Christian Tietze
@ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Developer of indie macOS apps. The Archive, WordCounter, TableFlip, Move!
Using #Xcode to write #Swift and sometimes #SwiftUI apps for #iOS and #Mac.
OG […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@ctietze on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Using #Xcode to write #Swift and sometimes #SwiftUI apps for #iOS and #Mac.
OG […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@ctietze on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
https://christiantietze.de/ama/
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christiantietze.de
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
https://christiantietze.de/ama/
90mins to go until this week's Open Office Hour!
Ask me anything, talk about projects
90mins to go until this week's Open Office Hour!
Ask me anything, talk about projects
Reposted by Christian Tietze
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Ugh. Probably botched a technical challenge for a job opening because I couldn't remember the order of DispatchGroup enter, leave, and whether to use wait or notify -- and the documentation I was allowed to access has 0 examples. What a waste :(
But I'm happy that I combined three Combine […]
But I'm happy that I combined three Combine […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Ugh. Probably botched a technical challenge for a job opening because I couldn't remember the order of DispatchGroup enter, leave, and whether to use wait or notify -- and the documentation I was allowed to access has 0 examples. What a waste :(
But I'm happy that I combined three Combine […]
But I'm happy that I combined three Combine […]
Reposted by Christian Tietze
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
Reposted by Christian Tietze
> What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling #solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s […]
Original post on norden.social
norden.social
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
> What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling #solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s […]
Honest question:
Is there a chance to make any Emacs shell truly as well-behaved as dedicated applications like iTerm, Ghostty, Kitty?
Eshell is amazing, and it's of course something slightly different. I'd like it to be not as different, that's all. Evaluate Elisp, I'm good with that. But […]
Is there a chance to make any Emacs shell truly as well-behaved as dedicated applications like iTerm, Ghostty, Kitty?
Eshell is amazing, and it's of course something slightly different. I'd like it to be not as different, that's all. Evaluate Elisp, I'm good with that. But […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Honest question:
Is there a chance to make any Emacs shell truly as well-behaved as dedicated applications like iTerm, Ghostty, Kitty?
Eshell is amazing, and it's of course something slightly different. I'd like it to be not as different, that's all. Evaluate Elisp, I'm good with that. But […]
Is there a chance to make any Emacs shell truly as well-behaved as dedicated applications like iTerm, Ghostty, Kitty?
Eshell is amazing, and it's of course something slightly different. I'd like it to be not as different, that's all. Evaluate Elisp, I'm good with that. But […]
Question to #supernote users:
I got used to Calibre Sync (Google Play Store) to download books from my own Calibre ebook library onto the device.
I find file and book management with file upload to the Supernote clumsy and inflexible.
How do you cope? What do you use to get (ideally: pull!) […]
I got used to Calibre Sync (Google Play Store) to download books from my own Calibre ebook library onto the device.
I find file and book management with file upload to the Supernote clumsy and inflexible.
How do you cope? What do you use to get (ideally: pull!) […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Question to #supernote users:
I got used to Calibre Sync (Google Play Store) to download books from my own Calibre ebook library onto the device.
I find file and book management with file upload to the Supernote clumsy and inflexible.
How do you cope? What do you use to get (ideally: pull!) […]
I got used to Calibre Sync (Google Play Store) to download books from my own Calibre ebook library onto the device.
I find file and book management with file upload to the Supernote clumsy and inflexible.
How do you cope? What do you use to get (ideally: pull!) […]
I set my Ghostty split view divider color to
split-divider-color = "#aaaaaa"
and although it may be considered ugly, I actually like the contrast and simplicity somewhat
split-divider-color = "#aaaaaa"
and although it may be considered ugly, I actually like the contrast and simplicity somewhat
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I set my Ghostty split view divider color to
split-divider-color = "#aaaaaa"
and although it may be considered ugly, I actually like the contrast and simplicity somewhat
split-divider-color = "#aaaaaa"
and although it may be considered ugly, I actually like the contrast and simplicity somewhat
The city's library has a wishlist form, nothing fancy, that is explicitly marked as not working with Internet Explorer anymore.
1) Who uses IE still?
2) How many of these people try to use the form that prompted the library to put up that warning?
3) Why […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
1) Who uses IE still?
2) How many of these people try to use the form that prompted the library to put up that warning?
3) Why […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The city's library has a wishlist form, nothing fancy, that is explicitly marked as not working with Internet Explorer anymore.
1) Who uses IE still?
2) How many of these people try to use the form that prompted the library to put up that warning?
3) Why […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
1) Who uses IE still?
2) How many of these people try to use the form that prompted the library to put up that warning?
3) Why […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
When I did let Claude Code commit changes on my behalf, I didn't feel good about _my name_ being put into the git log in my own projects. I'm fine with signing-off and reviewing, but then I become the co-author, not the main author.
This didn't sit well with me.
Luckily, git offers a ton of […]
This didn't sit well with me.
Luckily, git offers a ton of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
When I did let Claude Code commit changes on my behalf, I didn't feel good about _my name_ being put into the git log in my own projects. I'm fine with signing-off and reviewing, but then I become the co-author, not the main author.
This didn't sit well with me.
Luckily, git offers a ton of […]
This didn't sit well with me.
