marcoarment

adam, 5 months ago to random

No Agenda Episode 1617 - "Twerkin' Russians" http://l.curry.com/fIm

marcoarment, 5 months ago to random

A social network’s best days are not when we’re using it mostly to talk about another social network.

steven_aquino, 5 months ago to random

This sounds like a selfish thing, but sometimes I wonder if @glennf (and @marcoarment) is proud of me for how fucking far I’ve gotten myself from those nascent The Msgazine days almost 11 (!) years ago.

hotdogsladies, 5 months ago to random

I’m working on notes for the next RecDiffs and benefitting from Descript’s new ability to suggest chapter markers.

And I may cave to a perverse impulse to give our member friends this super-chapterized version of the episode.

Because, hilariously, it does kind of rule.

Grimghost, 6 months ago to random

@marcoarment have a POE camera question with ubiquity and since the question was originated from an ATP podcast I thought I’d go straight to the source.

Could you help me out?

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

SwiftUI's .accessibilityRepresentation { … } is fantastic!

I built a custom slider from SwiftUI primitives (roundrects, drag gesture, etc.), and didn't have to try to match the native Slider's accessibility mechanics — I could just put a real slider in like this:

MyCustomSlider(…)
.accessibilityRepresentation {
Slider(…)
}

markgrambau, 6 months ago to random

@marcoarment
The last week or two, I’ve been experiencing an issue (either with Overcast or my AirPods Pro 2 USB-C) in which playback randomly stops. Clicking an AirPod’s stem does nothing, I need to tap play in Overcast to resume.

Anyway, I was just listening to the @atpfm
ep. 564 after show, when @caseyliss mentioned y’all can’t say anything about Vision Pro lab. You responded “Wait, I think I can say: I’m very happy that Ap—“

The audio cut out so abruptly with such perfect comedic timing that I 100% forgot I’d been having this bug for weeks and honestly thought it was an editing gag.

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

Great complete Goose live show, free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhNRj13KrQ

dmnelson, 6 months ago to random

I’m now almost ten years older than Marv (Daniel Stern) was in Home Alone. 😭😭😭

Screen capture of a movie database app displaying the cast of the film "Home Alone" with photos and names of actors alongside their characters and ages at the time.

viticci, 6 months ago to random

Huge day in the Ticci household 🚢🧊

chrisgrande, 6 months ago to Podcast

The #Castro #Podcast app has been down for days, and looks like it might even be sunset over the next couple months... even worse, with the servers down people can't export their feeds to even move easily.

I took this moment to try moving back to #Overcast which still has most of my feeds only to realize it has no way to "Mark all" as played and doesn't even reliably let me do it by hand. 🫠 It also really makes me miss the smooth UI and Inbox → Queue of Castro.

Overcast UI, marking episodes as “played” and then having them come back each refresh.

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

Sometimes, I wonder if I've made a huge mistake by tackling a giant rewrite of my 10-year-old ObjC/UIKit app in Swift/SwiftUI that'll probably end up costing me ~1.5 years of development time.

Then I try to do ANYTHING with ANY new API in the old codebase from Objective-C and UIKit.

It quickly becomes apparent that this rewrite was not much of a choice — it's a necessity.

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

visionOS app devs:

Is there a supported way to detect when your app is running in iPad-compatibility mode ("Designed for iPad”) on visionOS?

Like ProcessInfo.isiOSAppOnMac, but for visionOS — e.g. isiOSAppOnVisionOS.

(So far, all I can piece together is a terrible hack that I don't want to ship: if iOS and !WCSession.isSupported.)

paulsprangers, 6 months ago to random

@marcoarment What’s your opinion on Ubiquiti’s camera system a few weeks in? Looking for a security camera setup (also have a failing Circle View) and it’s high on my list.

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

Amazon AI-generated review summary for a printer:

“Customers are divided about the size, value, color, ease of use, performance, quality, and speed of the printer. They mention that it's a great product and that it can print a lot of things.”

Helpful…

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

For anyone curious: this does not work.

(Powered via the accessory AC outlet in the trunk. The Rivian mobile charger shows a red status light. The BMW mobile charger shows a "fault” light. Maybe it's the lack of real grounding?)

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

If anyone else is nuts enough to use withObservationTracking(), let me save you potentially a lot of time:

It only calls the onChange: block ONCE, BEFORE the first change. It does NOT provide continuous change notifications over time, and it works like a willSet, not a didSet.

I made a quick utility to get Combine publishers for Observable key-paths, which is easier and cleaner for me to use. Does this look right? It works… https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/88ee13df326c25c1f0a68c09e086f03f

Therenas, 6 months ago to random

@marcoarment You‘ve been singing the praises of the Macbook Pro in recent episodes, and of the desktop laptop lifestyle, and I agree with all of it, but you‘re not factoring price in enough. Those thousands of additional dollars compared to a Studio really hurt, if you mainly need a desktop. You yourself can easily afford it to get the best, but it really stood out to me that you don‘t seem to factor in the price in talking about it.