Scott Kovatch

@skovatch
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Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D NA and maintainer of Get iPlayer Automator. Also a father, amateur chef, gardener, and, apparently, #NYTXW addict.

You can support my work on Get iPlayer Automator at https://ko-fi.com/scottkovatch

It is insane to me that changing one line in my SwiftUI view requires 1900 other files to be compiled before I can see the change in the canvas. I wonder if regenerating everything with tuist is forcing a rebuild of the world.
Always fun to see what you worked on get a good review in the press: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/yearlong-test-update-4-routines-mercedes-benz-e450-all-terrain
Mercedes Totally Gets Modern Luxury. This Feature Proves It.

Mercedes’ “Routines” feature automates comfort, navigation, and more in our E-Class wagon. Here’s what works best.

MotorTrend
Honestly, Claude is as bad as I am at trying to resolve a git merge with conflicts. I wasted at least an hour trying to debug something, only to realize it threw away a bunch of critical changes from the branch.

I got a new work laptop, and it's amazing how much migrating the old to the new feels like moving house.... realizing you have a good 100GB of crap in hidden folders, hidden folders for stuff you haven't used in 3+ years, and a reminder of every single MacPorts/homebrew package you thought was a good idea for about 15 minutes.

All of it, straight into the trash.

It's my birthday 🎊 To celebrate and to continue the tradition I'm doing a special book sale just for today! You can get any of my Swift and SwiftUI books and bundles with a 20% discount using the coupon code BD2026 applied at checkout: https://books.nilcoalescing.com
#iOSDev #Swift #SwiftUI
Nil Coalescing Books

Swift and SwiftUI books from Nil Coalescing

Nil Coalescing Books

So, it turns out that installing a certificate to run an 'enterprise' app or any other app distributed outside the usual means causes CarPlay and Bluetooth to fail to connect to my car on both iOS 26.4 and 26.5!

Seriously, what is even happening there?

I guess you can follow @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social via Mastodon, but I don't know how.

What's My JND? 0.0028

Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=ARgkKP____Ov

#whatsmyjnd A clean laptop screen will help.

What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Wife: I just realized I forgot to add a statement to my syllabus about not using AI. But I'm not sure what I want to say about it.

Me: You could use Claude to generate one for you and then refine it.

<ducks>