Steve Abrahamson

@abrahamson
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UI/UX designer masquerading as a FileMaker Developer for 30 years | Technophile | Neurodivergent | LGBTQIA+ | BLM | He/Him | Chicagoan | macOS/iOS/FileMaker | Since the late 80’s, so there may be some git off my lawn. See, back in my day….
PronounsHe/Him
Dev platformFileMaker (yes, FileMaker)
SpicinessAll The Spicy
@marcoarment listening to ATP 680, re vibecoded todo app: I’m very interested in an app that does less, well. I was thinking about trying to vibecode one myself, but if you’re doing one, so much the better! If you’re opening up to testers, I’d be delighted to.
@viticci Re your Risky Pick on @connected, the answer, I’m sure you’ll agree, is obvious for the duo feature: you’ll hold it in portrait orientation for the open configuration, and Apple will use the cameras to show *your eyes* on the phone screen, for other people’s… comfort.

@trevorkay Just discovered Screen Sizes and I love it - super useful! A tiny feature idea: a link in Settings *back* to the URL. I had made it standalone on my iPhone, wanted to try it on my Mac… and had completely forgotten the URL - I was stuck. To help folks with portability (and sharing the app!), it might be helpful.

(I did find a path back to Safari and a URL, though it’s super buried: Settings; Toast; Screen Sizes; Get The App; and *then* the iOS “open in Safari” button. Whew! 😉)

I just had the first positive, useful, actually good interaction with an AI help agent. It was the Lyro AI Agent, used on luxproducts.com’s web site, and I asked it to tell me the differences between their smart thermostats… and it *did.* I asked more questions and it was quick to tell me where I could find the detail info I wanted, and quick to *just tell me* when it didn’t know an answer. It was helpful, useful, and knew its limits; I’ve known humans who didn’t meet those criteria.

I pulled out my phone to listen to some podcasts in @overcastfm (current version as of this morning) and a bunch of already-downloaded episodes have reverted to “waiting to download.” Most or all do not use DAI, fwiw. @rebound was downloaded at home this morning… and I had been in the middle of listening to @clockwise!

I download so that things are resident *on my device*, and once they’re there they shouldn’t change unless I change them. This makes no sense…!

@charliemchapman Hi - I use @darknoise nightly, using AirPlay through a HomePod mini, and since iOS 26 I’ve encountered a handful of times where the audio cuts out. Sometimes it cuts out and comes back, sometimes it goes out and comes back several times like tuning an old radio. Last night it didn’t come back. Changing playback back to my phone and back to the HomePod didn’t help; I had to force-quit Dark Noise and start it again. Is that AirPlay, Dark Noise, iOS…?
I really respect the coverage @ChanceHMiller does for @9to5Mac and I’ve been trying to listen to the 9to5MacDaily podcast because I also love podcast feeds of bite-sized daily small updates. I’m having trouble sticking with it though because of his cadence, the strange newsreader “end every sentence on a drawn-out mid-pitch tone”. Just talk like a regular person, Chance - it’s so much more engaging!

What’s going on with @overcastfm and failing downloads? I see more and more “download failed” “invalid audio file” and downloads completing only to start over.

I was just listening to this week’s episode of @connected. It had downloaded, I was 10-15 min in, I left the house and after a few minutes it cut out. I pulled out my phone and it says “waiting for download”. It had downloaded! The point of downloading is to have the file *on my phone*, not relying on the network!

@marcoarment Longtime fan and daily user of @overcastfm Today I was listening to a long podcast and thought about setting a custom speed, and saw these three ghostly blue lozenges I’ve never noticed before. They’re not direct controls, though they are tappable and change settings… I think? Or are they overriding settings? I can’t find any Help for more info. I know you rarely reply to user questions, but… what do these mean? How am I supposed to use them?

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“Hundreds Of Union Writers & Actors March Outside Of Disney To Protest ABC’s Decision To Yank ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

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