Nathan Manceaux-Panot

Announcing Dye! (no relation) Set a different theme color for each one of your apps: make Finder red, and Photos blue, each one's tint's now up to you. Dye is a free, tiny app, handwritten with care. And it's open-source! lemon.garden/dye/

Looking over the schedule for next week's @swiftconnection.bsky.social, there's very very little AI in the topics. So refreshing!

As of Golden Gate, if your clipboard contains an image or some text, you can just ⌘V paste it on the desktop to create a new file. That's super useful. But uhhh why is the text getting pasted as a .textClipping file?! These are so unwieldy.

i hope the woim left behind is ok??? #godot #gamedev #puzzlegame #indiegame

Mac support for the SubDuctis demo is live! (the full game will support Mac at launch too) store.steampowered.com/app/3182310/ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #puzzle #thinky #macgaming

Each of the books features new cover illustrations by @shoomlah.bsky.social, and we’ve put an incredible amount of thought into how to make these books look and feel their best. You can see all the luxe features that will be included in each one here:

Small new game alert! Over the past week with @padraig.org and @marc.bjango.com, we created The Last Tomato, a puzzle game about solving world hunger by growing a tomato. It’s got colorful radio waves, a robot, and runs in the browser. Please try it out :) padraigk.itch.io/tomato

Just watched the Life of Chuck. It's a slightly odd movie, with odd pacing, and really pleasant to watch. Starts out as quite depressed for a while, but then veers into the magical and the touching and the refreshing and simple. Recommended!

A friend and I are creating a practical Git workshop: understand the commit graph, get out of tricky situations. We don’t know what exactly people want to learn, though; what they know already. Help us and fill this 2-min survey: tally.so/r/A7e7Xl We’ll publish the results. Reposts very welcome :)

Just played SubDuctis for like 10 minutes, and holy crap is it elegant. Visually it's impressive—very restrained yet super original, and full of life—and the central mechanic is interesting and full of promise.

Looks like Ice doesn't work on Golden Gate. What's everyone using to hide extra menu bar icons, these days? Looked at: Bartender (shady), Thaw (LLM readme is a bad sign), Barbee (free trial seems broken for me), Vanilla (broken on GG, icons hide randomly).

Spent last week in Logroño for @nsspain.bsky.social! Met many fantastic peeps, got heaps of effusive feedback on my Retcon talk, got depressed by the sheer amount of AI buy-in, and laughed as I was crushed by crowds at the wine festival. I had a great time, and am very thankful I was selected :)

You can make your commits easier to find by using emoji prefixes. You have to be very, very deliberate, though, for these to be effective at all. Here are some thoughts on that.

NSSpain just announced their schedule! There's a familiar face at the very end of Day 1. What's that about a retcon? 2026.nsspain.com/

"how about you write an app where rapidly, continuously straining the hinge is a core interaction" now that's confidence in your hinge reliability (from youtu.be/Biqw19XiqQY?t=87 )

What cursed sort of slide is this, you ask

No bird, no plane, just Superman.

A friend was trying to show me something, and instead I got gaslit by screen-sharing software

Retcon is now ready for macOS 27 Golden Gate. Update from the app for a handful of welcome bug fixes. Nothing exciting!!!!

What gorgeous presentation! ASCII art, but in subtle, tasteful 3D. (Rangedrifter is a roguelike, apparently only available for Linux and Windows though, somehow)

A whole article on people opposing Flock surveillance cameras in the USA. Blocking them, destroying them, removing them. And then, people steadfastly supporting anyone who's caught and charged. It's a very nice read!

Suggestions wanted: I have an old PHP-powered website that I want to keep running, but my current host tripled its prices. Is there a reasonably-priced, straightforward PHP host I could switch to? Ideally I don't want to manage a Linux VPS, just, give me FTP access and PHP preinstalled.

Explaining undo/redo is hard?! This is a rough exploration draft that explains a very simple sequence ("move main branch to commit B, then undo, then redo") and it's already a mess. The *actual* undo/redo scenarios I want to explain are going to require a very different approach, looks like.

Neat idea: @furnacecreek.bsky.social’s Pixen has a “what should we add?” field in its feature announcement screen.

⌘P used to stand for "Print…", now it's really "PDF…"

Friday evening: the perfect time to release a (beta) update. Enable beta updates in Retcon settings to get a bunch of small fixes, mostly for Golden Gate.

Just made Retcon crash, and feeling SO good. That mix of relief and excitement of finally getting a good repro 😌

From a @daringfireball.bsky.social post. A deeply misguided take, really. What’s expected from Apple is not revenue; that’s just means to an end. What we love(d) Apple for is firm values, and outstanding products. Under Cook, they’ve steadily worsened on both. Apple didn’t do alright, they decayed.

LLM-generated READMEs on GitHub are so tiring. They're a smear of… stuff. An oddly-phrased description of the project, then a list of features where "written in Rust" is listed right alongside "UI has green buttons", then endless instructions and implementation details with no discernible structure.

NSSpain XIV afterparty is set 🍷 Sept 17th @ Bodegas Amézola de la Mora, La Rioja’s first ever château. 19th century bodega, vineyards all around, a room full of iOS devs. See you there 🤩 #NSSpain26

Did a very quick interaction prototype for showing which commits are local-only, in @retcon.app. It’s something I’d really like to show, but I haven’t been happy with anything so far. Maybe this will do?

This is a super fun feature. You can just paste in most ShaderToy effects. What's a better way to add bling to your graphics programmer CV than literally add a shader in there, and then just export to PDF? 😅

The other day my friends coaxed me into playing a mobile Gacha game, and I can't stop thinking about this quest it gave me

Always amusing how some CLI tools treat ASCII spaces as alien, unknowable technology. Here, I can't build Godot, because my copy of Xcode (i.e. my developer toolchain) is at a path with spaces ("Added apps", "Code editors").

Did a short photoshoot with a friend the other day. Just finished editing the pictures; I think playing with the colors is my favorite part. Happy with the looks!

What a strangely wide dialog. Plus it sounds like you're sending reports to Panic, who I don't think would be all that interested.

You should almost never type `rm` in your terminal. In a script, sure. On the command line? Use `trash`! Same effect, but vastly safer. Just because you're good at computers doesn't mean you won't make mistakes. A very simple habit for avoiding a lot of pain. Defaulting to `rm` makes no sense.

The perfect puzzle for the Apple Intelligence lover in your life.

A cogent explanation of how LLMs can easily confuse instructions and data (opening themselves to prompt injection). Also contains pretty sober descriptions on how these are built in the first place. role-confusion.github.io Their example of injection is pretty hilarious:

Really not enjoying Xcode's new pre-build error style. They look off, they're harder to spot, and more importantly—why are they de-emphasized in the first place? In the codebases I've worked on, pre-build errors are almost never wrong. Is that different for others?

Oh nice: beta 2 of Xcode 27 lets you pair development devices fully wirelessly, without having to plug them in first.

I was thinking, if Mac OS X Leopard really was the goat, what does that make Snow Leopard? The mountain goat?