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  @schwa yeah it’s very small but it makes us happier especially with going to the effort of doing Ukrainian 😀. Removing the app from Russia stores is the real win. I mean, we can’t have them framing their screenshots. Could change the course of the war. Even if it would make a meaningful difference to revenue (spoiler: it won’t) still good to do. Symbolic.

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  Hoping I don’t have to reject any more @Shareshot builds from App Review and I’ve found the worst of the 2.0 bugs! Making apps that span 2-3 OS years and have UI tailored for macOS, iPadOS and iOS is very hard work as a solo developer. Apple could still make this a lot easier. SwiftUI helps…

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  I have a major gripe with TipKit/SwiftUI that I don’t see other people complaining about so maybe I’m just mad. SwiftUI is a leaky abstraction. It does not expose vital information about the state of presentations (sheets/fullScreenCover/popovers) or ways to manage them…

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  Status: currently being gaslit by Mailchimp support (possibly a bot guided to write badly?) telling me that automated welcome emails are not broken when their own reports (if you can find them) show it was not sent. What’s the best service to switch to? Fed up with the horrible UI too.

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  A post in which I demo the (free!) privacy features of @indieapps.space/@Shareshot 2.0 coming September 1st by… sharing our internal product roadmap for what is surely the next 2-3 years. We got so many plans!

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  ANKER have been pushing preorder ads for new Solix E5000 Pro battery with plug-in support launching today in the UK so it can push 800W back in to offset house usage. Got launch email… follow the links. No mention of plug-in feature and says it has to be hardwired by an electrician. WTF happened?

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  Hey @Zitron Turn 2 of a chat with Claude about what happens after the data centre crash after it told me the go-to “dot-com fibre” yarn. Challenged and… well it’s a bullshit generator but it flipped & this bullshit seems… more likely? (wrote multi-purpose where I meant general purpose)

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  Thrashing to Death while testing and bugfixing @Shareshot for the maintenance release AFTER Tuesday’s 2.0 on a Friday night. I know how to party. 😹 when your app tries to protect the innocent on an album cover

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  Returning Brittany ➡️ UK (all rail). Heartburn from lack of veggie food aside (= butter, cheese & white bread) it has been ❤️. Trains in France delightful. No oversold tickets, comfortable, punctual and so the vibe is calm & content Everyone was super nice. Surely we can do this in the UK?

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  Getting to the point where my hayfever is near debilitating. This is the first year I’ve had to take two pills a day, or to take them at all to help with sleeping (otherwise too bunged up to breathe well). I wouldn’t mind so much but the new “feels like someone is squeezing my brain” thing blows

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  Gary Stevenson is a fucking national hero. Go and watch tonight’s Channel 4 documentary “How to get filthy rich”. Tax wealth not work. Let’s do this. Fuck these entitled greedy people.

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  Come ON Netflix, this is ridiculous. I already pay you. EVERY DAY OMG. Way to make me search for the unsubscribe link… you’re so thirsty for attention it is very off-putting. Let the enshittification continue…

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  A little light music to start the day. This is what happens when you are rudely awoken before your alarm and were dreaming of someone playing Crystal Mountain on electric violin.

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  TIL that WebKit has an optimisation for PDF export where vertical (top to bottom, 180º) CSS linear gradient is rendered as a 1px wide vertical image and tiled in the resulting PDF. This… produces exceedingly awful results. OMG B A N D I N G. That seems like a very dumb/old “optimisation”. 🏳️‍🌈

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  Getting incredibly sick of Claude Code failing to use worktrees properly. Why even include the option in the UI if it can’t reliably do it? Seems to have got worse at it recently to be honest. With a vibe-coded desktop app… who could have imagined. 🤦‍♂️

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  It is inevitable that at some point a mercenary group is going to set up a site where you upload a .xls of GPS coordinates, and then check out with Apple Pay. Your targets will be destroyed by drones shipped near to their targets by a “mothership drone” within 24 hours. What a time to be alive.

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  Riddle me this: Why the hell is Apple not building in “Open in Apple Music” when people send you tracks or playlists from Spotify? The perfect way to drain Spotify’s moat somewhat. Yes it can’t be perfect, I imagine anon Spotify access won’t include ISRC codes but…

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  Absolute fucking banger.

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  This is amazing, but seemingly not new: 1. I screenshot my contact card on iPhone 2. AirDrop it to my Mac 3. Finder shows the file “Jason Rudolph.heic”. I once knew a Jason Rudolph, but it’s not me, and he’s not mentioned in my card / screenshot. So… WTAF? (iOS 26.5.2 -> macOS Tahoe 26.5.2).

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  All together now: 🎵The hills are alive, with…

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  UK Petition to discuss a ban on smart glasses that record. Spread the word! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

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  @revenuecat Did something change/improve wirh iOS RC app notifications recently? I’m seeing a surprising number of product changes from Monthly to Annual. Previously once in a blue moon, had several today

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  Claude is hilariously terrible (in a not fun way) at making sure it works on a new branch/worktree. So often it will indicate it is but then does everything to main, or a pre-existing branch on the worktree. More loss of confidence. Numberwang Intelligence, who knew. 🤷‍♂️

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  I second this. Someone had told me about this by chance and it enabled me to spot a kid in trouble and pull them out of strong currents around some rocks years ago. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yfvwmnlztr4dwkb7hwz55r2g/post/3mmkiu77uhk2y

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  “TONIC?!” “Sorry 🤷‍♂️” “😡 So am I!” 💥 💥 #iykyk

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  Making apps is so fun.