Everyone posts pics of their sleeping cats looking like little angels while mine usually look like taxidermied roadkill.
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J. Blake
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Artist, illustrator, app and game developer in DTX. Exiled ad agency creative director. 🏳️🌈
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On that note, I just officially released (and renamed) Incidental Music Player. I doubt it will find much of an audience but I enjoyed making it, learning some new APIs.
I think I am starting to feel the impact of a vibe-coded world. Our vet just moved all their prescriptions to a third-party SAAS. I've been waiting three weeks for my dog's arthritis meds. I finally did some troubleshooting on my own and determined their site strips my apartment number from the address without warning: what I see in the form when I click 'save' is not what is actually saved to the database.
My vet's office is a mile away, I was much better off being able to pick it up.
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online They took the most questionable part of Tahoe – the floating sidebar – and tripled it. Awful.
...and on that note, I added edge-snapping to retroStrip. Why didn't I do that in the first version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just uploaded a new beta for my macOS music player. In addition to fixing some bugs, the window now snaps to the display edges, and I added Japanese localization.
Re: Google rewriting headlines in search results: Yep, this is terrible. What is also terrible: 90% of modern headlines are written clickbait-style.
Reddit moderators are the HOA boards of the internet.
“We want to make it look like serious artists are going to be making things with these tools. Because serious artists, by and large, aren’t.”
And I was just saying nice things about A24. 😒
https://www.wired.com/story/a24-knows-youre-mad-about-the-google-ai-collab/
I just received a developer response to an app review I submitted ten years ago.
My favorite thing about little Finder guy is he'll help discourage any voices at Apple who might think it's time to replace the Finder with Files.app (I have not heard of any such plans, just worry).
How desperate has BBC gotten? This is peak click-bait.
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@mjtsai@mastodon.social TIL Adobe created a clean-up app to clean up the garbage their apps leave behind.
This poster is still up at our neighborhood coffee shop, almost a year later. We never did find a home for her, but she's family now (we named her Olive).
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@marioguzman@mastodon.social @RogueAmoeba@mastodon.social Mario, thanks for sharing things you are exploring with app development. Mastodon should be a safe space to share ideas.
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@craiggrannell@mastodon.social I've always been surprised so many designers were onboard with browser-based software to begin with.
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social Thanks to @gruber@mastodon.social this week, my first question is whether it's actual chocolate or 'chocolate candy.'
I replaced my really old Apple Watch in December, and had to reset my iPhone a few weeks ago, and going through the whole “welcome to workout!” – for an app I’ve used daily for almost a decade – is really frustrating. Also the watch completely forgot my routines, so it’s charging to 100% again, instead of 80%. When will it ‘remember’ things again?
Is it safe to assume an updated Affinity for iPad OS is not going to happen?
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@rafa@mastodon.design Maybe I need one of these to encourage my spouse to help clean the house.
Almost every pool I’ve been to this year is playing some version of Sad Girl radio and I’m over it.
Some major major SwiftUI appreciation... My head almost exploded when I saw the audio scrubber instantly jump to the right place while changing themes with audio playing. This is magical.
Some major major SwiftUI appreciation... My head almost exploded when I saw the audio scrubber instantly jump to the right place while changing themes with audio playing. This is magical.
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I have created a story in my head that the corporate marketing team threw some money at a young designer to run this TikTok, and that person should be running the whole department by the end of the year.
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@matthiasott@mastodon.social @nvie@mastodon.cloud I hope this makes "continvoucly
morged" a permanent part of our vocabulary.
PHM was fun!
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@isaiah@mastodon.social spent all morning shoveling whatever this snow/ice is... Back to the couch/fire.
This was a lot more fun than I was expecting it to be.
Touch Me (2025) Official Trailer
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@nickheer FWIW, after reading it, I spent a few hours cleaning up my photos last night and putting the important ones on a backup drive. iCloud/iTunes has lost more than a few files for me over the years.
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@nilsmielke Thanks! Frustratingly, when I chose Sequoia as the minimum version, Xcode sets this to 15.6 rather than 15.0. I just realized how to set this to an earlier version manually.