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Steve Troughton-Smith

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App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things. UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1m

[Politics, Fascism, Palestine]

Great interview with Denise Gough, Irish actor and star of Disney's 'Andor', re her experiences in the West Bank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-gdodXHv4U

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

My strategy for filing radars is to only file the ones I can reproduce in a tiny example project, show in screenshot or video, and are so obvious I don't have to do much describing. Nothing that would ever require a sysdiagnose.

Videos are helpful even for me, when I go to verify the fix — I […]

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

FB19930514 Apple says this one is fixed in macOS 26.1 (I haven't had a chance to verify)

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

An iPadOS 26.1 feature in testing that hasn't been enabled in builds yet:

SpringBoard itself has a system menu bar, with quick access to a bunch of things, including shut down and restart, screenshots, homescreen editing and more. Combined with the previous […]

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

There's a second version of this command in the Window menu, which changes to 'Close All'. It does seem to function 🥳

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Also new in iPadOS 26.1 — there's a menu command to 'Close All Windows' if you hold the alt key.

This does *not* appear functional in beta 2, but if they make it work by release it will plug another big hole in iPadOS' new windowing mode

Files File menu with 'Close All Windows' command

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

If I were to make any changes to how it works now, I would preserve the multi-window layout when an app is 'un-hidden', and bring back all the windows. That's a tougher sell just because it's so different to how iPad has traditionally worked, but I think it's what users will expect

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The new Hide command works per-display, and hides all open windows from the frontmost app. So if you have five Safari windows open on the iPad display, and another five Safari windows open on an external display, hitting cmd-H will hide just the five for whichever screen you were last […]

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The new implementation of Slide Over is kinda great, and I can very much see how this could come to macOS in a future release too. It's 'just' a transient pinned window mode now, and can be resized to fill the entire screen if you want. It would be a welcome improvement to fullscreen mode in […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

While this solves our problems, we are far from the only Fediverse project that could use some funding and we want to support the growth of the entire ecosystem.

So to give back to the open social web, we’re also donating $500,000 total to these incredible Fediverse-related projects 🎉 […]

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Between expanding worldwide and adding Fediverse integration, the next year will be an incredibly exciting time for AltStore! Alternative app marketplaces are needed more than ever now, and we’ll continue to do our best to open up the iOS app ecosystem as much as possible.

For much more […]

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

That makes seven (of like… 50?) radars fixed by changes in iOS 26.1b2. Still a long way to go, but it is progress

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

FB19905057 fixed in iPadOS 26.1

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Fixed in iOS 26.1

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Appears to be fixed in iOS 26.1

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Seems to be fixed in iPadOS 26.1. Not about to install macOS to verify there, too, though

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Fixed in iOS 26.1

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

New API on NSProcessInfo in visionOS 26.1 — 'isiOSAppOnVision'.

Finally there's an API to check if you're running on visionOS in compatibility mode

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

iPadOS 26.1 adds Hide, and Hide Others commands to the application menu, which was one of the radars I filed after WWDC (FB18283483 — not one I posted about here) 🥳

Now you can very easily clean up what's onscreen when you want to focus on the task at hand. Love it

Settings app menu bar, with 'Hide Settings', and 'Hide Others', mapped to command keys

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

oh also in 4.0.1 they changed the height of the lower bars to be taller lmao

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

In 4.0.1, they changed these values to be way smoother. Mapped onto a chart, you can see that it takes a lot to drop from 5 to 0 bars. It’s harder to see 5 bars, but it’s harder to plummet bars.

• 0x86FFFFFF equals −122 dBm — 1 bar threshold.
• 0x98FFFFFF equals −104 dBm — 2 bars threshold.
• 0x9EFFFFFF equals −98 dBm — 3 bars threshold.
• 0xA7FFFFFF equals −89 dBm — 4 bars threshold.
• 0xB0FFFFFF equals −80 dBm — 5 bars threshold.

4.0 and 4.0.1 signal bar thresholds mapped onto each other. The 4.0 line jumps from 0 to full bars in a fairly short span compared to 4.0.1

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

When you plot this onto a chart, you can see how the values are kinda screwed up since the values are really optimistic. Most of the time, you would see 4-5 bars. But when you gripped it, since the falloff is so sharp, you’d see a catastrophic drop from 5 to 2 bars.

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

There are a lot of templates here, before you start adding 'systems' and 'planners' from the marketplace. I now feel woefully under-equipped to choose templates to include in my own notebook app 👀

A grid of dozens of templates, including calligraphy, checklist, storyboards, hexagon, isometric and more

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

While the reMarkable Paper Pro is thin, at 5.1mm, I would still halve the thickness if I could, and dramatically decrease the weight. There is a line between technology and magic that it doesn't quite cross, today

The screen light, too, is not for me. Personally, I want my ePaper without a […]

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