Inspired by an episode of #atpfm last year, would love feedback on my latest app, SleepTag. It imports your sleep data and lets you tag it with activities/information to help you better understand what affects your sleep. 100% #swiftui and a lot of Swift Charts!
#iosdev #indiedev #apple #sleep #health #applewatch #swift
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sleeptag-analyze-your-sleep/id6742378928
On the topic of icon shape that @siracusa @marcoarment & @caseyliss have been discussing on #atpfm:
I learned through creating some throwaway icons with @Sketch that if you just take a 1024x1024 square PNG file & toss it into Xcode, the squircle is automatically applied. I wonder if there's some issue with doing this, or you couldn't do it before, or people see the template and assume you need to apply that? Maybe @flarup knows?
Possibly, changing icon shape could be minimal work for Dev’s.
“Describing how you want a program to work, THAT is programming […]” @siracusa #atpfm #vibeprogramming
#atpfm I also had serious issues with #sonos not responding to the new app. After investigating for months now, I found out, that my #unifi setup - inspired by @marcoarment - was not properly configured. My APs were to close to each other and having the radios on high was not the best idea. My Play5 was constantly jumping between 2 APs not having a reliable connection. I locked my speakers to the nearest AP, reduced the radio to normal, now everything works like a charm.
#atpfm I'm looking at a iPhone 16 Pro. Whats the State of the Cases? Particularly how they handle the camera button. Now that you've had time to test drive your favorite choices, does one stand out?
Listening to the latest ATP members episode about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Something I rarely do, but Star Trek IV is my favourite Star Trek film.
@marcoarment Congrats on your purchase! Such an unexpected shock, but I'm really looking forward to future #atpfm shows talking about all the behind the scenes issues.
#atpfm @marcoarment probably I’m not the first one giving feedback about this: DLSS in integrated in the graphics pipeline of the rendering, is not a post process effect, meaning there are reasons why it’s not like motion smoothing on tvs. I don’t actually know much of the details, I just watch a lot of Digital Foundry content.
@marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss #atpfm how would recording your child’s concert work using an immersive setup? If I look at my child do I hear his performance alone? If I look at the crowd is the music backgrounded? If I want the full effect do I have to stare straight-ahead? Seems awkward
@siracusa @marcoarment @caseyliss #atpfm Stop! There is a simple solution to the sock problem. Everytime you take off a pair of socks pin the toes together with a safety-pin. No it won’t scratch the washing machine, no it won’t leave rust on your socks. No need for clothes pegs just flip them over the line. No need for sorting and bundling into a damp ball. Simply pull out one sock from your sock drawer and the other will follow. This is life changing technology
Fellow #ATPfm listeners (or hosts), I seek your help!
A friend has shown interest in listening to an episode, so I need an absolute banger to recommend. I’m tempted by Windows of Siracusa County, but I worry it’s so old that it won’t feel relevant and hip.
Is there a recent episode you’d recommend as a starting point? Should I send my friend into the back catalogue? Please advise.
My wishlist for #apple #wwdc 2025:
SYNC. WITH. ICLOUD. NOW.
I came home from a race. What did I want to do? Sit down for 5 minutes, flip through my photos, and upload them to share with my run club.
What did I do? Sat down at my insanely overpowered (for my uses) Mac Studio. "Photos synced on Friday." (It's Sunday now). I check my phone, and of course the 100+ photos from today have been uploaded since roughly the moment I walked into my garage because I have WiFi 7 APs on a 2.5gbit uplink to my 10gb switches to my 10gb symmetric fiber connection. Not a tough chore, uploading a couple hours' worth of iPhone snaps.
Back to the Mac. Twiddle with buttons, settings, force quit some things, relaunch some things. Nada. Do some Google searches, no luck. Turn iCloud Photos syncing off. Turn it back on, get prompted for my password, type password, setting stays off. Repeat 3 or 4 times until finally System Settings hangs for 60 seconds.
"Optimizing system performance". My system ain't doing shit. Stop optimizing.
"Sync now" button appears. Click it.
"You don't have enough space to store your originals". Yes I do. Or at least, I _did_. Maybe if you've decided to download an entire second copy of my photos library I won't. Who knows!
What's it doing now? God only knows. Piddling along at single digit megabits a second up and down. "syncing". No new photos have appeared in ages. I guess I'll just let it do its thing... for a few hours? Days? God only knows.
Ironically, my unplugged MacBook Air already had the photos when I opened it to write this.
@marcoarment @atpfm @siracusa is something getting printed in the background of the last #atpfm episode podcast? Sounds like inkjet printer. Dot matrix printer will be louder and noise will be continuous.
#atpfm @marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa with my AirPods Pro 2 I took Transparency mode off rotation and use Adaptive most of the time. It lowers loud prolonged noises like: electric kettles, coffee grinders, vacuum cleaners, subways/metros, etc. almost becoming brief selective noise cancellation, as necessary. For me it works well, keeping enough sound to navigate surroundings safely.
@atpfm #atpfm just listened to home screens special. It was fun adventure. I have a question to @marcoarment aren’t you annoyed with clock app icon being animated? I personally left it on Home Screen but put as a single item in a folder to avoid annoyance.
@siracusa if I buy a TV now, will I be missing out on some new technology coming in the next year or so, like new types of LEDs or something, or should I follow the same rules as buying a new computer when it comes to features? I keep hearing you talk about LED and micro LED and quantum dots on #ATPfm. Current TV is meh, it works, but was a 2017 Black Friday special and want to get something better.
Current status: Listening to @marcoarment talk about having a clean new foundation for his app, with small self-contained classes that have just the code they need to have, knowing there is not a single unit test for any of these neat testable classes, and slowing morphing into the personification of the thisisfine.gif dog.
