BrandonSmith

Continue to upgrade to the latest macOS on your host system, use something that leverages Apple's Virtualized.framework to run any version of macOS you want.

For instance, consider https://tart.run/

All the Android / iOS devs on my team use Tart locally when we need to test mixed environments.

Then we use Tart's sister Cirrus CLI to run our builds on our server.

For years, my team uses the third-party tool `xcodes`... `brew install xcodes` or use the [GUI](https://www.xcodes.app/).

It allows you to easily install and maintain several versions of Xcode (beta / RC versions).

And, more importantly, uses aria2 for HTTP download, which has resumability.

Seems this is the product JetBrains mentioned in their sun-setting announcement of the short-lived CodeCanvas product.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/codecanvas/2025/10/jetbrains-is-s...

Kotlin ecosystem extends way beyond the Java runtime. I have apps developed in Kotlin running in browsers and iOS, in addition to Android.

What's wrong with Cirrus CLI and Tart built on Apple's Virtualization.framework?

https://tart.run

https://github.com/cirruslabs/cirrus-cli

I tend to copy Markdown content from other sources into Apple Notes. Being able to paste into Notes and have it format in the view is a big win.

It is possible reporting is getting this wrong and the Markdown feature and it is just to serve use case above. As an example, Google Docs recently enabled "Paste from Markdown" that also is a huge convenience.

Where did Allo fit in? :)

JetBrains already announced it is no longer targeting Fleet as its iOS strategy for Kotlin Multiplatform. Instead it will be realizing its strategy through IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.

Now evaluate a glucometer.

I'm sure Apple still pays patent licensing fees to Qualcomm even if Apple is now manufacturing their own modem.

I agree at the time it wasn’t a mistake. It allowed for vast adoption with Slack needing to implement the complexities of a single login accessing (for me) about a dozen workspaces.

But from a revenue perspective in 2023, it is a mistake. Of your list, which of work, vendor, and personal likely is a paid account? I’d argue in 2023 they only care about work and vendor and that is what they are optimizing their experience for at present. Now that adoption has saturated and the curve has flattened, the strategy of personal or even open source workspaces has served its purpose.

In short, now that they’ve got their hooks in, I’m sure they’d be happy for the personal workspaces go elsewhere, leaving just the paying professional context, and single login login, interacting with vendor/partner contexts.

Slack seems to be walking back their mistake 10 years ago of requiring independent logins for each workspace.

In slacks new product vision, you don’t sign into multiple workspaces, you sign into your “home” workspace and get invited via Slack Connect to other workspaces.

This seems to be reinforced by collapsing the workspace picker and making unreads in other workspaces less obvious.

Are there examples of utilizing Smithy with WebSockets as the transport? I found the documentation of MQTT bindings and the general information about event streams. However, I'm struggling to map it all together. I imagine there will need to exist WebScoket bindings?

Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest...

All subscription services must account for some form of average use. High usage customers are offset by low usage. Thus, it is likely with so many people on your account that others are subsidizing your account's usage.

Nevertheless, I don't think Netflix cares about your low usage family members, like your grandmother. They care about your high usage family and want to get them in their own account.

Netflix already has subscription tiers that varies the number of screens that can simultaneously watch or device downloads. Perhaps Netflix could help honest people be honest by creating tiers with modest increases for different households. Maybe $5 for each additional household?

I am sure they have discussed and don't yet have a great way of enforcing such. One option could be true "sub-accounts" where the sub-account pays for the bump of $5 with a credit card that must be tied to a different address?

Epic is misleading a bit...

Epic is claiming that without access to developer tools, it cannot properly develop the Unreal Engine for other parties to develop against.

Reading the legal document, it does not appear Apps that use Unreal Engine are threatened to be removed. Only that Epic cannot improve the Unreal Engine.

I have to figure the underlying reason is that Google can't trust that you, the user, own that Google Account as it actually owned by the entity that owns the GSuite organization. They are treating all GSuite users as transient in order for controls to be set up for what happens to user data when they leave the organization.

Of course, for you and me and hundreds of thousands of other who use a grandfathered GSuite, the user and entity are the same person.

Thus, for services that potentially have some limiting reason to not allow GSuite users to access, we hare orphaned for the time being.

I've been waiting FOREVER to either add a family member to my Play Music subscription, or me to theirs. Alas, neither plain Google Account nor GSuite account can co-exist.

There are dozens of other Google services incompatible with GSuite users.

It is frustrating.

CamTwist requires disabling macOS SIP. For many this is too high bar.

I'm not sure why FB's site has unnecessary DIVs... But to defend React, HOC or render prop techniques but don't have to output DOM. In other words, every React component does not map to a DOM element.

There are a handful of them. Some simple, some complex.

Here is a complex one... https://i.imgur.com/c0p24cU.png

I dropshipped from 2001 to 2004 in the jewelry market.

