technicat

This avatar was sketched by Berkeley Breathed at my Iowa City high school during my Apple II days.

Currently I have a licensed Unity port of HyperBowl on the App Store and Steam (not under active development but I'm considering a Godot port), Talk Dim Sum on the App Store (frequently updated), and an in-development Mastodon app I'd like to release this year.

I also pay the bills with consulting/contract development (check out Cinefex on the App Store), and take cat cafe breaks.
 

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2024-07-28 14:43:53

UX people apparently live in an ad-free cookieless paradise where the most important issues are which fonts and how much whitespace to use.

2024-07-03 16:43:29

I'm kind of using instances like google+ circles (RIP)

2024-06-26 14:20:08

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@npub1c9e…zhes More respect for martial arts. So happy that Mighty Mouse moved there.
https://sports.yahoo.com/demetrious-johnson-explains-why-left-120007457.html

2024-06-17 02:43:45

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@npub1jc6…7v67 That makes sense, but for someone like me who only knows one language, maybe there should be a user pref to not switch languages, or maybe specify a list of languages I know.

2024-06-17 02:26:59

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@npub1jc6…7v67 Interesting, it never occured to me to do that in my app. I just checked the Mastodon iOS app, doesn't seem to do that either, when I reply to a German post my reply still defaults to English.

2024-06-16 17:57:15

I just noticed #elk sets your reply language to the replied-to language, so this is another reason to make sure your post language setting is correct (I replied to a post incorrectly marked as German, so my reply was incorrectly marked as German).

2024-03-31 01:00:39

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@npub1jc6…7v67 oh yeah, I need to add it to my ui, too! I'm surprised it's a hardcoded number, though. I thought it would show up in the instance configuration limits.

2024-03-31 00:32:52

I think I learned today that the mastodon alt-text maximum is 1500 characters.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/11819

2024-03-27 02:34:02

Brushing up on Ruby because the Mastodon source is the real Mastodon spec.

2024-03-05 18:55:54

I understand being unhappy with Biden's approach on Gaza, but those who think Trump will be better are idiots.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/trump-biden-israel/

2024-03-03 02:56:56

#caturday from Tinker's Cat Cafe #saltlakecity
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/112/029/496/169/846/513/original/6a18c2e976a15fc6.jpeg

2024-02-19 05:53:16

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@npub12ty…vnqc @npub1wmy…93xs I just tried changing the number from 40 to 100 in my client and to my surprise Mastodon still accepts it (but not pixelfed). I'll stick to the spec, though.

2024-02-16 16:17:24

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@npub18wj…lvmv They don't get enough credit for transitioning to one of the more progressive democracies.

2024-02-07 01:07:45

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@npub1jc6…7v67 I added it to my app but just like on Elk it's not very interesting, most of the conversations are just single posts. I was wondering if I should just ignore it, like the endorsements API (what happened to that?)
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/887/513/588/172/287/original/3d69997a44ad066f.png

2024-02-07 00:41:02

Just noticed #elk has a Conversations view. I didn't think anyone was using that API.

2024-01-28 20:53:03

your entertaining TV ads do not compensate for lousy customer service

2024-01-25 08:28:42

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@npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 #fediDB is awesome by the way

2024-01-24 23:31:36

isn't pre-owned really post-owned?

2024-01-15 08:06:35

Helms led a filibuster against the bill and on October 3, 1983, submitted a 300-page document to the Senate alleging that King had associations with communists. Democratic New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared Helms' document a "packet of filth", threw it on the Senate floor, and stomped on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day

2023-11-30 20:30:54

Pew survey: About 60% of Asian Americans face discrimination : NPR
“Seventy-eight percent of Asian American adults said they've been treated as a foreigner, even if they were born in the U.S., including having their names mispronounced, being told to go back to their country, being scorned for speaking a language other than English and facing assumptions that they can't speak English.”
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/30/1216121806/anti-asian-american-discrimination-pew-survey

2023-11-28 18:49:35

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@npub1te7…3dzs You can filter posts by language, but it does depend on the poster correctly setting their language.
https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages/

2023-11-20 02:12:23

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@npub1jc6…7v67 I already retrieve the list of followed hashtags at startup (to include on the timeline menu), so I can just check if every tag is there first. the follow/unfollow/getFollowing calls all fill in the following flag, so just have to work around the post case. Only potential issue is getFollowing is a paged query, so I set an arbitrary limit, like 2000, on how many followed tags to retrieve.

