Mastodawn

Amen to all of this. I know we’re not the only developers who have felt development enthusiasm waining for Apple platforms recently. Dunno what to do about it but iOS 26 wasn’t it. https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/piece_android_iphone_apps

David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again

The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad.

Daring Fireball

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Jeff Johnson 1d ago

Surprisingly strong words from Macworld.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3115356/use-apples-app-store-at-your-own-risk.html

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Tao of Mac 4d ago

Apple, Still

I have been having feelings about Apple lately. This blog may have drifted a fair way from its original focus on macOS, but I am still, first and foremost, an Apple user – just not(...)

#apple #fedora #ios #ipad #iphone #linux #macos

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/04/12/1330?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Dan Ports Sep 12, 2025

@itgrrl @ricci also, this reminds me of a story I recently learned about and had been meaning to post about. Did you know that Margaret Hamilton used to bring her daughter to the lab when she was working nights and weekends, and let her play with the AGC simulator?

Her daughter crashed the simulator by accidentally invoking program 01 and resetting the guidance system to believe it was back on the launch pad.

Hamilton felt that was a pretty serious bug but was told "no, there's no way a trained astronaut would accidentally do that."

A trained astronaut did, in fact, do precisely that while Apollo 8 was on the way back from the moon.

She was allowed to fix it for Apollo 9.

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Kathy Reid 6d ago

Could we please go back to the version of the internet patched together by chewing gum and goodwill;

the domain of the well-meaning, Aloha shirt-clad, neck-bearded hippie;

the time of the lady poet-engineer who wrote spanning tree protocols and prose to match them;

where the only thing you had to do to connect to other humans was to be "capable of sending and receiving packets";

where we share spare GPU cycles to search for extra-terrestrial life or to run HPC workloads for curing cancer;

where the internet was wild and unstructured and embryonic and so full of potential and life and --- I'm not sure - vectors? paths? possibilities?

At which fork or trunk or change did the current slop-enshitti-net emerge?

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Adam Parkhomenko Apr 9

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Natalia Panferova Apr 6

I wrote a post on how we can embed SF Symbols in Text and style them with modifiers in SwiftUI by leveraging LocalizedStringKey interpolation: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/EmbeddingSFSymbolsInSwiftUIText/
#iOSDev #SwiftUI

Embedding SF Symbols in SwiftUI Text

Combine text with icons and style them using modifiers in SwiftUI by leveraging LocalizedStringKey interpolation.

Nil Coalescing

troz Apr 4

I’m not loving iPadOS 26.4.

It keeps warning me that I’m running out of space but more than half is taken up with iPadOS and System Data.
Plus, every app is asking for a rating at least once a day. Not the devs fault - the system is supposed to limit these.

Anyone running the 26.5 beta? Should I try that?

A quick reminder, I did create an accessible #ArtemisII #Artemis2 mission tracker for myself, and apparently its deemed useful by others as well. Includes spacecraft speed, distance, also represented by an audio sonification, spacecraft telemetry by calculated moon and earth size as seen from the spacecraft and lots of more details. Just added bunch of details from the @@cdnspace @mstdn.ca api, including antenna and solar panel positions of the craft. Check it out. https://artemis-tracker.netlify.app/

Artemis II Live Tracker — Real-Time Moon Mission Dashboard

Track NASA's Artemis II Moon mission live. Real-time telemetry from JPL Horizons, crew schedule, space weather, audio sonification radar.

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