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Craig Hockenberry
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Looks like someone beat me to it!
Thanks to @nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org for ruining my dream of becoming the next App Store millionaire 😂
https://lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/
A cold chill ran down my back when I thought about my banking and financial apps running on iPhone Duo.
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social My goal right now is to be passable. Refinements will come in the months following release: just as they did with the original phone.
You don’t understand it until you use it for a while.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social I NEVER skip an interim release. The reason is that there is essentially no testing for going from Sequoia to Golden Gate: everyone at Apple went to Tahoe first.
I ran for a week on Tahoe and then switched to Golden Gate.
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social Remember that you’re looking at this in a simulator.
It could be confusing to have different layouts: you probably won’t be watching the animation & state changes when you open a physical device.
“Why does the divide button move around?”
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Centering elements on the Duo is tricky.
Looking at the image on the left, I was convinced that things weren’t aligned vertically. But after I added xScope’s guides (on the right), everything is correct.
The control margin on the right tricks the eye and I don’t know if I can, or should, do anything about that.
You’ll probably want this in your Duo toolbox: https://xscopeapp.com
He does and he is.
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Of note: while waiting for Mac App Review, we had two app approvals for iOS & tvOS go through.
It's the Mac that is fucking things up for anyone who's trying to do the right thing and making their work available on as many Apple platforms as possible.
A friendly reminder that if you use Mastodon to contact developers about feature requests or bugs and then auto delete your toots, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Developers use links to those toots in bug trackers.
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For kicks, I just submitted a build done with Xcode 27.1 to TestFlight.
Went through without any problems - and that’s good news as journalists start to get Duo review units and want to test apps other than the ones preinstalled by Apple.
If you’re one of those journalists and want to see the Iconfactory apps, let me know.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social @jamesthomson@mastodon.social Yes, absolutely. Using the simulator shows me how much I don’t understand the physicality of the device.
Now that Apple is getting a handle on making Liquid Glass usable in its default state in iOS 27, I think they need to start addressing the customization of it all.
The Fidelity app has always had a green button in the middle of their bottom navbar: something that they can’t really change without confusing a large customer base. Venmo and many others have similar issues.
So this is how they adopted Liquid Glass. Yes it’s gross, but that’s what you get with an inflexible design system.
Editing a 24 year old HTML file, as one does.
The Onion has something for everyone, even us geeks.
https://theonion.com/gas-station-price-sign-using-scientific-notation/
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social @ismh86@eworld.social Do you use tabs or spaces?
This RAM shortage is getting out of hand.
It occurred to me the other day that tvOS is the only remaining Apple platform where you don't have to worry about size or aspect ratio changes in your user interface.
Until Apple figures out how to make the TV industry change 😂
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@paul@tapbots.social Tell me you’re working on Bluesky without telling me you’re working on Bluesky.
I had a great time talking to @jonathanreed@techhub.social about my favorite tech over the years.
It all started with a Teletype ASR 33 and a 300 bit/second modem, shown below with my fellow geeks at Tustin High School.
It's a fun listen if you're interested in what I've been doing for the past 50 years!
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And while it's not as necessary to kill Simulator processes manually (yay!), I still use this script to keep an eye on _how many_ of them there are:
% simkill count
https://gist.github.com/chockenberry/e33df6b0f4f201bd161763946158c11c
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Thanks to everyone who provided info about the M5 processors, the new version of iPulse now supports performance and super cores.
When you hover over the CPU gauge, performance cores show a lightning bolt outline, and super cores are a bold lightning bolt. Efficiency cores are sparkles as before.
There was no change for older M-series processors.
You can try it out on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ZgvsV8jn
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social Tell them you’re only interested in a stock-only acquisition.
The thing I love most about the Tomtoc screenshot at Daring Fireball is the accessibility icon in the lower-left corner.
They clearly XPLORE options to make their site more readable.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/24/dickover-of-the-week-tomtoc
Anyone have any idea why the CompilationCache in DerivedData reports a size of nearly 40 GB but only uses 45 KB on disk?
Talk about a red herring while trying to clean up after Xcode 27!
IM IN
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@csilverman@mastodon.social @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social It's also incredibly difficult to close the lid.
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@clarko@mastodon.social She wrote it again and got a doctoral thesis out of it!
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Thanks for finding the CVE and writing this up! We’ll certainly dupe the FB.
We’re seeing the same issue with Wallaroo.
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@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world WHERE CAN I DOWN LOAD THIS APP
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@Sonofasailor@mastodon.social I was an early adopter of CSS 😉
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@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social IT MEANS BEER
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@rmondello@hachyderm.io My wife travelled there often and her company insisted on her vaccinations being up to date (it might have been a part of the visa requirement - don’t remember).
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/india
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@manolo@indieweb.social NO THATS DON MASTO
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@mvilain @jonathanreed They were in Southern California, but in Downey (about 25 miles away).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey_High_School#Notable_alumni
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@sharding@mastodon.social Early versions of this file were versioned with ZIP files, which of course I don’t have anymore 😂
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@mangochutney@social.lol My thoughts exactly.
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@jcieplinski@mastodon.social It being in Art History is the icing on the cake.
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@Luke@typo.social That’s a different URL so I’m not sure what you’re doing? She also may no longer be with the department?
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@francosolerio@mastodon.social Thanks!
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@splorp @jonathanreed Not sure exactly: 1976 or 1977 probably.
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