Ben Thomas (he/him)

@Beetee
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Marketing, design, and technology. With the occasional movie 🍿 and pet post 🐶 🐱.

Long time burdsite user, LGBTQ+ ⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ally, Leftie.

What is even happening??? Tech battle: Musk and Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65981876
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

BBC News
@Nogard Next Gen CarPlay is not just infotainment- it can span the dashboard too hence the need for all aspects of a standard dash to be in Apples’ design language
@Nogard Next Generation CarPlay - can take over all screens including the instrument cluster

🔑🧵 iOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and passkeys (1/n)

Password manager apps can now save and sign in with passkeys across the entire OS — all apps and websites — by integrating with the AuthenticationServices framework's updated Credential Provider Extensions!
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/ascredentialproviderviewcontroller

This will include third-party web browsers like Chrome and Firefox on macOS, because macOS 13.3 added support for web browsers to use iCloud Keychain’s passkeys (and now third-party app’s passkeys)!
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/asauthorizationwebbrowserpublickeycredentialmanager

ASCredentialProviderViewController | Apple Developer Documentation

A view controller that a password manager app uses to extend AutoFill.

Apple Developer Documentation
🏳️‍⚧️ We did it fam. Pronouns field in Contacts in iOS 17 beta. #WWDC23 
@jamesthomson do we think Craig can actually play?? I think yes…

⚽ Big news… another Panic-published game is coming!

We're extremely excited to announce that we'll be bringing you despelote, a slice-of-life adventure about childhood, community, and the magic of soccer, from Julián Cordero and team.

Learn more at: https://despelote.game/

despelote. Un juego de Julián Cordero y Sebastián Valbuena.

A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001. Out now on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and Mac App Store (and later, Switch).

@caseyliss Just went to look up a movie on the IMDB app and was immediately faced with a login prompt. Then remembered I downloaded Callsheet via TestFlight…

I noped out of IMDB and found the movie instantly on Callsheet. No prompts, no interruptions - this is heaven!

@matt I fall into the same category - huge fan of the trilogy.

I’m not sure how it’s happened but my Wife and I quote Hot Fuzz to each other almost daily 😂

"I left my London flat and went to the pub to ask some people, but the minute I walked in, they all started speaking English"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/21/bannau-brycheiniog-welsh-national-park-tory-culture-war-brecon-beacons?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Bannau Brycheiniog: is this Welsh national park where Tory culture warriors will meet their Waterloo?

Restoring the Brecon Beacons’ original name is not part of a ‘woke’ agenda, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian