Aaron Bushnell

Wow, if you aren’t an @atpfm@mastodon.social listener I’d *highly* recommend the most recent episode where @marcoarment@mastodon.social talks about how he setup a dedicated Mac Mini server setup to perform @overcastfm@mastodon.social transcriptions! What an amazing behind-the-scenes explanation.

https://overcast.fm/+ABQnv4MC0jU

I'm genuinely optimistic about AI, especially as a programmer!

But, you should be suspicious of anyone saying programming is going away just like people said driving was going away with the advent of FSD.

What happens when your tool(s) are unavailable? For hours?

@_Davidsmith@mastodon.social Wanted to give you huge props on Pedometer++!

On a whim, I downloaded the app in a diner right before I took a camping trip. It installed to my phone and Apple Watch in no time and I had offline trails ready to go in only a couple minutes.

The trail map on my watch was so helpful.

As someone very familiar with Apple Watch limitations this really blew me away. Amazing work!

Tis the season

@atpfm@mastodon.social (Potential follow-up) I have also noticed HomePod and iOS interop improving recently!

When my phone timer goes off I often use Siri to tell it to stop. In the past, my HomePod would say “Stop the timer on iPhone?”

When I said “Yes”, it’d pause and say “I thought so” and the timer continued.

Now it actually works! Progress!

Can an #Apple person or someone in the community help? How and why can a *blocked* contact spam your Messages with group invites (and even set the group name to any random string they want)?

This kind of abuse dates back as far as 4 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/ufv9m5/i_blocked_someone_and_they_can_still_add_me_to/

AFAIK there's no Screen Time, Messages, or Contacts setting that can prevent this from happening.

RE: @markgurman@mastodon.social

Does Apple have a problem with execs leaving for other companies? Of course this kind of thing happens, but seems much more frequent than it had in the past.