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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Sometimes you just need to take a day and watch Star Trek all day, or do some baking and send it to me for quality control. 😃
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Rob Fahrni
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe
mastodon 4.7.3Husband. Father. Grandfather. iOS by day at WillowTree Apps. 🌳
iOS and Mac by night as Hayseed. 👴🏼
Super boring. I like good coffee, beer, American Football, and NASCAR. Californian by birth, moved to Virginia in 2019. 🐻
Creator of the RSS feed reader Stream. 🏞️
I dig coding and blogging. ✍️
Hayseed is my indie venture I wish I could do full time. 🌾
Yes, I’m a Democrat. Why? Because people matter, that’s why. 🫏
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I think I have Tapestry configured the way I want. I’ve made custom timelines for folks in the Apple Community and one I call Socials that is just Mastodon and Bluesky timelines. That’s the one I spend all my time in because I use Stream for RSS reading. Love it! ❤️
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social @bigzaphod@mastodon.social Sorry, Sean. There are things I want too but haven’t sent many your way.
Y’all have something special here and I can see it becoming even more so!
@neatnik@social.lol I’m looking forward to you completing Neatstats. I’ll be switching over when it’s all wrapped up! 🙏🏼
I haven't spoken about this at all, but today we sign paperwork for you new to us home.
I'm hoping it's the final home, our forever home. It's smaller, older, and has more style than the one we're in, and it sits on 4 acres of land.
Would anyone like to buy a house? Our current home goes on the market very soon. 😬
It’s probably just something I’m doing, but I dropped my beautifully crafted Iconfactory icon into my app, set it as the primary icon, built, and…
It doesn’t show. 😳
Ok, Mac Devs, what have I done wrong? 😭
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@support@iconfactory.world I have a feature request for Tapestry! Allow us to post to multiple accounts at once! I’m thinking Mastodon and Bluesky!
The app is amazing and has become my daily driver!
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social @bigzaphod@mastodon.social @CStamp@mastodon.social @jwisser@wandering.shop @manolo@indieweb.social @chockenberry@mastodon.social @ashkendo@mastodon.social @Brilliantcrank@mastodon.social @Ronnie@mastodon.social @amyworrall@mastodon.social @whattherestimefor@mastodon.social @jonhicks@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social @j@jcx.nu @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io Guess I’d better buy an Apple Pencil! I already have a Linea subscription. 😃
Inside our home 5G is terrible. Half the time we’re on a single bar of LTE. And sometimes in SOS mode.
However, out by the shed I get decent 5G. This is where I live now. 🤣
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Love these kiddos and the ocean.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social Hopefully they’ll come back around. If they want everything to be the same, fine, do it for your stuff.
Designers and Developers should be allowed to be as creative as they want in the allowed space.
Some of the old icons are so beautiful and creative. Let’s get them back!
Kolby Jack
(Yes, that’s his name)
I’m at the beach. I win.
Our grandson has started building his kingdom.
There was a time when Stream had some traction all because someone with a following said they liked it and it was featured by Apple not long after that.
Now it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. It is fine. It’s a very minimum app, intentionally and because of time constraints, but I will keep plugging away on it as time permits.
Maybe one day it will be feature rich enough for people to enjoy. Until then I’ll keep hammering away at it.
Yup.
I have a difficult time believing this is how it will look.
It’s… ugly. 😳
Agreed
Saturday Morning Coffee: https://rob.crabapples.net/2026/06/06/saturday-morning-coffee.html
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@marcpalmer@iosdev.space Also, I don’t think you were being unsupportive. At the time you said there wasn’t really a market for them. I’m at a point where I’m ok with that because I’m doing it for myself and don’t plan on making a living from it.
Just like Stream. It’ll be small. Not feature rich. Folks will probably not use it, like they don’t use Stream and that’s ok. 😁
And so the jackasses in the administration of our broken country start their bullshit. 🤬 @semafor@threads.net @semafor@www.threads.com
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@isaiah@mastodon.social @marcpalmer@iosdev.space At work I’ve been using TypeScript and React Native and the apps are pretty darned good. Microsoft even did React Native for Windows, so you could probably get pretty far with it.
The Native in React Native means native platform controls. So you get UIKit Buttons, Views, TableViews, etc. The resulting apps are quite good.
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@marcpalmer@iosdev.space Thanks for the love, Marc. ❤️
As for cross compiling, yes! That’s the plan! 👍🏼 Most likely a new UI per platform, sharing as much as I can.
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@marcpalmer@iosdev.space Yes, it is quite the journey I’ve carved out for myself but I’ve always wanted to do it and it’s much, much, smaller than trying to recreate Visio on the Mac.
I’m targeting Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Those last two are really big stretch goals but I believe possible. It’s gonna take me 10 years to finish the editor for Mac and iOS. I may not live that long.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Y'all are so small I'm really surprised a bigger software company hasn't approached you about acquiring you. Great designers and developers, along with a talented supporting crew. It would make for a great acquihire if nothing else.
Apple needs to get their act together and give you a bunch of money to go to work for them as a collective. 🤣
Adobe would also be a good fit for y’all, in my opinion, and they have a shop there in North Carolina.
I was very tempted to ask Claude to do some code for me today.
I feel like what I want for a 1.0 release is very close and want to get it out the door. Mainly so I feel like I can sit back and think about the Mac and iOS versions together and get some Mac features over to iOS.
I also need to do some parsing of web pages since folks often don’t do full text in their RSS feed. I hate that but it must be done.
Even my truck is an @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world fan! 😄
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/116668837864705562
Help this amazing company out. Go buy a product, if you can, so they can keep making amazing things.
They also have a Patreon account that gets you some really nice benefits.
Just finished getting the tires back on the trailer. That was a much bigger chore than I expected.
I’m pooped out. Time to eat.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social @piraino@mastodon.art Y'all took it to the next level and I'm extremely grateful and can't wait to get a chance to finish off what I'm doing so I can actually ship it to the world!
In the meantime, if you want to show it anywhere, you're welcome to. I don't have a need to be the first. My app is inconsequential in the world of apps. The icon, however, is stunning! Y'all killed it!
Corey Heim gets full time Cup ride: https://rob.crabapples.net/2026/05/30/corey-heim-gets-full-time.html
Well, I've managed to fix one thing in Stream for Mac this morning, but my physically tired and sore old body isn't helping with staying focused.
When I was a kid I never understood why old people couldn't do stuff. Now I know why and I really don't like it.
The sad thing is, it's my fault. I'm obese and don't exercise. If I dropped dead tomorrow I don't think anyone would be surprised. Not that I wan to drop dead, but there you go. 🤣
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@chrishannah@fosstodon.org The point is it works! Even if it’s just for you!
I want to do the same thing for a backend service that implements MicroPub and put a web UI and native app UIs on top of that.
These dudes just kill Subdivisions. They make it their own but respect everything Rush did. So good.
https://song.link/us/i/1141482496
Ok, so, my phone was in my truck. I’m out working on the trailer. I come back to my truck to take a break. Pick up my phone and there’s a tiny tick on it? WTF DUDE! 😳
Must’ve blown in the window?
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io Chris, what coffee shop are you at, if you don't mind sharing?
I've started a list of coffee shops to visit in DC.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Ged, I wish I had a few million bucks, I'd give you some in a heartbeat.
Of course, my willingness to give money away, is why I'm not fabulously wealthy. 🤣