2023-11-20 01:41:53

saw someone asking for indication of followed tags in a post but it’s not as easy as it should be, tags in a post aren’t returned with follow info (I think they used to) #fedicat #Mastodon #tootsdk
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/440/331/613/612/440/original/ac14bd3a8e8387df.jpeg

2023-11-18 16:59:11

Colorado judge finds Trump engaged in insurrection, but keeps him on ballot : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1213961050/colorado-judge-finds-trump-engaged-in-insurrection-but-keeps-him-on-ballot

2023-11-15 22:22:01

Abortion lawsuit in Texas grows to 20 patients who had complicated pregnancies : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/15/1213188342/20-women-sue-texas-over-abortion-laws

2023-11-07 22:46:40

Congenital syphilis is still rising. Better treatment in pregnancy urged : Shots - Health News : NPR
“Rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea have ticked up steadily for years now and syphilis is now at its highest level since the mid 1960s. More than two-thirds of the U.S. population now live in a county that has a high prevalence of syphilis among reproductive-age women.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/07/1211172725/syphilis-among-newborns-continues-to-rise-pregnant-moms-need-treatment-cdc-says

2023-11-05 14:27:13

I only want my appliances to be internet-connected so they'll adjust their clocks.

2023-10-14 19:26:51

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@npub15te…wdn7 same here, getting in some sunlight and scifi reading before winter sets in.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/235/013/611/877/493/original/a82db11018ee7f95.jpeg

2023-10-14 16:34:07

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@npub1ced…vlf2 I started out in my career when job interviews were more like conversations where you shared interests and both sides could learn something (and maybe remember each other for future opportunities), so for example even if they had less historical knowledge they might be interested to know Java was developed by Lisp programmers (although more credit was given to Smalltalk because Lisp was maligned by the AI winter, how times have changed), and Javascript was influenced by Scheme. But sadly ever since Google I've found job interviews to be unimaginative, basically a series of quizzes that serve as a bureacratic checklist and a hazing ritual. It's up to you, read the room and then decide how much to give them what you think they want or be yourself. But of course, don't be obnoxious with your opinions, some people really do like PHP.

2023-09-10 05:56:10

#fedicat #pixelfed support is getting there. Fixed the favorites feed, was breaking because pixelfed has a max per query limit of 20, while mastodon has 40, and that's what I was using. #tootsdk #swiftui #caturday
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/039/284/567/701/349/original/3136336e0ed2fa6c.jpeg

2023-09-07 18:10:10

All those gestural interfaces shown on scifi shows, you never see people slapping away popup ads.

2023-09-06 04:21:02

First use of #tootsdk platform detection to support both #pixelfed and #mastodon
if toot.instance?.flavour == .pixelfed {
AllNotificationsPage()
} else {
NotificationsTab()
}

2023-06-23 23:25:32

BREAKING: DeKalb DA withdraws from all cases against ‘Cop City’ protesters, state AG charges still stand – WABE
https://www.wabe.org/breaking-dekalb-da-withdraws-from-all-cases-against-cop-city-protesters-state-ag-charges-still-stand/

2023-06-01 00:09:07

You can use the scheduled post feature to send yourself encouraging messages in the future.

2023-05-21 01:24:00

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@npub1q47…h4cg they should display the detailed release notes so you have something to read while waiting instead of the boilerplate that essentially says this update contains updates.

2023-04-05 18:07:28

DOJ reaches settlement with families of Sutherland Springs mass shooting : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158219/doj-sutherland-springs-settlement-mass-shooting