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Nathan Manceaux-Panot
@Cykelero@mas.to
mastodon 4.7.2Loves building tools, making art.
Doesn't know how to compromise.
Values kindness greatly.
If you’re ever in Paris, let’s get coffee! Especially if we don’t know each other :)
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Happy to finally, finally release this update! Been working on-and-off on copy and paste for more than a year.
Plus, I think it’s a really cool way of solving cherry picking; both completely unique among Git clients, AFAICT, and so natural it looks completely obvious. Very Retcon.
A short video look at cherry picking in @Retcon@indieapps.space! It’s the sort of thing that’s fun to see in action.
Dye’s icon changes color whenever you switch an app’s theme. The animation is powered by a chain of Core Image filters, mostly to make the color visibly follow hair strands, by using a transition mask. I think most people won’t notice the change, making it into a very unsubtle easter egg?
Just fixed a typo in the undo cheatsheet on Retcon’s website. Ironically, if you do *not* use Retcon and instead favor the CLI, then that page is one of the best “how to undo anything in Git” guides on the Web. Do share it with all your Terminal-loving friends: https://retcon.app/#undo-cheatsheet
You should almost never type rm in your terminal. In a script, sure. On the command line? Use trash! Same effect, but vastly safer. Just because you’re good at computers doesn’t mean you won’t make mistakes.
A very simple habit for avoiding a lot of pain. Defaulting to rm makes no sense.
Back in 2014, the iPhone’s panorama feature could still use some work
Did a very quick interaction prototype for showing which commits are local-only, in @Retcon@indieapps.space. It’s something I’d really like to show, but I haven’t been happy with anything so far. Maybe this will do?
The other day my friends coaxed me into playing a mobile Gacha game, and I can’t stop thinking about this quest it gave me
Always amusing how some CLI tools treat ASCII spaces as alien, unknowable technology. Here, I can’t build Godot, because my copy of Xcode (i.e. my developer toolchain) is at a path with spaces (“Added apps”, “Code editors”).
Like a toddler who just learned the word “no”, my Mac has been running around pointing at every app I launch, warning me that they’re all Intel-only. (they’re not)
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“Merely picking keyboard shortcuts actually takes time and care” is a great example of why UI design is, fractally, a lot of work
Retcon’s website being mentioned on Unsung is a good feeling! The whole blog is a fantastic showcase of human-computer interaction design.
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@nikitonsky For an even stronger effect: open the custom color popover, and *slide* the slider. This creates dozen of color updates, which are queued, and so the preview icons will keep changing colors for *minutes *
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@ctietze Yes, the base implementation took minutes, building on Retcon’s existing rewriting engine.
What then took a lot of time was ① supporting copy-paste of virtual commits (stuff you create while paused; that Git itself doesn't know about) and ② surprisingly, the design: it was pretty hard getting people to notice commit copy-and-paste, without telling them outright
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@db Couldn't find a thread like that in my Mastodon likes, but, all I know is that the Verge keeps recommending just buying any Brother laser printer: https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-buy-a-brother-laser-printer-middle-finger-in-the-air
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@michelf@iosdev.space That’s a good point; could be its own video!
Retcon handles conflicts with grace: you’re never blocked from making further changes. So you can cherry pick, encounter a conflict, and just move the commit to the right spot to make the conflict go away. Or cherry pick another commit, or pull changes, etc: in Retcon, conflicts are road signs, not roadblocks.
I’m thinking of adding this shortcut to Retcon, to quickly switch from commit to commit: Control-Option-Down (and Control-Option-Up).
Down that sound hard, unpleasant to hit to you? I think some people would pretty frequently use it.
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@mattiem Looks like top doesn't show wired memory, but footprint does. I'll have to dig deeper though; zero wired memory reported for that process.
Anyone understands what contributes to memory pressure? I’ve turned on all memory columns in Activity Monitor, but nothing seems to really correlate with pressure.
Right now my Mac (with 16GB RAM) has a process using a whopping 34GB of memory. Sometimes that results in a lot of memory pressure, and sometimes not. Should I look at a different column? Is there something else?
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@PadraigOCinneide Nice! I enjoyed the difficulty progression, felt just right. I wish the pattern and the scrolling view were closer together though; couldn't watch the pattern appear as I was playing!
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@gbiondo@infosec.exchange I’ve been really wanting to understand AppKit deeply! Years into writing @Retcon@indieapps.space, I still don’t have a good enough idea of some essentials, like the view lifecycle or the event loop. That’d all make for very interesting topics.
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@PadraigOCinneide That’s really cool! Wherever you end up, the idea of a lighter alternative to SwiftGodot is nice. The escape hatch of being able to keep the transpile GDScript code feels comfortable, too.
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@PadraigOCinneide Love the spirit of it. I haven’t tried SwiftGodot yet, but it does look a bit complex (but I do want to use Swift!).
I’m curious what sort of things this transpiler saves you from; and what sort of limitations it has, but at this point I’m assigning you an essay haha
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@lukaskubanek Probably not, I agree! Here I was greatly enjoying the process, but had I been on a deadline, I’d probably have switched to AppKit quickly.
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@db I barely ever garden and yet, good dirt looks so attractive. I’d almost eat it (but should not)
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@mattiem That rings a bell! Unfortunately it’s not available per-app. Still, something to keep an eye on
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@PeteGoldsmith@mastodon.social Ooh, back to the classics a bit. To me looks a bit off because of the glass material, but that throwback is nice.
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@medienbaecker@mastodon.social “I can also recommend following some design people in the Linux universe” Would love to know who some of these people are!
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@florian Oh right, I misremembered that, thanks!
I just updated the poll labels, which cleared the results though, oh well. It was two votes for “none of these do anything”.
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@Signez J’ai à peine commencé à regarder ça mais c’est un peu inquiétant. Une tonne d’informations à lire, et derrière je m’attends à devoir passer en revue une liste immense de plateformes possibles, qui seront sûrement toutes payantes et mal conçues 🙈 l’angoisse
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@scoopr tadaa! (still “might” override changes, since your IDE could have automatically fetched the new changes, vexingly)
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@pfandrade@mastodon.social By the way! Your post is what made me realize Retcon had poor behavior when drawing out-of-focus windows :)
https://mas.to/@Cykelero/116566582423678673
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@pfandrade@mastodon.social True! Now that the fruit company has in good part dropped the ball :(
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@avi Just selecting; but, without taking focus away from the right pane (the commit message/diff). Haven’t tested it yet but I think it can be very handy, to quickly browse through commits, when editing.
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@Signez@mastodon.social Oh, et aussi : ça surprend tout le monde, mais pour la réécriture d'historique Retcon c'est plus *rapide* que la CLI, pas juste plus facile !
Entre la charge mentale énormément réduite, l'undo instantané (plutôt que de recommencer de zéro), et d'autres frictions enlevées, tu vas largement plus vite dans Retcon, au final.
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@db Aw, it seems it's less interesting than I imagined. This one post explains it's just that some companies license PostScript from Adobe, and others reimplement it themselves; which varying levels of fidelity. Still, TIL!
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/differences-between-genuine-postscript-and-emulated-postscript.2039556/post-6362389
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@marcedwards@mastodon.social Looks great as always. Love the crunchy UI at the bottom, paired with the glowy display at the top.