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matthew

@matthew@mastodon.me.uk

iOS developer by day, iOS developer by night.
Likes nature, beer, vegan food, foreign-language pop, York City FC.
Dislikes Tories, racists, crypto-bros.
Boosts are endorsements.

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matthew, to random
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One thing I noticed on the VW ID.3:
The power consumption is quoted in “kWh/h” (kilowatt-hours per hour), which offends my scientific brain.

It’s just kilowatts, surely?

matthew,
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@yatil
That’s fine, when they’re talking about power usage over distance.

But that “kWh/h” figure was the instantaneous power usage, which I’d expect to be measured in kW.

matthew, to random
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I’ve always wanted to see the , but have never been lucky enough to see it.

So it’s especially annoying to see people on our village Facebook group posting photos from last night’s display.

danieldurrans, to random
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What domain registrar is the "go to" these days?

People who run their own registrar need not answer this question ;)

matthew,
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@danieldurrans
I have a low bar for registrars, but have moved everything to PorkBun.
All I really want is a decent set of TLDs, and a not-terrible way of configuring DNS.
The only thing I don’t like is the name, being a non meat-eater :-/

matthew, to random
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I still don’t understand the hype around GitHub .

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?

matthew, to random
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Eww, new app just dropped, and it’s… unusual. 😬

glynmoody, to vegan
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After a blue won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it - https://boingboing.net/2024/04/29/after-a-vegan-blue-cheese-won-the-good-food-award-panicked-dairy-cheese-makers-forced-the-foundation-to-disqualify-it.html

matthew,
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@glynmoody
The Streisand Effect rears its head once again!

matthew, to random
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Inspired by this post from @Edent, I’m trying to show evegy prices on my very old Kindle.

https://mastodon.social/@Edent/111620580427778424

It’s not easy, and I’m celebrating every time I get a different error. The latest error is because the Kindle’s ancient version of Java only supports TLSv1, but the Octopus API requires TLSv1.2 :-(

matthew, to random
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Hey, listen up.

If you’re posting here, to say you are looking for work:

Please, please, say where in the world you are.

UK? Berlin? Cupertino?

Tell us where you are.

Otherwise we cannot help you.

jamesthomson, to random
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Does anybody have any tips for generating a concave CollisionComponent in RealityKit?

I have some fairly simple geometry I'm loading from a usdz which I'd like to add a nicer fitting CollisionComponent to for accurate raycasting, but the closest thing is ShapeResource.generateConvex, which doesn't deal with holes.

matthew,
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@jamesthomson
If you’d chosen to model those famously-straight European bananas, you wouldn’t have this problem.

RobW, to random
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Someone cooked some fish in the microwave at work today. I didn’t think these people were real.

matthew,
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@RobW
I once saw a colleague boiling eggs in the work kettle. He needed to hold the button down, so it wouldn’t automatically stop.

beccaowen, to random
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New blog post: First Year in Chronicling Commits

https://beccais.online/2024/02/first-year-in-chronicling-commits/

matthew,
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@beccaowen
A few years ago, I used lolcommits while writing an app. It takes a selfie on every commit, and adds the commit message on top.

https://lolcommits.github.io

(And I’d completely forgotten that one of my pictures is on that webpage!)

paul, to random
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Brutal morning but my experiment worked.

matthew,
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@paul
Odd… I applied for that entitlement a few weeks ago, and got an email rejection last week.
Weird that they didn’t reply to you at all.

matthew, to random
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Another fab weekly podcast from the @troyhunt

This chat about Spoutible is 45 minutes of fail after fail after fail.

https://overcast.fm/+HlSDh7yX4/12:38

matthew, to SwiftUI
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Is it okay to use withAnimation in a ViewModel? Asking for a friend.

SteveFaulkner, to random
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In

matthew,
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@SteveFaulkner
Is that the Slip?

matthew, to random
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Dreamed last night that my phone was creating AI-generated photos in my camera roll, for future events it found in my calendar.

matthew,
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@dave
Exactly!
Someone will make an app to do this, and I hate it already.

podomunro, to random
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Hugo is being a huge PITA so I'm looking to move away to something that requires less brain power for my blog.

Musts:

  • Be able to write blog posts in markdown
  • RSS
  • Support Swift code blocks

Nice to have:

  • Require little brainpower to get set up and maintain
  • Have some degree of control over theming (although I'll take black and white)

And please don't suggest Wordpress.

matthew,
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@podomunro
Watching this thread with interest.
I’ve been using Publish for a couple of years, and have even written plugins for it.
But it’s unsupported now - lots of open unanswered PRs. I regret choosing to use it.

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    matthew,
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    @RobW
    I sat on a few in IKEA today.
    Decided to get “Markus”.

    matthew, to random
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    Great (and scary) discussion here about lapsed domains, and how companies don’t respond to responsible disclosure.

    @troyhunt talks with Scott Helme.

    https://overcast.fm/+HlSCS_G94/32:12

    matthew, to random
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    Good (ish) news!

    My radar for the broken simulator time override has a new status: “Potential fix identified - for a future OS release” :)

    thedevme, to random
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    I am determined to use Unit testing in iOS in 2024. Please give me your recommendations for YT videos, courses, and books. And any other things you would recommend.

    Thank you! 🙏🏾

    matthew,
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    @thedevme
    Don’t feel pressured into TDD. (I do it at my day job, but not on personal projects)

    Start by identifying code which has subtle behaviour, or could be easily broken by a well-intentioned future developer.

    Think of unit tests as a love-letter to future you. (Or whoever else will be maintaining that code in 5 years time)

    matthew, to random
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    British friends: there’s a three-part documentary about the history of on BBC iPlayer, and I can’t describe how good it is.

    matthew, to random
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    Amazing cloud action in right now… I’ve never seen anything like it.

    Rainbow clouds. Like a pearlescent effect. Weird!

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