Mark Powell, formerly of NASA

See y’all in April at @DeepDishSwift !

GitHub - twostraws/Inferno: Metal shaders for SwiftUI. Metal shaders for SwiftUI. Contribute to twostraws/Inferno development by creating an account on GitHub.

One of the most fun parts for me building DJ Mood was using Metal shaders thanks to Inferno by @twostraws .

I am also making this post my public accountability statement to send Paul a PR to contribute my custom shader for others to reuse!

https://github.com/twostraws/Inferno

For us coders: I had never gone through the process of writing an app for the trio of iOS, macOS and tvOS before! Very illuminating as to how the user experience still needs to be customized for each platform. Even though SwiftUI gives us high reusability, it doesn't go nearly far enough to be a […]

DJ Mood is here!

Unlock 250+ hidden Apple Music "Siri playlists" organized by mood and activity.
Free for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV (requires Apple Music subscription)

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/djmood/id6746470429

More info: https://www.drmarkpowell.com/apps/djmood/ […]

Fun announcement coming tomorrow!
Do you use Apple Music?
Do you like free iOS and Mac apps?
If so, stay tuned...

Anyone in my socials enjoy visiting Disney theme parks? I'm working on an iPhone app that may appeal to Disney park fans and I'd love to find some folks to share an early beta with. If you would be interested, please message me back.

DJ Mood app icon: smiley emoji with headphones

Are you an Apple Music subscriber using iOS, Mac, or tvOS? Would you like to try a beta of my free app for Siri Playlists? If so, please accept this TestFlight invitation for DJ Mood. I would really appreciate your feedback.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/yY3XPxSS

With Liquid Glass, I like what some developers chose to implement: completely distinct UI layouts for iPhone (closer to what Apple has done) from iPad, Mac, and tvOS, such as a NavigationSplitView for iPad and/or Mac versus TabView for iPhone and tvOS. This feels far more platform appropriate […]

Ok then…Iate to the party, but I decided to try to try some Liquid Glass tab bars with an accessory view and stuff, naively optimistic that it wouldn’t be as broken and weird as so many of y’all have said it is.

I stand corrected. I feel your frustration, folks. This is a day of coding I wish I […]

Oh snap, Marvel's Thunderbolts* was just released for streaming on Disney+ in 3D for Apple Vision Pro. That's my Friday night sorted! 😃 😃 😃

@vrhermit have you ever seen a way in RealityKit to add a highlight around an Entity, like when an Entity is selected in Reality Composer Pro? Put a little glow outline around it?

Ok, I'm truly torn. One the one hand, I'd love to try macOS Tahoe beta with Xcode 26 and try coding with some AI support to see how that goes. Should I:

* go all in, upgrade my laptop to Tahoe
* partition a volume and reboot into it to try this stuff out or
* fogetaboutit, it's not worth it […]

#til #wwdc the helpful answer I got from the Apple team about SwiftUI window management was to look at the new .defaultLaunchBehavior and .restorationBehavior view modifiers in visionOS 26. To help make window management more…manageable.

#til #wwdc my visionOS question is the most upvoted in the visionOS group lab, whoo-hoo!

I recently was informed that I am no longer being considered for a prospective career opportunity I was really excited for. Heartbreaking. I could use a hug.

‎Exploring Mars ‎Meet NASA's Perseverance Rover, on a mission to explore the surface of Mars. Perseverance launched from Florida in 2020 and landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover is collecting samples and analyzing the geology, atmosphere and chemistry of Mars to search for signs of past life in and around…

Amazing! Exploring Mars app for Vision Pro is featured in the Vision Pro iPhone app this week! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exploring-mars/id6475634958

Anyone using #Couchbase DB with edge sync with their native iOS app? If so, what has your experience been like? Thanks for sharing.

timmitra (@timmitra@mastodon.social) 1.2K Posts, 526 Following, 481 Followers · I strive to create honest and knowledgeable solutions that empower people to embrace change. podcaster, iOS Eng, artist, tech writer, feminist 🇨🇦 https://lnk.bio/Timmitra #fedi22 #iosdevelopment #iosPodcast #swiftpodcast #technology #mobileappdevelopment #podcasts #swiftui #a11y

@timmitra know any good repos of cool MaterialX shaders for Rrality Composer Pro?

If you are concerned about the proposed 50% cut to #NASA's science budget, then write your representative in congress. The #PlanetarySociety provides on online form that will only take 2 minutes of your time:

https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/50

The people I work with and I love our jobs at NASA. Imminent budget cuts threaten the future of science in the USA. Please consider advocating on our behalf to let us continue studying the Earth and our solar system. The Planetary Society makes it easy to tell Congress and the executive branch […]

@designatednerd That is spectacular! Way to go, Ellen!

Journaling Suggestions | Apple Developer Documentation Display a set of recent, personal events that inspire someone to contribute to your app’s creative workflow.

Any devs building an app with the Journaling Suggestions API? If so, how have you adopted it and what has your experience been like? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/JournalingSuggestions

Newly updated for Apple Vision Pro: Experience the wonder of standing on Mars with full immersion in real NASA data including authentic recorded wind from the red planet.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exploring-mars/id6475634958

[Possible spoilers for Severance season 2 episodes 3,4]

Hot take on today's Severance episode:

I loved this week's story but only as a bottle episode. Huge reveal from last week had no consequences at all! This week, huge reveal and cruel outcome crammed into the last few minutes of the […]

Finally had the courage to try Swift 6 mode in a new app project I'm working on. Only 3 errors, now fixed, all app functionality maintained. Making my SwiftData models Codable required adding Sendable structs of my model classes.

I'm grateful that my first step into Swift 6 was a gentle one […]

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@Drmarkpowell It's been having some perfomance issues due to some Bluesky stuff changing but https://skybridge.fly.dev lets you use Ivory with Bluesky. It's missing a few things but the tradeoff has been worth it to me.

I just tried hooking up #reederapp to my Bluesky and Mastodon accounts, and it is functional but hardly optimal. The scroll is not ideal for reading posts…it’s no #Ivory. But, they did get the idea that it sure is nice to have all the reading in one place.

Is there an app like #Ivory for BlueSky? I love Mastodon so much but I want to read what people are posting on BlueSky now as well, ideally with one app like Ivory. I set up the Bridgy Fed thing but I don't think it helps me do this…or I don't understand how to use it to help me do this.

In case anyone is interested, after discussing the AWS product roadmap with them, it is clear that DataStore is on the way out. Recommend that no one use it for any new development and anyone currently using it begin making plans to rearchitect. #Amplify #AppSync

There does not seem to be any […]