mike mertsock

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health and wellness app developer • creator of the TrailsRoc iOS app • 🏃🏼⛰️🧗🏼🎮☕️
Bloghttps://www.runningcode.net
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@mmertsock
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Show threadmike mertsockMar 20, 2025
@daringfireball Totally. I’ve spent years building HealthKit apps, and both the APIs and user experience have an appropriate level of complexity and depth for the sensitivity of the data involved, and just as important, Apple’s been consistent and reliable with their implementation of these APIs and user interactions. Data can flow in *both* directions between any number of apps, securely on-device, and it’s created a thriving ecosystem of diverse apps where previously there was nothing.
mike mertsockJan 31, 2025
David SmithJan 31, 2025

The recent work I've been doing has required a lot of sharing files between testing devices (and my Mac). AirDrop should be the ideal tool for this but I've recently found it to be unreliable.

Instead I've been using LocalSend which is an open-source AirDrop alternative and it's been working fantastically. The only real downside is that you have to open the app on both sides for the share to complete, but it has been 100% reliable so that’s a tradeoff I'll happily make.

https://localsend.org

LocalSend: Share files to nearby devices

LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.

mike mertsockJan 21, 2025
kottke.orgJan 21, 2025
“Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.” Great perspective. https://bsky.app/profile/mishellbaker.bsky.social/post/3lg7sh3sehs2f
Mishell Baker (@mishellbaker.bsky.social)

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Bluesky Social
mike mertsockJan 7, 2025
heat pumps are some of the closest-to-magic technology i have ever seen.
mike mertsockDec 19, 2024
Marco ArmentDec 18, 2024

Love the idea of Mozi, and I sympathize all too much with Ev's rationale in creating it.

https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8

Making “Social” Social Again - Ev Williams - Medium

I think it’s tough to appreciate how much relationships determine the course of our lives — and how randomly many of them come to be. A chance conversation turns into an introduction, turns into a…

Medium
mike mertsockDec 11, 2024
kottke.orgDec 10, 2024
“In the role playing game known as The Real World, ‘Straight White Male’ is the lowest difficulty setting there is.” https://kottke.org/12/05/straight-white-male-the-game-of-lifes-lowest-difficulty-setting
Straight White Male, the Game of Life’s Lowest Difficulty Setting

Using a video game metaphor, John Scalzi explains straight white male privilege for those straight white males who get hung up on

kottke.org
mike mertsockDec 4, 2024
Natalia PanferovaOct 30, 2024

In Xcode 16 we have a new way to define custom environment values in SwiftUI using Entry macro. It's less convoluted than the old way that required us to create a new EnvironmentKey type.

I wrote about it in my recent post on SwiftUI environment: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/SwiftUIEnvironment/#custom-environment-values

#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang

SwiftUI Environment

Explore different ways to work with SwiftUI environment, including reading and setting values, creating custom environment keys, and using the environment to pass down actions and observable classes.

Nil Coalescing
mike mertsockNov 27, 2024
yes, 100% this. the whole thread.
https://onycha.monster/@erosdiscordia/statuses/01JDQ3S65X8ETHW83R3Y1F3KX7
Post by Mystery Babylon, @[email protected]

CW: US politics, method for dealing with right-wingers over Thanksgiving

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mike mertsockNov 25, 2024

Is there a modern tool for easy live previews of app icons in various device/mode contexts, without compiling/running in Xcode? With iOS 18's dark and tinted icon modes, this would be really useful.

Back in middle years of iOS development when we had increasing numbers of icon sizes to render by hand, Prepo was my favored tool, but that app appears to be abandoned.

mike mertsockNov 10, 2024
my experience: getting a vasectomy was SO SIMPLE. and, zero regrets. zero. just do it.
https://kolektiva.social/@tothedaring/113444246167068363
frank :anarchy_bi: (he / they) (@[email protected])

seeing a lot of posts saying… 'get your IUD now' 'stock up on Plan B' 'here's where to find mifepristone' but nowhere have i seen posts saying… 'seriously consider getting a vasectomy [so you can potentially avert the risk to someone's life or livelihood]' as someone that's had one, there's usually a 3 month waiting period so you have time to think it over. when you go in for the procedure, it takes about an hour—half of it filling paperwork out, changing into a gown, and waiting for the surgeon. recovery took me about a day to feel 70% normal, then roughly a week to get back to 100%. there are typically no obvious signs there's been an incision since the way the procedure is done is so minimally invasive and there's zero impact to sexual or urinary function. at this point, taking it upon yourself to get a vasectomy and talking openly about it is direct action, or at least adjacent #health #harmReduction #bodilyautonomy #reproductiverights #reproductivejustice #reprojustice #planb #contraceptives #abortion #abortionrights #mifepristone #vasectomy #sexualhealth #harris #trump #election #election2024 #postElectionPrep #directAction #resist #resistance

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