@jknlsn Sure thing 🙂 I took several open source Mastodon clients when I started on Mastodon and converted them to work on Akkoma and I can tell you that the feed parsing failed on most of them since there were subtle differences in the data received from a Mastodon server vs. Akkoma.

So either the Akkoma side improved (which I don’t think it did) or your code handles the parsing of the data much better than most of the other apps I’d looked at.

Will send more feedback once I’ve had a chance to play around with it. I’m always looking for the perfect Mastodon app. So far, I’ve had to add the features I want to existing open source apps but I’d much rather not have to do all the maintenances myself 😛

@AngelaPreston I’m willing to bet that whole billion dollars that you are more of a genius than he is — he’s just an idiot who lucked out. Once you make enough money, everybody is willing to believe that you have to be smart, otherwise how’d you get that rich?

But as we’ve seen with other billionaires, having money doesn’t necessarily make you smart 😛

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@AngelaPreston I think the issue here is that you think that there’s anybody capable of rational thought in charge over there 😀

I really wouldn’t be surprised to learn that systems are just shutting down and nobody is even monitoring things. And as users leave, they’ll have less notice of things failing since less and less people will be left to alert them of issues …

@chrisoffner3d I have this (process taking up a lot of CPU) happen with some file manager/browser apps once in a while. Generally, killing the process and re-launching seems to fix it. So I assumed that each time that there was a deadlock for a file or something …

But if “bird” does this often, then that would be concerning. Do you by chance have something like anti-virus installed which might be stalling file access? That might be something to investigate if you want to identify the culprit?

The other possible thing to try is to turn off iCloud access on a per-app basis via Settings and see if turning off a particular app fixes the issue.

If you can identify the culprit, then you can at least let the developer know and see if perhaps they can fix the issue, right?

@jefframes I guess all of us have our blindspots? 🙂

@chrisoffner3d Disabling iCloud first and then getting Xcode to run might possibly fix whatever deadlock that is happening? That’s one thing I would try.

My guess is that if this always happens, then there’s some file which both processes are trying to access/read and aren’t able to. That’s where looking at the accessed/open files by the process in Activity Monitor might come in handy. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what to look for exactly. My usual instinct would be to get a list of files accessed by both processes, see if any user files are in there and see what happens if you make a change based on what those files are ….

@chrisoffner3d Hand’t run into that before, but it appears that “bird” is for iCloud syncing … Do you have anything related to iCloud syncing which might start acting up when an Xcode project is changed perhaps?

Or, I guess you could try stopping Xcode, disabling iCloud syncing, and then restoring Xcode to see if that stops the “bird” process acting up. Maybe that might give you a clue as to where to go next?

The other thing I can think of is to see what files accessed by the “bird” process when it’s running and see if that gives you a clue. I believe you can do this via the context menu in Activity Monitor after selecting the process …

I haven’t read the article yet, but in case you hadn’t come across it yet, this might (possibly) help too:

https://iboysoft.com/news/mac-process-bird-high-cpu.html#:~:text=bird%20cache%3F-,What%20is%20the%20Bird%20process%20running%20on%20Mac%3F,your%20Mac%20to%20iCloud%20Drive.

@trode You’re probably right about tuning out the noise at some scale 🙂 Fortunately, I’m not at that scale and so only have to deal with one or two responses in maybe months. So, I’m actually glad about that since I tend to think way too much about how my responses might affect others …

According to the story linked below, an Amazon Fire Kids tablet was apparently used to spy on somebody, to listen in on Alexa devices in the house, and possibly access other personal information.

Since Amazon says that the device in question was deregistered and they don’t know how it could have gotten access, and since I haven’t done a any digging into the story myself, I don’t know if all the claims in the post are correct/accurate.

But still, it does bring home the fact that what you see in spy/thriller movies theses days might not all be fiction and that we have to be very careful about what we connect to our network of devices and how we dispose of old devices …

https://practical-tech.com/2023/06/13/how-an-amazon-fire-kids-tablet-was-allegedly-used-to-stalk-a-security-pro/

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The ActivityPub federation on my server must have suddenly caught up or something (or there was a slew of activity from @gruber) but I suddenly got a whole lot of posts in my feed from Gruber in reply to responses from people on his post on Apple’s Vision Pro …

I found it interesting reading, just to see all the different responses and Gruber’s take on things. But I also was left wondering how somebody like Gruber deals with all of these strong (at least it feels strong) feelings directed towards him …

I wrote something about SharePlay a few days ago and got somebody telling me how SharePlay was “dystopian” 😛 It feels a bit jarring, at least to me, to just talk about tech because you find it interesting to have somebody disagree with you vehemently. My general approach to things is, if you love it (and it doesn’t harm you or anybody else) then that’s your right, I don’t need to love it too, but I’ll always fight for your right to love/like it.

But to have somebody disagree with something that wasn’t aimed at them and to spend time trying to convince me that I was wrong (or so it felt) just felt a bit strange. But I guess that’s what being on the Internet is?

I just don’t get this kind of thing that much. So I just wonder how it feels when you are John Gruber and you get so many varying kinds of arguments (or just comments) from hundreds, if not thousands, of people?

Not sure I’d have the mental bandwidth for it 🙂

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I have a Python script which posts a protest post to Twitter every day using their API — it’s a political thing related to Sri Lanka that nobody else probably cares about 😛 (And that’s my only activity on Twitter for months now …)

Today, the script stopped working. I go to the Twitter developer dashboard and my app which was used by the script is no longer there. It also looks as if I can’t create a new app/project.

So I don’t know if this is a temporary outage, or another change in direction, but it looks as if using the free API (even if it is only to post 30 tweets a month and not 1,500) is out — at least for the time being.

I guess the slow collapse continues?

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@denisdepalatis I wanted to test out iCloud sync but haven’t gotten around to it yet. If that part’s buggy, then the rest won’t matter as much for me 😕

But hopefully, they get the kinks worked out by the time iOS 17 releases?

@jknlsn Things I can confirm works with a quick test on an M1 Mac:

* Works great on even non-Mastodon servers with Mastodon API support, like Akkoma. Not all clients do this. In fact, a lot of them don’t.

* Works fine on a Mac, but does show a tiny UI. I know that this might not be a huge priority for you, but adding iPad support would make it work better on M1 Macs too.

Will send more feedback later on once I’ve had a chance to use it more.

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@chrisoffner3d First thing you might want to try is deleting the DerivedData folder entirely (not via Clean Project). I had some initial weird issues after trying to compile a project that I’d already compiled fine on Xcode 14.x with 15.0 beta. A clean up of DerivedData seemed to fix it.

Of course, then opening the project in Xcode 14 gave me similar issues. So had to delete DerivedData again … 🙂

If that fails, have you tried a reboot? That seems to fix a lot of Xcode issues …

If you’ve tried both and it still doesn’t work, lemme know. I’d be interested to figure out what is going on …

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@denisdepalatis At least, it works now, right? 🙂