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Top Twitter execs, including CEO Parag Agrawal, policy head Vijaya Gadde, CFO Ned Segal, and general counsel Sean Edgett have been fired by Elon Musk as he takes over the company:
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Great video; I always get funny looks from when I do the one-handed drag & drop dance between apps on iPad. Stage Manager, incidentally, breaks a lot of this flow if one app overlaps another. I wish Apple’s HI used iPad like we do 😅
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Three levels of shelves [so far]. Between Warhammer and LEGO I should probably just get a dozen Detolfs 😅
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Preorder Super Nt and Mega SG tomorrow at 8am PDT at store.analogue.co
This is the final production run - last chance to get one.
Both will be available to be preordered together and will ship out together at the same time.
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Glad to see Apple official documentation that can be cited to say “Just because Apple released a ‘security update’ for a previous major OS ***does not*** mean all know vulns were patched! They’re only all patched if you’re running the absolute latest.”
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Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1 by @AndrewWrites
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Want to make better Steam art assets? Then you need good reference material. I made a free little web tool that lets you view and download the image assets for any Steam game. Link in thread👇
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I just completed an important space history video restoration project, there's an often shared video showing a Mac Portable ejecting a floppy disk in zero G, but it's painfully low quality, so I found a better source and cleaned it up.
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Microsoft’s ARM Windows Dev Kit 2023 with the latest Snapdragon Windows-ready processor benchmarks roughly equivalent to the Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit from 2020 with an A12Z, (which was based on a 2018 chip). One could say Apple has a 3–5 year lead in CPU performance
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Btw geekbench if nobody did it before (also if you want to compare given geekbench results differ a bit): browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/18253817
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Android 12L for Surface Duo has a “continuum” mode for connecting to a Windows PC using the RDP app.
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…so that’s what I did tonight 🥳 I rebuilt Pastel’s widget support so you can export wallpapers you generate to the widget’s container, and you can pick them from a list. Much more straightforward than Pastel’s old widget; happy with how this turned out
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In the short term, Pastel’s widget needs to be redone from scratch, and I want to completely change how it works. Instead of picking a palette from your library, you will save items to the widget from Pastel’s wallpaper generator. Much more expressive, and with a lot more control
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Wondering why your app’s widget isn’t loading in the Widget simulator? Maybe because it’s plucked a running copy from one of the hundreds of archived builds you submitted to the App Store over the years, instead of what you just built in Xcode 😅
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UPDATE: In a statement, Apple tells me it has "paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages."
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Developers Complain About Gambling Ads Appearing in Their App Store Listings macrumors.com/2022/10/25/app by @rsgnl
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It's April 1, and that means it's both April Fools' Day and the anniversary of the founding of Apple Inc. Time to do something impractical and amazing.
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One problem w/ ads on App Store is that the prioritization is backwards. The people who need to be promoted the most are the great indie devs who can’t afford it, not casino giants. It’s the small devs who should be elevated alongside the tech titans, not buried by highest bidder
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Voxel Brush, a 3D painting app that pulls in a fair few Desktop Class iPad features, is out now apps.apple.com/us/app/voxel-b
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Swift Playgrounds 4.2 is out!
This update introduces a new customizable toolbar, a refined tab bar for files & previews, and great new content including a guide for detecting rock, paper, scissors hand poses via machine learning! ✊✋✌️
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is now preinstalled on display Macs in Apple Stores! 🤯
Also hi and 👋
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App Store Connect app: I can keep you logged in for 30 days
App Store Connect website: best I can do is 30 minutes
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Backporting Pastel to macOS 10.15 at this point would still be possible, but would necessitate a significant amount of work. A lot of things in the codebase diverged with the switch to the Mac Idiom, and all the old code paths are broken. It’s just not worth going backwards
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I never actually did any marketing images using macOS 10.15 — macOS 11 was announced like a week before I launched Pastel for Mac, so I retooled everything based on its redesign and just used those screenshots early. The Catalina version of Pastel is a forgotten branch entirely
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Since I have ESXi running, here’s the last-compatible versions of Pastel running on macOS Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey. I do wish I could have kept macOS 10.15 support going a little longer, but the year-over-year changes to Mac Catalyst have been significant and essential
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If you’re wondering why there was no Spotify iOS update in the last month, here’s why. timetoplayfair.com/audiobooks/
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This was the strongest pushback effort I’ve seen in my time at Apple. It was also doomed because Tim Cook saw the money Facebook, Google, and others were making from ads for apps and decided that he wants a portion of that.
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When ads first appeared in the App Store in early iOS betas, many inside were very upset. It was an insult to our customers. We pushed back strongly. After a meeting where management pretended to listen to our concerns, it was evident they had no intention of changing their mind.
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Better start saving now if this one’s gonna be $2,500 with a keyboard 😅
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Release 16-Inch iPad Late Next Year macrumors.com/2022/10/26/16- by @rsgnl
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I don’t get a whole lot of hobby done, but the past 12 months have been pretty good. From simple re-basing to terrain to minis, I made a decent amount of progress 😄🧑🎨
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This kind of software decay is completely opaque to the developer; because Apple provides no kind of macOS Simulator to run older OSes, and TestFlight does not support macOS 11, devs relying on SwiftUI will be shipping bugs like this without knowing, without having a way to test
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Do note, as you flip through these three screenshots, that the same SwiftUI code has different layout on each. You simply can’t set it and forget it. You gotta re-test every OS you support with every SDK update and OS point release
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I went through and tried to mitigate the existing SwiftUI issues as best I can for the three different OSes I support, which of course breaks layout on some in favor of others. It’s what I’ll live with until I replace this side panel with UIKit code. Update is live already
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When is Apple going to finally add a UIColor initializer with a hex code as the input?
Copy-pasting the same extensions into every single Xcode project for over a decade now lol
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There we go, graphics & Apple ID/App Store/TestFlight working as per my blog post
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Podcasts’ playback position sync never did recover after that big revamp a year ago. Now in Ventura/iOS 16, even Handoff can’t be relied upon to not reset sync state 😔
If I had to guess, it’s that the Mac client is discarding playback position for episodes it hasn’t yet fetched
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I wish Apple would forget App Store ads and go back to the iAd model.
As a developer I would love to have an easy, privacy-conscious way to display ads in apps (not Obscura, but other ideas, absolutely).
Seems like a much larger opportunity, antitrust aside.
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…the Get Out Of Shadowlands Free card
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These App Store ads are something…
Reading? You might also like: Adult Video Chat
In Therapy for Addictions? You might also like: Gambling
Streaming Disney? You might also like: California Psychics
Improving your Marriage? You might also like: Hinge Dating
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App Store Connect really should let you add accessibility descriptions to marketing screenshots, no? Just me? 🤔 /
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⭐️ In response to the legions of people asking me to write this up, I have a new blog post! Sorry it’s not a tutorial, but I don’t have that in me; sometimes knowing something is possible is enough. Intel Virtualization and Apple Silicon: highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20220325-
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