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tolmasky

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Founder @runkitdev and TC-39 Delegate. Previously: Original iPhone team on MobileSafari, Creator of Objective-J and Cappuccino.

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Can we get live footage of Alito's house? What's the status of the flag post-verdict?

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When Swift came out I commented that I thought it was a bad sign that the “community dialogue” went from how to make cool animations to “how do I get the types to work when parsing json”. Ever since ESM (but not just due to ESM), I feel like something similar happened to JS. We’re spending so much time on abstract import bullshit (import maps, mjs, json imports) or typescript compiler blah blah when publishing. This is a natural consequence of the non-app developers leading language development.

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Most languages start out this way. Just look at Java. We had something really special with Objc-C/Cocoa and JS, for very different reasons. With Cocoa it felt deliberate, it was almost a “C DSL for writing mac apps”. Ruthlessly practical, especially compared to its contemporaries (C++, with no “centralized customer” to report to). Things like IBOutlet vs. STL highlight this. It’s too bad we handed over the future of Mac dev to the compiler writers who never write apps and call C++ home.

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Can we get rid of receipts now? Why do they still exist in a world of phone contactless payments? It’s just a way to get you to touch even more PFAS shit. I’m even starting to get receipts in shipped packages now. It’s so annoying when it’s thrown on your food. I don’t want any more receipts. Enough. Let’s stop printing this shit once and for all.

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macOS is straight up rotting. It is absolutely nuts that this FileVault key re-generation thing has just gone unaddressed for a year. This isn't about Apple News being a joke or drag and drop not working anywhere anymore. This is a potentially catastrophic data-loss bug that Apple has just decided is the new normal and just does not give one single shit about.

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These new iPads Pro are clearly the best iPads ever made, and most powerful hardware in this form factor by a long shot.

Which is why it pains me that the most excitement I can drum up is an exasperated sigh

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@stroughtonsmith Being the best of your product is literally the floor of a new version of a product. Like, of course the new iPad isn't going to be SLOWER than the old one. Or twice as thick or something. You get zero points in my book for delivering a faster product years later, that is the point. The only way it's not better is due to catastrophic error, either design-wise (like butterfly keyboards…), or bug-wise (like something requiring a recall).

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Incredible that Apple can just trickle out 50-year old features to the iPad keyboard... First a keyboard with no trackpad, then a keyboard WITH a trackpad, and now... THE FUNCTION KEY ROW BITCHES. We getting a numpad in an extended Magic Keyboard in 2027? #AppleEvent

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Nice! "Apple Pencil Pro" means there's a good chance I'll get item #1 from my wishlist: “A new Apple Pencil, while doubling down on the existing 3 by also introducing new lower end iPads that use them.” ( https://mastodon.social/@tolmasky/112390729087528049 )
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112394791583388724

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Here’s my wish list for the new iPad Pro:

  1. A new Apple Pencil, while doubling down on the existing 3 by also introducing new lower end iPads that use them.

  2. The same new features as iOS, but delayed by a year in iPadOS.

  3. Different screen tech in the 11” vs. 12.9” that’s obviously due to a supply issue, and pushes me to buy the size I like least.

  4. A new “iPad Air Pro Plus” category to fill in that egregious unaccounted for 50 dollar gap that exists in the current 6-iPad lineup.

tolmasky,
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@thomasfuchs You have zero imagination. It could be thinner. More expensive. Slightly smaller bezel (edge-to-uh-really-edge screen). Model number on the back could be different. The list is endless.

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Are there any file systems that let you navigate zips or tar files as if they were regular directores? Like you can do cd archive/directory/ and it pretends the archive is just a read only directory and you can otherwise interact with everything totally fine? IOW, not like you manually make a fuse fs that you mount and then blah blah blah…

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"But the worst aspect is the paternalism."

Ironically, @gruber is NOT talking about Apple here.

"But Jobs was right too: people are smart, and they can — and should be allowed to — make their own decisions."

Yes, they should. For example, about installing software on their own devices.

It’s paternalistic — infantilizing even — to believe that corporate bureaucrats should take these decisions out of the hands of computer owners. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112300834339778490

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@gruber @lapcatsoftware That’s like saying people are fine with hallways. It’s just the least well taken part of the house you have to get through to get to what you want. That’s what the AppStore has become: no one goes there for discovery anymore. It’s not pleasant… nor not pleasant. It’s a hallway. Most people tap on the app banner on the web and get kicked into the AppStore. I guess a few use search and then click the first hit which is an ad for the competitor to what they actually want.

