Patrick McConnell

@patrickmcconnell
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I like code, bikes and the woods.

Freelance Developer focused on the Apple ecosystem. Hire me! #fedihired

#hiking #biking #biketouring #cycling #iosdev #swift #swiftui #macOSDev

Bloghttps://pmcconnell.micro.blog/
Hire me to develop your Apple Appshttps://squirrelpointstudios.com/apps.html
Peakist - my peakbagging apphttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/peakist/id6476985677
Cartographer - a GPS/GPX viewer/editorhttps://spcartographer.app
My current nagging issue with iPadOS 26 is when you use the keyboard to call up a search with cmd-space it never allows typing until you do it a second time

@mattiem @donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman

I aggregate my blog reading into Tapestry app. I see the content but I have no clue if the blogs can see my traffic.

I am not a creator of this sort of content but much of it feels like it's just gaming the system to get the rewards.

For example video content that would be easier digested as text, etc. There are exceptions of course and my preference for text over video is personal

@donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman

I can only repond from where I sit but I'm just generally tired of the behavior of big tech, tired of creating things and releasing them into the void, tired of being too old to be considered for jobs where folks need to be young and abusable. Just tired of it all.

I remain hopeful things will recover and go in new directions but we shall see.

@donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman

No one is asking me but:

Too many of the newsletters have the exact same content and recently it's very AI heavy. I suspect many people are like me and just don't want to hear about AI constantly, if at all. Lately I just delete newsletters unread, hoping the hype passes soon.

No disrespect intended.

I think original, new content that wasn't all AI all the time would be welcome.

Cool moment at @[email protected] tonight as 1,308 pucks were dropped to the ice to celebrate Anze Kopitar becoming the @LAKings' all-time points leader! 👏
Since I’ve already been ignoring 96% of the internet due to AI slop, this April fools day should be a piece of cake.

Two thoughts on customer phone support:

1. always start the call with "speak to a human”
2. the new iPhone call holding thing is very nice

It’s cliche at this point to mock apps that feature patch notes only stating “performance and stability improvements”

I’ve given it some thought and I could use some performance and stability improvements myself.

I will no longer mock these sparse patch notes.

#iOSDev #MacOSDev

@mattiem Hi Matt, We’ve tooted at each other a bit so we’ve interacted for certain definitions of the word. I would be interested to hear about this app idea and if I can help. Thanks!

If Apple is really going to remove UI compatibility mode in the next Xcode (the ability to opt out of liquid ass) that will probably be the death of at least one of my apps. The UI is too complex and Liquid Glass just fails in horrific ways.

I very much resent Apple forcing work on developers. Actively killing apps is totally unacceptable.

This would be a completely different discussion if everything in LG, SwiftUI, SwiftData, etc actually worked.

#iOSDev #macOSDev