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collin

@collin@ruby.social

I coined the term “Mac Assed Mac App”.

A software developer from Portland Oregon. I’ve been writing iOS and Mac apps since 2008 and Ruby since 2021.

📱 #Swift (iOS and Mac).
🚂 #Ruby (and Rails)

Cohost of the #RooftopRuby podcast. Friend of DeSoto.

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Stargate is almost like the anti-Star Trek in that they make no attempt to not contaminate every culture they come in contact with. They don’t even bother to go undercover or dress like the people they are going to be meeting.

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Vala’s character in Stargate gets much better in season 10. Too bad that’s all she gets 😔

collin,
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@jon_alper when she first showed up and her only personality trait was that she’s always talking about wanting to have sex with everyone, I found her nearly intolerable.

It seems like they found a balance where she still has playfulness to her, but it’s not one note and you get the impression she was doing it as a defense mechanism. I’m glad they developed her into being a real character. I guess it’s not unlike Neelix in that way.

collin,
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@jon_alper I haven’t really seen it much, but I might check it out after this.

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I suggested to the creator of Lyrcs he should add a way to put song metadata and chord/section annotations into the app, and within a couple weeks he did!

This is the Lyric writing app I would make myself. It's a real Mac app (iOS too) that uses regular text files, with a rich UI on top of that for embedding song info.

All the basic features are free, although I suggest paying the small pro subscription, because he's done such a great job.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lyrcs-lyrics-songs-poetry-rap/id1599888045

collin,
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Please boost so the creator of Lyrcs can get the attention he deserves for making such a great app for anyone writing Lyrics or poetry. #songwriting

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If you combined Clips and iMovie, you might have one app that's worthwhile. I don't know why iMovie isn't a superset of Clips.

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I don't want to learn Final Cut, I want iMovie to support vertical video and maybe get support for audio plugins that work in GarageBand already.

collin,
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@bjoreman I think Descript is probably the way to go, but I would really like to be able to do the whole thing on my phone or iPad.

collin, (edited ) to random
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When developing for iPhone/iPad, do you differentiate between iOS and iPadOS, or use iOS for both? I can't remember ever saying iPadOS outside the context of complaining about iPad specific on social media.

When developing for either, it's always iOS, and if referring to something specific to the iPad I'll say “the iPad version" or "on the iPad”. I feel like the iPadOS thing never really caught on beyond Apple marketing.

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What would be the downside if they just let the Instagram app run on macOS? It would certainly solve all of my issues with live streaming to it or filming Reels.

I hate that so many companies who are never going to make a native Mac app won't let us run their iOS apps on our Apple Silicon Macintosh computers.

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@harpaa01 Correct. The argument I can think of is that it's not worth the support burden, and they don't want to bother testing it. That honestly makes sense to me, but it doesn't make me want it any less as a user.

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I am a Macintosh enthusiast.

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I think what I really want is for Apple to make an Oura Ring. I'm not as into using a third party device, but the idea of an inconspicuous ring I could wear that would get me all of the Apple Watch health tracking features without the screen or Siri or any of that would be amazing. Especially if the battery life was longer than 24 hours.

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@jon_alper I might be too. I don't see how it could securely support Apple Pay without a screen, but that would really be the only thing I would miss from Apple Watch if I had all of the health tracking stuff.

Third party apps don't tend to communicate reliably enough with their iOS counterparts and can't keep their complications up to date, so those aren't useful to me. I use the Messages complication, but it's probably more of a distraction than anything.

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Okay. It seems like YouTube is the way to go, so here’s that song if you want to hear it. I’ll be posting more covers and originals as I record them. https://youtu.be/Sdko1Jcp15I?si=47C7b3cdRdeNf1wv

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    collin,
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    @gwcoffey I was looking for some thing that is just an upload service. If I was going to do Vimeo, I’d just link out to YouTube.

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    I’m on an extremely clean, affordable, fast, and timely monorail train to the airport in Naha, Okinawa. It even has these gated walls to prevent injury.

    Sometimes when I see what is possible elsewhere, I can’t believe the state of US transit.

    collin,
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    @adarsh We’re making progress in a lot of places, but it’s so slow and depressing to live with in the meantime.

    collin,
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    @Tooden @adarsh Speaking specifically of transit and cycling. It's gotten better in a lot of cities, it's just slow because we spent decades building around cars, it's very costly to retrofit, and there's a lot of NIMBY pushback.

    The NIMBY thing is strange to me because Americans love traveling places with good transit and walkability, but somehow think it won't work here (even though it already does in some places in the US).

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    i have a feeling that something like 96% of AI product launches are just rebrands of existing features that weren’t so good to begin with

    collin,
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    @exchgr 💯! I’m already tired of every app for writing or doing other creative things getting generative AI features put front and center.

    The last thing I want when I’m trying to be creative is to hit a button and have a robot do it for me, but all of these apps seem to think it’s the most exciting thing.

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    Why is that my Elgato capture card would work through the Apple USB-C Multiport Adapter, but not through my Anker hub when there is nothing else plugged into it? I feel like I'm missing something?

    collin,
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    @mzarra That's what I thought maybe too. It has a PD in port that I'm using. Very strange.

    collin,
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    I've tried plugging my 140w MacBook Pro charger into the PD-in port of the Anker dock, so if the capture card freezes now, I think that's pretty definitive that this setup isn't going to work.

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    If you want to hear one of my songs, I posted this one called “Love is the Reason”. It’s a little more country than my others, but I like it. Everything I say in it 100% happened. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7DX6mPrD7i/?igsh=MTJtN2t1azl4dXI2Zw==

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    This doesn't happen often, but I am willing to concede that I may look pretty hot in this photo.

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