I work at Panic • We make the Playdate • We published Untitled Goose Game, wow that game got such acclaim • Hey, also Firewatch • And soon there’s Nour • We make great apps, never stopped, like Transmit, Nova and Prompt
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Last Notes npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser A powerful new ride spotted in Portland npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I feel like we can all just say “price” instead of “price point”. And “design” instead of “form factor”. Thank you 🙏 npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser You know what would be amazing? If a bunch of streaming services — cross-corporation! — all got together and offered a bundle of a BUNCH of streaming apps for one price! Why not? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’m always surprised that Apple engraving is free. I mean, not even $10? On one hand, that’s really awesome of them!! On another, far more cynical hand, I wonder, why? Conspiracy theory, but, does it meaningfully reduce resale value? Hmm. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Oh my god. “Pulling out all the stops” of an organ means opening all the valves to generate maximum sound, absolute full power. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’m pretty much an activist because every day I attempt one of the most radical, subversive acts a human being can do: figuring out which button rejects all the cookies on a website npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser An incredibly cool WebGL demo from our good friends at Little Workshop, who can make amazing things happen in a web browser. https://equinox.space npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’m afraid to say this out loud, but I’ve always wondered why there’s an unwritten social contract that taggers don’t tag cars. Ignoring that it would be the absolute worst… like, why don’t they? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Dropbox has been working on a new client using Apple’s “File Provider” system for literal YEARS — and we’ve never been given it. Today I learned it won’t roll out if your Dropbox has over 300,000 files. Extremely curious* to know what bug they’re waiting on Apple to fix here. 😵💫 npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser It’s so weird being at Moscone / Yerba Buena for a big conference — my brain keeps expecting to run into fellow Mac developers?! I guess I miss WWDC and Macworld! But no, it’s GDC, and I know no-one. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser The deadstock Tokyo Disneyland bumper sticker on my Toyota Town Ace had horribly faded… but don’t worry! I have plenty more deadstock Tokyo Disneyland bumper stickers npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser It is so, so incredibly cool that I can open a web browser and instantly play with the first Mac app that Steve and I ever made. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Yesterday I was out with the kids all day and got eight (eight!) separate compliments on my shirt from complete strangers. That’s eight more than I’ve ever received in my life. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1mc3…nkdg when this happened to my centurylink fiber once, a squirrel had cleanly chewed through the wire. if that helps at all npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I never in a million years imagined that one day you’d be able to write Playdate games in Swift (!!!). npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser "Where do I see myself in five years? Great question. Optimistically, leading police on a high-speed chase while driving Bob Hope’s golf cart” npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Delighted to learn that not only did Edison prefer “Hello” over “Ahoy” as a phone greeting, but he believed that with “Hello” they wouldn’t even need to ring a bell for an incoming call — because you could easily hear somebody yelling “Hello” through your phone receiver from “10 to 20 feet away”. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Another redesign found in the wild. Do you know which logo is the new logo? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’m profoundly compelled and drawn to this drawing of Batman, as seen on a deck of Japanese playing cards via Y! Auctions. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Redesign In The Wild®. Do you know which one is new? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Dang the Mastodon spam just never stops, does it? I am hopeful there are a lot of protocol-related discussions happening right now by smart people npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I just wish they would update Camera Raw for once npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser ok, which one of you sued nutella and forced them to add a “nutella fill level” to this package npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Lost in the mass sterilization and boringification of macOS UI design was the incredible diversity and uniqueness that user-created themes brought us. Is it really better for humanity that every window has clean, antiseptic lines decided on by a handful of folks at Apple Park? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’ve never been more excited to do a blog post. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser For better or worse, I’m on a Mastodon server by myself. And I have a couple Masto tech npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Nuts. No Apple Vision Pro for this guy. 😭 😭 😭 npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1utv…87lr It’s wild that, for example, I don’t even know if they ever got the eye screen thing working. Last I heard it wasn’t in the devkits. Does it work?! Are there pictures?! npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Wordpress advertises that you can customize the look of email newsletters, but I couldn’t find settings for that — so I wrote support. They replied and said actually, no, there are no settings for that. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser What defines our note range when whistling? Is there some kind of special surgery to allow whistlers to hit much higher or lower notes? Does it correlate with vocal range? Hit me up if you’re a professional whistler, let’s start this year off right with important answers npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I really miss being in Japan but at least I can still check on the status of the washing machines in one of our hotels. http://52.197.74.88/sp/laundry.php npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1utv…87lr I keep meaning to tell you — apparently it took a complete rewrite of the TV app (why!!), but I can FINALLY (!!!) see my full library of purchased content in tvOS 17.2. