
2025-07-15 06:04:00
My talk on spicing up your iOS and Mac apps by embedding Godot content is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1G6H-vzxU
I wrote some iPhone apps in Objective C in the early days, it was hard, I stopped about 15 years ago. Now I’m building a native Swift app with a voice based interface using Claude to write the code, and a Claude-flow agent swarm to create plans and architecture and more complex implementation steps. It’s fun, it works on my phone, and all I have to do is say what I want in steps small enough that I can tell I got it. Follow along at
I’m using the “1 Blocker” extension for iPadOS and iOS to block ads / enhance web browsing privacy:
#MediaLit
If you often translate languages that Apple Translate doesn’t support (ahem, Íslensku), you can now set Google Translate as your default translator in iOS.
Settings ➼ Apps ➼ Default Apps ➼ Translation.
Not sure if there’s other translation apps that offer this service.
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Three different iOS Mastodon apps: Icecubes, Trunks, and the official, reference implementation. In addition to very different experiences and quirks, each show a noticeably different Home time line view. Order, missing toots, hashtag following, filter handling, etc.
A web browser and IceCubes seem to give the best, most consistent view I'd expect, but the scrolling bug in IceCubes makes it practically unusable for many.
:-(