RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115567319299216766 Must be nice.

Anyhow, I'm not on the lookout for a new native Mastodon app. What's good these days? More than happy to pay $$$, recurring or one-time.

Fellow developers: Please don’t do this. Set expectations clearly at the time of sale, and certainly don't act like every new feature after your customer’s supposed "one-time" purchase was some sort of gift. And, needless to say, don't gaslight them as to what "one-time" means or imply that […]

Pet peeve: Using new app versions to avoid having to honor what were advertised at the time of sale as one-time/lifetime in-app purchases. I’m VERY open to paying for software, and don’t particularly mind any business model. I like to support fellow indie developers in particular. And if […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115555724255071879 The old "oh no, your lifetime purchase was for our OLD app.."

Maybe a Trump administration cabinet position will open up for him. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115555408368078602

In case you could use a timeline cleanse. #joyscrolling #waves #ocean

It’s often hard to appreciate (upright or guitar) bass tracks as they tend to be thrown back in the mix, and compression algorithms really nuke them, so listening via youtube through bluetooth just nukes the bottom end. Get yourself a real stereo, folks. Listen to music. It’ll blow your mind […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@invalidname/115537203117101983 These car companies acting like this is customer-centric are bonkers. I can’t believe any of them actually believe it. Even if they can provide a comparable experience to CarPlay — a huge “if,” because I’ve yet to see that happen — […]

If you must traverse the war-torn hellscape that is Portland, you're gonna need a good transit guide. https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115528490257349127

I've just published the 4th edition of macOS Apps Step by Step formerly titled macOS by Tutorials. Read the details and check out a sample chapter at https://troz.net/books/macos_apps_step_by_step/ #macos #swift #swiftui #appkit #techbooks

It occurs to me that so much of what I know about debugging things comes from troubleshooting INIT/extension conflicts in the '90s. #macintosh #macos #classicmac

The Gestapo will absolutely be targeting the Dodgers parade and celebrations.

A bunch of ordinary people spontaneously organizing and standing up to Trump in a way that *nobody* in a position of power is willing to do.

LOL #grokipedia #wikipedia https://mastodon.social/@verge/115449043441244841

“How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on […]

Next up is one of our nerdiest products ever: the T568A shirt design transforms our logo to demonstrate the One True Wiring Standard for Ethernet connectors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568#T568A_and_T568B_termination https://atp.fm/store#t568a

As long as the Mac Pro remains in limbo, we’ll still be offering the Mac Pro Believe shirt. Keep hope alive! https://atp.fm/store#mac-pro-believe

Clinical depression is a real thing, y'all. #mentalhealth #git #github #depression #iosdev

I like how, every once in a while, ChatGPT will attempt to tie my wholly unrelated question (in this case, what the members of a long-defunct band are working on now) to my software development background. #ai #LLM

I’ve yet to find a suitable replacement. https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115401456498420243

There’s assholes out here trying to tell you that today’s demonstrations were useless virtue signaling. Asserting your values and showing up for each other is never an empty gesture. No circular firing squads. No trolling. No woker than thou sermons. We build together. We live in truth. We […]

Please go to https://nokings.org, find the protest nearest you, and make a plan to attend this Saturday, October 18.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know… www.nokings.org#map

That feeling when you're working on a format for validating barcodes and realize that you're dangerously close to reinventing regular expressions. (Stop! Turn back!) #iosdev

Not really a big Star Trek guy, but I can't help myself… #claudecode #claude #ai

Looks like we're about to have another victim of Apple's release-thing-with-great-fanfare-and-completely-neglect-it-for-years manner of doing things. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/115357041214190436

HOP If you know who made this, post in replies, I tried but failed to find an original. #hop #frog #portlandfrog #art

Apple really needs to reassess its remote work policy. Not only are there inclusivity ramifications for insisting on in-person work, it unnecessarily narrows the applicant pool and surely not ALL of these jobs have the kind of strict secrecy requirements that necessitate people all be in the […]

This will never not be funny!

The following article shows how to run a command-line program from inside a Mac GUI app: https://swiftdevjournal.com/running-a-command-line-program-from-a-mac-app/ #macdev

Someone’s sophistry used to downplay the terrible actions of one imperialist authoritarian regime? Maybe they're just ill-informed or ignorant. Seeing them do it again, for an altogether different authoritarian regime, a few months later? You start to wonder.

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

Learning Terraform and the various intricacies of orchestrating potentially sizable ECS deployments. Or, as I like to call it, “cosplaying as @gnuconsulting”

What Merkel blames for Russian aggression vs. actions that actually encouraged Russian aggression. Maybe some humility is due. (NB: *Russia* is responsible for Russian aggression) #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Baltics #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Germany […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

A thousand nos for every yes, but also a heck of a lot of “sure, whatevers.” @snazzyq https://mas.to/@snazzyq/115324860767714924

I can only imagine what Steve would have told ICE to do when they came knocking. Something anatomically improbable. Pretty sure this wouldn’t have happened, either. @Pschiller https://mastodon.social/@Pschiller/115322064560261796

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Apple's status as a gatekeeper is more than just an annoyance to app developers. it has civil liberties ramifications as well. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/115310344858857039

Real question: how do you cope with the overwhelm of everything that’s happening? Fascism, AI, genocide, war. The psychological overhead is intense, and particularly so for people who have some of those things in their family history. But we all need to function. What are your tactics?

"Hegseth & Trump's speech should terrify anyone who cares about our country. Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do. They care about nothing but their own ego and power."– Gavin Newsom

Cozying up to fascists never ends well. If anyone should know that, it should be the ADL.

This has been my experience. It’ll save me hours of work one moment, then act like a blithering idiot the next. On balance it has definitely made me more productive, but — with the current tools I have at my disposal — a lot of my work is nudging it into doing the right thing. Somebody on […]

Not a moment too soon. @macrumors https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115283810915979964

What gets me is that the abuse scenario the new quote boost functionality is purported to address is still there, it just takes somebody a moment to… copy-and-paste a link. Imagine where Mastodon would be if they’d focused on making the platform better this entire time without the yoke of […]

War ravaged Portland

I swear, have none of the people who believe this stuff ever even BEEN to Portland? @aaron.rupar https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DPG_O3rjVxi