Technically apps that use ads in notifications aren’t even permitted in the App Store in the first place. Unfortunately Apple’s own services team has been violating that rule with impunity for years so it’s effectively a dead letter.

… by requiring account creation would no longer exist and anonymous browsing would be viable even with age verification in place.

Having a free and simple API would also be fairer to indie developers and small businesses who Ofcom currently seems to be pretending don’t exist.

Platforms like Reddit which ordinarily allow anonymous browsing are requiring an account to do age verification. Presumably this is because the commercial verification services charge per verification.

If a govt system were free to use then that financial incentive to minimise age verifications…

Ooo interesting.

Did you… edit your post?

The pricing is also much better than GitHub Actions for macOS machines. It is very noticeable though the gulf in quality between software that Apple makes for “customers” vs. developers. Building a CI solution around a single language is such an opportunity to make it great, and it just isn’t. 5/5

There isn’t even any solution for using Swift Macros beyond disabling the security protections entirely. The code signing at least “just works” and I had no issues with my tests which use a mix of XCTest and Swift Testing, so it’s not all bad. 4/5

And then there’s the lack of support for Swift tooling despite the whole CI system being designed around that one language. Tools like Swift Lint have no integration at all, you’re to install them manually and dig through the logs to see their output. 3/5

The web UI is so hilariously slow that you can often see the DOM nodes loading one by one. It also doesn’t seem to stream the logs in realtime at all, they appear in one go at the end of the build. Compared to GitHub Actions it’s embarrassingly unpolished. 2/5

… prioritizing what “execs will love” over the interests of the users that they are supposed to be designing for. 2/2

I understand pragmatically wanting to focus on iOS first, but I don’t understand why they didn’t wait a few years to add macOS support rather than shipping it in this woeful state.

Same thing again: yesterday’s thread by @bsky.app didn’t appear in my feed. The post from 6 days ago did though, so it’s intermittent. This time I tried unfollowing and re-following and sure enough the thread is now there. Maybe the re-follow fixes it for me permanently but there’s definitely a bug.

Can’t abide spending good money on beautifully engineered hardware and then covering it up with a bland case.

Yeah before bothering you I triple checked that: I follow the account, haven’t blocked it, haven’t muted it, and don’t have any mute words. Also, if it were a mute or block I wouldn’t be able to see it in your quote post either, right?

Still a no show >12 hours later so presumably not. I’ve never noticed errant posts before though so if no one else has reported it I guess it’s probably a fluke.

Appreciate your help anyhow!

Is there a known issue with missing posts? I follow the Bluesky account and the post you quoted is missing from my chronological timeline. (Checked the getTimeline response in the Network tab and the post isn’t inside so it’s not filtered out front-end).

I feel like the budgetary issues got worse after the Amazon renewal. Season 4 was mostly fine but the S5 Clarissa Mao demon mode CGI was 🤢. Maybe we’ll get lucky and Apple will adapt the final three books after the rights expire at Amazon.