Steve Troughton-Smith

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/116224167543556282

Average radar response time right there 🙃

Win $1M or a car, plus thousands of prizes, if you set Edge as your phone's default browser and do a search

This is a real unprompted system popup I just got from Microsoft Edge on Windows 11, trying to convince me to download its phone counterpart.

EeePC 901 running Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009

Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The […]

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Do I have too many projects on the go at the same time?

Perhaps.

⭐️ New blog post: A Month With OpenAI's Codex

https://highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20260301-A-Month-With-OpenAIs-Codex

It's been literal *years* since I last posted anything, so you know this is a big deal for me 😜

Home screen with several hand-drawn notes and sketches

Fullscreen portrait writing view with lorem ipsum text and glassy toolbars

I didn't mention it earlier, but my Apple-Pencil-only notebook app, still just a concept validation test, has been updated for iPadOS 26 and is available through TestFlight. As it's an unreleased app and I don't want to get stuck developing two versions of […]

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Grace on macOS showing color cards and a sentence strip

A large-format sentence strip

Camera import panel

'Places' collection in library, setting the border color on several cards

✈️ I'm getting used to TestFlighting things that might be a little earlier than usual lately, and I have a lot of projects on my back burner that need some love.

With that in mind, I'm opening up the current build of @graceapp for iOS and Mac. It's been […]

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Reviews keep saying the MacBook Neo puts other laptops 'in its price range' to shame, but it very clearly puts PC laptops four times its price to shame. And that's before accounting for the RAMpocalypse which is going to clip the PC market's wings this year. There's a potential future where […]

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

Huh. I hadn't heard this previously, but Digital Foundry say the newly-announced Pokémon Winds and Waves games are using Unreal Engine 4

Various scenes from the 3D modeling tool across Mac, iPadOS, and visionOS

✈️ If you've been curious about this 3D modeling tool, and just want to check it out yourself, I have pushed a build to TestFlight for iOS, macOS, and visionOS.

It's not a product, it doesn't have a name, it has many obvious bugs and issues that haven't had […]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ctp/116217715333260029

Virtually every Mac app already has an MCP built-in that's going to waste because Apple wants to rebuild it all with App Intents instead

Tech YouTubers are out here searching for apps on their MacBook Neo, finding the iOS versions, and, because they can't install them, thinking they don't work on macOS or the Neo.

(Said apps do have Mac versions only available from the developer's website)

Rather than point fun, this highlights […]

Subnautica 2 looks real pretty in Unreal Engine…

I spoiled myself by playing the original too early, before they had finished the story, so I'm really looking forward to going in fresh again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGaDuCDdXQ

Crimson Desert looks kinda incredible — like a modern triple-A steampunk/fantasy take on Breath of the Wild. This could honestly be a sleeper hit like Baldur's Gate 3, which really only ramped up the excitement right before launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUIBUoJhk8

Big 'Dropbox is a feature not a product' energy

There's really no benefit to something like a reMarkable compared to a nanotexture iPad. I was surprised just how close the textured feel is for drawing, despite the nanotexture not being intended for that purpose. If iOS only included some kind of focused app mode to 'turn off' most of the rest […]

Various scenes from the 3D modeling tool across Mac, iPadOS, and visionOS

✈️ If you've been curious about this 3D modeling tool, and just want to check it out yourself, I have pushed a build to TestFlight for iOS, macOS, and visionOS.

It's not a product, it doesn't have a name, it has many obvious bugs and issues that haven't had […]

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Every time I look at the Codex usage stats panel it's been reset back to 100%, which I'm certainly not going to complain about 😅

If OpenAI wants to give me unlimited Codex for life, I accept

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, won’t reach alpha until 2027 We’ll have to wait a while for the new Xbox.

Microsoft's next-gen Xbox Project Helix details:

• next-gen version of AMD’s FSR upscaling
• custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance”
• alpha versions of Project Helix to devs in 2027

www.theverge.com/games/893119...

Microsoft says you build next-gen Xbox games by building them for PC. My colleagues @seanhollister.bsky.social + @jaypeters.net are in line for Xbox GDC keynote, but look at what they spotted. "Next-gen game preservation" and building for PC for next-gen consoles 👀 www.theverge.com/news/893196/...

Considering this laptop can run Cyberpunk at 60fps, it shouldn't be surprising how smooth my editor is. This 'iPhone chip' goes a long way

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/116211358415096099

Incredibly excited to launch Loops, PeerTube, and iPhanpy on AltStore PAL! Welcome to the family 🥳

Screenshots of Xcode's coding intelligence features and Codex

Some good news: I don't know if Apple had a change of heart or what, but you *can* enable Xcode's intelligence features on the MacBook Neo with 8GB RAM, including ChatGPT and Codex support. Previously, this was limited to 16GB devices — I have no idea when […]

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I expect the customer satisfaction numbers for MacBook Neo will beat out even the iPad. There's nobody who's buying this that's going to be remotely disappointed with it

Screenshot of Displays settings pane on MacBook Neo

The MacBook Neo's internal screen will do resolutions of up to 2408x1506@1x if you ask it to

Even the setup assistant is color-matched to the device out of the box, with the background image and accent colors

MacBook Neo is /very/ pretty; I haven't held a MacBook Air recently, but I'm surprised how thin and light and portable this is. It's much more akin to an 11" iPad than the 13" I have

I think part of the problem is being able to use LLMs with confidence in a greenfield codebase, vs being afraid to break anything in an established app. I am far less likely to ask it to do big things in my apps, and I'm far more likely to back out any changes it does make for fear of the […]

A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑

What are we doing here?