@fahrni nice!

@manton let me know if i can help. flooding can go from zero to crazy in the blink of an eye.

@lwdupont it’s good because we’ve needed more rain for a few years. but when it comes all at once it’s really nuts here.

that said this area has had floods regularly along all the small rivers forever.

austin itself built lots of flood protection and water control in the early 20th century. but the state has failed to do the same in the rural areas. so every big storm sees flooding somewhere. there’s no excuse. we know it will happen again.

extremes are the norm now. it will only get worse.

Stunning, tragic photos out of Kerr County. Devastating especially for the kids at camp, some missing. Austin Monthly has links for how to help.

Last weekend I checked the weather because I was considering camping. I don’t even remember rain in the forecast. Now it’s the worst flooding in decades.

so. much. rain.

i can’t really overemphasize how much rain we’ve had the past few days. unrelenting hard rain.

The reason we can ask "What would Steve do?" is that the question is simply a stand-in for "What would we do?" Steve wasn't Einstein or Newton, wasn't even an engineer or a designer. At best, Steve was a representative of intelligent, informed, attentive, thoughtful users.

We wield Steve rhetorically, but in that way we hide behind him. Steve was far from perfect, and in any case he's gone now; we who remain need to fight for the living, not for the dead. The point was always about the users.

happy canada day

and also apparently #gravy day? i’ve been away from the socials for a while and you guys have freaked out on gravy. i don’t know what the hell meme this is. not sure i want to.

@erwinm just stopped in to what’s happening. i’ll check it out, thx!

Thoroughly enjoying the bug in the Max iOS app where title logos and plot descriptions are overlaid on imagery from completely different movies.

I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. “Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa

I'll share this on the blog soon, but I whipped up a CLI indeterminate progress indicator this morning (also works as a Ruby library that takes blocks and displays the effect while it runs). It's inspired by the progress indicator in Cursor.

@20002ist @mattblaze @kenshirriff

“Rather than two new Republican states and two new Democratic states that Congress had considered the previous year, the omnibus bill created three new Republican states and one new Democratic state…”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory

the state lines have sometimes been drawn specifically to change the representation

it’s not exactly the same, and it has been a while, but saying that it doesn’t meet the definition or the implied popular usage is a stretch IMHO.

IYKYK

https://lemmy.ca/post/46843467

@fahrni @JonathanGerlach @collin @tuparev @pasi that’s definitely the sweet spot for apple platforms now. no shade intended. you build what the client asks for. you don’t have to like it to do a good job.

there aren’t games, and the nerds are leaving for linux, proclivity is now subscription web services. so…

i’m trying to keep the dream of productivity apps in appkit alive. there’s a few of us still. but who knows, maybe someday the pendulum will swing the other way.

@fahrni @collin @tuparev @pasi

> They have one look and feel

ugh! always the lowest common denominator.

i have no gripes with electron per se. i just want devs to honor each platform. yes its hard. we need to stop being lazy/cheap.

“one UI to rule them all, precious”

whether with Catalyst, Flutter, or React — same crappy results unless you put in the extra effort.

it’s like forcing a ferrari to drive like a honda so you only have to design one steering wheel.

it’s just the worst.

@fahrni @collin @tuparev @pasi

at the end of he day i think reaching a wider audience translates to more users and more goodwill from folks often left behind.

i feel good about doing it.
and the extra dollars are a nice bonus.

that said, i try never to prevent myself from the latest Cocoa libs. those things are the higher priority always.

i just try to build similar features for older macOS using older appkit.

“progressive enhancement”, or whatever the kids are calling it these days.

@fahrni @collin @tuparev @pasi

for me, it’s all about users.

on early iOS it was an easy decision. every new version added big features that users were HUNGRY for. everyone updated immediately. it was a slam dunk!

now? 😬
IMHO: nope.

users aren’t hungry for swift 6, actors, or how “easy” swiftUI is. they don’t give a whit how the sausage is made.

overall, there’s just not that much being improved FOR USERS on macOS.

in fact i’d argue that the latest tech for macOS is mostly a net negative.

Not that anyone cares *when* I did this, but I made this 15 days ago.

It doesn’t seem hard to me to do this.

As a person who used to make app icons at Apple, I don’t think the situation is that the designer doesn’t know, but rather the decision maker who is supposed to have taste doesn’t know. (If this person isn’t Alan Dye, then that’s even more embarrassing for him that he’s not the person making that call.)

Also, slightly purpler is better. More Mac, less Mail / Safari like I said before.

📣 I have a #newapp!

MarkCam: watermark photos with text, timestamps & GPS

It’s a pretty straightforward monotasker for #iOS & #iPadOS to take photos (or select from the library), apply one or more watermarks with customisable font, size, color and background and preview the result before saving.

No subscriptions, no analytics, no ads.

The free version allows to test everything with a "please upgrade" overlay, and the Pro lifetime unlock is $ 4.99 with Family Sharing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/markcam-timestamp-watermark/id6747420578

@marcedwards that’s me but i’ll file WebKit bugs. the bug tracker is public so you can see progress or even go fix it yourself and submit a patch.