coperob @coperob@qoto.org

If you have an iPad Pro and a Magic Keyboard for it, and want to draw with your Apple Pencil, you should be aware that this works really well. It kind of magnetically attaches at the bottom, and is surprisingly stable at drawing-suitable angles like 40°.

iPad Failing Summer 2023 Edition

Nevermind me, just over hear desinging an annual report for a client.

It's late August 2023 and during this slow time for Apple-related news the pundits have all found time to circle back around to the age old problem of the iPad. The most recent round seemed to start with Jason Snell's post Giving up the iPad-only travel dream.

"I’ve noticed that a lot of my colleagues who were previously working hard ... https://beardystarstuff.net/2023/08/26/070612.html

New Video!
iPad Multitasking Explained: Stage Manager Guide!

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oth722tzWXw

A common theme about in the discussion on addressing climate change is that what’s most needed is systemic action. As I understand it, what people mean by that is government legislation to fund new infrastructure for transport and energy and, likely, regulate/cut fossil fuel based infrastructure currently in place.

And often in the conversation those advocating such systemic change as primary often, to some degree, speak against ... https://beardystarstuff.net/2023/08/25/a-common-theme.html

@robpike
I feel the need to speak out against the idea that ''people like it this way' or 'convenience is more important to most people than X'
People are trained to use software and hardware in a certain way by the software and hardware they are given. If it has utility for them they will learn it. The fact that most software is designed to siphon money out of them does not mean that people prefer to have their money siphoned. If we make things better, people will still use them.

I’m sure everyone thinks the thing they’re good at is “so much harder” than everyone else’s thing, but sometimes I really do wonder about programming. Not all programming, mind you, but certain areas of it are ridiculous. It all depends on what level of abstraction you’re working at, I guess.

The Smart Keyboard Folio is massively underrated!

When the hell did shipping MVPs become the norm… like, not even treated as “early access” or “beta” — v1.0s are MVPs… Is it to please investors so they can see shit is being shipped? This is awful. What happened to being proud of the stuff that is shipped?

More like BMVPs…

Bare minimum viable product…

I’m overjoyed to announce my latest app, Callsheet, is now available!

Callsheet is the best way to look up information about movies, TV shows, cast, and crew. It’s fast, and it respects your time.

Callsheet is free for your first 20 searches; after that you must subscribe to use it. Plans start at just $1 per month or $9 per year. Every subscription comes with a 1-week free trial.

Blog post: https://www.caseyliss.com/callsheet
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callsheet-find-cast-crew/id1672356376

Adventures in RSS apps!

Warning: What lies ahead is a lot of rambling about nitpicky details that may bore anyone who is not me to tears. Proceed with caution.

My exploration of RSS apps seems never ending. I'm sure I'm not the only one who never seems to be able to find the perfect RSS app (the same is true of writing/notes apps). Years ago I used NetNewsWire on the Mac and it held for a very long time. Then as I spent more ... https://beardystarstuff.net/2023/08/05/adventures-in-rss.html

Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested

#iPad Coding:

I'm no hardcore developer. Runestone (https://runestone.app) and/or Textastic (https://www.textasticapp.com) meet my needs, which these days tend to be all about javascript and a little JSON. Used to experiment with coding avant-garde writing tools in Pythonista (http://omz-software.com/pythonista/); might return to that at some point...

@ljpuk One of the best ways to learn is to write things down. Focus modes and Apple Pencil make the iPad the very best education device ever made.

I waited 9 years for Photoshop on iPad; 4 years post release, I'm still waiting for Photoshop on iPad 🥲

While visionOS is going to benefit from much of what came before, being based on iPad, it's also in danger of inheriting a whole bunch of flaws to go with. Half-baked features, 'simplified' ports, waning developer interest. I don't want 'companion’ apps, I want apps

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.

We should celebrate all of the milestones, no matter how trivial, right? Our rolling 12-month page view count just went over a million views a year! 🫨

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Why they're smearing Lina Khan; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/

#Pluralistic

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Lol, I’m not sure why I do this but yet again I’ve started a comment to an article that has turned into a full-on post. Entertainment? I suppose I might as well share it. This one was a post by Michael Tsai in which he references Jesse Peterman who recently posted about trying an iPad Pro for Coding. I suppose that this is really a reply to both Michael and Jesse. In summary, I think Jesse’s post was fair and accurate though several of ... https://beardystarstuff.net/2023/07/07/lol-im-not.html