Anton Sotkov

@antons
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I make apps @ia.
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LocationHelsinki, Finland
I get it eBay, math is hard. I kinda want to make the offer to find out what happens, but I also don’t.
“SystemUIServer is capturing your screen”. I‘ve been making macOS apps for more than a decade and only have a vague idea of what might be causing this. How would this be helpful to an average user?

Photos app keeps shoving cheesy animated slideshows into every screen and there’s still no way to disable them.

Every person working on the Photos app should be required to watch this TikTok and read the comments. https://www.tiktok.com/@carlabezanson/video/7407563122053025029

TikTok - Make Your Day

Changing header visibility in Xcode 16 now takes at least four clicks. It used to take one click.
Reported as FB13884774, but I have feeling I’m in for at least another year of having to turn off Wi-Fi on iPhone every time I need to debug anything, and basically not being able to debug network-related code on iPad.
Does the new Direct Distribution option for macOS apps in Xcode 15 work for anyone?
Today’s AI bullshit on the web: Google’s featured snippet from an article that talks about iOS settings that don’t exist and have never existed.
FB13706614: NSTextView glitches when rendering variable font glyphs with overshoot. The issue was introduced in macOS Sonoma.

So Bard does not have an iPhone app, and the web app, when added to home screen, still opens in Safari. With keyboard visible, I can scroll into white space below. Every question dismisses the keyboard.

Bard tells me that “Google has a strong track record of developing mobile apps, so it is likely that their Bard app will be high-quality and user-friendly.”

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that the Play Next and Play Last action colors are completely out of place in the Music app?