@liss.bsky.social Just want to say that I'm a huge fan of the new bit where you'll mention in quick asides how much @marcoarment.bsky.social loves Dave Matthews Band 👨‍🍳💋

Is it just me or does the Bluesky website on iPad have difficulty maintaining position in a feed?

I love this guy’s argument so much that I had to, well, you’ll see—

I solved the puzzle ‘Tuesday Crossword’ in 37:49 using Crossmate.

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Amen! weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/f... Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile.

We're at 4844 responses for this year's State of CSS survey, so I just need 157 more participants to be able to say the survey got "over 5000" responses! I'm closing the survey tomorrow so this is your last chance to learn about all the latest CSS features! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Super excited to release Substage 1.0 today! It's a HUGE update. 🖋️ Blog post: joethephish.me/blog/substag... Substage is a little Mac app that puts a command bar underneath your Finder windows, allowing you to manipulate files and more, by converting your requests to Terminal commands.

This old Japanese house was completely destroyed by the 2011 tsunami, but it was rebuilt last year using as many of the washed-away original materials as could be recovered. I was responsible for applying the urushi finish to the interior sliding doors known as obi-do.

Okay, this is kind of fun. Be nice if there was a way to auto post it or use the action intent link to share the text version easily hankgreen.com/fourbythree

I know it's a hard problem but I'd really like @atproto.com to support some kind of revisioning so that Bluesky would allow editing.

Excited to share that we now have both @figma.com and @sketch.com design kits for #iOS, #iPadOS and #macOS 27. Kits now include Dark Mode support for macOS! developer.apple.com/design/resou...

You know, I'm beginning to think that SwiftUI's Commands API is not very good.

I keep talking about my app, Crossmate. Here's what it actually looks like to use on iOS. If you're interested in the TestFlight, let me know!

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I made a game called Island Solitaire. It's inspired by an old PC game from 2001 called High Seas Solitaire.

No. But also yes.

ChatGPT's macOS app is much better than Claude's but for the love of all that is good and holy, please respect my choice and always show the sidebar.

Well, that was a fucking ride.

What are the odds? @sangsara.bsky.social invites a friend to the Crossmate TestFlight and, as his very first puzzle, the friend chooses a random puzzle from 2021 that just so happens to have numbers in the answers (revealing Crossmate cannot handle puzzles with numbers at all).

the reflecting pool is actually white and gold

Crossmate uses a Cloudflare Worker to serve OpenGraph metadata for link unfurls. Part of this involves dynamically generating a preview of the crossword that a user is sharing with the Crossmate icon composited in the bottom right. Yes, this is a silly use of my time.

Today I wrote my first skill for an LLM-based coding agent.

If you’re interested, send me a DM and I can provide the link :)

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My next app is Crossmate, a crossword app for one to two players. Anyone interested in the TestFlight beta?

English is weird. ‘Fraudster’ sounds like such a made-up word.

I guess I truly am middle-aged because the most exciting part of the WWDC keynote for me was the improved ScreenTime features. Those look great.

A new contender emerges.

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sneakier ghost

This looks cool.

I'm in a bit of a shock discovering that @bengolliver.bsky.social has left the Greatest of All Talk. I haven't listened to the final episode where Ben discusses things; don't think I'm ready yet.

The notification logic in this game is going to be the end of me.

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I've pushed an update to my famous blog post 📈 "Emoji history: the missing years" blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/e... Adding 1986's Sanyo SWP-M21, plus some history of the word…including 絵文字 (emoji) used as table column header in the manual of 1988's Toshiba Rupo JW95F word processor.

I can finally set YouTube Shorts to zero and it is glorious.

So I spent most of the day trying to get a live communication channel working in Crossmate using WebRTC before I eventually gave up and replaced it with a WebSockets implementation that took about an hour.

I fear I’m never going to stop tweaking the sync code in my Crossword app.

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I am spending an inordinate amount of time troubleshooting CloudKit sync issues and I feel like the TestFlight people might need some of my help.

Ugh, so annoyed with myself. I had a complete brain explosion and simply didn’t notice I was reusing an incorrect letter in Wordle. Lost my streak as a result.

Tokens refreshed!

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I definitely think @tangled.org is very cool but I'm thinking I don't really want a social network attached to my code hosting. I'm experimenting with boring old HTML files for a web-based repository explorer.

I’m successfully running a Tangled knot!

I agree with the sentiment (and I'm mostly just joking around) but, as an Australian in his 40s, I think that ball from Warne to Gatting is still going to matter to me.

Weeknotes #328

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.