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Tony Arnold

@tonyarnold@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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Cocoa-wielding person-like-object.

I help to build Reveal: https://revealapp.com/

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Joined April 06, 2018
GitHub:
https://github.com/tonyarnold
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/tonyarnold
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
Boosted by @isaiah@mastodon.social
I have spent my career leaning on Apple's excellent design chops when building my own apps. Now they've broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it's not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences. I've lost a north star here, and it's heartbreaking because there's no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Well that was a great keynote/SoTU.

Not a single mention of sports, TV shows or other peripheral services — they got straight down to talking about the operating systems, and kept it there the whole time.

I’m still working through the changes, but the changes look thoughtful and helpful! 🎉

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to on mastodon.social
Okay, I'm back. In some fashion. I've read, I've pondered, I've experimented, and will continue to do all three. I'm clear enough now on a great many things that were worrying me about our profession and its future that my anxiety is at a very manageable level. I hope you're all doing amazing 🍃
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Argh, you can’t resize the video to fill the window in the updated Developer app again. That’s a frustrating regression 🙈

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

macOS 27 developer beta 1 is really crisp. And smooth.

I’m keen to see what the new Siri is like (I’m still on the wait list), but between Xcode 27 beta 1 and the OS, I could spend my time here.

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@rustyshelf@mastodon.social I wouldn't claim it's wisdom, but I started writing again: https://tonyarnold.com/posts/its-all-quite-a-lot-isnt-it
It’s all quite a lot, isn’t it? - Tony Arnold
Tony Arnold

It’s all quite a lot, isn’t it? - Tony Arnold

If you’re in any way connected to building software, I think you’d have to have been living under a rock this past year to have escaped the noise around generative...

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

Stop being weird, you lot.

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

I was unaware that Aussie train stations still have a quaint little waiting room. It’s not air conditioned, the seats are metal, and it is definitely not comfortable, but it’s a total vibe.

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

There’s still no DocumentGroupLaunchScene or DocumentLaunchView available for macOS.

Classic Apple, it’ll be half a decade before this gets any attention (if ever) 😣

FB21329729

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
Replying to on mastodon.social
Personally, I think as with all things, the future will be a watered down (or more balanced if you want to be positive) version of the AI maximalist future that's being promoted. Yes, it'll be pervasive. Yes, it'll be transformative. It already is.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago
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@samdeane@mastodon.org.uk @mattiem@mastodon.social @reveal@indieapps.space potentially, that's not a bad suggestion. I'll prototype that today — thanks for the idea!
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

I thought I would try the AI support tools that @reveal@indieapps.space's support package uses for our site, thinking it'll help to suggest articles from our knowledge base.

Nope, it just flat out hallucinated an incorrect answer to a very direct question.

That's getting turned off.

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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What it won't be is used for everything. IMO Joe's right that it's going to be a "sometimes" thing — an example: we don't reach for higher level abstractions like Storyboards or XIBs nearly at all anymore because they were less effective than writing code. LLM-driven development practices will also ultimately be refined — but also reduced — by continued practical use. There will be things they're amazing for, and things they're not good at at all. And yes, they'll improve.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@mergesort@macaw.social I think I initially got my nose out of joint because of the way folks were selling the benefits as entangled with a future where everybody needs to work exactly the way they do. My belief is that there's a future in here that's meaningful and profitable for people who value creative endeavours, it just looks a little different. Everything is changing, but everything has always changed 😀
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@adamc @AshtonDev @rudrank stop trying to make vim happen
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@adamc @AshtonDev @rudrank my workflow has mostly been to spin off a subagent for builds using xcodebuild CLI (I have a line in my global AGENTS.md about it) — mainly to avoid context bloat. If I'm worried about token use, I ask it to pipe the output of xcodebuild/swift through xcsift to simplify the output down to just the results.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago
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@haruki_zaemon@aus.social looks interesting! More apps means more competition, so this is good 🎉 Sadly, I'm finding it *super* chonky to scroll on my Mac and my iPhone 14 Pro, and the interactions on Mac all seem to have a delay before the action fires.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@mattiem@mastodon.social I've tried a few times, but I continually end up not having enough time to navigate everything I would need to. Last time I started looking, they were mid integration with Swift Build, and the responses were all "when we have Swift Build we can look at this". The build configuration support needs a fair bit of plumbing to work AFAIK.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@helge@mastodon.social @mattiem@mastodon.social @reveal@indieapps.space I'll have to have a look and see if it works for XCFrameworks. Thanks for the suggestions, Helge!
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@mattiem@mastodon.social yeah, I've raised feature requests for it over the years, but it's not a thing Apple or the SwiftPM team seem to need, so it hasn't been a priority. Given the (slow) pace of improvement, I've long given up hoping for a clean SwiftPM integration path for developer tooling like mine.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@mattiem@mastodon.social @reveal@indieapps.space the issue is that the conditionals for targets don't include build config - only platforms. So there's no meaningful way to restrict any of this based on the configuration. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting?
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@me1000@mastodon.social @b3ll@mastodon.social you have my inability to focus! 💪🏻👀🐿️
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@colincornaby@mastodon.social this is a great take: it's just a tool. It also happens to be extremely interesting technologically, so technology maximalists are trying to jam it into spots it doesn't fit super well.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@mergesort@macaw.social I respect the path you've chosen here. Helping others to understand how to effectively wield these things is a great way to go, and I hope that it's paying off financially for you 😄
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@PadraigOCinneide pumped as!
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@haruki_zaemon do you have a source for that figure? I’d like to read more.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@haruki_zaemon got me good, man
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@timoliver@mastodon.social it depends™️
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@AshtonDev @adamc @rudrank I came close to filling my disk opening individual worktrees in Xcode to test things out. Xcode sees it as a new project, so as you surmise Ashton, it's setting up caches/DerivedData for each.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@mergesort@macaw.social @a_grebenyuk@mastodon.social it's a lot to absorb! I got halfway through yesterday, so still going over here 😅
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@isaiah@mastodon.social I've been referencing them in discussions and sharing the ones that demonstrate something important. Tools like OpenCode let you type /share to copy a publicly accessible (but not advertised) link that you can give to other folks on your team.

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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 17mo ago
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@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social congratulations, mate! This is a huge achievement, and I can’t wait to give it a whirl 🤩
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 47mo ago
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@stevestreza@mastodon.social good luck! The nerves are very normal.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@PeteGoldsmith@mastodon.social violent. Let me get my boots.
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 9mo ago
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@isaiah@mastodon.social what spec is your hackintosh? My X299 i9-7900X hackintosh got retired for the inverse behaviour (and is now my son's gaming PC).
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Tony Arnold @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@MrRooni is that a custom TouchID authorisation UI? I didn't even know that was possible? 🤩
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