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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess 🙂 I've been a programmer, journalist, editor, TV producer, and a few other things.

I'm currently working on my second novel which is complete, but is in the edit stage. I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago but then didn't write much till now.

I post about #Coding, #Flutter, #Writing, #Movies and #TV. I'll also talk about #Technology, #Gadgets, #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning and a few other things as the fancy strikes ...

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@cwagdev Thanks 🙂 These days my client has a lot of hidden rows, but on the other hand, I don’t stress out about catching up as much because I can tell at a glance what is important for me at the moment vs. what I can safely skip …
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@sundress Absolutely! I had to add this to my own custom client in order to get this to display more useful info … Wish more clients (or the web interface) did this by default …
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@cwagdev I designed my custom client around this exact thing ... OK, maybe not “designed”, it was more of an organic development 😛

Basically, I added a feature where people from posts can be filtered out of the main timeline. So, I add people who are prolific to lists, colour-code the lists, and then filter them out of the main timeline.

Well, not quite filter them out since that breaks timeline handling in a lot of ways, but I hide the content and put a tiny colour-coded strip which indicates which list the item came from.

That way, I can scroll through the main timeline easily and see the posts from the people I’m interested in and if I’m not busy, I can also expand the hidden list items I’m more interested in …

Works pretty well for me without getting too stressed out about how far behind I am …🙂
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@vegetarianzombie Agreed 🙂 I don’t like the zealotry when it rears its head, but on the other hand, even that is more low key than the strident argumentativeness on most other places …

I tried out Threads in the hope of finding more people for the subjects that I was interested in (since they have a lot more users) but it was a wasteland of people just shouting out stuff and nobody responding … unless you’re a celeb of course. Then, a lot of “Me too” responses but nothing really useful 😛
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@dimsumthinking Now you’ve got me curious 🙂 What did you learn about Observable? And is it something which can be explained in a few words or something that requires a blog post?
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@at I don’t strictly run a Mastodon instance but Akkoma — it had the features that I wanted and was purported to be much less resource intensive than Mastodon.

Generally, it’s been very easy to run/update, but what I wish I’d known before I started is how very loosely some of the other Fedi servers support the Mastodon API. Not all clients will work with non-Mastodon instances and even if you write your own client, you end up having to do some controtions for everything to work correctly 🙂

On the other hand, if you are fine using the web interface provided by the server, then you should be fine … unless of course, you’re using GoToSocial 😛
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@pixelscience I find “A Companion for SwiftUI” (or, “SwiftUI Companion”) to be an invaluable resource when I’m coding anything SwiftUI. I generally have it open since it lets me find the right methods (and examples) pretty quickly. Much better than the Apple documentation, IMO.

@caseyliss @siracusa @marcoarment
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If you need to be delighted by something this morning, I present the tree goats of Morocco.

I was driving near Essaouira the first time I saw this and literally slammed on my brakes because I thought I was suddenly hallucinating. But then you learn how common it is and after a day or two it's, oh, yeah, more goats in trees.

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Anybody know a fix for sheets on Catalyst not taking up the entire height of the app window (or even more of the height than it currently does)?

`presentationDetents` would seem to have been the solution if they worked with Catalyst but they don’t.

I’ve checked a bunch of Googled articles and gone through the docs but don’t see a way to change the sheet size in Catalyst. So wondering if somebody else has already figured it out?

#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #Catalyst #Sheets
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@Rosa Sure! Lemme know what it is you need help with and if I can, I’d be happy to help.
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@brandonhorst I made something like that for my wife — basically to log how you feel as well as other factors like food, medicine, events, and other factors which might affect your health so that we can find correlations between things over time.

But I never released it since it felt a bit too complicated and didn’t think there was a market for it 🙂
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@brandonhorst I found all the Mastodon clients that I tried lacked one feature or another that I wanted. Plus, I’m on Akkoma and a lot of the clients out there don’t support it, or maybe even worse, support it badly 😛

I’ve taken the source for three different existing clients and modified it to do what I wanted. Each of the last couple of iterations, I moved on to something else since the underlying code made it necessary for me to re-write a lot of stuff to implement what I really wanted ….

Hoping that the latest iteration works since it’s the closest to “least uncomplicated” I can find in terms of code and it also is SwiftUI — the other two weren’t …

I did like Mona in terms of how they did a few things. Actually trying to re-implement a couple of them in my client now 🙂
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@marquiskurt It’s based on the IceCubes source but heavily modified — hence the name 🙂
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My custom Fedi client is coming along pretty nicely if I do say so myself ...

Works on macOS/iOS, supports Akkoma (and possibly Pleroma) fully, has custom colours for lists/hashtags, allows custom filtering and so on.

I’ve been working on it on and off for a while now but wasn’t really sure whether I wanted to continue using it or not. But the latest round of changes, and the ones I have in mind, kind of make me think that I’ll probably stick with it at least for a few more months 😛

#FediClient #macOS #iOS #Swift #SwiftUI
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@gposcidonio Might be Kolibri? I don’t think it’s an iOS app though but I came across the developer’s profile today and so thought maybe that might be it?

https://noidentity.ch/kolibri/

Probably not though 🙂
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@BenjaminHan Haven’t read the article but the film wasn’t that great — personal opinion, of course 🙂 It was very much forgettable and didn’t have a very exciting plot … Don’t even remember what they did right about the tech but guess I’ll have to read the article to find out 😛
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@jsq Yes. I have a couple of different timer apps which work that way — even recurring timers since you can schedule the local notification to recur too. If the user edits the timer, then simply cancel the pending local notifications and then reschedule new local notifications …

@kylebshr
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@marcel Looks great, congratulations! 🙂

One thing I miss in most habit trackers is the ability to track things which occur more than once a day — like walking every hour, or remembering to drink water. But that’s probably a very niche requirement ….
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@icanzilb My favourite is coding to output the Fibonacci sequence 😛 The last time it came up, I refused to do it — well, not in a nasty way but I did tell them that I had never needed to do that ever for work and while I knew of two different ways to do it (vaguely) that I wasn’t going to do it since it made no sense …

They still wanted to hire me 😀
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