I never really set out to do it, just stumbled into it. I had a friend in the jewelry business that tipped me off on the potential so I started exploring the opportunity. I was in college and thought it an interesting real-world challenge compared to what I was working on in my classes. It ended up paying for my graduate degree and then some.

This was years and years before turnkey solutions. So I built my own. Everything was held together with ColdFusion MX 6, which I was a big advocate at the time and into that dev meetup scene.

After 6 months of development putting in tons of late night hours, things were fairly automated. I would scan daily email reports and any process exceptions, too, were emailed to me. I never achieved astronomical volume, but it made a decent chunk of change. Just ran on cruise control sustaining me and my family through graduate school.

I was an early integrator with the jewelry dropshipper. Orders and order status was communicated over FTP. Cue batch processing jobs. They are still around btw. At the time, they supplied most brick and mortar jewelry shops. Probably still do.

This, of course, was before social media of any kind, so my channel was eBay. I was an early integrator with eBay's new API built on something called SOAP. :) I hated it, but after complaining in their dev forums, eBay paid for travel and hotel to their conference in 2002(?) to give feedback in a private session with their developers. I have to give them credit, they were really trying hard to keep things simple and were sincere.

There wasn't anything like Stripe at the time, so I was one of Netsuite's first (very) small business customers just as they were beta testing online payments (iirc backed by Authorize.net). NS had a comprehensive CRM, order fulfillment, etc. solution. It is funny to think that NS was actually cheap relative to other offerings. Open sourced a ColdFusion implementation of the integration and a ColdFusion framework ( bothhosted on tigris.org... anyone remember that?). Both had users for a few years.

I built an e-commerce website (I sometimes go browse it still on WayBackMachine to reminisce) to try to steer purchases away from eBay to avoid fees. Was navigating the gray area of auction, buy it now, and linking back to my site. Sometimes would get reported for policy violation.

In the end, I didn't have budget to market outside of eBay, nor the entrepreneurial spirit to grow it, nor the inclination to bring in investors. My heart wasn't in it once the technical challenge wasn't there. A pattern I've unfortunately repeated over my career.

After my graduate degree, I sold it all to a local jeweler and transitioned it to them. They ran it for a few years to supplement revenue that their brick and mortar store was starting to lose because of online jewelers. I got paid for periodic work to fix a bug here and there. They shut it down in 2009 when their store went under. :(

Overall, it was a fun run. I learned a heck of a lot early in my career.

This does look interesting.

When I tested, I noted a lot of latency. It seems the audio is not sent over WS until the capture is complete.

Even after finishing a recording, the other side did not receive and hear it for up to 20 seconds.

I smell a low-cost iPhone offering late Summer.

This is Eufy, Anker's brand for home products. I think with a $50K funding threshold, it is pretty clear they are simply leveraging Kickstarter as a go-to-market strategy. Informs their mfg schedule and possibly grants a better position in negotiating their mfg costs. Doing this also has the happy benefit of reducing initial capital investment.

I don't believe Apple is targeting those that already bought into Sonos. I know a dozen or so people that most anything Apple tells them to. They can't afford it. But they do. So, while they never would be in the market for Sonos, they'll suddenly get HomePod in 2018 because it is Apple's take on the home smart speaker.

Some authenticate (Google comes to mind) allows for delegation to third party scenarios. So, similarly, knowing the account is necessary to determine the next step.

Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaking an effort to change content creation and consumption, to make their own platform less like the rest of the Web for their own gain.

Any application can request the permission to track certain Android app lifecycle events. In this case, when an app gains and loses foreground focus.

Data and location API access are separate permissions. But if all three are obtained, fairly detailed correlations can be made.

Although I don't know much about Cyanogenmod, it is likely it enables global toggles for the app lifecycle permission.

At scale, and if you are paying for transmission costs, it can have a massive impact.

expect most low level work would have to be contracted out to people outside the town

If we're honest with ourselves, isn't this roughly what much of the U.S. has going on now? "New towns" are started as suburbs with economical segregation. Complete with gated communities. Or gentrifying urban areas. Low level work is performed by those from poorer, neighboring communities.

I bet he's a real hoot at parties...

"Hi, Richard."

"Hello, how are things?"

"Great! I'm pretty happy that..."

"Oh, you're not actually happy. You've been indoctrinated to think you need to obtain an artificial mental state labeled 'happiness' by others. What you are really experiencing is resentment for others success and you are projecting your mediocrity as positive achievements."

I found Inside Out wildly entertaining. As did my children and parents. Pixar's storytelling and record of engaging multiple generations is unmatched. They are altogether tragic, dramatic, funny, personal, and universal.

I find nothing wrong with simplifying the rules of a film's universe and requiring filmgoers to suspend disbelief in order to tell a story. Why? Because good films are a catalyst for discussion. As a result, whereas the author is critical of the film itself as damaging for being simplistic, rather, it can be the very context to launch the necessary discussions with children to navigate their myriad of emotions.

Ironically, Pixar's very own Anton Ego of Ratatouille critiques the critics... "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."