Steve Tibbett

@daringfireball Could be a bit of a gold rush as new app stores scramble to gain exclusives.

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound? daringfireball.net/2022/12/third_…

@snicholson It’s good because it trained on your work.

And while we're at it, let's have an Escape Room:

I turned to ChatGPT (chat.openai.com/chat) to design board games. Here's what they created (full proposals attached): Simple - "Roll and Move" Complicated - "Treasure Quest" Win Spiel des Jarhes - 2 tries: "City Builders" "The Great Expedition"

@1Password Is there a way to disable the new SSO prompting in the browser?

@danielpunkass Recognizing computer generated content is going to become impossible. I'd love to see a "100% Organic" badge for websites that commit to only human created content. I'm fine with AI generated as long as its identified.

We’re all just going to have to be more and more human to set ourselves apart from the machines. Blaaaaarghhh!

The current boon of AI miracles kind of reveals a future of computing that I don’t think most of us, even programmers, are prepared for.

@gruber Why would Apple have any dealings with a company that would air their internals like this? Are we going to be seeing Tim Cook's emails next?

Worth reiterating that if Hunter Biden had taken his MacBook to an Apple Store instead of a sketchy strip mall repair shop we’d never have heard about it.

@lorenb They're kinda training on themselves at this point since so much of the web is spew generated by them.

Is it me or do these language models tend to have SEO-ish affect in their output? Is it because they were trained on a lot of blog spam or is it because content farmers have been using tech like this behind the scenes for a while?

@lorenb You can do iOS now using their proprietary stuff, and they've announced standard WebPush support on iOS "coming in 2023".

@stevex Yep. Is push enabled in iOS or just Mac still?

Doing your own credit card processing hardcore sucked back in the shareware days. I remember being hooked instantly when the App Store solved that problem. But in an honest market it would have had its’ ass kicked as soon @stripe came around.

@lorenb Safari's got a surprising amount of support for this .. you can have a "web app" that can get push notifications, launch from the home screen with no chrome, and for most people be indistinguishable from a native app.

There’s some simple low hanging fruit that could make Safari on iOS perfectly functional as an app platform (that already exists but is intentionally disabled). Alt browser engines with the same OS hooks is the pressure point.

@Ubiquiti Would love some insights on how it's impossible to buy a camera for Unifi Protect from the store in Canada. Most of the cameras have been sold out for over a year. Can you say anything about availability?

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@marcoarment I'm curious how it's going to handle bad admins, whether malicious, negligent, or overly commercial.

@lucvandal Their internal docs on this must be a mess, because it doesn't seem like it would be hard to be consistent about this one button but they're consistently inconsistent.

@karaswisher Any reason Post can't work with Mastodon?

@hollyborla Cool, that's good to hear - I saw that bit but didn't translate it into "overall faster". Thanks!

@stevex The blog post includes faster compile time! Part of improving result builder type checking performance is to make generic overload resolution generally more efficient, which will benefit non result builder code too.

Doesn't seem like there's much on Swift's roadmap to help app developers, who really need faster compiles and better debugging. I imagine a lot of this is driven by system software and server side software. swift.org/blog/focus-are…

@scottjohnson Comments .. not so much. These people, sheesh.

Thread worth reading.

Have you guys been on an MMO server when they pull the plug and end things? I have. It feels like this. Not saying that’s what’s happening any time soon, but it’s a very similar vibe tonight, is all I’m sayin.

Enough of the people I follow here have shown up on Mastodon that if Twitter blows up, I won't feel like I've lost the community. I'm @stevex@mastodon.social there.

@scottjohnson That sucks man. Hope you feel better soon.

Let me tell you the most unhelpful thing I've heard this week. When I say, "Sorry I've been so sick this week, hope it turns better soon", and your reply is, "Shit lot of good those vaccines did you." That right there? That's whatever the far flung opposite side of helpful is.

@ID_AA_Carmack While we're at it, can we just make 'size', 'length', and 'count' all available for all the array types?

Identifier case sensitivity in programming languages seems like a mistake. My younger son was frustrated trying to figure out why some unity code wasn’t running, and it turned out to be method name capitalization. I still miss-guess various Python naming schemes.

@WarcraftRumble I love the corporate silliness of that list of rules.

Y’all are clearly jonesing for the beta. If you really want it, try asking nicely ;) blizz.ly/ContestRules