Ben Packard

Special Pizza Correspondent. iOS developer - @mezzanineapp amongst others. He/Him. Also at

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@ChristianSelig How do you get the eyes to print so soulful?

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@marcgoone Look at those sweet babies there.

(Different hands, same session).

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@shelby_young @TeamYouTube You are right of course. I think they are assuming content like yours is going to appeal to kids anyway (or be surfaced often enough in their searches) so they want those additional features/constraints to apply. The label they use is just dumb/dishonest marketing speak.

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@NateSilver538 Some decent action at MGM National Harbor Thursday nights. There is usually a 5/10/25 running.

Alternatively if you are flying out of BWI MD Live is down the road.

Since I’m sure you have a lot of free time right now.

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@dougmillsnyt @wrestlemepod watching his opponent’s promo from that familiar impossible angle like he’s on an episode of Raw

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@EuroExpert_ @Vitu_E For the neutral, the game of ‘what’s the funniest thing that can happen in the game’ has long since switched from 8-0 to 0-1 👹

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@EuroExpert_ @Vitu_E I can still offer you 2-0?

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@katereinking Well it is panto season

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@cosgrovekieran @QuicklyKevin

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@Vitu_E Attempt an Ian Curtis impression while frowning a bit

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@ChristianSelig The iPhone X battery pack was the best IMO, the snap-ons are helpful but underpowered like everyone says.

Yeah unfortunately I think they typically take much longer to come out. Last one was the following July. Perhaps shorter this time if it’s just a switch to USB-C

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@KrauseFx @andy_matuschak @bryan_johnson Including not just the variety, but the social aspects of human meals, meal preparation, and even the small ways relationships can be reinforced by chatting about what to eat for the 10,000th time (admittedly this last one might cut both ways…)

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@KrauseFx @andy_matuschak @bryan_johnson Perhaps there is a different mental health component in play for us eating the same meal repeatedly vs our dogs

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@MoGutman @Dimillian I thought about this too, but I think it’s better than using size classes since tabs would appear and disappear as you change the window size (I.e iPad multitasking). The idiom isn’t going to change at runtime at least.

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@cabel @NCucerzan In the meantime we have https://t.co/UybBHknbvX for the best estimates.

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@cabel @NCucerzan This is kind of how the wrestling world works. WWE will juice their attendance numbers a fair bit when announced and in post-event press, but the real number can be figured out each quarter from their financial results, where they have to be accurate.

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@hishnash @NilCoalescing It was replaced with context menus and previews, but they kept the ability to tap the preview to open via `willPerformPreviewActionFor Menu…`

A few more examples from system apps. If you get used to these it really feels weird when you can’t tap on the preview. Maybe one day!

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@hishnash @NilCoalescing These are all over Apple’s first party apps. You might recall they called or ‘peek and pop’ before the whole thing became context menus.

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@hishnash @NilCoalescing Well usually it would open the item you are previewing. E.g.: