Austin Bond

@austinbond@iosdev.space
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🩵Father, Husband, American Expat, Swift Developer, 🍏 Certified Technician, Educator, Copyeditor, 30+ Years on a Mac, Secular Zen Buddhist, Vegetarian, Democratic Socialist, Freeform Haiku Poet 🌊
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Show threadAustin BondJun 14
@czottmann @jaanus It worked! Thank you so much!
Austin BondJun 14
Show threadCarlo ZottmannJun 13

@austinbond @jaanus Got it to work. https://zottmann.org/2025/06/13/how-to-use-google-gemini.html

If you like that and it works for you, feel free to spread the word! 😉

How to use Google Gemini in Xcode 26 beta

Someone asked on Mastodon1 whether it’s possible to use Google’s Gemini in the new Xcode 26β on macOS 26 beta. It is! Well, with some creative proxy scripting, that is. Google offers an …

Carlo Zottmann
Show threadAustin BondJun 13
@czottmann @jaanus awesome I’ll check it out
Show threadAustin BondJun 12
@newmarcel I do this all the time with apps I need running in the background but don’t need to tweak their settings with Bartender. Many apps give an option for dock, menubar, or both.
Show threadAustin BondJun 12
@czottmann @jaanus have you gotten Gemini 2.5 Pro to work?
Show threadAustin BondApr 9
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Show threadAustin BondApr 6
@stuffmc Hello, do you know if Swift Conf will be happening this year?
Austin BondApr 4
The original copilot
Austin BondApr 3
A Light Shining in DarknessMar 30
Vibe Wizards will never understand.
Austin BondApr 2
I'm sorry to say but until we have a system that ensures that all basic needs are met, I won't be building apps in public.
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A Light Shining in DarknessMar 30
Vibe Wizards will never understand.
Show threadMartin JostMar 30
@fzer0 Möööhhhh....
Show threadcrypticcelery @ GPN 📞 2579Mar 30
@fzer0 are vibe wizards sorcerers or bards?
Show threadA Light Shining in DarknessMar 30

@crypticcelery

Hmm, i'd say barbarians.

Show threadcrypticcelery @ GPN 📞 2579Mar 30
@fzer0 ohh, casting axe in your face, I like it.
Corollary might be cathartic mages (PF2e, I believe).
Show threadseism0saurusMar 31

@fzer0

Love it

Show threadnowhereman (nicht der andere!)Mar 31

@fzer0
@BlumeEvolution

No joke,
this is how modern software development worked, before AI.
AI was trained on this and replaces those who did not work that way.

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 31
@fzer0 Actually there's a lot of that in Discworld, where a lot of the magic ritual is just for show.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 31
@fzer0 Oh, and at least one of the spells has a back door - someone tries a spell, it doesn't work, the target says "I wrote that spell, you didn't think I'd invent a spell that worked against me, did you?"
Show threadFranchescaApr 3
@TimWardCam @fzer0 Pratchett was a tech nerd, he knew how these things worked.
Show thread𝕂ℕ𝔽 𝕀𝕆𝕆 ☎️Apr 3
@TimWardCam @fzer0 %100 that’s from Pratchet.
Show threadDaniel BarlowMar 31
@TimWardCam @fzer0

“You don’t even need that. You can use two bits of wood and an egg.
It has to be a fresh egg, though.”
“Why?”
“I suppose the mouse feels happier about it.”
“No, I mean the egg.”
“Oh, who knows how an egg feels?”
Show threadCaptain ButtonApr 1

@TimWardCam @fzer0
This also shows up in Lois McMaster Bujold's "World Of The Five Gods" stories, where the Death Magic spell usually has lots of fancy requirements that aren't needed.

You really only need a sincere willingness to die to get your justice and for the god to agree that the injustice you suffered is real and big enough to justify killing someone.

Show threadMartin VogelMar 31
@fzer0 Never change a working spell.
Show threadzaicurityApr 2
@fzer0 Vibe Wizards copy a teleportation spell from SpellGPT and end up stuck inside a tree.
Show threadApproxamatrixApr 2
@fzer0 praise Kier !
Show threadF4GRX SébastienApr 2
@fzer0 I dont exactly call these ai users "wizards"...
Show threadA Light Shining in DarknessApr 2

@f4grx

Not wizards, VIBE wizards 

Show threadDenys DmytriyenkoApr 2
@fzer0 paging @codinghorror
Show threadAlex RockApr 2

@fzer0
Code Spellcasters:

Vibe coders are warlocks. Sold their soul.
Wizards know the stuff and reasons, and the whole legacy with it.
Sorcerers are autistic genZ code geniuses.
Druids are the ones into IoT and hardware. Touching the real things, but with magic hands.
Bards are tech-bros-influencers.
Rangers are either Rust hackers (with lots of cats) or Python evangelists (with, well, python as animal companion).
Priests are Linux Kernel engineers.
Paladins are using Arch btw.

Show threadMark CrockerApr 3
@pierstoval @fzer0 ... resisting the urge to ask about NixOS... just typing it in to see how dumb the question looks... hey, how did the wrap get so close to the Reply button? D'Oh
Show threadAlex RockApr 3
@mcrocker @fzer0 NixOS fans are just warriors with a magic boon
Show threadFranchescaApr 3
@fzer0 Vibe programming always makes me laugh, as fadhb in Irish (pronounced it sounds like “vibe”) means a problem or complication.