@mikenichols I think I missed that one — so now you’ve made me add another item to my watch list 😛

@AngelaPreston Personally, I think you just want it perfect and that it’s not procrastination 🙂 At least, that’s kind of how I work too, at least for some things ..

I go over things multiple times in my head when I’m composing a paragraph or a reply to somebody. Instead of just sitting down and writing, I’d go over phrases or sentences in my head till I’m sure that I’ve got the right tone before I actually write something.

@jmichalicek I get that 🙂 I often feel as if I should be using tech more effectively but can’t think of how. So, all this time I’ve been using Xcode Playgrounds for trying out little bits of code but never as part of a project to quickly try out views and stuff. So this session was a revelation to me.

It’s interesting (at least to me) how sometimes we just get stuck in a certain mental model and can’t get beyond that. So, I guess talking to other people is important since you can learn a lot from them and how they use tech — I’ve been working remotely for like 18 years now and so don’t get to talk to a lot of folk 🙂

@Jrogger Just curious, but when you said “folders on top all the time” for Finder, did you mean have folders as the top items in list view? Or something else? If the former (unless you are looking at this differently) that’s already there in Finder …

I just have to remember how I enabled it though since I remember it being hidden away somewhere … Let me see … Ah yes, in Finder Settings > Advanced … “Keep folders on top” does it.

@davemark

@mikenichols I’d be interested to hear what you think once you do 🙂 Personally, the more I see of new Xcode 15 features, the more I want to use it as my daily driver right now …

@ratkins Haven’t tried that, I’m afraid 🙂 I rarely use an iPad and am mostly on my MBP. But will test this at some point once I switch to iOS 17 beta and let you know …

My guess is no since I don’t recall this being mentioned during WWDC and if it was possible, I’m fairly certain they would have mentioned it.

@vegetarianzombie I wanted to play around with the Game Porting Toolkit too but just haven’t gotten around to it — so much of fun stuff coming out of WWDC this year 🙂

@sgamel It puts all your localisable resources in one table — as an Organization-freak, I find just that aspect really appealing 🙂

Plus, it shows you resources which are stale (because they are no longer in use) and auto-manages adding new resources or removing resources which have not been translated. Seems very, very nifty to me. I really want to start using it right now just to see how well it all works …

Even if you are not looking at translating your app to support other languages, you owe it to yourself to take a look at String Catalogs in Xcode 15 🙂

With String Catalogs it’s easy to set up number and noun agreements (1 book vs. 2 books) or noun adjective agreement for languages which have gendered nouns (such as French, Spanish, Portuguese) very easily.

Just for the number-noun agreement part, I used to litter my code with ternary operators. But it’s so much easier to set up with String Catalogs. And that part is the least of the functionality of this new feature 🙂

Check out the following WWDC 2023 session to find out more:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10155/

#Apple #WWDC #WWDC2023 #Strings #Grammar #StringCatalogs

@gruber Did you have a chance to see how it works for consuming content together with somebody else?

That’s what I’m most curious about … Can you and your wife (or friend or a bunch of friends) watch the same content together using Vision Pro? Sure, SharePlay is there, but that also requires a FaceTime call to initiate SharePlay though somebody did point out that with iOS 17 it’s possible to initiate SharePlay just by bringing your phones together …

Just wondering how easy/seamless the process might be overall …

@vegetarianzombie There’s a whole Reddit thread with info about Windows games that people have gotten to work on a Mac using the Game Porting Toolkit with various levels of success 🙂

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1446hj6/all_working_games_list_game_porting_toolkit/

@ctietze

@davemark Just because I’m curious, I was thinking of using one of the Create ML projects from WWDC and seeing what it spits out for your image 🙂 Will let you know if I actually get it working *and* it does give me a result which looks promising …

@davemark They did have a session this year at WWDC this year which seems perfect for this since they used Create ML to build a succulent plant classifier 🙂

I was thinking that I might be able to use that to identify the plant if they had the model (or their data set) up as a sample. But unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that particular sample project is available …

Here’s the session in case you’re wondering:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10044/

@_holger You’re welcome 🙂 Only way forward is to help each other out.

@JBaby Well, at least now I know it works relatively well — so thank you🙂 I had no info/data points at all to consider before you responded since I wasn’t sure how reliable/usable it was … Sounds as if it works fine for your own use case.

@JackNutting Cool, thanks 🙂 Will go through that session and also start experimenting as soon as I can set up two iOS 17 devices. This sounds great! Looking forward to seeing how it works …

@JBaby You’re not that old when you consider that I’m 53 — it’s all relative 😀

Appreicate the input — you’re the first person to respond who actually uses it. I’m looking at SharePlay for (kind of) the same thing — the wife and I watch everything together but we want to have as large a display as possible since we are old and have old-eyes 😛 So just wondering how well the SharePlay eco-system works in reality. Hence the question …

None of the stuff we generally use for media consumption — Plex, Infuse, Netflix, Amazon Prime — have SharePlay support and so was wondering where all the SharePlay users were. Now I know … TikTok 🙂

Sometimes, you know something exists (like Xcode Playgrounds) and how to use it, and yet fail to see the possibilities in terms of how you can integrate that thing with your regular workflow 🙂

The “Prototype with Xcode Playgrounds” session was such an experience for me 😛 I watched the session and immediately realized that there were so many ways that I could have used Xcode Playgrounds in the past to make my work easier!

Give it a watch, I’m certain you won’t be disappointed …

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10250/

#Apple #WWDC #WWDC2023 #XcodePlaygrounds #Prototyping

@BobWilliams Me neither, which is one of the reasons I was curious about 🙂 I thought it would be great for watching movies with my wife since that allows us both to have huge screens (instead of a tiny TV) and we generally watch everything together …

But adoption of SharePlay by other developers seemed fairly low to me. Maybe it will pick up after Vision Pro comes out? But then again, that’s a different kettle of fish (or is that can of worms? 😛)

@JackNutting I think I totally missed that one, so thanks 🙂 Now I’m almost tempted to install iOS 17 beta on a couple of devices to see how things go … unfortunately, I believe my usual test device (iPhone X) is not eligible for iOS 17. Figures 😛