The Play Store onboarding process is a lot more long winded than I expected lol I know $25 once is much much cheaper than $100/year but at least once I forked over the money Apple just let me do my thing and publish an app #googleplay #appdev

Change I just discovered by accident: the new “slide to power off” screen is *sexy*! I actually really like the glassy look here on all the sliders, and don’t even get me started on the SOS slider. The “SOS” text on the button uses HDR, so it appears super […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Did my usual procedure of immediately updating my phone to the latest iOS developer beta as soon as it comes out, and I’m liking iOS 27 so far! I don’t really care about ANY of the AI stuff whatsoever, but the Liquid Glass refinements are very welcomed. The icons still make me sad, but I’ll at […]

HIG was updated too!

You’re welcome

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Some more work has been done on TigerDine for Android! Thanks to @DamiDoop spending a lot of time figuring out how on earth to implement a Material 3 Expressive SegmentedListItem, the main location list looks much much better! I also updated the app to use […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

god forbid a guy makes a new iDVD project on OS X Lion #osx #mac #legacymac

Made some cool new updates to my website, you should read about them! https://ninjacheetah.dev/2026/05/24/website-power-user-features.html

Finally picked my old jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite (PW3) back up, forgot how much better KOReader is as an ereader app compared to the one that you’re actually supposed to be using on the device designed for that very purpose

I bought a plastic storage bin from Target because I really needed a plastic storage bin to put under my bed after doing some cleaning. I measured the thing that needed to go into it. I picked a bin that claimed to be larger than that. It wasn't. And then I wrote a blog post about it because I […]

Goodbye, dorms. #RIT

Just finished this revised version of my furry pfp I've been using on most sites! Same base sketch as the previous version, but now with revised hair, glasses, ears, mouth structure, and a lot more minor things. I also actually used Krita's stabilizer for […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

One whole year done. #RIT

And with that, my first year at RIT is over. It doesn’t feel like I could possibly be done already, but I just finish my last exam.

Got to speak to someone from ITS during imagine, and it was really cool! I got to learn a good bit about how RIT’s services work internally and how data (like my beloved dining info) flows between internal services. I also learned how the dining data format was designed and why it has some of […]

Forgot that a decent number of the older blog articles on my site came from ncxprogramming.com and therefore used images hosted on cdn.ncxprogramming.com, because I wanted to be fancy and host them on the CDN and not inside the blog. That was cool and all, but I finally let that domain expire […]

TigerDine v1.2.4 is out on the App Store and TestFlight now to fix the crashing bug! Hopefully everyone updates quickly so I stop getting crash reports lol. I also wrote a blog article talking about exactly what went wrong and why […]

TigerDine is currently broken because Imagine RIT is happening on Saturday, and Crossroads is openly specially for the event (it’s usually closed on Saturdays) and has a visiting chef around during those opening hours. It turns out, that visiting chef is using a brand new time string format […]

He's kinda scuffed but please look at my cat

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

Another new NUSGet release (which I am 4 days late to writing about)! This is another quick fix update that makes it so that when you switch console tabs mid-search, your query is actually applied to the tab that you switched to. I didn’t have any other outstanding issues to address, so I […]

New NUSGet release! This just has some quick fixes related to downloading. NUSGet will no longer hang forever if your internet drops out mid-download, and you should no longer get a random "no ticket available" error when you get hit with an otherwise unhandled download error […]

I've officially released the first preview of rustwii v0.1.0! As stated before, every feature from WiiPy has been ported over and has been shown to work in all of my basic test cases. More extensive testing will still be required before I give v0.1.0 a proper release and things may break, but […]

tried my first ever fursona drawover today! really happy with how it came out :3 I figured that be standing on top of the huge snow pile on campus would be a good photo to try and draw over since this is one of the better portraits of me where you can see […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I think more songs need to include a bird noise interlude

Tora-Con is this weekend! I don't actually have tickets because I waited too long deciding whether or not I wanted to go and they sold out, but it's still fun to wander the public areas of campus and see all the awesome cosplays since yknow I live here and I can still at least do that. I also […]

