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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-10 at 22:21

So according to @atpfm the Apple Watch uses a custom WiFi chip. The HomePod uses the watch chip… is this why HomePods are so bad at connecting to the internet?!?!

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-10 at 02:21

I don’t know how many millions of times I’ve clicked “don’t switch” on googles aggressive Chrome pop ups, but I can see how nearly everybody uses Chrome even if they have no idea what a browser is. Now that they’ve turned them on for iOS I’m sure it will have a similar effect.

Chrome is a fine browser (that I don’t like). I wonder what its market share would be if they weren’t wielding their monopoly power.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-08 at 23:56

This notification has started popping up multiple times in every meeting I'm in. Every time a co-worker shares the screen, it's there too. All this for a feature that I never used and never accidentally triggered. Whoever added this thought their feature was far more valued than it actually is.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-02 at 19:28

Got started on our deductible early this year. The 3 year old fell / was pushed off the couch and hit her head on the coffee table. No stitches, just glue.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-02 at 17:32

Forget accidentally writing “2004”. My dumb brain keeps writing “2005” then correcting it to “2015” before finally getting it right.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2025-01-01 at 17:53

I think about the things that made me fall in love with the Mac back in 2006 a good bit. And the icons were certainly part of it. The iWork ones especially were so magical. I would open them in preview and marvel at how much detail they had.

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/113754164697152193

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-30 at 19:59

I’m seeing various apps freeze the dock and menu par a lot more often these days. Is this just me? Did something change in macOS?

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-22 at 23:37

This is the best explanation of the problems with WWDC videos. Every once in a while they will do an intro video, but it’s usually only for the big things like SwiftUI. @siracusa @atpfm

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-22 at 05:34

@caseyliss @atpfm the emotional Siri readings definitely feel like an 18.2 thing. Maybe it just got taken up a notch or tweaked in some way, but that’s when I started noticing it.

The most jarring one was this text from my wife which Siri read as if she was clutching her pearls.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-18 at 16:30

This morning my son broke a piece on his crunchlab toy. 30 minutes later I had a 3D printed replacement part.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-18 at 16:22

AppleScript is a truly horrible language. Possibly the worst that has ever become commonly used.

But the apple events system that powers it is truly powerful. It’s tragic that it’s slowly dying. Shortcuts isn’t on the same level. I would kill for a swift native version of AppleScript, both for apps to implement actions and to write scripts in.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-14 at 18:18

There are a ton of unit conversion apps, but trying to sort through them to find what I want would probably take longer than building it myself 😅.

Anyone have recommendations for a high quality app, preferably on iOS and Mac? I’ve been using Calcbot but conversion is a secondary feature there and a little fiddly to deal with.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-14 at 07:01

Something that I think will be really challenging for Apple with the notification summaries is the lack of context they have available. It’s one thing to look at an entire email or even an entire history of email and make a summary. But with notifications all they have are the notifications.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-08 at 01:14

I gave up on Ford ever sending me the free Tesla adapter after 6 months and ordered one off of Amazon. No joke, the Ford one showed up days later.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-12-05 at 04:36

Just saw this proposal. This is something I’ve liked from Kotlin. Nice to see it coming to Swift. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0451-escaped-identifiers.md

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-11-27 at 05:56

My theory on the pixelmator acquisition is that Apple is focused on pro iPad apps. Yea they already have an iPad app, but as a 3rd party they aren’t as incentivized to make it a priority.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-11-21 at 05:59

Where this really goes off the rails is when the compiler will enforce the type system but there’s no indication of what is allowed, for instance with result builders. What can go inside a Group? It depends! Except it depends in both directions. It’s based on its generic type, which can be effected by what you put in it, but also by what you put it in. Get it wrong and the compiler wraps itself in knots.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-11-20 at 18:53

Those modifiers are mostly wrappers around setting environment values. Which is super handy! I can set a font or text color on a view and it will apply to all the Text elements! I can customize the default!

But it also makes it much harder to find what changes what.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-11-20 at 18:51

I think I just realized when Swift's type system goes from helpful to hurtful: when it stops being self documenting.

For instance, with a UILabel you can look at the type and know exactly what you can do with it. It has a lineBreakStrategy property, so you know that can be customized.

On the other hand, SwiftUI Text has almost no properties outside of what it inherits from View. So like a giant box of legos, you have to go searching for the modifiers that apply to Text.

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Written by David Beck :xcode: on 2024-11-04 at 16:05

Looking at Xcode benchmarks, compile times have gotten much worse with Xcode 16. So much so that M1 with Xcode 14 beats an M3 with Xcode 16.

M1 Max with Xcode 14: 87

M3 Max with Xcode 16: 110

Apple silicon can't even keep up with the Xcode team.

https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark

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