🎧 Snatched up Sennheiser Momentum 4 headphones for a bargain a few weeks ago. Love the sound, battery life and how quickly they switch between devices (beating my AirPod Pro 2s by a noticeable margin). The touch controls and on-head detection are comically bad though. Luckily they can be […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115888906340881425 It’s like someone looked at the first column and said, “You know what? The Freeform icon is clearly the gold standard here. Let’s double down on that.”

I wrote a whole-ass theme song for my newest #yoyo trick. A full tutorial for this can be found on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxeyGqrBrb4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/115725926850996438 Woohoo! A fresh episode of my favourite bi-annual podcast.

That was a weird one! Obsidian on my Mac became totally unusable. Always went into a spinning beachball a few seconds after launch. I tried removing its Application Support folder, removing my `.obsidian` folder in my vault, starting afresh with a new vault […] [Original post on aus.social]

Ich freu mich richtig über die Rezension von Longplay im Mac & i-Magazin: https://www.heise.de/select/mac-and-i/2025/6/2520215291195478569

Hey Siri, start a one minute if-you-happy-and-you-know-it-stop-your timer.

A cautionary tale: I tried migrating a document-based app to SwiftUI's DocumentGroup and ReferenceFileDocument. Love the semantics and the code is simpler than with AppKit/UIKit. Unfortunately you get a plethora of bugs. iOS doesn’t save as some internal EnvironmentObject doesn’t release the […]

Bye Dye. I'm _thrilled_ to see where Apple software design is going next.

Oh, sweet, there's a movie about my charming hometown around the corner: https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/nuremberg

News from a just democracy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/americas/bolsonaro-arrest-prison-sentence.html

The built-in App Suggestions widget on iOS 26 has no background or border. Is there a way for third-party apps to do the same? #iosdev

I'm excited for the Steam devices despite their lower specs. It boils down to their unrestricted capabilities: https://adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2025/11/23/capability/

Oh, boy, here am I busy preparing a round of updated Mac App Store screenshots, and just as I'm about to reach the finish line and call it a day, I realise that I made them all with Sequoia. That was time well spent.

Ditch that Nvidia stock for that of case makers. Those Weighted Companion Cube cases for the Steam Machine will fly off the shelves.

7-year-old: What’s the name of the pretty purple trees that sounds like jack-o’-lantern? That’s a good way to remember when #jacaranda season usually kicks into full gear.

Devs, don't fall for the hype. LLMs are just a lousy management trick to fool you into finally writing specs and documentation.

Roo reaction [description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street] #kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

Good to see a bunch of native music apps coming out for the Mac. Gives me some hope that Apple will dedicate sufficient resources to improve #musickit and address its various rough edges. 🤞

A remarkably good web app on mobile is @phanpy . It’s such a beautiful Mastodon client and I really like how it groups boosts and displays threads. Better than many native clients.

Instabug got gobbled up by AI, renamed to Luciq, is now all "agentic", pricing information from their website and their dashboard got removed and replaced with "contact sales" links. No, thanks. What are reliable alternatives for in-app bug reporting that capture recent user steps and networking […]

The heat has arrived. 🥵

Woot woot. Very much looking forward to The Living End coming to Sydney. Stellar venue, too: forecourt of the Opera House.

Did AI folks just rebrand CLIs, scripts, and documentation as "LLM Skills"?

Fun little AppleScript exploration: I am a-scrobblin' to Discord.

Disappointing that #musickit doesn't yet allow adding something to your library on a Mac – just on iOS. Would make a nice addition to Longplay's automation and MCP server. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickit/musiclibrary/add(_:)

"We are in the golden era of soulless slop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

PSA: It's privacy awareness day. To make sure your personal information stays safe, please rotate your home address. 🚚

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 […]

Um, yeah, I'll stay on Sequoia a little longer. https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/

Probably the most effective use of LLMs when it comes to coding for me is throwing extensive logs at it and asking it to highlight the relevant bits. Especially useful with sync issues with logs from multiple devices. It's 2025 and good old `print` is back with a vengeance.

It's a shame that the plug is being pulled on LiveView Native. It was a promising approach for server-driven UI using my beloved #elixir and #phoenix. The real-time updates and no need for app updates were in many ways quicker to prototype than regular SwiftUI previews. (Though the macro-heavy […]

I was sick of setting up my NSWindow styles using trial and error, so I created a small app to help me with that. Check out NSWindowPlayground here: https://github.com/martinhoeller/NSWindowPlayground/ #indiedev #swiftui #macdev #BuildInPublic

Uh, I love it when a nifty new feature finally comes together after many weeks of chipping away at it. 💃

Shame there's still no support for local MCP servers in the ChatGPT Mac app. Claude Desktop is such a lousy Electron app and just doesn't stack up.

Every album should have cow bells in at least one of its track.

R u ok, Calendar.app? (All I'm doing is swiping left/right between days.)

I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we’ve hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately

Gotta applaud Meta for doing live demos, even if they keep failing. It's a human touch that's just gone from Apple events these days.

GPT 5 is remarkably capable at making sense of a sequence of screenshots from the Xcode view hierarchy debugger, along with code and XML from xibs. It couldn't quite fix the issues, but it definitely help me fix them quicker than doing it all manually. This should really be built into Xcode […]

Awesome to have Longplay featured here and in great company here includes TripView by @nickmaher, Health Kitty by @Amy, Crouton by @JustMeDevin, Dumb Phone by @michaeltigas, Petty by @zachsimone, Pestle by @willrbishop, Streaks by @qzervaas, and many more […]

I worry how inconsistent macOS is gonna get thanks to Apple and Apple-only indie apps adopting the bubbly new look, while cross-platform apps stay on the classic/functional/flat look. Things weren’t entirely consistent before but many well-crafted cross-platform apps could (and did) feel right […]

iPhone updates remain a bit underwhelming to me. I’m on an iPhone 14 Pro, which felt fresh back then as it was the first with the always-on display and Dynamic Island. Tempting new features for me since are the two physical buttons, USB-C, and camera improvements. Those are nice, but not AU$2000 […]

#Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an #urbanforest #urbanism #owgf #solarpunk #climateaction

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]

Got early access to Wist and took some videos with my iPhone 14 Pro and then watched their 3D reconstruction with my Quest 3S. This is crazily similar to that memory scene from Minority Report – just that you wear a headset. The videos where I moved around a little turned out much more […]

iOS 26 call screening is incredibly good. I had my phone muted for unknown calls the last few years thanks to all those data leaks from various big Aussie companies, that had lead to tons of spam calls. Glad to have my Super Mario ring tone back.

Good morning! Wishing you a beautiful day ahead. ☕️