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jamesthomson

@jamesthomson@mastodon.social

Indie iOS / Mac developer from Glasgow, Scotland. Maker of the PCalc scientific calculator, and a cool dice app. Occasional writer, conference speaker, D&D player, and podcast pundit.

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The latest TestFlight build of Dice by PCalc has a new Pride dice theme which can be tinted to show a wide variety of flags (all the ones that are in PCalc currently).

I'm generating the stripes on the fly, based on a underlying greyscale gradient texture, so I should be able to use that same technique for more intricate designs that can be recoloured.

A set of dice showing the lesbian pride flag.
A set of dice showing the bi pride flag.
A set of dice showing the trans pride flag.

jamesthomson,
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@matthewbischoff Thank you!

jamesthomson,
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@stuart I have thought about it, but making and distributing physical products is a real pain! I am tempted to do something, but I'd probably have to get about few thousand dice made for it to be cost effective.

jamesthomson,
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@chris 🥲

jamesthomson,
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@raritastic Which begs the question what flavour is each stripe?

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jamesthomson,
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@caseyliss

Robin Wright Netflix GIF by House of Cards

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Now this is the big news of the day: https://kotaku.com/playdate-panic-true-crime-stolen-gdc-1851510703

jamesthomson,
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@craiggrannell I think now they are just available to buy without a waiting list. There’s a lot of indie inventiveness for it, I think it would be up your street!

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What a curiously dispassionate post on The Verge about their parent company signing a deal with OpenAI. It’s interesting that they posted about it in a way that lumps it together with the other deals and there’s no statement from The Verge’s famously opinionated leadership about what this deal means for publishing, journalism, and the open web.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content-copyright-vox-media-the-atlantic

jamesthomson,
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@mvo @joesteel Thank you for making the joke I was still in the process of typing.

onegeekarmy, to random
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Me from 27 years ago (who was very excited by the release of Mac OS 8.1) would be pleased with me from today:
Disk Jockey now parses HFS+ volumes (and extracts files from it).

It's not out yet, and there is more work to be done, but soon.

Disk Jockey parses MFS, HFS and HFS+ volumes.
Studying how the humble MFS (no folders! Floppy only!) has evolved into the omnipresent HFS+ has been a fascinating journey.

Old computers have so much to teach.

jamesthomson,
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@onegeekarmy That looks very cool, and will enable me to do some more archeology through my own code!

jamesthomson,
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@onegeekarmy I know I have some old disk images that I failed to convert way back, so I will do some digging at the weekend!

(And, I'm just this guy, you know? :)

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These old Play Meter magazines are full of threatening WE'RE GONNA SUE YOU! ads. I remember seeing some of them (usually from Atari) in our game mags BITD but these coinop trade mags take it to a different level.

jamesthomson,
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@llamasoft_ox I see Nintendo has always been, shall we say, a touch litigious.

DigitalKrampus, to random
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Mr. Thomson, are you providing/selling version 1.x of your PCalc application for Macintosh System 7 anywhere? It looks like it’s on https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/math/pcalc/ but it feels…..wrong….downloading it from a site that isn't yours…

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jamesthomson,
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@DigitalKrampus Grab it from http://pcalc.com/downloads/pcalc-102.hqx - it was freeware, so feel free!

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I guess About by PCalc for Vision Pro came out just too late to make it into the running for “exceptional spatial experiences” 😅

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

jamesthomson,
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One of these days I will spell "spatial" right on the first go.

jamesthomson,
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@imyke I am very spershal.

jamesthomson,
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@Arcticulate Seems plausible!

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every day is a grift

jamesthomson,
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@rstevens Never look a grift horse in the mouth

tvaziri, to random
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“why couldn’t they just do it for ‘real’”

It’s all pretend, folks.

https://tiktok.com/t/ZTLneYBf5/

video/mp4

jamesthomson,
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@tvaziri But lightsabers are real, right?

inferis, to random
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Mid afternoon snack.

jamesthomson,
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@inferis I like how the label says “Belgium” three times on it, and yet, I am now doubting it's brewed there :)

jamesthomson,
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@inferis Hey, so long as it tastes good!

jamesthomson, to random
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Four new colourful Dice by PCalc t-shirts available on our merch store now - get yourself something fun and nerdy to wear this summer!

https://cottonbureau.com/people/tla-systems

A black t-shirt with a multicoloured dice with the PCalc logo.
An orange t-shirt with a black and yellow dice with the PCalc logo.
A blue shirt with an orange dice with the PCalc logo.

jamesthomson,
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@daniel @Verso They asked me to use them for merch fulfilment, so I never went through the formal submission process. But once you've got a few designs up, you can submit whatever you want.

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About by PCalc for visionOS is now available!

Perhaps the most pointless app on Vision Pro, but still quite fun to play with. This is a complete remake of the original PCalc About screen in VR. It's basically me experimenting with what's possible today with RealityKit, over-engineering things as usual, and then for some inexplicable reason actually shipping it. I hope you enjoy it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/about-by-pcalc/id1613982997?platform=vision

Hundreds of objects swirl around a PCalc icon.
A lovely view of the public transport options in the PCalc About screen.
A distant dragon watches over the city.

jamesthomson,
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@a2 He is indeed!

jamesthomson,
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@the_other_jon When I have infinite time and money :)

jamesthomson,
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@jasonmader I think that number is too big!

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