Just got an app update through expedited review on the Mac App Store in one hour (from submission to approved). #macdev #BuildInPublic
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Amy Worrall
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I'm Amy Worrall. I am an indie app developer. I live in Coventry (UK). In my spare time, you can usually find me writing fiction, or making amateur theatre happen. 🏳️‍⚧️
Got a user request for templates in Octavo (my Mac app for PDF imposition).
Do you guys think I should build on top of the "Stationary Pad" finder flag? Do any of you actually use that? Advantages of using it, it'd handle the open-as-new-document flow for me. But the disadvantage is, I couldn't set a separate icon or extension for the template files.
I'm in a "setting my MSN display name to a song lyric” sort of mood.
(The 90s internet... you had to be there.)
TattieJust one trans woman's opinion, but I hold that the ideal way to recover from accidentally misgendering a person and being called out is to simply repeat the sentence, corrected. No apologies (or just a quick "sorry" or "pardon" if it flows), no justifications. It happens. We get it. Nobody's looking to shame anyone, only correct a mistake before it perpetuates.
A: "And then he told me that he wanted to..."
B: "They"
A: "And then they told me that they wanted to meet me at this coffee shop..."
Lovely email from a user today, mentioned that he’d exhibited his zine at a zine fair and put a little “made with Octavo” text on the back cover :D
Trying something out: told an AI to help with a refactor, but not write any code for me. Instead, it should prompt me for each place I'll need to update, and check my work. (I told it not to write code snippets for me to copy and paste either.)
I'm hoping this'll solve the thing I hate most about refactors (worrying about missing something, holding the holistic list of changes in my head), but make sure I fully internalise all the changes to the codebase.
Vintage Roland DXY pen plotter. I 3D printed a pen adapter, and here it is doing the self test page.
Next up, get it talking to a computer.
It's _sort_ of like an autocomplete thing, but the user isn't supposed to tap on one of the results -- there's no interaction, beyond the user making their own choice for whether to continue creating a task or not. I think it would be confusing to use the common autocomplete idiom of "popup appears below field”.
Anyone any thoughts on how I can make it clear what's going on here (that it's an FYI for similar tasks, not something you're meant to interact with)?
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Consider a task manager.
The user has pressed "New task" and is on a full screen sheet for entering the task's details, including its title. They start typing a title. But they're not sure whether they've already put that task into the app or not.
What I'd like to do is live search for similarly named tasks while the user is typing.
My question is, how do I show those search results?
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Current "we take things for granted these days" discovery: QuickDraw doesn't have a way to rotate stuff.
If you want to rotate a PICT 180°, you either have to rasterise it offscreen and read the pixels back in reverse, or you can try using a “picture comment" to get the _printer_ to apply the operation.
And "it is impossible to determine which picture comments are supported by the driver of the current printer”. Helpful.