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kanec

@kanec@techhub.social

Senior multiplatform engineer at Spotify, helping you search for things to listen to. Previously at Bumble. I have an interest in making nice APIs and useful things. Often found gardening or playing PS5. Twitter refugee. 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

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matt, to random
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Developer friends! Am I reading the HIG correctly that the 44pt square target size recommendation is for all platforms, including macOS?

This aligns with WCAG AAA guidance as well, so I’m guessing this is Mac-inclusive, and macOS just goes below this target quite a bit.

Just making sure I’m not missing some “except for on Macs” caveat somewhere.

kanec,
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@matt the 44x44pt requirement only came in after iOS (and Android) decided that it’s a good minimum size to be able to be tapped easily without missing it.

I don’t think it is something that is explicitly required in macOS since the pointer is precise, doesn’t support magnetism, and doesn’t have to fall back to or simultaneously support touch interfaces.

Many of AppKit’s built-in controls don’t have a minimum of 44pts of hit area either, including the traffic lights!

But if you were taking the HIG as gospel then it does read like any device that supports a pointer should have 44x44pt hit area. But personally with my experience of macOS and Apple platforms, I read it as “any device where pointer input isn’t the primary input device”

kanec, to random
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I’m playing Xbox at the moment to play the new Hellblade and honestly the whole experience is trash compared to a PlayStation. The controller sucks, why are the buttons so noisy?! And it still uses an archaic rumble pack inside!

When you get an achievement it makes a really obnoxious noise over whatever is happening on screen taking you right out of being immersed, and the UI for this is smack bang in the middle of the screen covering up subtitles. 🤦

And just the general OS experience is very unpolished compared to PS.

kanec, to random
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The battery on my iPhone 14 PM is just awful lately. I’ve turned off background app refresh and pro motion and nothing seems to improve it

kanec, to random
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Uh oh. I am officially old now. I think I sprained my ankle dancing like an idiot last night 😅

matt, to random
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Maybe it's stagecraft. Maybe it's something else…

OpenAI's sub-30 minute presentation yesterday was more compelling than Google's I/O keynote…and it wasn't even close.

kanec,
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@matt my problem with Google is probably the same as many others, I’m tired of stuff being announced that goes nowhere. OpenAI work on essentially one thing, so morality aside the tech actually feels like it’s going to be supported and pushed forward, for better or worse

kanec, to random
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The main time I find wfh challenging is when I need to debug something with another person or team. We can obvs screen share using Tuple or whatever but the coordination just seems more tricky remotely.

This is not a reason for everyone to go back to the office permanently, you’ll prise remote working out of my cold dead hands but it’s just an example of a case where it’s not actually better. But for every negative there are a thousand positives to working from home.

matt, to random
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This might be a weird recommendation request, but I’m on the hunt for a single player game on Switch or PC that I can play with the sound off and still enjoy. Some light story is fine, but ideally the gameplay is the star of the show.

Any suggestions? :eyebrows:

kanec,
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@matt does it have to be a new game? Final Fantasy VII or VIII aren’t spoken and just have captions on-screen so works perfectly without sound

kanec,
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@matt 8 for sure! 7 gets so much hype but I enjoyed 8 so much more

matt, to random
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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything https://birchtree.me/blog/i-dont-actually-want-apple-to-make-everything/

kanec,
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@JediMax @matt my partner and I were talking about something similar as well. I don’t care about a car or robots, I want Apple to start making things like routers and backup capsules again. Things people actually need rather than stuff just to make investors happy

kanec, to random
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50mph wind storm at the start of spring. Everything is fine

matt, to random
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The rumored "small" Pixel 9 will likely have a 6.0" screen. I can already hear the iPhone Mini fans screaming "that's not small, you monsters!"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/googles-pixel-9-might-have-three-models-adding-a-small-pro-phone/

kanec,
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@matt oh I much prefer that camera bump design though

kanec, to random
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Yeowza the Google Home app on iOS is just an absolute catastrophe. I give HomeKit a hard time but the Google alternative is not good right now. Stuff just randomly disappears and reappears. Nothing works correctly. It’s buggy AF.

paul, to random
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I should actually look around Xcode more often, I'm sure this was in there forever but I just found it. Finds all subclasses of the selected class. (I'm choosing to ignore the Swiftism menu naming).

kanec,
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@paul I assume it works for protocols too which can also have inheritance?

jamesthomson, to random
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This is your regular reminder that you cannot be trusted with super glue.

kanec,
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@jamesthomson thank you for reminding me I need superglue though

kanec, to random
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Finished re-playing TLOU2 Remastered. Even better this time round. Extremely solid storytelling. Supremely gorgeous on an OLED with HDR.

If you have an OLED now but originally played it on something else I very much recommend getting the remastered version.

And also the 30fps unlocked mode is actually bearable so don’t worry about lowering the resolution to get 60fps. Can only imagine how fab this game would be on a PS5 Pro 🤤

kanec, to random
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The macOS Notification Center really winds me up. All that screen space and they stack the notifications and widgets together? You can only see three notifications without having to click to see more. It makes no sense

kanec,
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@matt truly is! I’d say worse than the system settings update

kanec, to random
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My kingdom for Sony to add the option to upload to Mastodon from PS5

mergesort, to random
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Maiori has taken to spending lots of time on top of the fridge guarding her food, despite there being no clear indication that she has a mouth.

kanec,
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@mergesort named after the Italian town on the Amalfi coast?

kanec,
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@mergesort that’s awesome! It’s one of my fav places in Italy. We actually plan to retire there!

kanec, to random
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I think it’s been long enough that I can rewatch Battlestar Galactica.

Star Trek and Foundation are great but nothing will beat the realism of BSG.

matt, to Halloween
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Trick-or-treating update:

Hours to go: 3.5
Kids: 0
Candies eaten by me: 0

#Halloween

kanec,
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@matt I’ve eaten more than I’ve given out for sure

kanec, to random
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I will never understand Stage Manager. I’m glad it’s opt in

kanec,
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Literally all I want from multitasking on iPad/iPhone is for the fear of the app being killed for memory to be gone. That’s what sets the Mac apart. You can leave an app running indefinitely and there’s no fear of it randomly being closed while you’re not using it.

kanec, to random
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“Why can’t I lose weight” I cry, weeping into my second Max burger of the week

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