Home automation is a thing that keeps getting talked about and marketed and played with, but which overwhelmingly manages to miss being actually useful for me. “Set the lights in the den to 50% and tinted amber,” is such a common example that I feel like I must be one of the only humans whoContinue reading “Home automation system Home Assistant”
Category Archives: Products
App Publishing Tool: AltStore
This has come across my awareness a couple of times in the past several weeks, and it sort of entangles with some app development ideas I’ve been wrestling with. But anyway: AltStore. It’s a way to distribute apps to iOS platforms without (sort of) going through the Apple App Store. The easy way is onlyContinue reading “App Publishing Tool: AltStore”
File Sharing Software: Syncthing
Okay, there’s this software project called Syncthing. At its core, what it does is synchronize files among multiple devices. This is the kind of thing that I’m currently using Dropbox and Box and, to a much lesser extent, Google Drive for.
Tapestry and the Limitations of RSS
Okay, first thing: big ups to @IconFactory@iconfactory.world for releasing the first beta of Tapestry. This promises to improve my quality of life and I’m thrilled to be a supporter. As requested, I shall not be posting screenshots.
Here’s a (docker) image for you
We’re getting closer to a long vacation with intermittent Internet, so I’m going through all my developer tools, making sure that everything’s ready. Now that I know how to get VSCode to persist its downloaded stuff between runs in a given container (make sure there’s a .vscode-server/extensions directory in the container user’s $HOME), I wantedContinue reading “Here’s a (docker) image for you”
Software Release!
I’m pleased to announce the release of an updated version of Stumpy. Mostly, the differences from the previous version will be invisible; the one user-facing difference being that, since I’m only supporting macOS 12+, I can wrap the list of servers in a ScrollView, so you don’t have to resize the window if you’re runningContinue reading “Software Release!”
App Clip
So, when I saw the bit about App Clips at WWDC last year, I wasn’t terribly excited. After all, QR codes have been around for ages; the fact that Apple ignored them until they could figure out a proprietary version struck me as par for the course. Even the example use case they gave (stillContinue reading “App Clip”