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1utv…87lr If I wasn’t busy today I’d come say hi, but I will note there’s a brand new Din Tai Fung in the (pretty empty) mall across the street from the Apple Store that is super nice!!! There’s a bar too, good place to hang out probably. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Now that’s a line-up npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser This game is really good — it’s also just 39 KB in size, which delights me https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/111449950492919109 npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser ✨ It’s true. I’ve been working on this blog post for ten years. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser which photo of this ghostly empty bank do you prefer npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I’m very excited tonight’s Apple event is presented in Spatial Audio because I’m hoping it means Tim Cook gets really really close to your right ear and whispers in it npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1eee…e209 Oh wild. For text message spam, iOS won’t highlight the link until you reply, and that was obviously driving spammers crazy and tanking their engagement. Did spammers figure out that by using shortcodes, the link gets highlighted?! Why would iOS do that?! npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I found of a "Video Professor" VHS tape digitized on YouTube. I edited it down, but this is EXACTLY how it was uploaded. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Happy “Still Subscribe To This Thing Superstitiously Even Though I Have Apple Music Because I Don’t Want Anything To Happen To My Music Library” Day to all who celebrate npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1td4…q4cm it’s time for my annual “I really appreciate you Ricky for all the work you do and am so hyped to see Passkeys moving quickly and we are lucky to have you and I’m lucky to know you” Ricky appreciation post!! Let it be known® npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1psd…9sr7 Oh, the PAMPHLET!! Well. That was designed by me so I am directly responsible!! Let’s see. That first “Welcome” page is the most important, and the “Help” URL is critical so it’s big! But the physical size limitations of that pamphlet did made it tough to put all the information on here for sure. (The Regulatory stuff on the back, no human should ever read, so it’s very very small.) I can maybe revisit it for the next round! What QR code are you referring to, though? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1psd…9sr7 Yes! We did. The most important piece of the Playdate puzzle is: light. Playdate has a screen designed to reflect actual light. Daylight is best by far, or play next to a good lamp. Were you in a darker environment? (Also, if it helps, we also developed the “Playdate Mirror” app just so you can easily mirror the Playdate screen on your PC, Mac, or Linux for people who find it’s simply too hard to see! It’s a great way to play.) npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Question! Is there a Mastodon app that lets you pre-write a few messages in a chain, and then post them all at once? I’m so used to doing that on Twitter for bigger ideas, and I don’t want to have to rapidly reply to my own message to then type the second part. Or, is that like philosophically not good on here? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Important announcement. CONDIMENT COW npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser This is a stretch, but: anyone here a fluent Japanese speaker/translator who would be willing to translate a very specific block of English text for a personal side project/blog post? I will pay (a bit) for your time! Let me know! npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser iOS won’t highlight links in messages from unknown senders — which is really safe and smart. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I love Passkeys, and also believe that Passkeys will, eventually, eliminate my need for 1Password (which I like — but would like to not need!). macOS/iOS Passkeys automatically sync to all my devices, they’re not a text string, they just work. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser @npub1r2f…wacd Also consider this 10,000 mAh version, with screen (love a charging status screen! Very useful!) and built in USB-C cable, for just $50. https://amzn.to/3Ra9lqg npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser We got a mailing list bounce for someone at @nobelprize.org, so I manually removed the address so they wouldn't get bothered again. I feel like that means I now quality for the Nobel Prize npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser New curse: may you live long enough to see a band you loved write a mediocre song about cancel culture 😩 npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Hotel UI challenge!! Which of the two sides of this door hanger do you think is used for “please clean my room”? npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Well, that’s a new one. This album suddenly, unexpectedly came back — as did all other Raymond Scott-related albums — in one giant notification blast. What on earth happened here npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser the best closet at Chuck E. Cheese was unlocked npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser This is your periodic reminder that, unless you buy and download the music you love, it will absolutely disappear out from under you at some point. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser 🌟 I have scanned 28 issues of "Backstage Disneyland", an incredible, beautiful cast member newsletter from the 60's, 70's and early 80's — and they're now on the Internet Archive for you to read. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser Question for my 🇨🇦 Canadian friends. While digging through ancient photos for my Storyeum post, I found this photo of a signed photo on the wall of a random restaurant in Vancouver BC. npub18kl7xs82r4lheev4sf97jy7lj52p2vhwalyhmw8fglyhczmxudks6qtz7y Cabel Sasser I can't stop thinking about this yogurt that comes in an ACTUAL TERRA COTTA POT?
