Carlo Zottmann

Carlo Zottmann

@zottmann.dev

He/him. Human. #WokeAF Indie dev from Flensburg, Europe 🇪🇺. Building productivity-related #macOS & #iOS Shortcuts tools @ https://actions.work (@actions.work)

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Frens, I'm happy to announce the launch of Listening Post, my native #macOS scrobbling app serving all your Apple devices. It recognizes nearby music, collects Shazams from your iPhone/ iPad/ Watch (no extra app needed!), and posts your listens to @last.fm, @listenbrainz.org, @rocksky.app, … 1/2

actions.workListening Post: The Scrobbling Hub for Your Apple DevicesScrobble shazams from your iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac — no iOS app needed. Sends to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Maloja, Rocksky, Bluesky, Mastodon, local files, and Shortcuts.

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I had GPT-6 Pro re-analyze the fun finding that violent video games reduce crime, as people stay home playing them. It downloaded fresh crime data and extended prior work. Yes, GTA V's 2013 launch was linked with a dip in violence internationally. Other Rockstar games are more ambiguous, though.

And here we are with a bit of tinkering! After building a prototype using DeckBridge and a third-party Node library for steering the #Loupedeck, DS built me a super small Go app that makes the #StreamDeck macOS app think the Loupedeck is a Stream Deck +XL, and it only eats up 12.5 MB of memory. WIN

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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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everyone is dooming about AI in game dev but i know in my bones that we are entering into a truly golden age of indie games

This entire thread is very on point, I approve 👌🏼

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz

was talking to someone who was going on at length about the electricity requirements of One Query To A Plagiarism Machine and I was like, "you KNOW I've run one on my local machine, right? I know how many SECONDS worth of Control Resonant roughly equate to a single LLM query"

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🇵🇱 Polish range of answers to "How are you?" ("Fine, thanks, how are you?" is not an option) - somehow it's flying (jakoś leci) - dickish but stable (chujowo ale stabilnie) - old poverty (stara bieda) - could be worse (mogło być gorzej, peak expression of Polish happiness)

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Seeking a collaborator for AppAddict: an experienced Mac user with a passion for software and writing. Receive fully licensed (NFR) copies of new apps to test and writing credit on AppAddict.app. Over 1,000,000 page views since 2024. #Mac #Writing

appaddict.appAppAddictI emphasize honest, practical reviews from my perspective as a power user and productivity enthusiast — not a marketer I have a particular fondness for the indie Mac scene, privacy-respecting software, open-source tools, and workflow...

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What I think is important is to continue caring about the things you love despite anything. The storm will pass. The chaff will be blown away. Good work will continue standing.

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If you develop for #Apple platforms, then you might be interested in a side-project of mine: ADSS publishes #Bluesky, #Mastodon, and #RSS feeds for Apple's developer system status updates. See @adss.zottmann.dev or the website @ zottmann.dev/adss/ It's useful, it's free, please pass it on 🤙🏼 #swift

zottmann.dev(Unofficial) Apple Developer System Status FeedsMastodon, Bluesky, and RSS feeds containing Apple's developer system status updates as they happen.

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If you post something like this into an OSS project's chat, you don't deserve free software

Discovered GenOffice (genoffice.ai), looks neat. You had me at "run locally": > Opening, editing, saving, and PDF-to-Office conversion run locally. Online AI sends requests when you use it. BYOK AI, nice! Hooked it up to my OpenAI sub, works as advertised /via @assaf.bsky.social

genoffice.aiGenOffice — Free, Open-Source AI Office SuiteEdit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files with built-in AI. Free, open-source desktop office apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. Download GenOffice.

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WDR stellt @klima.neutral ein. Klima-Medium “Flip” muss aufhören. Weltweit immer weniger Artikel zum Klimawandel. Auch ARD und ZDF haben zuletzt weniger berichtet. Und im Sommerinterview wurde Merz nicht ein einziges Mal auf die Klimakrise angesprochen. Neuer Text bei @otternewsorg.bsky.social 🦦❤️

steady.pageWie der Journalismus in der Klimakrise versagtMutig sei das, haben mir in den letzten zwei Wochen immer wieder Menschen gesagt, dass ich in diesen Zeiten ein Medium wie Otter News starte. Warum ich es trotzdem mache.

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talking about coherence, collaboration in the community is as strong as ever behind the noise. they're going to unlock so many paths to explore with this project. check it out and get involved 🧡

🙋‍♂️ what if one client worked on every forge? 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰 is a new TypeScript library for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges ✨ forges.link

I'm amazed how every. single. trailer for #Edgerunners is like "Have you heard about epilepsy because clearly we haven't" How do none of those trailers come with a warning label, JFC

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Skylens is a free tool for looking up any Bluesky account. skylens.redflag.ps It started as a block checker and ClearSky alternative. The public Bluesky APIs reveal a lot more than blocks, though. This thread walks through what you can see, using the account of JD Vance as the example.

"You're lucky my face is on forwards" is just perfect

SMBC Comics@smbccomics.bsky.social

Really should've gone for even more closeup on panel 2. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cells PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

I've been using this very iPhone 13 mini for 5 years by now, and it still refuses to let me swipe-type "fuck" or "fuckers" or equal swear words, and I find that the most infuriating thing about it.

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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

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I for one abandoned twitter because it was instrumental in helping the current group of monsters get elected and had already begun to fester into a hateful, rage inducing cess pool of slurs. So when people say "haha you left because of AI and now-" no, a lot of us didn't.

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Why is everyone acting like there is a massive Attie banner in Bluesky asking you to use it

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Replying to @davidpierce.xyz

Shameless self-plug, but I need testers. The app is going to be free, data comes from local weather institutes like NOAA, hyperlocal rain notifications based on radar, and much much more. I've been working on this for 5 years because I grew tired of Apple weather... oscars.love/en/

oscars.loveOscar° – Accurate forecasts for everyoneForecasts from the national weather services, live rain radar, weather stations and official warnings, all from open data. Free and without ads.

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I don’t know what is worse, how corruptly idiotic this is, or how many people will nod their heads, brow thoughtfully furrowed, and think it is sagacious.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

AfD leader Weidel says Ukrainians should leave Germany once the war is over. She also argued that Germany and its partners need to take Russia’s “security interests” into account when dealing with Ukraine. “Ignoring Russia’s security interests was the main mistake that we made,” Weidel said.

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Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

FT exclusive: The US has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets immobilised after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and transfer them to a vehicle overseen by Washington in an attempt to revive peace talks www.ft.com/content/5435...