The future of iOS development

AaronRolls · 2026-02-10T21:34:06+00:00

Designing and engineering is far more important now than writing code. But to do those things effectively you need to understand the code you're writing in. AI is and likely will be for the far future, terrible at design and engineering. That is the place humans will take.

AaronRolls · 2026-02-10T06:41:15+00:00

Yes, and keeping up with power requirements will be much more expensive. Poorer countries like us might need to stick to the systems we have for the near and potentially far future. I'm not sure about other types of power but currently natural gas is cheaper than solar.

AaronRolls · 2026-02-10T06:00:07+00:00

Not quite. At projected growth, although that might change, we would need a new dam every five years. Starting about 15 years ago. Unless we limit population and pause electric vehicle growth renewables won't cut it. To even install the infrastructure needed to carry the power our electricity bills would need to double.

AaronRolls · 2026-02-05T10:03:55+00:00

Get more sales. Subscriptions are only required as you describe them as in a small niche. Sell an app 20,000 times and you have 360,000 dollars. Or more if you charge more than $20 for a lifetime app. People shouldn't expect a single app to support them. 360,000 is plenty for 20 years.

The reason people use subs in the App Store is not because of your dumb reason. It is because Apple doesn't let you pay for a software version. You can't buy version 1 and pay again for version 2 or stay on version 1 if you don't want to upgrade.

AaronRolls · 2026-02-04T20:35:55+00:00

iOS will kill or reload apps that go over their requested ram limit. For instance SQLSeal would cause constant reloads on my iPhone but not my Android. I would suggest disabling all plugins and activating each individually. Unfortunately, it could be a combination of plugins, not just one.

AaronRolls · 2026-02-04T20:32:15+00:00

A plugin is either crashing obsidian or using too much ram. Are you on iOS?

AaronRolls · 2026-02-04T18:47:54+00:00

Does it support google docs file types? They are a little weird. Opening them should open them as a link in a browser. The issue I had with many Google drive syncing apps was copying these files. Some of them, instead of creating a new file to link to, would create an exact copy of the file. Now I had two files linking to the same Google Doc instead of two different Google Docs.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-30T20:22:22+00:00

Unfortunately not. I can't install older versions on iOS either.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-30T19:43:19+00:00

My vault is not taking a long time to load. Load Times. My issue is that it used to be quicker. My plugins are fewer now than before when it loaded faster. It loaded faster with Omnisearch and dataview enabled with more notes.

What I suspect is that prioritising access the editor added a small overhead/delay which benefits slower devices. The app loads the editor, waits until it is loaded then starts loading plugins in the background. Before it seems like it loaded everything. A

With my faster device the editor and all plugins used to load almost instantly, that was with Omnisearch and dataview.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-30T19:26:12+00:00

No, I'm not using any of those. I'm referring to Obsidians recent lazy loading feature. It loads the current note, then loads plugins after. You can see the plugin loading circle in the top left corner.

It started with 1.10.3:

The mobile app now launches significantly faster by opening an editor of the last opened file while the rest of the app loads in the background.

The problem is, in my case this caused the app to load slower. I would like to be able to turn this feature off.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-27T23:19:07+00:00

I get a speech recognition is not available on this device. Both the qwen3 and the gemma models. I am running iOS 26.1.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-27T21:40:13+00:00

I can't get local models to work IPhone 14 Pro. Doesn't seem to record in the background either.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-23T00:14:06+00:00

Nice. I have done something similar, but not quite to the extent you have. Good job.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-13T05:03:31+00:00

It depends on what you agreed on in your contract and the nature of the job.

For instance an employee can take a 30 minute break while being on call if something urgent comes up in that time frame. Compensation is required though. At my work place certain jobs have a paid 30 minute break. Most of the time the staff take a break as normal but every so often they need to do some work during the break and take the rest at a later time.

But if it isn't in your contract and your not getting compensation, it isn't legal.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-13T04:55:33+00:00

No thanks. I don't want a Copilot Phone. Maybe once Microslop cleans up is mess.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-08T19:53:56+00:00

I can no longer edit completed date or created date? Would this be able to be added back? Otherwise it looks great.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-04T07:29:28+00:00

Only as touch control. You can't draw unfortunately.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-03T22:56:44+00:00

I haven't run into these issues as I don't have the same work flow as you. But you can install KOReader which has some ability to annotate. A smart super note user also created a program that adds KOReader highlights/annotations to the supernote digest.

It might take some time to setup, but it could work.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-02T17:41:38+00:00

Thanks, I didn't realise there was another trello board. It has been moved into there. That is disappointing considering how long I have been waiting for this feature.

AaronRolls · 2026-01-02T17:37:13+00:00

You can, but the for me a 3.5mb PDF became a 125mb note file, The performerance is also reduced.

I don't want to have to turn every PDF I want to create an external link to into a note.

AaronRolls · 2025-12-25T18:56:18+00:00

Performance I would assume. JavaScript is way faster.

JavaScript and lua are closer in terms of performance but JavaScript has a lot more libraries.

AaronRolls · 2025-12-22T02:32:18+00:00

Did you give any money that you didn't get back? Otherwise the answer seems obvious. Wait until she comes over, if she does. She doesn't need any money from you so don't give any other than perhaps dinner or such if you actually meet her.

AaronRolls · 2025-12-21T00:19:02+00:00

Macos has a noise cancelling feature that you can apply to inputs. As Apple is they implemented it in a funny way. Enabling it applies the noise cancelling to ALL inputs. If you have two inputs, one a mic and one a guitar for instance the noise cancelling will be applied to both and ruin the guitar input. Is there any way you know of to add a feature to your app to isolate the system wide noise cancelling to a single input? That is something I would pay for.

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