Okay I need to be honest, the libWiiPy history and future articles were massively rushed lol. I wrote them sequentially in the same afternoon while recovering from being sick, and that clearly showed. To remedy this, I have revised both of them! The future article is more or less a brand new […]

aforementioned blog article out now!!! I'd suggest you first read https://ninjacheetah.dev/2026/03/11/the-history-of-libwiipy.html to get the libWiiPy and co lore, and then from there read https://ninjacheetah.dev/2026/03/11/the-future-of-libwiipy.html to get a picture of where I'm going with […]

As of today, rustwii has officially reached feature parity with libWiiPy/WiiPy! ...I'm pretty sure at least. I have a whole lot of testing to do now to ensure that rustwii behaves as expected, but hopefully soon WiiPy will be officially deprecated and replaced by rustwii. More on that soon in […]

Massive refactors for how titles are handled in rustwii are underway! This removes the duplicate instance of the content records stored in the ContentRegion struct, and actually entirely removes that struct because it was mostly useless. Content is now stored in and managed by the Title struct […]

oh hey I forgot that it can be warm and sunny here sometimes #RIT

Discovered that the rustwii U8 archive packing code has been broken for months now. It would make invalid archives that it couldn’t extract itself and would also kill the Wii Menu. The issue? My method to recursively count nodes in a directory was counting wrong lmao #programming #Wii #rust

Recently finished my first like proper full drawing of my fursona!! I had a lot of fun seeing this finally come together. Going to be rolling this out to finally replace my old “NinjaCheetah” profile picture that I’m using most places, both because that one […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

TIL that NUSGet was submitted to the official winget repository this wasn't me, but it's neat that it's there given that my download statistics tell me that Windows users are the vast, vast majority of people modding their Wiis […]

Another new huge blog article is out!! This is the aforementioned Tahoe icon article that I keep teasing, and it goes into detail on why I think the macOS Tahoe icons fail as both Mac app icons and also juts as software icons as a whole. I hope you enjoy :3 […]

I'm thrilled to announce that NUSGet v1.5.0 has hit 10,000 downloads!!! It's really incredible to see something I made get used so widely, and I’m very happy that NUSGet is now included in the Wii modding guide. My goal from the start was always to replace […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

New blog article out! It's the aforementioned post-mortem on RNGTool, talking about what happened to it, why it's been gone, why it got renamed, and where it's going next. Enjoy! https://ninjacheetah.dev/2026/02/09/an-rngtool-tragedy.html Tahoe icon article coming soon:tm: #programming #swift […]

I haven't ever said anything about it directly here, but some people may have noticed that RNGTool mysteriously disappeared off the App Store a few months ago. I'll be writing a blog article soon discussing what happened and the huge headache that was created if I wanted to actually continue […]

me and my fellow fruit-deprived college friends passing an orange around taking hits of its delectable scent:

The macOS Tahoe icons make me sad. So much of the personality that they've had historically feels like it's been stripped away, along with a lot of the detail that helps you identify what the app you're looking at does. I'm gonna need a full length blog post to express my thoughts on this one.

trying to learn android dev to port TigerDine to Android i want to gradle sync into a pit of acid

In 2009, Microsoft made it a focus of the Windows 7 user experience guidelines to reduce pointless notifications. They point out notifications like the classic “There are unused icons on your desktop” as being in the Windows XP Hall of Shame™. Seriously, it’s in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’ve been hard at work on dining app stuff! My dining app, now officially renamed to TigerDine so that it doesn’t sound official, is out publicly on the App Store! I added a handful of new features like favorites and pulling menus from FD MealPlanner […]

I got a dbrand skin for my phone, and it looks pretty good! I couldn't actually afford to get the dbrand clear case, but it looks fine in my current case. I would tag dbrand, but they don't seem to have Mastodon :(

lmfao, the zork 1 "open sourcing" was microsoft just PRing an MIT license to an existing copy of leaked source. good for them

🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13309-2025-INIT/en/pdf ⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal. 🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7. 🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Did some sniffing around on the RIT campus map (just watching the network traffic in Firefox), and I found something very useful: the building occupancy API! Busyness indicators are something that I wanted, since the actual RIT dining website has them, but that's not included in the dining data […]