@dmd@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dmd/115657488444172514 As of today, all mentions of Liquid Glass have disappeared from developer.apple.com (the main home page). This may or may not mean anything... but I've been watching for it.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Just remembered The Incident (iOS, 2010) when Radiccio randomly surfaced its 13-minute official soundtrack by @cabel@social.panic.com.

The game is still available on the App Store! It still works! When you're waiting in a line somewhere, it's more fun than scrolling feeds! It even still has a web site! https://www.theincidentapp.com

I really appreciate it when creators keep stuff like this available for such a long time. Made by @mattcomi@hachyderm.io and @neven@pdx.social.

I miss when iOS games used to be like this. Simple, fun, joyful.

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THE INCIDENT - a fast-paced, retro-style action game for iPhone and iPad

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Working on my Mac app makes me so happy. I wish I could find a way to earn a living doing it.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jamesthomson Must be some powerful and very precise lasers. Advisory for astronauts: Please do not look directly at the internet

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@samhenrigold Perfectly written and resonated so much. I never had the “right” computer, I was always years behind and at the ragged edge of the hardware. But I took whatever I could get, and I could never get enough of it. That feeling of magic, of possibility. I hope young people can still feel that way.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

I just imported Carbon.HIToolbox.Events in order to get constants that represent key codes (for use with NSEvent.keyDown, etc.). What year is this??

Those constants aren't defined in any more modern header, as far as I can tell. (Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59995062

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Spent most of the day fighting with SwiftUI and getting nowhere. Hate it when this happens. The solution, as always, was to redo some parts in AppKit. I wish I had done this whole app in AppKit from the start.

SwiftUI never gave me this much trouble on iOS, but it's so much worse on Mac. And context-switching between the two is a drag.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Wow... Kingfisher is *so much* better than AsyncImage. Images load faster and they stay loaded. A 5 minute change results in a huge improvement to my app UX. I'm kicking myself for not doing this ages ago.

Plus, unlike AsyncImage, you can actually configure it if you need to. Which you probably won't, because it has sensible defaults.

I don't like to use a lot of external libraries, but this one has earned it.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@TechConnectify All I want is the ding-dong noises that old Garmin GPS units used to make. I can’t stand hearing my phone babble needlessly verbose word salad at me while I’m driving, so I keep it muted. But I’m always missing turns and exits as a result. Just a brief, pleasant sound to let me know I need to do *something* would make a world of difference. I don’t understand why I can’t have this.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

I'm very excited about this next big feature I'm working on. Trying to resist the temptation to say too much about it. I hope it will be useful to a lot of people.

6k lines of code so far, and probably only halfway done. Whew. (All human typed, no vibing.)

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@txels I make a music player app – @Radiccio – and I thought it might be interesting if people could browse, follow, and listen to Faircamp artists they like directly in the app. Similar to what Fairplayer does, only in a native Mac app instead of a web app. I can see that Faircamp sites have RSS feeds, but it doesn’t look like they contain enough information to enumerate albums and songs, find stream URLs to play, etc. So I was curious how Fairplayer is doing this.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@ccgus@mastodon.social I've found that writing thorough documentation is one of the best ways to find bugs. Forces you to think about things more deeply than you might otherwise, and test things you might not otherwise. A corollary: You don't really understand something until you've had to teach it to someone else.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@samhenrigold Yep, I tried to be careful to mention that it's only the home page. I tend to think it has some significance. But exactly how much is anyone's guess.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @daringfireball@mastodon.social

The name of Radiccio on the App Store is just "Radiccio". This was very important to me.

I can't stand the SEO junk that clutters up app names, and it's just another minor tragedy that Apple has now resorted to this. (But probably not because of SEO; rather because app names "must" be unique and the old names were already taken… by them. Since it's THEIR STORE, I feel like they could fix this.)

I'm probably losing business over this, but that's the choice I made. It has to look nice.

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Daring Fireball: "Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions …" - Mastodon

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jblake Congrats! I love your design. 22 themes, wow!

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@tylerhall@social.lol I wish I could find and talk to the people who write these emails. I have many questions.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

RE: @jblake@mastodon.social

Anyone who's been missing Winamp or Audion, should take a look at this. Includes gorgeous themes, and you can make your own!

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@ccgus BEEP! Clickclickclickclick

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 15mo ago

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social Very nice work. If the new design actually looked like this, I would be happy to adopt it in my Mac app, instead of dreading it like I am now.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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This collection is a treasure. Here's a nice performance, featuring a bunch of my favorites from Stereolab. https://archive.org/details/ajc01075_stereolab-2004-04-07/Stereolab2004-04-07T01.flac

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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It doesn’t really matter. There’s nothing actionable I could do with that kind of data anyway. It would just make me feel better, maybe. Or worse. In the end, either I’m making money, or I’m not. I wish it didn’t have to be that way, but that’s the world we live in.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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How about some classic downtempo from The Cinematic Orchestra? https://archive.org/details/ajc00606_cinematic-orchestra-2003-06-28/CinematicOrchestra2003-06-28t01.flac

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@__bb Nice writeup. I always learn something from your posts! Maybe worth noting that SQLite does allow a CREATE TABLE with DATETIME columns, which I think means you get INTEGER storage (although I’m not 100% sure - affinity is NUMERIC which defaults to INTEGER?). This is the behavior I get with GRDB when I specify a column as a Swift.Date. I suspect a lot of users (like me!) end up creating tables with DATETIME without really fully understanding what that is actually doing.

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@fairplayer Looks great! Is there an API?

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@txels @fairplayer Thank you for the explanation. I love to see more tools that can put power in the hands of the artists. I would be happy to be a part of this too in some way, but only if it’s done in such a way that everyone feels comfortable with, and which would substantially benefit the artists. Please feel free to get in touch if you’d like to discuss further at any point!

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@caseyliss Navidrome is very popular for music specifically. 📈 https://www.navidrome.org/analytics/ (Of course, I have to run them all. But if not for my day job, I would probably just use Navidrome.)

Navidrome

Navidrome Analytics

Personal Music Streamer

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dmd @dmd@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@nelissen@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social This is ridiculous. Thank you for figuring this out. I guess I'm changing mine to odd numbers. Now if anyone can figure out a way to animate the transition between app settings tabs in SwiftUI, I would be eternally grateful… I've wasted so much time on that and gotten nowhere.

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