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Are "native" apps resilient?

DHH's recent talk on Rails 8 got me thinking about resiliency of native apps. Can you update and run an app made than 5 minutes ago?

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Let's find a working IRC client for macOS

Does anyone have a recommendation for a IRC client that works on macOS/iOS?

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  • 🏷️ poll
  • 🏷️ irc
  • 🏷️ macOS

A post about posting

What should I write about?

Stock picture of a cat resting on a laptop

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Flick It Right: Mac’s Hot Corners Will Turn You On!

Make macOS window management a bit more productive for yourself

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Meet Browski, a browser companion for the Mac

Browski helps you switch the default browser during the day

Browski Header Image

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Updated icon, release notes

Feedbackbulb has been updated with a new app icon and release notes

Feedbackbulb Updates

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Improved Account Settings

We've just released Feedbackbulb 2.6 improving how you can manage your account

Feedbackbulb Updates

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A what if on mobile device history

A thought experiment where somewhere in the multiverse, mobile device history unfolds a bit differently.

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Feedback reply templates

We've just released Feedbackbulb 2.3 making it possible to create and customise outgoing reply templates

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In-app user feedback for multiple platforms using Kotlin Multiplatform

Feedbackbulb now enables easy and privacy respecting integration for iOS, Android, watchOS, tvOS using state-of-the-art native SDK for Kotlin and JVM developers

Feedbackbulb ❀️ Kotlin

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International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Today, we unite against hate and intolerance. Everyone deserves to love and express their identity freely. Let's build a world where love knows no bounds, free from judgment and discrimination.

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applink: A simple, stateless, privacy-protecting link redirection service for cross-platform apps

Consider a case where you have a multi-platform app, and you wish to provide a single link redirecting the user to the appropriate store for their platform. Applink is that simple and privacy-respecting redirect service.

applink.dev

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Add your own custom Mastodon emoji

Self-hosting a Mastodon (and really any Fediverse flavour) server comes with many perks. Adding custom emojis for fun or as part of one's branding is by far one of my favourite!

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Why I love the Moons Time Tracker

As an indie dev, knowing where to focus my time and energy is quite essential and a good time tracking app makes all the difference.

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Subdomain Redirect and Reverse Proxy With Caddy

Let's explore an example of a Caddyfile for a reverse proxy combined with a static media file serving setup for Django (or Wagtail) website

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Making Obsidian look and feel native on macOS

This is my Obsidian setup and the plugins and settings I use to make it feel more at home on macOS

Obsidian Minimal Theme Settings toggles

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Preparing for Toolbox V2

We're retiring surveys as they will soon be part of the Feedback Toolbox

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AI robots.txt

A community maintained robots.txt file, blocking AI bots from ingesting content on this site.

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GitHub as a Social Network

I came across a (now deleted) toot sharing tips on ways to "get yourself trending on GitHub". My first reaction was quite strong - why would anyone want to be trending on a source hosting service? Is GitHub about to become yet-another platform to grind on for attention and likes? Let's find out.

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Xcode Cloud is perfect for indie devs

Xcode Cloud is perfect for indie devs

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How to upgrade an instance to Mastodon 4.3

Let's upgrade a Mastodon instance to the latest version (without Docker)

Mastodon TootSDK

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Adding a feedback widget to a Ghost website

Connect with your audience's thoughts and ideas with a feedback widget in your Ghost website

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Progress Report

FeedbackBulb Swift SDK Update 1.2

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Phoenix Telemetry module for TelemetryDeck

Let's implement server-side tracking for a Phoenix web app by reporting anonymous page visits to TelemetryDeck using the :telemetry package

TelemetryDeck and Elixir Phoenix

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Deploying VitePress app to Fly.io

VitePress - Vue & Vite Powered Static Site Generator

VitePress

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Progress Report

FeedbackBulb has a new logo πŸŽ‰

Feedbackbulb logo

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Status Update August 2022

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

Code Snippet: URLSession.data(for: request) for iOS14

While it’s possible to use async/await methods in Swift when targeting older versions of iOS, Foundation does not offer a back-port of newer async method signatures introduced in iOS 15 and iOS 16.

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How to always Paste and Match Style on macOS

How to make ⌘ + V Paste and Match Style by default.

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Adding an executable target to a Rust library

Let's see how to create a combined library-binary project in Rust with 0 extra config.

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Xcode Invocation Tool

Launch Xcode from Terminal in the given directory or open a specific project from command line.

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Safari developer tools: Local Overrides

In Technology Preview 118, Safari introduced a powerful feature called Local Overrides. It enables web developers to customize network requests and responses from within the Safari developer tools

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