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I know GitHub likes to put directories at the top of its directory listing, but they should move all the IDE garbage directories to the bottom. I don't need to see ".vscode" at the very top of everything, especially since I don't use VSCode. They should probably just put all dot directories at the bottom, but at least the known configuration ones.

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The amount of time I have invested porting stuff that worked perfectly fine with CommonJS over to ESM is unbelievable. But it is all worth it knowing that at the end of the day, after all that hard work, it will... work exactly the same with zero additional benefits... mostly. It will probably always have some hiccups that don't work as nice as the old system.

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Crazy idea, but maybe a technology company could figure out a better way to manage a glorified database of products than having a 63-year-old man spend 80 hours a week "manually managing" it like it’s a Sears catalog from the 80s.

"Under his watch, human review has remained a key part of the ‌App Store‌, and the ‌App Store‌ has grown into a major revenue stream for Apple.”

Yeah, and it shows. That's why crap keeps making its way in and good stuff keeps being rejected.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/27/apple-phil-schiller-profile/

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Does macOS have a "Hide Others On This Screen" shortcut or menu item? I want to just "Hide Others" on the current screen, not on all the other screens I might be using.

tolmasky,
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@siracusa Looks like we got the key to the DOJ case!

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The entire U.S. Constitution is 4,400 words, 4 pages. The Bill of Rights is about 500 words.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/112117411828189070

tolmasky,
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@gruber And famously clear leading to no long running arguments about any amendments nor creating any opportunities for differing interpretations nor creating any, shall we say, “elastic” loopholes. A true testament to the expressive power of brevity.

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Windows Subsystem for Android was Microsoft's knee-jerk reaction to iOS apps coming to Apple Silicon Macs. Turns out, nobody really cares about either. But unlike Apple's effort, which also enables Mac Catalyst and half the native system apps on macOS, Microsoft's was a bolt-on alien experience, with afterthought apps from an afterthought app store. Not quite the embrace, extend, extinguish you hoped for. Nobody will miss it

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@stroughtonsmith Yeah, Apple's approach was just good enough to ensure we have to deal with miserable half-assed first-party Apple Catalyst crap apps like News for years. Really nailed it.

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Why does the audio world use USB-B? Is this the USB cable for printers and... DACs? Also, is there a good USB-C to USB-B adapter? These seem hard to find. And I'd rather not go USB-C to USB-A to USB-B.

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People who say that Apple is anti-web have no idea what they're talking about. Just this week they released the Apple Sports app specifically to showcase why Web Apps are so often a better choice than native apps. It's a masterful proof by example. By stripping what could have been a fun app down to its barest components, a flat list of scores with no design whatsoever, they can focus on demonstrating how these "list apps" are usually just the thinnest of wrappers around a JSON API. (1/🧵)

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.@gruber The argument is that the App Store is worse for security because it creates a false sense of security. Users incorrectly believe that unlike the web, "if it's on the App Store, it must be safe" This was particularly bad with the flood of scam 2FA apps when Twitter shifted to SMS-based 2FA. Imagine an FDA as half-assed as the App Store, accidentally only requiring cancer warnings on some cigarettes, leading people to buy the cigarettes that “don't cause cancer.” That's the App Store.

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@gruber It is maybe the best of 4 miserably bad options, but it is in no way “good”, nor anywhere near as good as it could be. A curated hellhole full of gambling traps for children that somehow still manages to let scams run for a week is nothing to be proud of, even if it is better than a competitor that isn’t even trying. Once upon a time we expected more from Apple. I guess I have to agree with you that that’s not realistic anymore.

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What is the best software to screen share for a meeting? Zoom seems to compress the hell out of the capture and get miserable frame-rate, even if you turn on "HD”. I have OBS on the machine that I want to share from, so I can support both "screen share" and "virtual camera”-style screen share through OBS. But everything seems to fiddle with the video I get it. Any recommendations? Assume both sides have an excellent connection.

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There’s subtle little-but-big paradigm shifts in the user interface for Vision Pro that make me pause and smile.

Take password entry. The password never turns into ••• dots — you can see every letter or number of a passcode you enter, because… only you can see it.

tolmasky,
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@sdw Nice!

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