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Jaanus Kase
@jaanus@iosdev.space
mastodon 4.7.3Maker of @tact@indieapps.space. Builder of things on Apple, Flutter, and web platforms.
Also designer, engineer, writer, producer, dad, husband, Estonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Please donate to 🇺🇦 until 🗑🇷🇺 imperialist barbarian terrorist invaders are gone. Give to https://savelife.in.ua/en/ or any other charity that works for you.
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Why does everything I like turn into shit 😭
Mullvad was a really nice no-bullshit VPN that I used when I occasionally needed such a thing
But turns out the CEO is a tech bro who funds Nazis in Sweden, and I don’t want any form of Nazis my life
So what VPN do I use now? What’s not enshittified and does not support Nazis?
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@mackuba@martianbase.net I also found LLMs are very good at debugging, reading through extensive logs and correlating it with code
They do miss the mark and root cause sometimes but they are much better than me at this manual tedious work of tracing all the evidence
RE: @lukaskubanek@mastodon.social
Delivery of CloudKit notifications looks broken in iOS 26.4
One of the core technologies and services of the platform does not work
And the best guidance Apple has to offer to developers is “file a FB and maybe we take a look. Make sure you generate lots of duplicate FBs because otherwise we will not take it seriously”
Okay then
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@mackuba@martianbase.net Neo really is just a very nice cheap Mac computer
I checked it out in the store a while ago
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Today’s WTF moment
Xcode Cloud does not seem to accept any macOS and Xcode versions 😵💫
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot @simonbs@mastodon.social “The thing is, for now at least, none of this seems to matter, because the investors are happy.”
AND: there is no replacement
No other company is better for the user, technically or morally
I think the market is ready for EU based replacement, but no serious one has emerged yet
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@matt1corey@iosdev.space I am really uncomfortable when AI commits something on my behalf
So the workflow I have with AI is, I do version control myself. I check out the right branch and tell AI to just modify the current state of files on disk but never commit anything to git
AI then does its thing. I then review the code and test it and iterate with AI, and then commit myself when I am satisfied with the outcome
So previously we learned that CloudKit push notifications are broken in iOS 26.4 (but allegedly fixed in 26.5 beta)
Here is another broken thing. You can not paste into iOS 26.4 simulator. This does NOT appear to be fixed in 26.5 simulator, I tried. This does not affect users but is very annoying to me as a developer. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/820393
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@jensimmons the motivation for this is that I am working on a team that is doing UI prototyping with web technology
It is really great. When you install a web app on device home screen, it launches in full screen without any browser chrome, and is excellent for prototyping and experimenting with complex UI, as it truly feels like a native app (with some tiny warts that don't matter most of the time in this context)
Haptic feedback is truly the only serious part that is missing
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk this is so great! Thank you for sharing.
I try to limit my news exposure as well
> I wonder if a monthly, edited, one-or-two page kind of approach, of key / important news stories, might be welcome.
In my country’s public broadcast main channel, there is a weekly TV news program on Sunday nights that summarizes the week nationally and globally. I don’t watch TV news daily, but I found the weekly program to be useful and “enough exposure”
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@lukaskubanek oh wow, thank you for the link. This is wild
I am doing one particular change and I am testing it right now only in development environment, and yes with zero success rate right now. I am not sure what is happening in live.
In live, I use silent notifications whose delivery is not great to begin with
So I thought I would switch to visible with better deliverability, and trying to build this now, but apparently the OS is broken
Thanks Apple
CloudKit and APNS is the bane of my existence
I create a visible subscription for inserted CKRecords that should just work
The records are fine and arrive with a fetch
But simply no push in development environment is sent for them
Are there any known issues for CloudKit push notifications in development environment, or any recent known good debugging and inspection methods for what is really going on? I wish I had delivery log on server side, but no such thing.
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@maxd@mastodon.social Can I also add President Zelenskyy’s United24
Both of these are highly respected, trustworthy, and based in Ukraine
In my other life, I deal with supporting 🇺🇦 and fundraisers, and there are unsurprisingly a huge number of 🇺🇦 related scams
So if someone not in a position to do due diligence asks how to donate to people and defenders of 🇺🇦, I just send them to these two
https://u24.gov.ua
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@ctietze@mastodon.social @mattiem@mastodon.social I would switch away from Apple platforms to something better and non-US if there was a real alternative to me as an European
But I can’t think of any
Europe is too dependent on the US for technology
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@ctietze@mastodon.social both
As a developer, I am working on a Flutter project right now, and in many ways I enjoy it much more than the Apple-only universe and tools
#CloudKit #iCloud #CKReference #CKQuery
I recently encountered some interesting behaviors and errors from CloudKit when I tried to query records and filter the query by CKReference set field.
Here’s a post about that.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social thank you for your work
I was delighted to see that you will get a significant compensation for all your effort and contributions over these years 👍
@arroz why is the image on screen letterboxed to be so tiny
@mackuba@martianbase.net do you have any thoughts on W Social and its claimed use of AT protocol?
Git worktrees are a great concept once you get them, but the tooling and UX around them is not great
Coding agents sometimes create multiple worktrees with same name, it’s hard to find where everything is on disk, when do I clean them up, etc
And they have weird arbitrary constraints that make them hard to appreciate
Like “one branch can be checked out only in one worktree at a time”
Yeah I get it, but aren’t worktrees supposed to be independent. Wtf is this constraint
As if all the AI slop on LinkedIn wasn’t already a reason to keep away from it
Now it turns out you also get job offers from there that try to secretly hack door your servers
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@mackuba@martianbase.net zone.eu is the first two
Haven’t compared prices
Based in 🇪🇪, reliable, in business for several decades
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@justkwin@toot.community I don’t get what it is
A reflection/refraction from some glass that just happens to end up there like that?