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stroughtonsmith

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I make apps, paint minis, and hack things. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. I make https://mastodon.social/@broadcastsapp, https://mastodon.social/@pastelapp, https://mastodon.social/@graceapp, and more.

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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My dream iPad is 15”, but, the way things have been going, if that machine ever does come to fruition it will be a $4,000 computer 🫠

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple's website was masking the accessory pricing in the Saved for Later section: the actual cost of a new 13” iPad with 16GB of RAM is €3,107. 💀
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112406010223311779

stroughtonsmith, to random
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There are some new docs from Apple to go with the new features enabled by Apple Pencil Pro — they're well-written, and they have workable sample snippets with a SwiftUI/UIKit toggle.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepencil/playing-haptic-feedback-in-your-app?changes=latest_minor

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepencil/handling-squeezes-from-apple-pencil?changes=latest_minor

Very much appreciate this format!

Also a note from the HIG about new trackpad haptic support: "Apple Pencil Pro and some trackpads can provide haptic feedback when connected to certain iPad models"

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Why would Apple's brand be at risk? Their products are manufactured in China, chips designed in Israel. They keep breaking laws and bullying their partners, tell us that developers leech off their success. They monopolize the market, nanny their users. They kicked the leading game engine developer off their platforms over a dispute over an (illegal) clause in their contracts. Their prices keep going up in a cost of living crisis. And they tell us it's for our own good.

I see no problems here? 😜

stroughtonsmith,
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I think this too is but a preview of the backlash iOS 18 might face when less-terminally-online folks find out it incorporates ‘AI’. I expect the drama will start around WWDC and ramp up until September

stroughtonsmith,
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@jsnell I have a feeling people want a reason to be angry (especially with the weaponized upswell of angry internet people™ ahead of the election once again) and I'm sure they'll find it

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@stroughtonsmith Help me out here. iOS 1.0 didn't have any way to select text, right? Didn't that come later? So who are these idiots who say 1.0 couldn't copy/paste when text couldn't be selected from the start?

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@mikecane that's being weirdly nitpicky; whether you could select text or not, you couldn't copy paste it. There are places in the OS today you can't select but can copy — those two things aren't tied

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Universal UIKit app development means building and shipping updates for five platforms across two apps to App Store Connect in a day 🫠

stroughtonsmith, to random
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That's a new one! Never seen an Xcode upload get corrupted along the way before

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stroughtonsmith,
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Keeps happening; there's either something screwy going on server side at App Store Connect right now, or something about Xcode 15.4 RC has broken visionOS uploads?

stroughtonsmith,
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@jpsim @vandal not just me! Good 😄

stroughtonsmith,
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@stevex @vandal might be fixed for iOS builds, but I'm still getting Processing Stopped on visionOS builds 😐 It doesn't point to anything specific though like a corrupted image

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@vandal @stevex it's just listed as visionOS 1.2 so I didn't even think to check the build number ಠ_ಠ So I guess it is a beta SDK then. I can defer my visionOS build in that case

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Early iPad Pro Geekbench results (if true) make it out to be basically double the performance of my M1 Mac mini. Double the single core score, double the multicore score, and double the graphics score 👀 It's only been three years!

CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6013825

GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/2154401

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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OK, creatives, is this really about the ad, or is this latent existential angst about generative AI?
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112407557601933446

viticci, to random
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so do we know what Apple "let loose" yet or no

stroughtonsmith,
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@viticci the moose. Aboot the hoose.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Oh good, a new SwiftUI focus engine bug come to ruin my day; just what I needed. And it breaks in different ways on iOS 17, iOS 16, and iOS 15 🫠

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stroughtonsmith,
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@paul the major place I left it is for settings panels, since there's no easy way to get this style in UIKit. It's nice to have a constant reminder why I'm not putting it anywhere else in my apps though

stroughtonsmith,
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@paul it's a ton of boilerplate and subclasses for a handful of lines of code worth of logic. I could do all of that once, and make my own wrapper, but I’d really like the OS to work, you know?

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🖕😐🖕

My work here is done.

stroughtonsmith,
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@radu my pattern was set before Swift added that syntax

stroughtonsmith,
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I've isolated this to a sample project, so I guess I'm going to file a radar.

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stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €3,107. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

stroughtonsmith,
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@mwa3aan I use Screens regularly from my iPad, with and without the hardware keyboard. Sidecar, which only supports Pencil input, is built into the OS.

I find that whole argument a waste of time

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Just what iPad Pro needed: a spec-bump

stroughtonsmith,
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@mikecane doesn't count; doesn't move anything about iPad forward, just makes a nice smaller one

stroughtonsmith,
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@mikecane the mini doesn't even get Stage Manager. It's not the full iPad experience

stroughtonsmith, to ageofsigmar
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I guess I know what I'm buying next week!

And holy moly the new official paint job glow up on this Marauder Giant is incredible. Why you would go to this effort for a limited-time-only 1990 miniature re-release is beyond me ☹️ Make it permanent on the store!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/28/sunday-preview-white-dwarf-500-and-legions-imperialis-hardware/

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stroughtonsmith,
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@siuying my wallet still hurts. The rest of the MTOs were near €300…

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