old man and the cbowns
cbowns@xoxo.zone
<p>Oregon resident, but out in the Other Oregon: east of the Cascades, it’s all sagebrush and cinders.</p><p>iOS developer by day but always a cattle dog friend</p><p>expect posts about chip architecture and nuclear reactors and AC ⟷ DC power conversion (and associated costs) and just anything where atoms do things to other atoms, and sometimes, to bits.</p>
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happy network time machine volume reset day to all who celebrate
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@saagar I’m about to reverse the LE protocol for this truly comical UX disaster we use in our van conversion, and this is precisely the news I was hoping for. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/switch-panel/id1569109150
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hearing the news three minutes at a time as I test these ignition-based magnetic cabinet locks I put in the van. not my favorite!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@overcastfm/116371407005870950 transcripts are the coolest thing I’ve seen in a podcast app since Marco’s smart speed implementation. run, don’t walk, to your nearest App Store for this update
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less positive reviews for MobileSafari which did not keep any of the webpages open that I tapped into from Ivory while offline. The number of tiny data loss bugs they ship in Safari on iOS and Notes on the Mac every year just grates (Notes on macOS, **every year**: “we could restore your open notes, but it’s more important to tell you that we added drawing tools.”)
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@gruber first time opening wallet on iOS 26(.4b3) and got this popup. Not sure if this is shown for everyone on first launch, or bc of the recent express transit news? (Went right from iOS 18 to the 26.4 betas, just for context)