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Sven A. Schmidt
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Physicist & techie. #CERN alumnus.
Co-creator https://mas.to/@SwiftPackageIndex.
Hummingbird app https://hbird.app. Europe • he/him

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@gastonrampersad 🧑‍🍳💋
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Back home after five days away - we missed each other 😍

#catsofmastodon
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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@agiletortoise Is it possible somehow to pre populate the recipient for a message in the Scan Document action?

I’d love to set up a simple one button workflow so my mom can scan and send documents in one go.

If Scan Document had a binary output I could […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The queen will see you now
#catsofmastodon
Dora, our tabby with white paws, a white belly and chin, is residing on our couch table (yes, but that battle has long been lost as the sofa is the same height and how do you explain that to yourself let alone a cat). Anyway, she’s on the couch table on a beige cushion, her front paws comfortably curled. She looks very regal, as she does. In the background there’s a bit of blue sky with a couple of clouds and the the green hillside of the park our winter garden is facing.
September 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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OrbStack is getting better and better. If you're using #docker on a #mac, use OrbStack.
OrbStack is a proper Mac app - not an electron app. It has all the bells and whistles of a Docker install, including a list of running and stopped containers, images, volumes viewable as you’d expect via a sidebar and middle pane. The container detail view lets you see container info, the logs, launch a terminal and access the containers files. Here, the logs view is active, showing the logs of a postgres container. This second screenshot shows the terminal (ghostty) for that same container. It’s super easy to launch a shell for debugging.
August 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Alright, mystery solved, finally.

I was right, I'd triggered a hardware button swap to left-handed mode. The problem was that I thought I had a Razer mouse when it was actually a Corsair 🤦‍♂️ I finally had the brilliant idea to “inspect” the mouse thoroughly […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of the relevant page from the linked manual that explains to hold the left (or right, depending on which mode one is switching from) forward + backward button for 5 seconds to toggle modes.
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Love the inline translation of text messages in #macos26. It can be so fiddly copying text into a separate app. And it's great to have the original around, for learning purposes.

Deals well with informal speech and abbreviations, like “aprem” for “après […]

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Example exchanges in the Messages app: Text Message • SMS Tue 5 Aug at 14:12 Hello ! J'ai une bonne partie demain 19h30 ça te dit de jouer ? Hello! I have a good game tomorrow 7:30 p.m. do you wan to play? Text Message • RCS Je peux pas demain soir, désolé! Text Message • SMS Wed 6 Aug at 11:44 Heloo sven ça va ? Tu veux jouer à 16h30 cet aprem ? Ils cherchent un joueur Hello Sven, how are you? Do you want to play at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon? They're looking for a player Salut Kev! J'ai vue la partie mais 18h c'est trop tard. Dispo seulement jusqu'à 17h30 😞 Aie mince Thin
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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So French telecom provider #bouygues has had a data breach (contact details, contractual data, civil status data or company data if you are a professional, as well as IBANs).

They're really sorry and they’ve set up a web page and a phone number you can call […]

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Dear customer, Bouygues Telecom has been the victim of a cyberattack that allowed unauthorized access to certain personal data. You are receiving this email because you are affected. The categories of data concerned, associated with your Bouygues Telecom subscriptions, are: contact details, contractual data, civil status data or company data if you are a professional, as well as IBANs. Bank card numbers and passwords for your Bouygues Telecom accounts are not affected. Our technical teams put an end to this attack as quickly as possible and we have implemented additional necessary measures to strengthen the security of our information systems. We have also informed the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL) and filed a complaint with the judicial authorities. We recommend that you be particularly vigilant regarding any abnormal use of this personal data (fraudulent calls, SMS, emails or suspicious debits on your bank account). To assist you, we provide a dedicated web page and a toll-free number at 0801 239 901. The Bouygues Telecom Mag also has a complete file on the security of your personal information. We are sincerely sorry and apologize for this incident.
August 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Six hours were enough, I’ve been forgiven! 😍

#catsofmastodon
Our tabby Hobbes is snuggled next to me and graciously accepts pets and scritches
July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Good news - today's beta 4 fixes the issue! Nova.

