I’m not a fan of the iPadOS “Smart Activation” feature for focus modes. I prefer to manually control when and if I need different focus modes. However, my iPad keeps prompting me every few days to turn this feature on.

I gather that this is a known issue. I’ve already provided feedback to Apple, but has anyone found a workaround to stop this persistent prompt?

This is the first app that I’ve actually deleted just because the icon was so bad; an assault on my visual senses. Sure, you can pick different app icon in settings (but you have to upgrade to premium to get a very simple one). But it just ended up prompting me to reconsider whether I need/want the app at all. In the end, it was cathartic to just delete the app.

It’s an object lesson of how important a thoughtful visual design can be (and how detrimental a less-thoughtful one can be, too).

It has been noted before, but I wanted to quantify my impression of a discernible decline in SO activity (through Nov 2024). So, I did a quick SEDE query for SO questions (PostTypeId = 1) per month (and pro-rated Nov). This does not bode well for SO. Not pretty.

This downward trend pre-dates LLMs, but seems to have accelerated since. But a lack of quality answers on platforms like SO will diminish the training data used by LLMs (which are already infuriatingly bad for new or low-volume topics).

SE-0316 says, “A struct or class containing a wrapped instance property with a global actor-qualified `wrappedValue` infers actor isolation from that property wrapper”.

Take a second and soak that one in. A non-isolated type becomes actor-isolated because it happens to use a *property* with some property wrapper!

I can guess as to why someone thought that would be convenient, but it is not remotely intuitive.