@marcrespass @johnbrayton Institute Park or City Hall? He spoke at both. I did the Institute Park event, which was the larger of the two.
CocoaHeads Boston will meet this Thursday evening Zoom at 7:00 PM Boston time. There will *not* be an in-person component to this meeting.
@mitchcohen will show a HomeKit logging tool he started working on this weekend. This is a Mac Catalyst app for logging, and a cross-platform SwiftUI app for viewing. It uses SwiftData on iCloud for storage.
RSVP via Meetup for the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/cocoaheads-boston/events/312395597/
New participants and folks outside the Boston area are always welcome.
January 2026 Meeting - Zoom Only, Thu, Jan 8, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
This meeting will not be in person. It will be via Zoom.
Mitch Cohen will show a HomeKit logging tool he started working on this weekend. This is a Mac Catalyst app for lo
Strange they don’t have updated graphics without the “+” for the new store.
The first Apple Store opening I’ve been to in years. Millbury, MA.
Spent a while at my local Apple Store getting my daughter’s iPhone replaced under AppleCare. While waiting I suggested she try the VisionPro demo to pass the time. After the tech asked around it turns out the demo needs to be reconfigured due to a mismatch in the visionOS version and the iPadOS version of the attached iPad. The implication was I was the first person to ask for a demo since visionOS 26 was released…three weeks ago.
@daringfireball I’ve seen nothing on Google Play’s removal of similar apps (like
https://www.red-dot.app, formerly available for both iOS and Android, which aggregated many data sources). No idea if/when that “demand” occurred, but it’s gone. All the news is about the iOS App Store.
Red Dot - Anonymous ICE Activity Alert System
Anonymous community-driven tool for reporting and receiving ICE activity alerts from multiple sources. Now available on iOS.
My iPhone thinks I had a romantic getaway with the governor of Massachusetts.
Anyone ever see this? At 12:46pm today I realized my watch had registered zero activity all day. I’d been up since 6:15am. A reboot didn’t recover anything, but at least it started counting. I’m a habitual ring-closer so this had me scared!
While smoothly editing a 4K 120fps video on my MacBook Air, I remembered using a $4500(?) Radius VideoVision Studio and special “AV” hard drive for my Mac IIci to edit 640x480 30fps. Computers are fun!
I just realized the Image Capture icon, at least in Tahoe, is a photo of the Apple Campus rainbow. Are any other Apple app icons photographs?
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