#macos26 #cyberpunk2077 #mac
July 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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When you get home from a long Padel tournament and find you have another best of three match ahead of you, for a place in bed 😸😸😸
Our cats Dora, Chips, and Hobbes are spread out on the bed in various poses of sleep gymnastics. Dora is lying on her back with all four paws stretched out. Chips is also on his back with his front paws curled. Hobbes is the odd one out sleeping on his belly with his dead turned to the left and towards the camera.
July 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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So which tab is active? Can you even see that there are two tabs? Everything's some sort of pill without much of a hierarchy. Or at least I find it super hard to see any hierarchy with the "light shades of grey” approach. It's all a whiteish soup 😕

#macos26 #xcode26
View of the Xcode 26 toolbar on macOS 26. As the main text says, it’s all a whiteish soup of barely distinguishable UI elements. Bland. I fail to even describe it, you’re not missing much if you can’t see it.
July 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Unplayable on #macos26 though - at least I think it's due to running on the beta OS. Visuals are completely garbled 😅

#cyberpunk2077 #mac
Heavy artifacting of the gameplay view. Launch screens and even UI overlays are fine but all the 3D rendering is completely messed up.
July 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Haven't really played yet but #cyberpunk2077 looks great on the #mac and the benchmark shows solid numbers:
In game benchmark shows 140fps on average with a low of 116fps. This is with FSR frame gen at 2560x1440 resolution. It was the default setting for my machine (M2 MacStudio) except for FSR, which I enabled.
July 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#padel
Still from the live stream showing the workout start animation on Jess Castelló’s watch
July 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Bea Gonzales, Juan Tello contre Christina Fernandez, Fede Chingotto à Antibes
#padel
June 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.
Webpage popup saying “We need to talk about your ad blocker” Safari’s privacy report for the same page showing that it prevented 10 trackers from profiling me.
June 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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I appreciate that live activities show up on my #mac now in #macos 26 but the UI looks a bit rough 😬
Screenshot of a Deliveroo live activity. The text in the menu bar item is truncated to “13:1…” - while there is enough space between the app icon on the left and the text on the right to show more of it. The popup menu item itself also has poor layout. The call to action button “Track your rider” is shown without any padding and it looks awkward.
June 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I really don’t like the bigger rounded rect radius in #macos 26 and it looks particularly out of place next to “normal” rounded rect radii.
A view of Xcode’s bottom bar with the file filter text field showing a larger rounded rect radius in the “new” macOS 26 style, while the debug pane filter text field shows the “normal” rounded rect style, the one we’re used to from macOS 15.
June 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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OrbStack is so good. It's a drop-in replacement for #docker on #mac with a sleek native app as a control centre.

https://orbstack.dev
Activity view of the OrbStack app showing a running container with metrics in the side bar resource usage: CPU, memory, network, and disk. It’s a modern Mac app with lots of additional features like viewing container logs and connecting to a running container.
June 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Mmm, what's the @.Dependency macro at 28:25 in the Platforms State of the Union? A dependency injection framework like @pointfreeco’s swift-dependencies?

#wwdc25
Screenshot from the Platforms State of the Union video showing a variable “inventory” of type “Inventory” annotated with a “@Dependency” macro.
June 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Ah yes
11:11 githubstatus.com We're experiencing errors Subscribe Update - Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:39 UTC Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:26 UTC Update - Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:25 UTC Update - We are continuing to investigate degraded performance. May 26, 2025 - 07:53 UTC Update - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 07:35 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Git Operations May 26, 2025 - 07:21 UTC Current Status: GitHub.com Git Operations Degraded
May 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I've had the need recently to compare benchmarks between runs with different configurations, like you see in the first screenshot. While it's probably (in this case) rather easy to tell which run is faster, I also created graphs for the runs initially. (1/3)
The sample input data. It contains extra log lines as well as the measurement, which themselves are on lines with extra output. The resulting graph of the two series that were parsed out of the input data. They are labelled "Series 0" and "Series 1" and shown with blue and green dots, respectively. In this visual repforthtation, you can see that Series 0 has faster run times, except for one outlier in the forth iteration.
May 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Just had a random PR approval and was wondering why anyone would do that. Looks like the account has been doing that a lot. What's the point? Build up some sort of activity for future actions? 🤔

The repos they acted on seem entirely random, across languages and technologies.
April 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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It’s important to recognise your coworker every once in a while 😻

#catsofmastodon
April 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM