Holy crap. It’s hard to buy a toolbox. Everyone has switched to Milwaukee Packout-style “systems,” and finding a quality basic toolbox is nigh impossible.

You know what golden rule of UI Apple has forsaken? Modelessness. SO MUCH UI is modal now, and it’s particularly egregious on macOS as it has converged more and more toward iOS. SwiftUI’s promise of a universal framework makes macOS apps that just plain suck.

For example, I was trying to create an automation in Home.app. On an iPhone, this is a very constrained process, with a series of screens you step through in order.

It’s the same on macOS, thanks to SwiftUI. But if you decide partway through that you want to check a different automation, you have to abandon the current one you’re building. There’s no way to move it out of the way and look at the others.

I fucking hate it here.

#Apple #macOS #SwiftUI #iOS

I'm a bad capitalist and I feel fine

The system calls it failing. I call it refusing to play a rigged game. Being a bad capitalist has to be structural, not voluntary, because self-regulation never held.

https://blog.barrow.me/posts/im-a-bad-capitalist-and-i-feel-fine/

My slow ride into AI

Three years from treating ChatGPT as a fancier Google to running agents against my own infrastructure, and why experience is what made the tools work.

https://blog.barrow.me/posts/my-slow-ride-into-ai/

Is anyone interested in trying out a little light-time messenger app I’ve been working on? It simulates what it might be like communicating with each other while living across the solar system.

It’s early days still, and the server is likely to be wiped before any real release.

iOS only for now.

#iOS #App #IndieDev

These are not the models you're looking for

I read the LLM benchmark charts, but they don't tell me what I need to know. What does: data terms, billing shape, reliability, and starting cheap before escalating.

https://blog.barrow.me/posts/2026-10-03-these-are-not-the-models-youre-looking-for/

Does anyone else experience excruciatingly long waits when building and running from Xcode to an iOS device over WiFi?

#Xcode #iOS

Wow, the writers of SNW just can’t be bothered to write a single good episode, can they? They’re so lazy; everything is so contrived.

#StarTrek

RE: https://geekstodon.com/@JetForMe/117322359222802150

Okay I think I might’ve figured this out. I have `mode=developer` on my AASA entitlements, and on devices with AASA developer mode turned off, this seems to fail with

Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError Code=1004 "Unable to verify webcredentials association of <redacted BundleID> with domain <redacted hostname>. Please try again in a few seconds."

Removing that seems to have fixed my local test case, gonna try to run it through ASC again and see if a friend can no longer repro it.

Help! Beta App Review is rejecting my app for using passkey login. That is, they claim they can’t access parts of the app, saying I need to provide demo credentials.

But my app uses passkeys exclusively, and it’s impossible to provide demo credentials.

I’ve replied to app review twice with no response. I’ve posted to the dev forums with no response. I’ve submitted a support request but that’ll take a couple days at best.

Anyone know anyone? @justkwin, any ideas?

#Apple #AppReview #Xcode #iOS #AppStore #AppStoreConnect #AppleDeveloper

Jesus tapdancing christ, Apple. Why is the shared clipboard *still* this fucking broken in macOS/iOS 27???

#Apple #macOS #iOS

macOS continues to get uglier and uglier.

I have *so very many* little electronics evaluation kits and embedded MCU boards and such that are out of date (e.g. more than 10 or even 15 years old). I also have things like Soekris stomp boxes (celluar-wifi gateways). I need to get rid of a bunch of it, but I hate to just e-waste it all. I just can’t imagine anyone wanting it.

Any ideas?

Gods I hate clickbait.

To anyone who makes any kind of UI: stop moving shit! Stop making shit appear on top of another target. Goddammit you all suck.

SwiftUI is mediocre. That’s the best I can say about it. This video goes into depth.

https://youtu.be/3XaHHFOZeJg?is=9DKv4CzejgR509Q4

Apple should have open-sourced SwiftUI in a way similar to how it open-sourced the Swift language.

#SwiftUI #Swift #iOS #macOS #Xcode #Apple

Does anyone want my #OpenSauce ticket for $150 ($163 face value)? I don’t think I can make it.

If you’re in the US, please leave a public comment on proposed USPS regulation that would hamper mail-in voting:

https://act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-usps-proposed-rule

#VotingRights

@justkwin do you know anyone in the Dev Forums infrastructure group? I've been on the phone with Apple Developer Support for 45 minutes now as they try to figure out how to even begin to help me with this.

Okay, it seems my IP address has been blacklisted from the developer forums. No device in my home can connect without getting a 403 Forbidden back from it, but if I connect via my cellular connection, it's good.

Anyone know anyone at #Apple?