into it and see how it is implemented.

    Because I often switch between SwiftUI and Flutter, this particular difference really stands out.

    simonbs, (edited ) to random
    @simonbs@mastodon.social avatar

    Incredibly often, it seems that Safari fails to load a website. It happens both on my Mac and iPhone and has been happening for a long time. I think this has to do with my WiFi, but I fail to see anything unusual in my Ubiquiti setup.

    Anyone seeing similar issues with Safari, or is this some issue in my Internet setup?

    (Yes, I've tried disabling all extensions)

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @bigzaphod @simonbs I think most ISPs have CG NAT or will switch to it eventually. If you pay for a static IP you get rid of it.

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @simonbs Bummer.

    Some of them hides the fact that the actually have the possibility. They really do not want to sell it to you until you tell them that you are “a gamer and really need it”

    schwa, to random
    @schwa@mastodon.social avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @schwa And the wild variarity of use cases: the DXF format allows for light years and parsecs as units 😊

    stroughtonsmith, to random
    @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social avatar

    There have been huge parts of the iPad Simulator broken since iOS 16 & the introduction of Stage Manager and nobody has noticed/bothered to fix them 🤷‍♂️

    You haven't been able to drag app icons out into windows in two simulator OS releases — the standard way to initiate multitasking.

    Holding the cmd key to show the keyboard shortcuts panel sends SpringBoard to the lockscreen the first time each launch. It's a pain to debug keyboard commands.

    The iPad app development experience reeks of neglect

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @stroughtonsmith Yes! Also: Cannot re-arrange home screen. Makes it impossible to make “clean” screenshots and videos.

    layoutSubviews, to random
    @layoutSubviews@mastodon.social avatar

    Genuine pedantic question: why is Daylight Saving Time ending when entering Winter, when Winter is the season with sparse daylight, and therefore when daylight actually needs “saving”?

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @layoutSubviews Here it is simply called “summer time”. 😊

    sindresorhus, to random
    @sindresorhus@mastodon.social avatar

    I'm planning to add a setting to Dato to show free time between events. How should it be presented? This is my first take.

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @sindresorhus Nice! Perfect!

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @sindresorhus I like the first one.

    simonbs, (edited ) to random
    @simonbs@mastodon.social avatar

    No, Apple, I'm not going to pay a solicitor to translate a government-issued ID just to convince you that I have actually changed my address. Does it really have to be this complicated, Apple?

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @simonbs Dio you have a “personal” or “company” Apple developer account?

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @simonbs Suspected that. Probably won’t work for us then.

    Last time I had to change address it took me a loooong time. Ended up paying a few hundred DKK to get a certificate (paper) with a stamp on from a local business org (BusinessAalborg I think).

    Funny thing is they explicitly state that the only thing they vouch for is that I signed the paper in front of them. They did explicitly NOT vouch for the correctness of anything on the paper with the new address.

    schwa, to random
    @schwa@mastodon.social avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @schwa @Migueldeicaza Well if it had in fact told you that you might even forgive it.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
    @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social avatar

    As a developer based in the EU, of course I want to be able to sign on to Apple's new business terms and access the hard-won benefits of the DMA (like external distribution).

    But there’s no way I ever would with the specter of a CTF hanging over, even if I never build an app that hits 1M annual downloads.

    @rileytestut tried to convince me to build something for AltStore, and I've had several huge Cydia-distributed projects in the past. But Apple's new business terms are currently a no-go

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @stroughtonsmith This is the only angle that matters as I see it. If nobody accepts the terms in practice it does not matter how reasonably they seem.

    The only outcome EU should accept is one where EU developers actually use the new terms.

    simonbs, to random
    @simonbs@mastodon.social avatar

    Web Distribution in the EU sounds like it could be a big deal for several of the clients I work with 👀

    Will need to read up on this when I’m back from vacation 🇳🇴⛷️

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @simonbs I would be really interested to hear more if you get longer down this road.

    I think the core tech fee and the “all in” parts will make it a show stopper for the clients I would otherwise think could be interested.

    layoutSubviews, to random
    @layoutSubviews@mastodon.social avatar

    As the “Organizer” of the family, there should be an easy way for me to remotely schedule a software update for all of our Apple devices.
    Right now I have to hunt every device around the house, which is becoming real annoying real fast.
    Also why can’t the Apple TV be updated from the Home app like the HomePod can?

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @layoutSubviews I cannot even schedule update of my own watch realiably. It is on a charger by my bedside with good wifi and fails night after night to update. Often have to update manually.

    Then there is my wifes iPad that does not have enough free space despite having very little but the OS installed.

    Daojoan, to random
    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

    Modern work:

    you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @Daojoan @bigzaphod Now, write the same story but as it was 30 years ago and compare.

    jamesthomson, to random
    @jamesthomson@mastodon.social avatar

    As an Apple shareholder, I wish Apple wouldn’t push for services revenue. How much better of a company would they be, if it was mostly about selling cool devices that everybody wanted to use? Would they make less money? Yes. Would they still be insanely profitable? Also yes!

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @Migueldeicaza @jamesthomson I thought that “services revenue” for Apple mostly consist of gambling apps (or games more broadly) and Google search kickback?

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @Migueldeicaza @jamesthomson Ok then I am mistaken.

    That is just the impression I got from listening to (and reading) Gruber, Ben Thomson, the ATP gang and others.

    I do not think I have the mental capacity to read SEC filings myself 😊

    gernot, to random German
    @gernot@mas.to avatar

    If I have an app that has less than a million installs in the EU, and want to STAY with AppStore Distribution (not take advantage of the marketplaces), is there ANY reason why I should stay with the current TERMS? The new terms are always better, or am I holding it wrong?

    Here’s a calculator: https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-in-the-eu/

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @gernot @nicklockwood More hassle and “paperwork” perhaps? It is not clear ro me after reading it once but seem to me that there will be more administration and choices to make?

    sindresorhus, to random
    @sindresorhus@mastodon.social avatar

    I added a general FAQ for all my apps on my website. Anything I missed?

    https://sindresorhus.com/apps/faq

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @sindresorhus Looks good

    simonbs, to random
    @simonbs@mastodon.social avatar

    With the release of iOS 17.3, Stolen Device Protection is now generally available. This is one of my favorite new iOS features. You will want to turn on Stolen Device Protection as it provides a great additional security layer for everyone, but particularly for those of us who use iCloud Keychain.

    Turn on Stolen Device Protection by opening Settings, selecting Face ID & Passcode, and then choosing Turn On Protection under Stolen Device Protection.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212510

    gahms,
    @gahms@mastodon.social avatar

    @simonbs One thing I find unsettling is that I seem to have 136 “Significant Locations”, including a spot where I waited 10 min for my daughter on a parking lot outside city hall.

    I do not feel particular attached to that spot nor particular safe.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • everett
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • ngwrru68w68
  • Youngstown
  • Durango
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • tester
  • PowerRangers
  • anitta
  • thenastyranch
  • mdbf
  • osvaldo12
  • ethstaker
  • vwfavf
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • tacticalgear
  • khanakhh
  • cisconetworking
  • modclub
  • Leos
  • megavids
  • All magazines
    •