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ScottieMac
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Developer & Designer

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@dnanian was hoping to see Mission of Burma in that list
January 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Best album cover of 2025. Wow.

I Love My Computer
by Ninajirachi

It’s pretty hyper 😮
https://song.link/i/1824602994
https://song.link/i/1824602986

#dancing
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]
Original post on mastodon.fixermark.com
mastodon.fixermark.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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10/10, no notes. I spent decades admiring Apple’s design ethos and pathological attention to detail and UI/UX, and the downhill slide post-Jobs has turned into a freefall. https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
苹果传奇般的细节关注力去哪了?
What Happened to Apple''s Legendary Attention to Detail? (blog.johnozbay.com) 03:05  ↑ 137 HN Points
blog.johnozbay.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
TIL that SwiftUI Text views don't like orphans. And there's no way to disable orphan-handling. So I guess we're hardcoding `\n`.
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ok the builds on AppStoreConnect seem to have finally ironed out (they have a status and default testers). So maybe this is just a front-end issue in handling the state of the build.
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Wow, whatever Apple did to AppStoreConnect the new build upload system is totally borked. Was this even tested internally?
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@dnanian Looks like Apple may have fixed the connection issues (fingers crossed).
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@dnanian ugh, okay, thanks for the info. Will keep an eye out for that.
September 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
@dnanian What are you seeing? My current project is an iOS app that uses Bluetooth to control devices (winches). Not looking forward to additional support requests (especially ones I can't fix).
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@kumarvibe so “Get out of the car and chat with the herder about the weather” not an option? 😁(What is the correct answer I’m curious)
August 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Oh dear, someone forgot to give Gen Z the memo about not wearing the band’s t-shirt to the band’s show. (But seriously we had so many weird, dumb rules about being cool as Gen Xers; with showing that you liked something and “selling out” as two biggies) […]
Original post on ruby.social
ruby.social
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
@kumarvibe These are amazing!
July 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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PSA: #swiftui gestures on iOS are super limited.

UIKit's UIGestureRecognizers, which I've almost never worked with, run circles around the few gestures we can effectively compose in SwiftUI.

Circles, I tell you!

The power of tweaking how many fingers are needed for a pan gesture, or detecting […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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It's time to celebrate the women of the 2000s blogosphere, so now we'll be scrolling randomly through the June 2005 blogroll of misbehaving.net. https://web.archive.org/web/20050626031252/http://www.misbehaving.net:80/ #misbehaving2005
July 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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TIL, combining Text’s using + is now deprecated in #swiftui: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/text/+(_:_:)
+(_:_:) | Apple Developer Documentation
Concatenates the text in two text views in a new text view.
developer.apple.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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As a demo of what's possible, I put together Infinite Monkey: https://infinitemac.org/monkey/

It lets OpenAI's or Anthropic's computer use models control an emulated Mac, based on your chat instructions.

This means that it's possible to run the @simon
"draw me […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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@helge @kentbeck @gergelyorosz that's one of the most interesting questions right now, I think

We clearly need to reimagine aspects of how we train new software engineers
June 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Except of course that previously bloggers would simply take art directly from the internet. Bloggers weren’t licensing images. There was no “solidarity” pre-AI either.
https://vis.social/@nyxmir/114726057035741399
Nyx Mir (@[email protected])
I am begging writers & writing-related-workers of all kinds—but especially people working in journalism and blogs—to stop using “AI art” to accompany your writing. Please have solidarity with your fellow creative workers 💜
vis.social
June 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER

#accessibility #ux #typography
June 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Because it's just so *readable*!
June 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM