Simon McLoughlin

iOS Developer, gaming fanatic, professional nerd

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... ew

Before you judge, its only to test out Swift for Android, not compromising my standards just yet

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@jacobtechtavern @nevmed It’s beyond comprehension how these people think

“We’ve debated this thousands of times already” … you don’t say? Well clearly no symptom of an issue there. Let’s keep keep shutting down responses then

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@jacobtechtavern @nevmed There’s a special post on some Meta site, asking for mods from across the network to help SO understand where things are going wrong

One guy posted about the downvote system being ass. And all he’s getting in response is people saying they will not debate that topic again …

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@LukeMiani Quality of the shows is amazing, loved everything so far (except invasion, my god). A major pain point though, my wife HATES the app UI with a passion and will often avoid searching for a show because of it

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... oh right yeah thats why I went back to iOS and stick with native Swift

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New project, need to do frontend web for first time in ~7-8 years, this will be fun, always wanted to learn React. Lets start with the react tutorials

Download near empty starter project and install dependencies ...

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@_TransparentArt so every dApp doesn’t work on testnet with Kukai until someone complains to the dApp builders to fix it

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@_TransparentArt Kukai URL themselves. But AirGap don’t provide any kind of useful support, so no dApp builder knows they have to supply this, and AirGap made it optional, so if you don’t supply it, it doesn’t complain …

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@_TransparentArt Nobody at protocol/standard level would touch it, marketplaces didn't want to build any off-chain abstractions. Ended up having to hack together our own app-level grouping thing. Wildly inefficient at that level, and a distraciton from so many other issues. Such a pain

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@_TransparentArt Ran into this at Kukai. e.g. ManUtd wanted a new contract for each seasons NFTs, but also to have all their assets appear under 1 collection/group in wallets under 1 name. Couldn't get buy in from anyone to implement some sort of collection of contracts ...

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@alisis_official @ReaperActualDPS Oh wow its really dead dead, no mods even deleting the discord porn

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@alisis_official @ReaperActualDPS Despite signing up for everything, heard nothing since. Looks like yet another mismanaged fuck up. Nobody actually had any plan

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@alisis_official @ReaperActualDPS They launched a paid Alpha thing, that had the most mind numbingly horrific web3 integration I’ve ever seen. Managed to get through that, but couldn’t play because it didn’t support MacOS. Whatever way it was built, not even VM/emulator (e.g. crossover) can open it on Mac …

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Who's at fault for me having to do this every few days? @Apple or @brave ?

Great to have an inbuilt password manger, but my god this is annoying as hell

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@AndrewHart @ParkerOrtolani First time I heard of the podcast was from the acquisition announcement

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@corneliusmark @EthanLipnik I did a little of that in my last app. I built a chart in the new chart framework. Updating Xcode later on it brought in a new optimisation for SwiftUI that silently disabled all my business logic because it didn’t like the callback I used. Found it to be a mixed bag

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@EthanLipnik of the entire framework, it is however a massive issue that makes SwiftUI unusable for large sections of, or entire, apps

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@EthanLipnik The issue is not exclusive to gifs, gifs were the medium used to highlight it. First paragraph talks about list performance in general being bad, and getting worse as of iOS 26. He chose gifs as a heavy source to make it stand out more

While it might not be representative …

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@EthanLipnik something so monumentally important is a massive issue

My last app had ~8-10 large lists and a handful of modals/forms. Doing it again now, I don’t see why I would even consider SwiftUI when +80% of the app would be worse off with it

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@EthanLipnik But we’re not talking about some niche control only 1% of apps use. We’re talking about one of the cornerstones of iOS development. Performant lists were a solved problem before SwiftUI even released. It should have been much better than this in v1. 3x worse 7 years in, for …