I’ve generally not been keen on Varun Dhawan movies — maybe it’s my general dislike of the kind of movies his Dad used to make seeping through, or maybe it’s because most Varun Dhawan movies I’ve seen have had him playing comedic roles without much weight.

But “Bawaal” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19755170/) is a movie which changed my opinion of him. It’s an interesting and impactful movie in many levels.

Based on the description, I expected a war movie and half didn’t watch it since I dislike war movies intensely. But this was good, it talks about war, the impact I has on people, but it’s also about society, how we want to portray ourselves, relationships, and a lot more.

While this part gets a little lost in the rest of the story, it’s also about teaching and teachers. That’s something I’ve loved since “To Sir, With Love” and while this is not on the same level, it does have some of the same impact, in a way.

#Movies #MiniReview #Bollywood #Hindi

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

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

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

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

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

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
#TreesOfMastodon #Trees

@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 🙂

Digital sundial

Has anybody had luck getting a Catalyst app to restore window frame (size & position) after closing all windows of the app and then tapping the dock icon to launch the app again?

If I quit the app and re-launch, it remembers the frame fine using my current mechanism, but if I close all windows and re-launch from dock, it places the app at the default position rather than the previously remembered position.

I got this to work correctly for a #SwiftUI app under macOS after a bit of tinkering but that was using `NSApplicationDelegate` methods. Haven’t had much luck with `UIApplicationDelegate` methods for the Catalyst app so far because my previous method involved using `applicationShouldHandleReopen` which is not there in `UIApplicationDelegate` ….

So wondering if anybody has run into this before and fixed it before I do a deeper dive …

#macOS #Swift #Coding #Catalyst #SwiftUI

#SilentSunday

#silentsunday

There are certain roles where it’s a joy to watch Murali Sharma act 🙂 Generally, not the ones where he is an out-and-out villain, but the ones where he plays a normal (or more-or-less normal) person ….

I haven’t finished the movie, or even gotten more than 10 minutes in for that matter, but “Stand Up Rahul” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14806338) feels like a movie where I’m going to really enjoy seeing Murali Sharma’s character ...

#Movies #Telugu #FirstImpressions

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

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

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

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

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