James Thomson / is on Nostr

Indie iOS / Mac developer from Glasgow, Scotland. Maker of the PCalc scientific calculator, and a cool dice app. Occasional writer, conference speaker, D&D player, and podcast pundit.

My Apps: https://pcalc.com
My Tech Podcasts: http://relay.fm/people/jamesthomson
My Pop Culture Podcasts: https://www.theincomparable.com/person/james-thomson
My Squirrels: https://www.instagram.com/stresspanda/

Last Notes

2024-07-04 10:57:20

UK folk, you know what you have to do, and that is to fuck up the Tory party for a generation like they fucked us. And don’t forget your photo ID!
(Also, fuck Starmer, that transphobic wazzock, but if you are in a marginal seat, I understand)
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2024-06-10 20:39:50

I’ve been playing around with the iPadOS 18 calculator, and some of the stuff is neat, but I think it’s probably more of a threat to Soulver and the like, than it is to PCalc.
It doesn’t do RPN, custom layouts, user functions / conversions / constants, multiple memories, hex/oct/binary, visual themes, and a lot more that PCalc does. It does have nicer expression based entry, which is something I want to add.
The Math Notes stuff feels like it’s a separate app.
Also, no bananas whatsoever!
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2024-06-10 18:14:33

Genuinely, if you are rolling out generative AI features, and not talking about the ethical or environmental implications of them, you have entirely failed to change the industry in a way that only Apple could.
Privacy is great, but that's just one piece.

2024-06-10 18:14:33

2024-06-10 16:52:06

Looking forward to the skit at the start of the keynote with all the third party developers in a hydraulic press.

2024-06-10 09:34:58

Regardless of what happens in the keynote today with calculators, I wanted to say that I’ve been dealing with a serious family health crisis for the last three months, and I’ve spent a lot of that time around hospitals.
So, please don’t add to my stresses today by tagging me in a million things about getting Sherlocked because, genuinely, even if Apple destroys my entire business today, it’s not going to be my biggest concern.

2024-06-04 17:19:02

The latest TestFlight build of Dice by PCalc has a new Pride dice theme which can be tinted to show a wide variety of flags (all the ones that are in PCalc currently).
I'm generating the stripes on the fly, based on a underlying greyscale gradient texture, so I should be able to use that same technique for more intricate designs that can be recoloured.
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2024-04-18 08:02:47

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That’s excellent to see, well done! Now I finally have something to use my Backbone with too :)