@alexito4 Yeah, I discovered that I’m not that big of a science geek anymore 😛 I got bored trying to make my one-cell organism advance and gave up 😀

@karim Didn’t think anybody would actually want another fork, to be honest. I just wanted the features for myself because I couldn’t find them anywhere else.

Would have contributed to the original repo but my changes are rather drastic and (possibly) go against the original project’s philosophy 🙂

But if there’s enough interest, I suppose I can put it up on GitHub or something …

I’ve been following the discussion by @alexito4 about adding extra tags to a followed hashtag on Fedi clients generally (and @IceCubesApp specifically) with interest …

Since this is a feature that I’d wanted myself, I decided to go ahead and add it to my custom IceCubes fork with an additional change — the ability to specify how the extra tags are used for selecting posts …

This should reduce my main timeline clutter quite a bit — with an additional change, of course. Currently, followed tags appear in the main timeline and I’ve added filtering to remove them.

But I realized with this change that I don’t have to follow hashtags at all — I was simply doing that as a backup mechanism so that I can have all followed hashtags saved on the server so that when I switch clients, I don’t have to set up hashtags all over again.

However, if I add saving my local client config to iCloud, I might have a much better system here … Hmm ….

#FediClients #Swift #SwiftUI #Coding #Hashtags

@joshdholtz If it’s something I’d be interested in, then I’m likely to provide a lot more feedback 🙂 Would certainly be interested in the beta access, but knowing a bit more about the “thing” might help me let you know if I’m likely to be a good test subject? 😛

Reminds me a bit of Will Wright’s “Spore” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game) …

Guess I’ll have to give it a go and see how well it works on macOS? 🙂

From: @alexito4
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@icanzilb I have the opposite problem — I have 6 names and most systems can’t handle that number of characters. So I end up having to abbreviate etc. 🙂

Didn’t have any problems in Spain but then again, we only lived there a few months and I don’t think we had to go to doctors or sign up anywhere except online …

So ... I've heard of shadow banning on Twitter, but is there also shadow blocking of being able to post? Or is it just that the Twitter macOS app is now broken?

I used to post a protest message to Twitter everyday via their API. But the free API access kept getting blocked/banned etc.

So I switched over to using a macOS shortcut to post via the Twitter app. That too stopped working about a week ago. Every single time I try to post, it says “posting failed” or something similar.

However, if I go to the web interface, I can post the same thing fine.

So not sure if this is shadow blocking or the Twitter edifice crumbling slowly into the oceans of time 😛

#Twitter #Posting #Blocking #ShadowBans

@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 …

@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 …🙂

@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 😛

@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?

@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 😛

@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

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.

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

@Rosa Sure! Lemme know what it is you need help with and if I can, I’d be happy to help.

@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 🙂

@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 🙂

@marquiskurt It’s based on the IceCubes source but heavily modified — hence the name 🙂