Steve Troughton-Smith

@stroughtonsmith
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App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.

UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Reverse-engineering. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

Webhttps://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/
Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/steventroughtonsmith
GitHubhttps://github.com/steventroughtonsmith
"Star Fox" announced for Nintendo Switch 2, based on the Nintendo 64 game. Visuals update & characters redesigned
Xbox consoles are getting a new boot animation next week, complete with a slightly tweaked boot-up sound. Microsoft’s new Xbox CEO continues to make changes that are designed to please fans www.theverge.com/tech/925110/...

Dacian Anvil

#warhammer

So @glyph asked me what it's like using Asahi on a M2 air daily, so I did a little writup: https://alextheward.com/blog/asahi_on_macbook_air_m2/

The tl;dr is "fine".

Asahi on Macbook Air M2

Some thoughts on running Asahi on a Macbook Air as a secondary daily driver.

One more session should do it…

#warhammer

wow. Microsoft is scrapping Copilot on Xbox, just hours after a big Xbox platform reorg. Xbox Copilot on mobile is being killed off and development of Copilot on Xbox consoles is over www.theverge.com/games/924551...

Microsoft gives up on Xbox Cop...
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is “winding down Copilot on mobile” and “will stop development of Copilot on console,” according to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.

The Verge

@stroughtonsmith I had so much fun in that era. This app (Timeline World War 2) was my masterpiece… shame that kind of multimedia app ended up not cost effective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwLP75njPE

Timeline World War 2 für iPad ausprobiert

YouTube

Next up…

#warhammer

The 3D printing world is *crying out* for a proper native AppKit/UIKit slicer. The entire software ecosystem suuuuucks

@stroughtonsmith Update: that terms of use update a few weeks ago? That was for us. Apple changed the rules *in the middle of the app review* to disallow what we were doing. It was allowed at the start of the review, but not at the end. Thousands of hours of engineering and design effort now has to be ripped out.

This is why dev relations is at an all time low Apple.