John Balestrieri
Tinrocket@mastodon.online
<p>Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.</p>
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Got a salty email from a Waterlogue customer (possible glitch with grandfathering a former customer who’s now facing the paywall), and their email domain is salty-pirate-themed, which tracks and is also amusing.
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If your cat’s tail is this long, you have a monkey.
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No one complains about the quality of interactive fiction the Holodeck generates, but whenever Data paints, it’s AI slop?
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A spatula modeled after a dog&#39;s tongue would be more efficient than any spatula currently on the market.
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Born in Pawtucket?
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Has anyone else seen this issue? The App Store purchase/get button disappears, and you can’t buy/download anything. Signing out and back in doesn’t make it return; only a restart does. It started recently on macOS 26, but updating to macOS 27 hasn’t fixed it.
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1) Shop Amazon anonymously on DuckDuckGo 2) Add items to cart 3) Sign in and pay The price was ~$15 in the Amazon app and $10 when shopping anonymously.
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Rummage sale Sunday. Wooden emotions blocks and vintage card game.
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Same drawing, new stroke style. I’ve been doing client work, so this development got sidelined for about.
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Leaving the dentist with candy in my takeaway bag.
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Joanna Stern says the Duo is about the size of a Pop-Tart, so I’ve been practicing all week.
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Serialbox: Small boxes, big picture. https://testflight.apple.com/join/dBGtmEBY New TestFlight beta: - New name (again), icon update coming. - High-res export - The location tools will have to wait for a future beta. - More fixes, polish, and performance improvements. I’m submitting this version to Apple for a pre-order page. There’s lots of room in the public beta. Reposts appreciated.
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Tetris, but you can rotate the piece in 3D until it’s one block wide.
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It&#39;s been thinking way too long.
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Tofu: When you want to eat a block of something.
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Working on dragable grid layout.
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There’s no narrative, just the visual weight of the panels on the page.
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l love layout algorithms. 🔥
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Gallery and detail view transitions.
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Ready to prep this for TestFlight.
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In my speculative sci-fi trilogy set 200 years in the future, mankind has invented nail clippers that stop nail clippings from flying everywhere.
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OK, now my shader graphs: 1. Use Metal&#39;s Function Stitching API to make stitchable shaders from nodes 2. Bridge custom/compile-time Metal code with stitchable nodes 3. Allow graph files to be used directly in my Metal-based applications, such as the RealityKit harness (second image). 4. 🔥
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I want to make a minimal, flat Minecraft clone: Top-down world exploring, then a side view when you mine. I still miss Miner ‘49er (I think) that ran on the TRASH-80 at my summer camp.
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Damn, I was hoping to take a quick nap on the sofa.
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Working on a small weekend iOS project and delighted that it’s only taking up 50mb of RAM and not pushing the CPUs and GPUs into the red zone. How is it even possible?
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LLM coding with ADHD: I sometimes forget what I asked it to do by the time it finishes. In the 2 minutes it was working, I moved on to a few other tasks.
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The step stool I made in jr. high is perfect for chopping the avocado pits for composting.
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Working on my curve simplification. Gray is raw Pencil input (hundreds of points) and red is the simplified path (a several control points).
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Progress on the input simplifier; input line in gray; optimized path in red.