The search for SwiftUI developers has got me going down so many interesting rabbit holes 🙂

One person’s profile that I browsed had this article about how somebody has decompiled all the old Sierra games (at least, I think that was what the post said, it’s been a while and I’ve been going through a lot of profiles). I bookmarked the article to read but no time yet ..

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

Somebody else mentioned a recipes app they had settled on:

https://mela.recipes/

Recipes apps hold a special place in my heart since I’ve done a few in my time since the wife wanted one which worked just right 😛 This bookmark was mostly for her but I’m curious as to what this app gets right as opposed to the ones we’ve tried …

#NewStuff #RabbitHoles

@maddiefuzz Nice to meet you 🙂 What’s your app about — I mean if you don’t mind talking about it?

@macshome You should 🙂 I find that writing and coding complement each other in a strange way — writing down my thoughts about a problem helps me clarify things and also, sometimes it gives me ideas about new things to try or code …

@mipstian Personally, I think you should just post dev stuff in the same account, but that’s just me 🙂

I post about so many different things that I originally considered having different accounts but it just seemed like too much work — you have to switch between accounts, try to maintain things on each one etc. I’m just too lazy 😛

So I figured might as well just lump everything in one account and be done with it ….

OK, finally got the donut order in .. whew!

It seems to me that the Talabat app opens order every half hour when they run out of delivery capacity or have too many orders? I had been trying every few minutes since like 6:35 but it wouldn’t go through but once I got to 7:00am it went through fine …

Once might have been accidental, but this is the second time that this has happened.

On the other hand, according to Ian Fleming, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times it’s enemy action.” 😛

#Donuts

Thanks, @cocoaphony 🙂 I suddenly have so many profiles to go through that it’s not even funny. But more the merrier! Will go through your followers once I sort out breakfast ….

@pixelscience That sounds rather painful … and possibly expensive? 😛 But I sympathise … Unfortunately, haven’t done a lot of RealityKit and so can’t help except sympathise …

But if you were to post about what you are stuck on maybe that helps? Even if somebody else doesn’t have an answer, I sometimes find just the fact of writing it down helps me clarify my own thoughts and arrive at a way forward …

The wife wanted donuts for breakfast and I was supposed to order them since I get up early. I forgot all about it since I was busy going through the profiles of Swift devs and following them on here …

Now the delivery app says that there are too many deliveries in my area and I should try in half an hour 😛 The perils of distraction ...

#Life #Donuts #FindingPeople

Where are the Swift/SwiftUI developers at? 🙂

This is something interesting I saw over on Threads — people asking for Swift developers so that they can connect. I should have thought of that myself over here 😛

I would like to connect with other developers — if you do Swift, much better since I can talk at least halfway intelligently about that, but I’ve done development in a bunch of other languages including Python, Kotlin, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, xBase (if you really want to dig deep …).

But I’m looking for people who post about their current development journey — what you are working on, what issues you’re running into, what interests you etc. Doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, expert, or somewhere in-between, I’m just interested in people who post and who want to have a conversation …

If you do post about this stuff regularly, ping me. I’m interested in following you 🙂

#Swift #SwiftUI #Mobile #iOS #macOS #FindingPeople #Coding

@Her_Doing Well, to be accurate she married me long before I became her server admin — so not sure that counts as “supporting your admin” 😛 @Laurie @Texan_Reverend

I don't always like Arya's movies, but with both “Sarpatta Parambarai" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11580854) and “Kather Basha Endra Muthuramalingam” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24227018) it feels as if he has come into his own 🙂

I’m watching “Kather Basha Endra Muthuramalingam” at the moment and while it’s mostly an average movie with a lot of fights and violence, it does have some interesting moments …

#Movies #Tamil #Arya

I wanted to do some engagement comparisons between Mastodon, T2, and Threads but unfortunately, the character counts foil me 😛

I guess I write way too long posts? 😀

On T2, you get a limit of 280 chars, on Threads 500, and here (on Akkoma) I can have an 8,000 char long post …

In that respect T2 is the hardest to get the full post/intent across on for me.

#Comparisons #Fediverse #Threads #T2

Tried both T2 and Threads over the past week and they have just so very different vibes …

On T2, as soon as I introduced myself, there were people saying hello.

On Threads … crickets 😛

I wasn’t following anybody (or at least many people) on either platform at that point.

The interesting thing is, on Threads there are a lot of people interacting if you are a celeb — but it appears to be transactional. Not a lot of actual conversations.

But, Threads also has the numbers and so there are a lot more people to find for a particular field/subject — iOS/Swift devs, for example 🙂 On the other hand, it’s not easy to find anybody since there is no search except for search by name …

Overall though, Threads doesn’t have the public square feel that they say they want to foster. It feels more like a very crowded mall where everybody wants something but aren’t really interested in those around them …

#Threads #T2 #SocialNetworks #Conversations

We started watching "Tarla" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27816768) yesterday. It is the story of Tarla Dalal, an Indian chef and author of more than a hundred cookbooks. Despite all of this, I had never heard of her and was expecting the story to be similar to that of Julia Child (and the HBO series, "Julia") given the similar time periods, but so far "Tarla" is going down a different path and we are both enjoying the story immensely 🙂

If you love food, cooking, or just learning about india from like 40 - 50 years ago, you might like it too. It's certainly different from the usual Bollywood fare these days ...

#Movies #Bollywood #BioPic #Cooking #RealPeople

@Wuzzy Nope, none of that 🙂 It feels basically like what it is, something which was rushed out because they wanted to cash in on the Twitter exodus …

It has some good points (I had another post earlier in the day with my first impressions) but the lack of features/functionality outweighs the good at the moment.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see if they quickly fix the issues or if it’s one of those cases where they say “Let’s wait to see what the engagement is like” before they add any new features 😛

After trying out Threads for a while, found a bunch of things which makes it harder to deal with for me personally:

* There is a character limit to posts but no character counter. So I won’t know if I’m hitting the limit till I actually hit it.

* No desktop version. I don’t use mobile that much and switching away from the desktop to use Threads means I’ll use it less often. (Yes, I know about the website and the ability to view profiles, but there's no way to see the post timeline, that I know of, via web)

* No hashtag support. I find hashtags make searching for content so much easier …

* Speaking of search, you can only search for people — not content. So I can’t find people posting about interesting stuff unless I know who these people are in the first place. Or, find them serendipitously by coming across a post of theirs in the main timeline.

* The main timeline appears to be algorithmic, but geared towards those you follow and their follows maybe? I know that I’ve run into duplicates pretty quickly when I scroll down …

* No edit functionality. Which I miss sorely after being on the Fediverse 😛

* No personal timeline — so if you want to see only posts from those you follow, you’re out of luck.

#Threads #FirstImpressions #TwitterReplacements

I thought Threads wasn't going to be available till at least 12 hours from now?

I’m already in. Here are the good points:

1. I’ve found people I know already since I follow them on Instagram.

2. I get to use my Instagram handle. Don’t have to fight over handles 😛

3. I immediately found somebody that I didn’t follow on Instagram, but was interested in following due to their YouTube videos. So discoverability (on a very quick scan) seems to be good.

4. I like their image gallery — the only app (I know of) which doesn’t ape Twitter and do that weird 1/2/3/4 grid. Threads just gives a scrolling gallery. Much nicer.

Haven’t used it enough to have any other impressions. But I do miss not being able to use it from my desktop since I’m not that heavy a mobile user ….

#Threads #FirstImpressions #TwitterReplacements

Can anyone tie a rope with telekinesis?

Thought knot.