@WeavingWithAI If you’ve got a spare one, I wouldn’t mind an invite too 🙂 Thanks in advance!@TriflingTree@mastodon.social

Hi hi, if you are a #sff writer, or #yalit or #mglit writer, or writer who write cross-genres and age groups - *waves*. :)

@mikeymikey Just joined the Slack — took me a minute to figure out that I had to go to the site first and then get to the Slack instead of trying to create an account for the Slack directly 😛 @trode

The particular issue I was working on is solved now — it wasn’t that hard of an issue to begin with, just that most of the documentation I could find pointed to the “security” tool rather than how to do it in Swift 🙂

But the Slack looks like a great resource! And of course, as you suggested, search history is almost always a great place to find an answer since somebody probably has run into the same issue previously — generally the issue is finding the right place to search and it looks as if the Slack will be the right place for my particular needs …

@mikeymikey Wasn’t my intention to imply that @trode's advice wasn't good, by any means. My apologies if it came across that way, Blake 🙂

I didn’t know of the #macadmin Slack before now but will probably lurk there now 🙂

@trode I’ve actually figured out what I needed to do, thanks 🙂 This was more of a reflection (after the fact) on how difficult it is to find info about certain areas of macOS development ….

For work, I'm working on a custom macOS installer at the moment …

"Why an installer when installing a macOS app is as simple as dragging and dropping into a folder”, you ask? Well, because this is for a macOS login/authorization plugin …

At this point, most people will probably go “Huh?” and I don’t blame you, because this is a dark corner of macOS coding that most probably don’t venture into 😛

A macOS login plugin allows you to customise the macOS login flow so that you can add your own layer of authorization/security or carry out some specific tasks that need to happen during the login process.

Unofrtunately, none of that is very well documented. In fact, I spent months scouring the Internet and going through documentation to get our implementation of a macOS login plugin working correctly.

In fact, somebody at work said that I was one of possibly 10 people in the world who understood this stuff. Honestly, I don’t believe that since I think that if I could figure it out, anybody else could too since the information is all out there 🙂

Whatever the case, our login plugin requires particular authorization rules to be set and what most people seem to do is to use a shell script to do this since that’s fairly widely documented. But in our case, while that’s the option we are using now, I want to actually do this via code because it simplifies a few logistical issues.

So here I am, exploring the macOS documentation again to see how you can do what I want to do in Swift and finding that this is not very well documented at all 😛

I do wish that the Apple documentation was excellent throughout instead of being very informative for the areas that everybody is interested in and then getting rather opaque, terse, or downright non-existent for the areas that people don’t venture into often. But I guess that’s how it works out — afterall, why bother spending the time on documenting something that not many people will use?

#Coding #Apple #macOS #Authorization #Documentation #Security #Login #Swift

A little piece inspired from my trip to Scotland, the forests felt positively primordial!

The Loo at the End of the World. Now in colour! Made in #Procreate using Frankentoon’s great Nomad 2 #brushes #mastoart #mastodonart #digitalpaint #mastoartist #illustration #drawing #seagull #sea #island #boat

It's started to get hot on this side of the mountains and not for the first time I'm looking forward to cooler weather... but maybe not that much cooler!

#MastoArt #ArtistWorkout #landscape #cowboy #DigitalArt

For a couple of days, I was seeing an above-average number of messages in my home timeline without me following anyone new, but now we seem to have settled down to the older levels.

So I guess the latest migration is over? Or at least has calmed down? 😛

A #picturebook celebrating Hokkien culture and tradition. A letter to grandma.

https://closetfulofbooks.com/products/oyster-girl

#bookstodon #kidlit #kidlitSEA #sgheritage #writing #writingcommunity #pepperdogpress

@davemark I’ll be trying out Threads. It’s good to know the options out there and to figure out what works for you personally 🙂

Got access to T2 today, so trying that out too …

⚪ Ein "Wunderbarer Wunderbaum"
und... ein Lieblingsfoto.
🟤 A "Wonderful Wondertree"
and... a favorite photo. 🌲
📷 by Artist: #MariaTRodgers in Loc.: #Klamath CA USA 🇺🇸 - Title: "Huge tree holding another tree" #Streetart #Art #Mastoart Trees #Photography #Fotografie #WonderTree ➡️ #APhotoLove

Akkoma uses V1 filtering (as I suppose does Pleroma?) But Mastodon support V2 filtering. So, quite a few Mastodon apps seem to only consider supporting V2 filtering.

The app I'm working on now (which is a fork of IceCubes) is running into this issue at the moment. I can kind of get filtering working, but there are a lot of gotchas and edge cases ... Ah, the joys of coding .. or something 😛

#Coding #Akkoma #Fediverse #Clients #YayForDifferences

Do whatever you can to tell the author that you liked their book, if you indeed did. For those of us who aren't ever going to make a living at this, good reviews are the best thing we can reasonably expect to happen when it comes to our writing. I had a coworker tell me today she read Girl on the Moon and was "enthralled" and she's on book 2 now. It really made my day. #writing #WritingCommunity

One more #Junicorn before month ends! I has so much fun doing this and I'm happy with the result. It's not perfect, but it doesn't have to be. What you think?

#mastodonArt #mastoart #digitalart #animalart #equineart #horse #unicorn #digitaldrawing

@090905x Right now, probably no 🙂 But my “right now” is generally like within the last few days since that’s as far as I can remember most details …

We (my wife and I) did enjoy “Duranga” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21370880) a few weeks back but that’s TV and not movies. At the moment though, most of the Indian stuff that I really remember and liked are TV shows. Like “Farzi” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15477488) and “Dahaad” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868314).

“Duranga” was interesting but got a little logic-challenged towards the end. In case you hadn’t heard of it, it’s a remake of a Korean show “Flower of Evil” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11691684) and we are watching the original at the moment since we can’t wait for season 2 of “Duranga” to come out and unfortunately, even the Korean show suffers a lot from this lack-of-logic issue in the second half 🙂

The last movie I do remember watching and really liking was “Ashoka Vanamlo Arjuna Kalyanam” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15373594) but that was a month or two ago?

What have you seen lately that you really liked?

Writers of the Fediverse!

Do you blog? I'm going back to blogging and I need folks to read/follow. Comment and let me know where to find you! (Esp. science fiction, horror, and fantasy folks).

#writing #blogging #SFF #SFFH

@090905x Welcome 🙂 I like some of those stuff too and occasionally (OK, more than occasionally) post about Indian cinema … But my stuff tends to be more South Indian (Telugu/Tamil) than Hindi/Bollywood since I can’t seem to find that many good Bollywood movies any longer — at least, ones that I like 🙂

@SoniaSulaiman I blog but infrequently 🙂 Used to do some serialised SF here:

https://write.farook.org/

But haven’t done the stories in a while. The blog became more about machine learning and then it just kind of stopped getting updates. These days, I just do long-form posts here when I feel like writing ….

Did try a serialised story on here too but ran out of steam/interest 🙂