@giuseppe Maybe we should form a club? Or a support group? 😛 @christianselig

@christianselig Thank you 🙂 Hope you had a great birthday as well?

The thing about my birthday is that I was born on the other side of the world when they landed on the moon, so my birthday is on the 21st — so you and I have a sort of a Schroedinger’s birthday where we share the birthday and don’t 😛

@christianselig And I’m 54 today — I came here when they landed on the moon 😛

@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
https://mastodon.social/@alexito4/110741928929528729

@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.