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rixantos

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Aussie iOS developer working on @stezzaapp @repeattimer and <insert_new_app_name>

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jamesthomson, to random
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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.

rixantos,
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@jamesthomson this is some next level stuff, well done sir

rixantos, to random
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Over the weekend I released Widget Timer 3.1 which adds background audio support for timers (hopefully it works ok!) and also Drag n Drop support for UIColor, eg from Pastel by @stroughtonsmith

https://mastodon.social/@rixantos/112244033689141630

_Davidsmith, to random
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On this week's Under the Radar @marcoarment and I finish our 3-part series about the fundamentals of building a successful app. The last topic is Retention, how to keep your customers engaged and using the app: https://www.relay.fm/radar/290

rixantos,
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@_Davidsmith @marcoarment looking forward to listening! I assume you will have some decent tips, not "send lots of notifications to the user" 😅

stroughtonsmith, to random
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All the amazing visionOS apps we've seen are pretty much 1:1 Microsoft's Hololens demos from 2016, but backed by a real OS, SDK and ecosystem. No smoke and mirrors, no 'concepts’, no 'Contoso’. Apple doesn't have to fake it.

Execution is everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FCZRFh2Ec

rixantos,
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@stroughtonsmith nice find, I forgot about this vid. Crazy even the pinch gestures seem the same... yet Apple made it feel "new"

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    rixantos,
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    @jsq interesting price point at $2. imo you can go $10, its low enough that anyone that wishes to support you will pay that.

    Suppose the pay what you want data will answer that...

    $2 seems to de-value it a bit

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    rixantos,
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    @jsq wow that’s interesting... can’t see why Google would allow that in chrome ... isn’t it making fake clicks for ads?

    icanzilb, to random
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    Folks, what was that one chair that all programmers have in their home office? 🤔

    rixantos,
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    @icanzilb so much for being ramen profitable, I need to be Herman miller profitable it seems

    rixantos,
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    @icanzilb same! You should see the price in Australian dollars 😭

    stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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    Midjourney v6’s new text feature is kinda fun — it does a much better job of integrating readable text into generated images

    #midjourney

    rixantos,
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    @stroughtonsmith looks good! I'm still using lexica.art as it too has a consistent style, probably should checkout Midjourney.

    rixantos,
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    @stroughtonsmith agreed! Try finding a prompt to make a sweet abstract wallpaper ... it's not easy!

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    rixantos,
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    @dave looking good, but how are your zucchini’s? 😅

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    rixantos,
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    @jsq i'm surprised that the API allows apps to get suggestions, rather than push suggestions

    simonbs, (edited ) to random
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    No, Apple, a well thought-out minimalistic pomodoro app from an indie developer is not spam. It provides users with a choice. Stop insulting developers, Apple.

    https://breaks.app by @zachwaugh was rejected by Apple as spam because the App Store already contains pomodoro apps with similar concepts. The App Store also contained quite a few journaling apps before you launched your Journal app yesterday, Apple.

    https://mastodon.social/@zachwaugh/111568177893170335

    rixantos,
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    @simonbs @zachwaugh them's the breaks

    simonbs, to random
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    Just got my Xcode Wrapped!

    Graphic in the style of Spotify Wrapped saying: Your Xcode crashed 316 times.
    Graphic in the style of Spotify Wrapped saying: “You spent 43,603 minutes compiling Swift code.”

    rixantos,
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    @simonbs lol classic! I would add "You were unable to rename a variable with the Refactor tool 43 times"

    marcoarment, to random
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    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.

    rixantos,
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    @marcoarment I just spent 3.5 hours re-writing ONE ObjC class in Swift.

    I wondered many times if it was necessary... and concluded it was if I want to keep developing with sanity.

    _inside, to random
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    My dad's home was destroyed by a massive flood in the city where I grew up and where he currently lives. It’s the worst flood in over 100 years, and he lost almost all of his possessions, including the equipment he uses for work. I'm trying to help him out as much as I can, so all of my income in the following months will be going towards helping him. If you'd like to help, you can do so by getting any of my products listed here: https://buddysoftware.tech or here: https://insidegui.gumroad.com

    rixantos,
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    @_inside wow that’s full on, very sorry to hear… just picked up a copy of asset catalog tinkerer to chip in

    simonbs, to random
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    Am I crazy for building my own tiny observation framework with Swift macros?

    My motivation has been to build a framework that's type-safe, designed for UIKit-based apps, automatically handles deallocation of observations, and which supports iOS 14. In fact, this goes all the way back to iOS 12.

    The same code but with the macros expanded.

    rixantos,
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    @simonbs yes

    _Davidsmith, to random
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    Wanna start off your week with a fun little programming brain teaser:

    How would you calculate the rotation angle for the minute and hour hand of a clock?

    Superficially this seemed like a straightforward problem to solve, but after lot of challenging thinking and dead-end solutions I think I found the right way. This came up because the hands in Widgetsmith's clock widgets now can animate between times in iOS17. Which led to a variety of edge cases.

    My solution: https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2023/11/06/design-notes-46/

    A grey clock is shown with hands moving smoothly around the watch face. The digital time is shown below.

    rixantos,
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    @_Davidsmith pushing the boundaries of Widgets as usual!

    This reminds me of @twostraws video where he battles ChatGPT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxxCPdcMcFw&ab_channel=PaulHudson

    pschiller, to random

    Hope to see you tonight (5 p.m. PT) 👻
    https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

    rixantos,
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    @pschiller I for one appreciate the timeslot, as an Aussie this will go perfect with coffee number 2.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    All signs point to Apple soon introducing yet another form factor / app platform. Question is, will this one have an SDK? And what will that look like?

    https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/27/apple-testing-tvos-17-ipad-mini/

    rixantos,
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    @stroughtonsmith this is the HomePod I’ve been waiting for 🤞

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    @jsq can you export your data and import it into Bitwarden?

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    Apple's whole App Store model, which defines a huge chunk of the modern world, relies on a chain of trust and safety based on individuals internal to Apple, with no external oversight. What happens when a future Apple CEO, or head of App Store, decides to act inappropriately, anticompetitively, or maliciously, or to put in place structures that disadvantage some developers in favor of others (or Apple)? This is why regulation and external accountability is essential

    https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/18/app-store-employees-fired-china/

    rixantos,
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    @stroughtonsmith these employees just aren't highly ranked enough. No problems if it was Eddy Cue going out for a big night on some other businesses expense.

    nighthawk, (edited ) to random
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    Listening to a podcast on my Mac through Overcast running in the CarPlay Simulator. As you do.

    #iOSDev

    rixantos,
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    @nighthawk hoooooowwww!?

    rixantos,
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    @nighthawk oh cool I didn’t realise there was a seperate app now… sweet!

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    @dave I regret getting the Max chip

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