Adrian Schönig :kangaroo:
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Adrian Schönig :kangaroo:
@nighthawk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Dad, cyclist, loves playing in the sand. Making mobility apps at SkedGo. Indie iOS/macOS/visionOS developer of @longplay and @maparoni.

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Reposted by Adrian Schönig :kangaroo:
I wrote a whole-ass theme song for my newest #yoyo trick. A full tutorial for this can be found on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxeyGqrBrb4
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/115725926850996438

Woohoo! A fresh episode of my favourite bi-annual podcast.
mastodon.social
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
That was a weird one! Obsidian on my Mac became totally unusable. Always went into a spinning beachball a few seconds after launch. I tried removing its Application Support folder, removing my `.obsidian` folder in my vault, starting afresh with a new vault […]

[Original post on aus.social]
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Ich freu mich richtig über die Rezension von Longplay im Mac & i-Magazin: https://www.heise.de/select/mac-and-i/2025/6/2520215291195478569
Plattenspieler
Longplay zelebriert die stilvolle Wiedergabe kompletter Alben.
www.heise.de
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hey Siri, start a one minute if-you-happy-and-you-know-it-stop-your timer.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A cautionary tale: I tried migrating a document-based app to SwiftUI's DocumentGroup and ReferenceFileDocument. Love the semantics and the code is simpler than with AppKit/UIKit. Unfortunately you get a plethora of bugs. iOS doesn’t save as some internal EnvironmentObject doesn’t release the […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Bye Dye. I'm _thrilled_ to see where Apple software design is going next.
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The built-in App Suggestions widget on iOS 26 has no background or border. Is there a way for third-party apps to do the same? #iosdev
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm excited for the Steam devices despite their lower specs. It boils down to their unrestricted capabilities: https://adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2025/11/23/capability/
Capability
I love the take from Valve engineers on their philosophy for the Steam devices: > We don’t block anyone from doing what they want to with their device. […] This is your device, your computer, you own it, you can mod it and extend it in any way. Compare that to Apple’s stewardship where they decide what you can do with your devices. I’d love to be _able_ to do more and experiment more, even if the experience would be far from polished and I might go back to a more regular setup. Wouldn’t it be exciting to: * Run iPadOS on my iPhone with multi-tasking and driving an external display – like this post on reddit (via Craig Grannell) * Run a desktop-class operating system on Vision Pro. The hardware is capable of it. It’s so strange that connecting even a lesser spec’ed Mac, let’s you do more. * Create your own Apple Watch faces. I created a custom one for my wife’s Garmin watch as a little present, and it’s just lovely do be able to do that. * Turn my AppleTV box into a tiny home server. Apple makes incredibly capable hardware but what you can do with it is limited by Apple’s software: more “cap” than “ability”.
adrian.schoenig.me
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Oh, boy, here am I busy preparing a round of updated Mac App Store screenshots, and just as I'm about to reach the finish line and call it a day, I realise that I made them all with Sequoia. That was time well spent.
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Ditch that Nvidia stock for that of case makers. Those Weighted Companion Cube cases for the Steam Machine will fly off the shelves.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
7-year-old: What’s the name of the pretty purple trees that sounds like jack-o’-lantern?

That’s a good way to remember when #jacaranda season usually kicks into full gear.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Devs, don't fall for the hype. LLMs are just a lousy management trick to fool you into finally writing specs and documentation.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Adrian Schönig :kangaroo:
Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Good to see a bunch of native music apps coming out for the Mac. Gives me some hope that Apple will dedicate sufficient resources to improve #musickit and address its various rough edges. 🤞
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A remarkably good web app on mobile is @phanpy . It’s such a beautiful Mastodon client and I really like how it groups boosts and displays threads. Better than many native clients.
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Instabug got gobbled up by AI, renamed to Luciq, is now all "agentic", pricing information from their website and their dashboard got removed and replaced with "contact sales" links. No, thanks. What are reliable alternatives for in-app bug reporting that capture recent user steps and networking […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The heat has arrived. 🥵
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Woot woot. Very much looking forward to The Living End coming to Sydney. Stellar venue, too: forecourt of the Opera House.
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Did AI folks just rebrand CLIs, scripts, and documentation as "LLM Skills"?
October 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Fun little AppleScript exploration: I am a-scrobblin' to Discord.
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Disappointing that #musickit doesn't yet allow adding something to your library on a Mac – just on iOS. Would make a nice addition to Longplay's automation and MCP server.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickit/musiclibrary/add(_:)
add(_:) | Apple Developer Documentation
Adds an item to the user’s music library.
developer.apple.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM