Notices by Craig Hockenberry (chockenberry@mastodon.social)

As you look at your 401K in shambles, keep in mind that someone in this administration made an “investment" that earned 2,100% _in one hour_.

If you knew what they knew, you could have made $2.1M from $100K today. Or if you're an asshole billionaire, a lot more.

Good luck investigating this insider trading. Guess which branch of government is in charge of monitoring this illegal behavior?

A big update of #TapestryApp is out today. We spent about a month on it and there are a ton of new features and improvements.

So many, in fact, that we kept hitting the 4,000 character limit on the build release notes in App Store Connect. Got it down to 26 free characters and then added another feature - and had to edit again! We eventually landed on 14 free characters (0.35% free space).

https://usetapestry.com/history

You could say this release is CHOCK FULL.

About 10% of Apple's $3T market cap got wiped out today.

That $1M inauguration investment currently has a return of -$300B.

I’m guessing that all those conservatives who voted for a promise of lower taxes weren't expecting it to be from reporting capital gains on investments.

After solving today’s Connections, I’m ready for anything that April 1st wants to throw at me.

Holy shit.

@rmondello https://design.iconfactory.com/microsoft-windows-xp/

If Apple modifies the look of platform user interfaces, I'm guessing that SwiftUI will play a huge part in a successful transition.

One of the main points of using the framework is that you are no longer burdened with basic layout and behaviors. A Toggle() is a concept, not a presentation.

In theory, your SwiftUI code & design should move as easily between iOS 18/19 as it does between iOS/watchOS.

Those of you who have been digging around in UIKit to accomplish things will have regrets.

1/n

KINDA EXPENSIVE FOR A POWER CORD MUST BE A MONSTER

Is there some kind of competition between soap manufacturers and whiskey makers to see who can make the product that’s hardest to open?

Like some kind of throw down with Makers Mark and Ivory.

Wait for it…

(Answers to the questions _everyone_ asks.)

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/02/enter-tapestry/

@WarnerCrocker Thank you!

We still have a ton of work to do, and I’ll have more to say about that as the week progresses, but after 20 months of working on this thing, it feels great that everyone can finally see it:

https://usetapestry.com

#TapestryApp

The first screenshot of what would become Tapestry.

You have to start somewhere, even if it’s labeled ????? and ugly as hell.

Fascists are going to need technology to succeed.

And we know more about that than they do.

Put dipsticks in your code.

https://jalopnik.com/citroen-sabotaged-wartime-nazi-truck-production-in-a-si-1836670685

Why is “Writing Tools” the first thing shown in Safari’s context menu? It’s pointless and makes it harder to get at the things I actually use: “Lookup” and “Translate”.

Some manager at Apple decided that showing off a new feature was more important than usability. That’s bullshit.

/cc @gruber

The only use case I can see for this feature is plagiarism.

Select a passage in Wikipedia or wherever, and change it to make it your “own”.

Geezus. What a thing to put front and center.

Normal folks are going to trust Apple to be making good choices, when in reality it’s just a machine doing some statistical analysis.

We’ll soon have another holiday task while visiting family. After you turn off the motion smoothing, you’ll be turning off the email summaries.

Apple is adding legitimacy where there is none.
https://mastodon.cloud/@markusms/113646640546326913

@film_girl You could say it was Seoul crushing.

@Gargron @jstepien Actually, it’s our new app in that screenshot. Sounds like we need to do some conversion on the source data.

Also, in the Mastodon web view it looks like the punycode is leaking through in the status text.

Unicode is hard!