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ash furrow (still spooky)

@ashfurrow@tenforward.social

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Compassionate software developer focused on mobile UX.

Created mastodon.technology in 2017, shutdown in 2022.

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Joined July 29, 2024

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ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 4w ago

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React Native’s support for UIScene was merged only two weeks ago, and is currently in an RC. That means developers creating a new React Native app *today* won’t even have a resizable app. They also won’t be able to submit their app with Xcode 27 because iOS will crash it at launch. I don’t know about the state of affairs on Flutter. But I generally don’t think that developers using cross-platform tools tend to give much weight to what Apple wants them to do. The iPhone Duo needs apps to actually conform to its affordances, in order to deliver on the UX that its price tag implies. I suspect this will go very poorly.

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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Bandita is not keen, but they’re figuring it out.

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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COMBINE:

1/3 measures Daniel Jackson being invited by vaguely a European woman to prove the unorthodox theories that ruined his career.
1/3 measures John Crichton making pop culture references to puppet aliens as he struggles to hold onto sanity.
1/3 measures Deep Impact “extinction level event” international coalition rising-to-the-challenge, with focus on interpersonal relationships.

Shake (optionally: shake camera). Garnish with budget.

YIELDS: one excellent sci-fi movie.

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

I've never filed my taxes in March before, this feels incredible. it's even more impressive when you consider that Canada gives us until the end of *April* to procrastinate 😅

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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Switching to ISO8601DateFormatter resolved the bug (the differing behaviour I was seeing with plain DateFormatter). I never found a root cause of why it failed to parse the same dates on different users’ devices, which means I can’t guard against the bug except by avoiding DateFormatter. Thanks to everyone who responded!

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com perfect, this was part of our mitigation, so thanks!

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

@harshil@mastodon.social “Captain, I’m on call.” 😭

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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@brunoph@breakpoint.cafe this is helpful confirmation, thank you 🙇‍♂️

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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@stevestreza@indieweb.social @brunoph@breakpoint.cafe still helpful to know this sounds familiar :) thanks

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@angelo@cosocial.ca so handsome!

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social Merlin is the one who needs Bandita to be nice 😅

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@jsq yes 😅 an Xmas gift from my wife. For work reasons, I have to either TouchID *or* enter a long password many times a day. This lets me use the laptop in clamshell mode again.

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 12mo ago

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@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io neat! it kind of hurts my brain to have someone who was 8 at the time explain the flaw in the iPhone announced at my first WWDC 😵‍💫 2010, that was like, five years ago?

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 9mo ago

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@gregheo I miss that keyboard 😭

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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@brunoph@breakpoint.cafe that does help, thank you. does this fix look familiar? using an ISO8601DateFormatter specifically. formatOptions = [.withInternetDateTime, .withFractionalSeconds] // try to parse formatOptions = [.withInternetDateTime] // try to parse again

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@ladupla@mastodon.social yes exactly. “Cat Saturday” for sharing photos of cats 🤗

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@christianselig@mastodon.social :oh_no:

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

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@designatednerd@mastodon.social I am now, but I was hoping to confirm this behaviour difference with others while waiting for App Store review. I should follow up, since, it did fix the bug 🎉

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 7mo ago

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@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net @joe@f.duriansoftware.com I can’t speak for companies, but there are two relevant shifts I see: LLMs are being commodified, and it turns out large models don’t necessarily make better products. Smaller, purpose-built models might be ran on local hardware, for example. That’s not a definitive answer to your question. But I used to wonder about this, too. And this is how I sleep at night.

ash furrow (still spooky) @ashfurrow@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

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@jacob@social.jacobian.org yeah, exactly. Lots of AI coding boosters are talking about the importance of tests, documentation, small modules… On one hand, yes! Great ideas! OTOH why did we have to wait for LLMs to prioritize this? (And as soon as we can avoid it, will we?) But, I do like the move to smaller PRs, smaller files, more tests. My biggest challenge is that PR review has become a bigger bottleneck.