Luckily, git offers a ton of […]
Reposted by Christian Tietze
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Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
phpc.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
RE: c.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://phpc.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
Be Honest When Claude Code Writes Your Software https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/11/be-honest-when-claude-code-writes-your-software/
You can change the git author configuration with environment variables to make Claude sign off commits not with your name, which in collaborative settings […]
You can change the git author configuration with environment variables to make Claude sign off commits not with your name, which in collaborative settings […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Be Honest When Claude Code Writes Your Software https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/11/be-honest-when-claude-code-writes-your-software/
You can change the git author configuration with environment variables to make Claude sign off commits not with your name, which in collaborative settings […]
You can change the git author configuration with environment variables to make Claude sign off commits not with your name, which in collaborative settings […]
Imagine the privacy settings etc etc in macOS were all grouped around apps, not around settings panes.
Then you wouldn't need to know al the arcane places to grant keyboard input, accessibility privileges, full disk access, and displaying notifications -- just one.
Then you wouldn't need to know al the arcane places to grant keyboard input, accessibility privileges, full disk access, and displaying notifications -- just one.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Imagine the privacy settings etc etc in macOS were all grouped around apps, not around settings panes.
Then you wouldn't need to know al the arcane places to grant keyboard input, accessibility privileges, full disk access, and displaying notifications -- just one.
Then you wouldn't need to know al the arcane places to grant keyboard input, accessibility privileges, full disk access, and displaying notifications -- just one.
Wow, homebrew has modern CLI progress outpt with parallel downloads and stuff now
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Wow, homebrew has modern CLI progress outpt with parallel downloads and stuff now
I notice that during the time I didn't use Xcode for apps and did e.g. web stuff, I was far less angry
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I notice that during the time I didn't use Xcode for apps and did e.g. web stuff, I was far less angry
Great, Xcode hangs because I edited a file outside of Xcode and now it cannot be autosaved by Xcode anymore. Peak quality.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Great, Xcode hangs because I edited a file outside of Xcode and now it cannot be autosaved by Xcode anymore. Peak quality.
I'm confused that people request ASMR content to fall asleep to or call the experience of me reading Swift Evolution proposals on camera "soothing".
I'm stressed out in the process because nothing makes sense.
I'm stressed out in the process because nothing makes sense.
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm confused that people request ASMR content to fall asleep to or call the experience of me reading Swift Evolution proposals on camera "soothing".
I'm stressed out in the process because nothing makes sense.
I'm stressed out in the process because nothing makes sense.
I forgot about the daylight lamp this year!
All the mornings where I could have had an amazing mood by blasting my retinas away, wasted.
No more!
All the mornings where I could have had an amazing mood by blasting my retinas away, wasted.
No more!
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I forgot about the daylight lamp this year!
All the mornings where I could have had an amazing mood by blasting my retinas away, wasted.
No more!
All the mornings where I could have had an amazing mood by blasting my retinas away, wasted.
No more!
I wonder how #nextcloud will invest 250 million EUR in 5 years -- where does the money come from? Isn't that EU funding?
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I wonder how #nextcloud will invest 250 million EUR in 5 years -- where does the money come from? Isn't that EU funding?
This powers Valve's VR headset's emulator of x86 Windows games on an ARM Linux machine that's built into the device:
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
(I wonder whether that'd be useful to port to Mac 👀 I admit I have zero […]
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
(I wonder whether that'd be useful to port to Mac 👀 I admit I have zero […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This powers Valve's VR headset's emulator of x86 Windows games on an ARM Linux machine that's built into the device:
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
(I wonder whether that'd be useful to port to Mac 👀 I admit I have zero […]
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
(I wonder whether that'd be useful to port to Mac 👀 I admit I have zero […]
StackOverflow and YouTube videos tell you about "how" to indicate that a SwiftUI.ReferenceFileDocument needs to be saved --
-- but in reality, all answers just tell you how to wire the document to register changes.
An "indicator" would be UI, or state at least!
To _indicate_ that a file has […]
-- but in reality, all answers just tell you how to wire the document to register changes.
An "indicator" would be UI, or state at least!
To _indicate_ that a file has […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
StackOverflow and YouTube videos tell you about "how" to indicate that a SwiftUI.ReferenceFileDocument needs to be saved --
-- but in reality, all answers just tell you how to wire the document to register changes.
An "indicator" would be UI, or state at least!
To _indicate_ that a file has […]
-- but in reality, all answers just tell you how to wire the document to register changes.
An "indicator" would be UI, or state at least!
To _indicate_ that a file has […]
Had a weird Windows computer in the network pane in Finder today. That kind of freaked me out; guess it's time to change the WiFi password.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Had a weird Windows computer in the network pane in Finder today. That kind of freaked me out; guess it's time to change the WiFi password.
Whoah -- only now do I realize that the recent announcement to make #affinity apps free _also_ comes with a new unified "Affinity App", so that Designer, Publisher, and Photo become one single application.
That's wild. Also, I kind of love the idea
That's wild. Also, I kind of love the idea
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Whoah -- only now do I realize that the recent announcement to make #affinity apps free _also_ comes with a new unified "Affinity App", so that Designer, Publisher, and Photo become one single application.
That's wild. Also, I kind of love the idea
That's wild. Also, I kind of love the idea