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siracusa, 11 months ago to random

Kudos to all the various Mastodon instances for not falling over during the WWDC keynote. I used Mastodon just as I would have used Twitter in years past, and it worked great.

siracusa, 7 months ago to random

Julia (@b0rk) is amazing, and this talk is a great introduction to her work and her whole deal. If you do anything with computers, you should check it out.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/

siracusa, 8 months ago to random

When I do anything involving entering or modifying text on my phone, I feel like I’m wearing boxing gloves. It feels so much worse than doing the same task on my Mac, both practically and emotionally.

https://jenson.org/text/

siracusa, 9 months ago to random

No login prompts, no ads, no spoilers: just the movie and TV info you want, fast. Callsheet by @caseyliss is out today: https://www.caseyliss.com/callsheet

As @ismh already said, Callsheet is an example of indie app development at its best: take an existing app that doesn’t respect its users and make a better, faster, nicer version of it. Worth every penny.

siracusa, 3 months ago to random

Did someone say Unified Timeline?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

siracusa, 7 months ago to random

We’ve come a long way, baby.

The Google.com home page as seen on my iPhone this morning, showing the Google logo, a search field, and two large ads that take up the rest of the screen.

siracusa, 3 months ago to random

The “wide Lightning” connector on the Vision Pro battery pack was just a mini-boss. Cue the boss music…

siracusa, 1 year ago to random

Nearly all the code and prose I’ve written in my entire life has been written in BBEdit, an app I’ve used for its entire 30-year existence.

If you’re looking for a great Mac text editor, it’s currently on sale for $30 with the code BBEDIT30 at https://www.barebones.com/store/

siracusa, 11 months ago to random

New Mac Studio Oven just dropped. https://youtu.be/sVQy5nqo-EM

siracusa, 7 months ago to random

“We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

siracusa, 1 month ago to random

The Swift API guidelines are really good. They’re worth reading even if you’re not interested in Swift just to see an example of how to communicate this kind of information well. https://www.swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/

siracusa, 2 months ago to random

From the DOJ complaint:

“Apple inhibits third-party smartwatches from maintaining a reliable connection with the iPhone.”

To be fair, Apple does that to its own smartwatches too.

siracusa, 10 months ago to random

Oxo’s long, slow decline continues.

siracusa, 4 months ago to random

I'm kind of surprised this isn't called UnsafeRawMarketplaceKit

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/marketplacekit

siracusa, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

siracusa, 9 months ago to random

🫡💜 https://www.polygon.com/23814201/feminist-frequency-shutting-down-anita-sarkeesian

siracusa, 7 months ago to random

Not all heroes wear capes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/22-year-old-firefox-tooltip-bug-fixed-in-a-few-lines-offering-hope-to-us-all/

siracusa, 8 months ago to random

In classic Mac OS, I used to use a utility that would comb through all of memory (no memory protection!) looking for strings. I used it to recover text from unsaved documents after an application crashed, or if I accidentally hit the wrong button in a dialog, etc.

This kind of thing is harder to do on modern systems, but I’m glad to see people are still out there doing it. (But, yeah, don’t type large amounts to of text into web browsers…)

https://merveilles.town/@j3s/110981322978284262

siracusa, 10 months ago to random

I’m not linking this @snazzyq video just because it agrees with everything I’ve been saying for years on @atpfm about Apple and gaming…but it’s also not a coincidence that so many knowledgeable people have the same thoughts on the subject. https://youtu.be/ZZrnciMxksM

siracusa, 10 months ago to random

Hypercritical t-shirts are back! These sales happen only every five years (yes, really), so don’t miss out. https://hypercritical.co/shirt

siracusa, 10 months ago to random

“If I had to describe the Barbie movie in three words, it would be: Men ruin everything.”

— My daughter (16)

siracusa, 8 months ago to random

“We’ve partnered with Hermes to find a new, non-leather way to get huge margins on accessories.”

siracusa, 9 months ago to random

If anyone at Apple who works on TestFlight and/or Launch Services follows me, please look at FB12770062 which is about to be closed as “not a bug” by someone who does not seem to understand my report.

The TestFlight versions ONLY of both my Mac apps launch in a “stopped” state (state “T” shown in “ps”) when set to launch on login. Launch Services debug logging shows a “modifier” of LSLaunchStopped=true, which seems related.

siracusa, 18 days ago to random

[BINNING INTENSIFIES]

siracusa, 2 days ago to random

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

Robin Williams What Year Is It GIF