Notices by Mark Jardine :misc_mtb: (mark@tapbots.social)

#severance

New Ivory promo page!

https://tapbots.com/ivory/

For those who can't stomach the presidential address going on right now, I took a screen capture for you. 🫣

Such a beautiful day (finally), I brought 2 bikes to the skatepark today.

#mtb

Anyone see anything new on TestFlight? 🫣

Designing and creating stickers for myself:

I feel creative! I’m an artist! 🧑🎨

Designing and creating stickers for my wife:

I feel like a craft mom. 👩

Sometime early next year I’ll have my own storefront on my website and will be selling various items with my design work. Shirts are printed myself in my garage and I’m applying labels and tags as well. Definitely not something I will be doing in huge volumes because of it, but I’ve always wanted to make and sell my own physical products. This is me doing just that.

Hopefully what I learn from this experience can be applied to Tapbots goods sometime after.

#design

It's happening very slowly, but I'm glad they are still moving forward with Fediverse integration. I created an account on Threads (a few months ago) just to see what's going on over there and the algorithmic feed is a complete dumpster fire. I just want to be able to follow and interact with some people/brands on Threads without having to have all the garbage fed to me.
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-eb2cUA9eQvCC9ezXTOC1ZA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0

Bummed that Fallout was only 8 episodes and that I've already gone through them all. It's going to be a long wait.

We've finally got around to fixing the MacOS share sheet for Ivory and @todd has been killing it! Still have a few more things to fix, but can't wait to get this out to everyone and then get working on the iOS version. 🫣 These are screenshots of the actual share sheet (the backgrounds have vibrancy, but screenshots disable them for whatever reason).

Shot with my iPhone using one of the cheap eclipse glasses over the lens. The light outside is kind of eerie.

#eclipse

And some mediocre photos I was able to capture with my DSLR. I definitely don't know what I'm doing when it comes to shooting into space. I set the focus to infinity for a bunch of shots, but the clouds were blurry. I should be a better photographer by the time the next one can be seen from Texas again. (sarcasm) 😅 #eclipse

32x timelapse of how the sky looked through the event. #eclipse

2 more. #eclipse

Was working on my car over the weekend and my phone fell out of my pocket maybe 6” or less from the ground (I was on my back bolting something under my car) and the back cracked. Must have fell right on some small rock or something based on the impact point, but surprised that it cracked like this from such a small drop.

It’s been a long week.

#3dArt

I mean I could have just had AI do the work for me and spent all that time on my bike. 🤷♂️

It's the year 2024. AI can generate convincing videos. I can watch movies in a headset that rival the experience of going to a movie theater. Cars are becoming more proficient at driving themselves. Phone screens can fold in half…

…yet I still get at least 10-15 spam calls a day and there's not much that can be done about it. Tech companies are solving the wrong problems. 😩

One great thing about being so far ahead on all the designs for future Ivory features/updates is I'll go back to each design after a few months and iterate on it again. I end up making huge UX/design improvements because I have a fresh perspective. It also gives me the freedom to bounce around designing different things so I don't ever feel burned out.

Mastodon should have a post option where no one can reply. So you can write something publicly, but don’t want responses or feedback. Seems like something a lot of people would love to use and it’s weird that it doesn’t already exist among the other post options.