Swift-esque latte art today
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Kyle Bashour
@kylebshr@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Little bit cynic, little optimistic. I make @paku@indieapps.space and work at https://mercury.com
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Paku 7.0 is in beta, with an extra large portrait weather station widget on iOS 27, design improvements, and more coming soon. Help me test it out here https://testflight.apple.com/join/rdeQghT2
Pretty happy with this, always wanted the chart in the live activity and never got around to it. They’re also push backed now, and will update much more reliably. They can also be set up to start automatically when AQI gets bad.
See you in Cupertino! Hit me up if we’re mutuals and you want to exchange numbers ahead of time.
I should build a shared UI library for Luka and Paku because they’re basically the same app.. monitor a number with a graph and a trend arrow 😂
If any mutuals on the east coast want a free Paku Pro unlock (my PurpleAir app), send me a DM. Stay safe!
Fun fact: as of this week, @paku@indieapps.space has sent over 1,000,000 air quality alert push notifications!
They just approved an almost identical build that I rejected to add a bug fix before the release. Love to keep us on our toes.
RE: @fatbobman@mastodon.social
Slots mentioned by @fatbobman@mastodon.social! Thanks for the shout out!
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2/2 You can’t tell, but I’m long pressing in Find My. It does nothing. There’s an API for custom tab bars to do this too.
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@mergesort yeah both patterns are valid, I could easily add a .empty option to slots for anyone who prefers that pattern!
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@mergesort yeah I hate runtime type checks like that personally, feels like a code smell/bad practice
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@fatbobman that’s very nice of you, thank you! Big fan of your blog, I’ve learned a lot from it
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@mergesort also, reading this back sounds pretty snarky, I definitely didn't mean it that way, and I'm sorry for assuming you hadn't read it!
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@sendai@eigenmagic.net no roadmap, if it’s supported on PurpleAir I’ll consider adding it, but I don’t have much time to actively work on it these days
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@kickingvegas@sfba.social this is my #1 use case too 😆 I have the temperature widget next to the date on my Lock Screen
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Monochrome or colorful?
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@mergesort I think I understand what you’re trying to do, and instead of something like .empty I’ve used the type system for this; optional view properties get init variations where they’re omitted from the init, and they get set to nil (and constrained to Never, though you could constraint to EmptyView for the same effect).
I prefer optional views instead of views that may be EmptyView, because you can customize the layout based on their presence instead of checking the type.
@CommunityKit@mastodon.social looks like the discord link on the website is broken :)
Are folks staying at the Residence Inn? Seems convenient since CommunityKit is there
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@mergesort now, assuming you’re ok with this design (which is just a design choice) yes, slots does exactly what you did in the gist, but automatically
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@mergesort you'll find extensions with constraints to optionals, so I think it'll work fine. I think there are internal tools to introspect if a view is EmptyView more easily than we have (or had, we have that new Group API now), so optional wasn't as necessary for internal views.
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I literally have the in-app search scheme app intent. Is this just still broken in the current beta or am I doing something wrong? Anyone have it working?
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@johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net do you use Mercury? We just launched a CLI (works for personal accounts too) which could be interesting for you!
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@elie@elbereth.xyz useful for automating things, or for interacting with data using AI tools like John wrote about
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@rmondello@hachyderm.io @brandonbutler@mastodon.social the only thing on my wwdc wishlist
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Giveaway will close in about 24 hours, at which point I'll do a drawing and tag the winners.
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@mergesort another cool think about optional views is you can just place them in the view hierarchy and nil is transformed by the ViewBuilder into EmptyView