@alexito4 Hashtags work well if you are on a big instance, but no so much if you are on a smaller/personal instance 🙂 Hence looking for more people to follow thus increasing the effectiveness of hashtags on my own instance …

But thank you 🙂

Hey @cwagdev 🙂 Wow, it has been a long time, hasn’t it? I can’t believe it has been this long …

@MakeAppPie If you are talking about #Swift or #SwiftUI, I don’t really mind whether it is as a developer or as an instructor 🙂 I just want all the Swift-talk since it gets me thinking about stuff I wasn’t aware of or hadn’t thought of in quite that way …

@finestructure Yep, that’s why finding people to follow was a bit more workable than it is when you are on a big instance since that feeds back into the federation to make hashtags more useful after the fact 🙂

Thanks in advance for finding the post about the relay …

@finestructure Funny thing is that I find my posts mostly when I try the #Swift hashtag 😛 But that’s probably due to federation … Should have given that a try already. Will try and see how it goes, thanks!

All the talk of donuts today (for breakfast) reminded me of the Donut browser — at least, I think that was what it was called ...

Way back in 1999 or so, I think came across a browser written in C/C++ which was called Donut. I don’t remember much about it now but I think it hosted the IE engine?

I think I used that source code as a starting point to write my own C/C++ browser called Scope:

https://farook.org/Scope.htm

Scope hosted both the IE and Mozilla engines and if I recall correctly, I later re-wrote it in Delphi when I switched over to Delphi as my main development language instead of C/C++. But it was so long ago, that most of this is just a hazy memory 😛

I did a quick Google search for Donut to verify my facts but can’t find any reference to the old browser — only something for Android was there in most search results.

#Donut #Browser #Delphi #C #CPlusPlus #OldSoftware

@ryan Thank you 🙂 Will do.

@NeroWolfe I guess that says more about my age than anything else 😛

I couldn’t remember who wrote Nero Wolfe and my mind initially said it was Sax Rohmer and I had to look it up to realize that I was somehow confusing Rohmer’s Nayland Smith with Nero Wolfe for some reason...

I’m still trying to figure out the association 🙂

@NeroWolfe I figured that might be the case, but it never pays to make assumptions 😀

@NeroWolfe Hey 🙂 Maybe you get this all the time, but did you know that there's a fictional detective named after you? (Or maybe that’s not your name and you picked your name on here because of the detective, I don’t know …)

@troz Hey 🙂 I used to write for Kodeco, or rather, RayWenderlich.com, I don’t think I’ve written anything since they became Kodeco …

I was probably the first tech editor at rw.com but that was a very, very long time ago 😀

Now this is something that has been bugging me so long … And while I did download Xcode 15 beta 3, I still haven’t gotten around to using it and had no idea that the 10-view limit was gone. Rejoice!

From: @twostraws
https://mastodon.social/@twostraws/110678626975697398

#SwiftUI #XcodeBeta #Xcode15

@PeteZ Oh, didn’t know that #Swift is used for the bird too 🙂 I use the hashtag a lot but hadn’t actually tried following that hashtag or #SwiftUI. Probably should … talk about missing the obvious 😛

@maddiefuzz I get you totally … well, maybe except for the release part 😛

I generally do stuff because I or the wife want it, but I can’t be bothered to go the final 5% and package it up for distribution. So it ends up being used by the two of us and sometimes we forget about the app after a while and then a year or two later, it gets resurrected again because we had the need for it again …

That’s happened many times. My hard drive is a literal graveyard of unreleased apps 😀

@maddiefuzz That’s a rather long story if we start way back at the beginning — which was over 30 years ago 😛

But I stared iOS dev around 14 years ago I think? That’s still too far away, isn’t it? 😀

These days I do mobile for work (both iOS and Android) but most of my personal apps tend to be either macOS only (if it’s just for me) or macOS/iOS hybrids (if they are for both the wife and I) …

Specifically, in the area of menubar apps, the most recent ones are:
* An app to check RSS feeds and site updates (via scraping) to update me on changes to specific newsfeeds.

* An app to auto-post to Twitter with a dynamically generated tweet at a scheduled time.

* A todo/task management app.

Just simple, small apps which scratch a specific itch. Nothing revolutionary or ground-breaking, but I just code up things because I can’t find something around which meets my specific use-case …

@maddiefuzz Sounds cool, and congratulations on the approval 🙂

I might love menubar apps a bit too much since I keep making them since they are so handy. So can appreciate another menu bar app 😛

#trees #tree #treesofmastodon #photo #nature #naturepic #photography #photos #Photomonday #foto #fotos #Fotomontag #fotografie #fotograf #fotographie #pic #pics #picture #pictures

@mipstian Do let me know if you add a separate dev account — I’d like to follow that. Unless of course, you post on this account since then I’d know anyway 😛

@pixelscience Not even sure what “Vercel” is 🙂 Will have to look it up … so many things to look into after this round of follows …

But good luck with the RealityKit workaround!