Joseph McLaughlin

@mclaughj
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👨‍💻 iOS Engineer at Commonstock
🎧 Indie Dev at Zero1 Software
⏪ Previously: Apple, Bleacher Report, Day One
💬 MTB, snowboarding, baseball, F1, tech (and Dutch 🐶)
📍 Salt Lake City, Utah
Websitehttps://josephmclaughl.in/
Live Statushttps://joemc.xyz/
Zero1 Softwarehttps://zero1software.com/

I built an iOS app to browse and play albums from your Apple Music library and I think it’s finally ready to see the light of day. I have lots of fun plans for it and would love to get feedback from people outside my immediate circle. What’s working for you? What isn’t? Thanks for taking a look! 🎧

(If you can spare a boost, I’d really appreciate it! 🚀)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/MUMuVUga

Join the Albums – Music Player beta

Available on iOS

Some days it hits me how lucky I am to get to work from here.

Software used to cost real money, because writing and maintaining it takes real work.

When I was getting on the internet, you could buy Netscape Navigator — a *web browser* — in a *box* at a *brick and mortar store* for FIFTY DOLLARS.

So unless you would honestly pay a one-time purchase of $50 for that app whose subscription model you hate, be happy! You are getting a bargain.

Ok, so.

Tweets look really good when you send them in Messages on iOS/macOS. Mastodon posts… don’t. So I built a little tool that makes them much nicer to look at:

https://mstdn.link

Add ?to={any Mastodon post URL} to the end of that domain and when you send it to a friend, you get the nice looking preview. Of course the page makes it easy to paste a URL in. And there’s a Shortcut to make it even easier on iOS or macOS.

mstdn.link - Share Mastodon posts better

@mark @paul It’d be cool if Premier subscribers had the option to display a public badge on their profile (for other Ivory users).

T̶w̶e̶e̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ Tooting from the public version of @ivory by @tapbots.

Direct link while App Store search propagates: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

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I’m sorry, but your web app will never be as good as a native app.

Exhibit a:

I wish more people showed where they lived on the internet. Not stalker-level house/apartment pins, but city would be nice. I see all these cool pictures and I wonder where they’re from but I don’t want to be that annoying guy in the replies asking “is this around Lake Tahoe?!”
I’m loving Louie Mantia’s new-ish blog. The writing is genuine and really resonates with a lot that I’ve been thinking about. I’m trying to be more authentic with my writing this year as we distance ourselves from “the corporate web”. https://josephmclaughl.in/links/2023/01/teenage-web/
Louie Mantia has the right idea about the web

ramblings of joe
I’m so glad Apple is bringing back a new higher end HomePod! https://www.apple.com/homepod-2nd-generation/
HomePod (2nd generation)

High-fidelity audio. Intelligent assistant. Home hub that works across devices. HomePod is a powerhouse speaker with the privacy of Apple built in.

Apple