Mastodawn

I've been thinking about SwiftUI and the frustrations around it a lot lately. This is my hot take: https://macguru.dev/swiftui-should-become-open-source/

SwiftUI should become Open-Source

We have a running joke on the team. Whenever we’re fed up fighting a framework and can’t find workarounds, someone proposes sending one of us as an undercover intern to that framework’s team at Apple, to fix the bugs from within. Over the years this has targeted

Max Seelemann

Thomas Zoechling May 14

European Commission May 14

🚆 One journey. One ticket. Full rights.

We’re making cross-border train journeys simpler:

🎫 One booking across rail operators
Find, compare and book trains from different operators in one transaction.

🛡️ Full passenger rights for the whole journey
If you miss a connection on a single ticket, you’ll get assistance, including rerouting, reimbursement and compensation.

📲 Clearer pricing info
Travel options shown fairly and clearly, so you can easily compare and choose.

https://link.europa.eu/jMThrK

Thomas Zoechling May 13

BasicAppleGuy May 13

Downloaded Little Snitch to get a better look at my outgoing traffic and maybe manage it more carefully, only to discover Adobe has 5–10 processes constantly pinging servers every 2–3 seconds, even when every Adobe app appears to be closed.

Thomas Zoechling May 3

IGN May 3

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Official macOS Launch Trailer
https://www.ign.com/videos/age-of-empires-ii-definitive-edition-official-macos-launch-trailer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Video Game and Movie Trailers @video-game-and-movie-trailers-ign

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Official macOS Launch Trailer - IGN

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition comes to macOS this May. Lead diverse civilisations spanning a thousand years of history. Grow a Dark Age hamlet into an Imperial Age citadel. Build a thriving economy, assemble your armies, and do battle across historical single-player campaigns, the hugely replayable skirmish mode, and with other macOS players in online multiplayer. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition lands on Steam for macOS on May 28, with a Mac App Store release to come later in the year.

IGN

Thomas Zoechling Apr 12

Michael Doise Apr 12

Very exciting news!

Beyond The Gallery, A shortcuts sharing community created by
@tayarndt
and myself, has just hit 200 users! This is amazing to me!

Let's go for 300!

https://beyondthegallery.app

Beyond The Gallery - Apple Shortcuts Community

Discover and share amazing Apple Shortcuts created by the community. Find shortcuts for productivity, automation, and more.

Beyond The Gallery

Thomas Zoechling Mar 22

After Apple shared initial local inference benchmarks (M4 vs M5, moderate RAM) on their Machine Learning blog, there are now real-world reports of M5 Macs with 64–128GB running much larger models.

Hopefully, local inference is moving from “barely works” to “actually usable”.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/exploring-llms-mlx-m5
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s0czc4/round_2_followup_m5_max_128g_performance_tests_i/

Exploring LLMs with MLX and the Neural Accelerators in the M5 GPU

Mac with Apple silicon is increasingly popular among AI developers and researchers interested in using their Mac to experiment with the…

Apple Machine Learning Research

Thomas Zoechling Mar 15

MindNode Mar 15

18 years ago today I released MindNode. I was so anxious I was checking my email on WAP (basically the ancient version of mobile internet) whenever I left the house, just in case something broke. 😊

It didn't. And somehow, 18 years later, MindNode is still here and supporting a small independent team without outside funding, still shaped by the people who use it every day.

Thank you for 18 years. 🎉

— Markus (Founder)

Thomas Zoechling Feb 25

MindNode Feb 25

🔎 New in MindNode 2026.1 — Search & Replace in Notes
You can now search within notes and replace text across your document. Refine language, update terminology, or clean up after a brainstorming session — faster than ever.

#MindNode #Productivity #MindMapping

Thomas Zoechling Feb 24

Tanja Travnicek Feb 24

This is a very very specific question, but maybe someone on here knows someone who knows someone:
Is there a dry cleaning service experienced with vintage Japanese kimono silk in Vienna?
#followerpower #vienna #wien

Thomas Zoechling Feb 24

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116125397942520181

Will be interesting to see where agent-aided engineering takes us:
More native apps as porting friction drops or even more web/cross-platform apps because that’s where the training data is strongest?

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