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• Post #4262300

  The best thing about app/game development is that you press ▶️ in the IDE and it just runs. Even in 2026, it’s still a monolithic, self-contained program. Meanwhile, deploying a static site with an email form on Cloudflare takes two hours even with Codex explaining you where to click in that endless dashboard to wire everything together.

• Post #4262299

  Getting Studio M4 Max 64 GB and then Mini M4 24 GB for my wife last year somehow ended up as my most successful investment in years :welp:

• Post #4262298

  While "the barrier to getting users" part is true, there's still one more blind spot: The UX design of vibecoded apps is *trash* I'd look for seemingly crowded niches where the choice is: – Mid-2010s so-so UX + dated UI – Vibecoded atrocious UX + Dribbble UI #IndieDev #iOSDev #AppDev

• Post #4262297

  200 mm of rain in the last 24 hours, it's too much even for Valdivia

• Post #4262296

  I had Garmin Venu 2S, but the battery died in <2yrs and the new model is 3x the price, so I moved to Amazfit Active 2 and it's actually much cooler for a very modest cost

• Post #4262295

  Seeing less build-in-public even from the "let's clone each other's AI mushroom identifier apps" crowd Indie Dark Forest era has begun #IndieDev #AppDev

• Post #4262294

  Hey, Safari got squircles! `corner-shape:` commit: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/8be67bb856d275e88daaf93bb7c851f446590687

• Post #4262293

  Hacker News has lost its value as a random seed for learning about unrelated stuff Humanities-leaning front-page submissions have basically disappeared from it, it's just another tech forum nowadays

• Post #3259169

  I almost made it to the next #WWDC with about 20 video tabs still open since the last one

• Post #3259168

  Peak millennial design at Brasília Airport

• Post #3259167

  Between Golden Kamuy, The Apothecary Diaries, A Bride's Story, Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, and now The Azure Balkanalia, it seems we're entering the golden age of historical anime/manga :BongoCatHearts:

• Post #3259166

  Surprised Apple is not yet rejecting apps without dark/tinted icons. I'm trying out the dark glass mode on iOS 26 and bright icons really ruin it.

• Post #1588755

  "I like it a lot" :welp:

• Post #1588754

  RE: https://jawns.club/@hoagie/116420767274583166 The first thing I did a year ago when starting LLM-centered development was getting rid of XIBs on iOS and XAMLs on Android. Even back then, AI agents did great with imperative code-based layouts. I even made a simple DSL for constraints and Claude could use when it did not forget to. Frameworks like SwiftUI were designed for the era when writing boilerplate was time-consuming. But it makes no difference anymore, while it's easier to d...

• Post #1196178

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116255419547147086 Each app has its own story, ConjuGato's one-time purchase revenue has been steadily climbing up since 2018

• Post #1196177

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116340014701710553 Some good news for people who prefer imperative UIs and for cross-platform devs relying on UIKit for assembling native UIs from C# and TypeScript (I'm both)

• Post #1196176

  RE: https://tapbots.social/@paul/116353970003246347 Every time I see things like that, I'm reminded how good I have it with C# for UIKit despite the GC/ARC clash. And I'm also reminded how badly Microsoft fumbled the bag with cross-platform .NET – it could have had it all but instead they themselves ended up in the React world of web mess. #dotnet #iOSDev

• Post #1196175

  Getting an unzipped text database from 36 to 6 MB via byte-pair encoding is pure magic :gmail56sparkles:

• Post #1196174

  It seems I've achieved a fully agentic loop for iOS via https://maestro.dev, a simple skill, and a quick analogue of https://github.com/FLEXTool/FLEX Codex can now modify Maestro configs to navigate the app in the simulator as needed, then get view trees by calling a simple HTTP server inside the app itself. The efficiency remains to be seen, but I hope intermediate verifications won't require my attention anymore.

• Post #1196173

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116400498346177081 Reminded me an old post on r/Buddhism: "Basically the way we relate to the world is one of force. Our fundamental way of relating to the world is a place where we force things to do what we want them to do, to serve what we imagine to be our needs. … This kind of climate of violence - that the world and the objects in it are things for us to exert force on... defines the way we relate to our own psyche, our own emotions.&quot...

• Post #1196172

  > NASA ran a study on a potential trip to Mars and found the most important trait for team dynamics was humor

• Post #931000