iOS and Mac developer, focused on SwiftUI. Working on Matter/HomeKit stuff. Founder of nxtbgthng.
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Smart Home is full of weird and misguided product rollouts, but Moduel, who succeed Ikeas ASKVADER takes the cake:
⁃ They invent and patent modular power strips and do all the R&D
⁃ They license it to ikea for 2 years and it sells succesfully
⁃ Then it's taken off the market for a year
⁃ Inventor re-introduces it on their own, sell via a super sketchy website, for twice the price
https://matter-smarthome.de/en/products/moduel-snap-together-power-strip-with-matter-support/
Harter Text zur re:publica und dem Milieu drum herum. Er hat leider in vielen Punkten Recht:
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/konferenz-re-publica-die-letzte-party-auf-der-titanic-a-5bf8fc9b-c86b-45d7-a25b-41888bd62992
Question to Apple folks with access to radar:
When I file a feedback report, is it a good idea to use markdown formatting, or not?
Watching the Google IO Keynote. Super sceptical about all this, because while it's impressive: Who wants a life like this?
It’s not just Google who's creepy, we are used to that by now. What's new, is that it's the user who's creepy, too.
Good to see that the #Matter Ecosystem is becoming mature enough for new companies to build on it. Not just existing companies switching to it, but new ones that wouldn't have existed without it. This one sounded weird to me at first — the builder/installer ecosystem is weird — until I saw who backs it. https://mash-home.com
This is a sort of bug that should have been caught in beta (or better: with tests) and never been shipped.
Update: They knew about this, included it in the release notes, and shipped anyways?!? WTF?
Just learned about „WhatCable" that can read out the e-Marker chips on a USB-C cable and tell you what the cable is actually capable of. https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
Apparently works via IOKit. How's a UI for that that not a system feature on every Apple device with a USB-C Port?
Developers paying for Siri integration? This is super weird and doesn’t make sense. https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/13/apple-wants-apps-to-integrate-with-siri-in-ios-27-but-one-fear-holds-some-back-report/
1. Encounter an Apple/Xcode error (Today: Building Tests for simulators fail if there's a macro in the project, because the macro's macOS thing accidentally gets included in the simulators linker).
2. Have AI analyze it and try a fix.
3. AI confirms it can't fix it, because it's on Apple.
4. Have AI make a minimal sample project.
5. Have AI draft a Feedback report.
6. File Feedback.
7. Wait.
I hope at some point #Xcode will be multi-window again. I want the console in an extra window. I want (multiple!) Previews in extra windows. I want the AI in an extra window.
When at my desk I have a Studio Display, the internal MacBook screen, and potentially an iPad screen with SideCar. Yet I can only really use the main Studio Display.
Please go back to what macOS was made for and what it was good at. If they don't make Xcode for iPad, what's the point of the one-window interface anyways?
There is already a civilization that died tonight, and that's the American civilization. The person they elected as their leader opted their country out of the „civilized" world, that at least aspires to have rules and opposes war crimes. Every American should be deeply ashamed to be represented this way.
The more I work with Claude & Codex, I think two points are equally true:
⁃ I could not have done this without the AI
⁃ The AI could not have done this without me.
I’m no longer stuck and I’m excited for what I’m building. This is going to be sooooo good.