Steve Troughton-Smith

App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.

UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Reverse-engineering. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

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2025-09-16 16:25:22 UTC

FB20270209 — [Catalyst] Sidebar inset is adjusted erroneously by NSWindow tabs
#radars
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2025-08-17 09:46:35 UTC

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2024-12-19 16:48:15 UTC

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My takeaways from the proposal: the EC is prepared to go into detail on specific features, mandate various avenues of interoperability and APIs required, ensure that Apple can't make them burdensome in implementation or by policy, set a concrete timeframe for the changes to be made (i.e. by next release of iOS), and ensure that Apple can't pull the rug out from under these APIs in the future or self-preference for new or unannounced devices. All the proposals are great, necessary changes

2024-12-19 16:32:50 UTC

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"Apple shall not impose any restrictions on the type or use case of the software application and connected physical device that can access or makeuse of the features listed in this Document.
Apple shall not undermine effective interoperability with the 11 features set out in this Document by behaviour of a technical nature. In particular, Apple shall actively take all the necessary actions to allow effective interoperability with these features.”

2024-12-19 16:23:57 UTC

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"Apple shall provide a protocol specification that gives third parties all information required to integrate, access, and control the AirDrop protocol within an application or service (including as part of the operating system) running on a third-party connected physical device in order to allow these applications and services to send files to, and receive files from, an iOS device.”

2024-10-31 02:47:07 UTC

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is that a positive or a negative? 😄

2024-10-29 19:21:56 UTC

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what are you hiding that you don't want to keep in RAM? 😂

2024-10-29 16:54:11 UTC

I've used the power button on my Mac mini *twice* this year.
Just saying.
I know everybody uses their devices differently, but macOS in particular is designed to be always on and always connected, and acts really badly when trying to catch up on days/weeks of missed iCloud sync

2024-10-19 07:57:00 UTC

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Added multi-page PDF sharing and printing, because it was trivial anyway
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/333/018/081/820/106/original/11628fb436eca984.jpeg

2024-08-18 01:02:56 UTC

Fall Guys' crossplay and cross-progression is excellent; we sat on the couch playing Duos for a couple hours without latency or connection issues, me playing (and recording) the iPad version at 60fps with an MFi controller, and my husband on his gaming PC/TV. It shows which players are playing on mobile, console or PC with an icon beside their name, and there's a healthy mix of all kinds in every lobby

2024-07-02 02:20:06 UTC

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that's just Swift's method structure. Disassembly tools have a harder time interpreting it than ObjC code

2024-06-15 18:54:53 UTC

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I was glad you got a chance to ask about both the DMA and iPad. It was instructive