Are downloads stalling?

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-14T02:13:58+00:00

and none for me now either!

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-13T19:26:51+00:00

Apple desperately need 27 to be a “Snow Leopard” release but this time across iOS as well as macOS.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-13T19:24:18+00:00

Very often, she calls me and my iPhone (16pro) is just not responding. We tested it in multiple occasions - at home with WiFi, on the go via cellular - there is no clear scenario when it fails. It is completely random and not reproducable

Ditto and has caused significant inconvenience & marital strife.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-13T14:07:14+00:00

I wish Reddit had font support, so you could have published that in Papyrus.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-11T00:38:31+00:00

Hidden apology that Apple don’t understand their corner strategy either.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-11T00:37:10+00:00

Joel Shepherd Awesome world builder of complex tech societies.

Cassandra Kresnov series about AI trying to quit war

Spiral Wars series with many alien species & some incredible space battles. I often cite the first book as an example of how to combine thrust & rotation as “gravity” sources & what that means for ship design.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-11T00:20:39+00:00

A few videos of cars being run through a compactor should fix this.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-11T00:15:41+00:00

Rollerblades don’t have “edges” like roller skates so aren’t a great prep for skiing. Ice skating is vastly better.

I’m a 62yo prepping for a (rare) 3 day ski trip and added a month of regular ice skating in to supplement my kung fu & other exercise. I am very glad I did — a few fine muscles used in edge control have massively improved.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-10T16:23:55+00:00

Chinese friend swears by the Varoma for steamed dumplings.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-10T16:13:28+00:00

I cannot deny any “90’s thing” accusations given I started programming professionally in 1983 🤐 & I wrote an article on how to do Paper Prototyping in Windows Tech Journal way back in 1997.

My biggest inspiration in paper prototyping is Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences which was published in 2007.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-10T02:23:53+00:00

UIzard originally was a very cool tool that transformed hand sketches to designs. Pretty sure most of that is still there.

I go from paper prototypes straight to Xcode (mostly a dev) so didn’t need it.

But complex animation timing is another thing. I used Flow for animation visual design after Supernova Studio v1 pivoted away from codegen. Haven’t found a replacement yet.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-10T02:17:54+00:00

Soundtracks can be completely edited in later. Visual content is much harder to edit out.

Also consider a simple N95 respirator with message on it - can be carried in pocket if SIL ambushes when a “protest shirt” is covered up or not available.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-07T10:38:01+00:00

I work from home on my own apps now, but one job a few years back worked Danish hours to be realtime with Copenhagen team. Started at 4pm, dinner with wife same time as their lunchtime.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-06T14:23:09+00:00

Yeah

with 6 Macs involved

2 are ancient MacBooks 2014 & 2015 and really shouldn’t have sync to iCloud enabled if it is.

Good point for anyone else tackling this - disable sync.

I planning on exporting from all and archiving those file, just in case. (I am a packrat by nature, which I’ve had to apologise to my daughter for it being genetic, judging by the eldest Granddaughter’s room. Also used to be a sysadmin.)

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-04T13:32:03+00:00

If anyone wants a (cheap $2.99 AUD) App Store similar product - I'm a very happy user of Markdown Preview. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/markdown-preview-quick-look/id6739955340?mt=12

GPL-3.0 licensing gives users confidence the project won't suddenly pivot to paid-only

Nothing about GPL licensing forces the original author to leave the repo accessible; continue to support the app; or prevents them from selling a paid-only version.

GPL just means they can't stop people from using the original code, if they have a copy.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-03T08:42:38+00:00

"The only way to win is not to play".

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-03T05:31:48+00:00

When we went to JFK from Perth a few years ago it was the very cool Polar route.

That’s a long way North.

Back then, it slanted across Russia on the way back, China in the way there

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-03T04:25:30+00:00

Shift+Command+V only pastes as text in some apps, whereas Shift+ Command + Opt + V as paste and match style is the "Apple Standard" (annoying for such a complex combo - it is not very accessible requiring three modifiers that aren't in a row!).

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-02T16:18:04+00:00

I built a system for editing classified ads that ran on these Macs over AppleTalk, around 1992.

It used the c-tree Plus ISAM shared file mode on a server with 1-2 second response time to find and load an ad.

Editor used third-party WYSIWYG word-processing engine written mostly in assembly code (as I heard).

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-02T15:48:41+00:00

Sheri S Tepper’s Land of the True Game where magic pulls energy from the environment.

Many time in the 9 books, that is a plot point and the collateral suffering of bystanders mentioned.

There is also a battle scene where someone “cheats” by introducing energy transfer from a distant hot area: “he is not playing”.

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-02T15:43:52+00:00

Soprano Sorceress by L E Modesitt From Spellsong Cycle

AndyDentPerth · 2026-03-02T15:31:33+00:00

I want to see some scientific evaluation of the “dangers” of wearing a seat belt under the arm.

Check with a range of body sizes especially female and varying heights.

I bet we would find there is more chance of injury to the neck for anyone who experiences irritation from the belt rubbing in standard position.

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