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
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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

2024-10-31 02:47:07 UTC

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is that a positive or a negative? 😄

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
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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