jclardy

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by jclardy 2mo ago
This is what a lot of people miss. People think, "Oh we won't need software soon, AI can just build interfaces when we need them" but in reality, the software was built to solve a problem, usually by people invested in solvin
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by jclardy 2mo ago
Flight Control was one of my favorite iOS games of all time. Simple, polished, quick to play. Sucks that there is no way to play it on iOS again, seems it is still available for purchase on Steam, but it was really well suited to the phone
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by jclardy 4mo ago
Planes? Trains? If you haven't used these motion dots, they actually do work wonders. My wife gets motion sickness and could barely ever look at her phone when riding as a passenger in the car, even just to type in directions. With the
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by jclardy 4mo ago
I always wanted a pixelbook as I loved the hardware design and the taller aspect ratio screen, it was just too expensive for me to spend on a chromebook only laptop. IMO it looked nicer than the Macbook Pro's of the time.
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by jclardy 4mo ago
The Mac Studio's disappearance is related to the fact that people now want them for the purpose of running local models. Supply and demand. That plus Apple doesn't shift prices for released products, and it essentially became unde
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by jclardy 5mo ago
I think reading is the difference. People didn’t whip out a newspaper when they had less than 30 seconds available. The smartphone has filled these gaps with an infinite amount of content. Also, community. In a doctors office reading a pape
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by jclardy 5mo ago
Yeah - similar thing for me as well. A lot of times there would be something I want to work on that would be boilerplate/repetitive/laborious work and I would just procrastinate it for as long as possible, working on other things,
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by jclardy 5mo ago
Just anecdotal, but I was using Claude Code for everything a few months ago, and it seemed great. Now, it is making a ton of mistakes, doing the wrong thing, misunderstanding context, and just generally being unusable. I now have been using
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by jclardy 6mo ago
Interestingly, Apple's newest and cheapest laptop (the Neo) is super repairable. And even the keyboard is finally replaceable without having to replace the entire top case. Hopefully the trend is continued in the next redesigns of the
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by jclardy 6mo ago
The location tracking code is within the OneSignal SDK - which is just a standard messaging platform for sending emails/push messages to users. It doesn't have some magical permissions bypass, the app itself has to request it.
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by jclardy 6mo ago
I think the best example is in iOS. On old iOS versions, the keyboard responsiveness took precedence over everything, no matter what. If you touched the keyboard, it would respond with an animation indicating what you are doing. The app its
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by jclardy 6mo ago
Yeah, agreed. Gatekeeper is nearly 15 years old now, and has progressively gotten more aggressive, but AFAIK there isn't much new in the past year or two. macOS 26 is bad, but so is Windows 11...so unless you are willing to jump into L
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by jclardy 6mo ago
Same here, got started via the TI-83+ manual, started out building simple menu based games & homework helpers. Eventually moved on to learn z80 assembly and build a few simple games. Interestingly now I focus on mobile development. I al
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by jclardy 6mo ago
It's a really strange update. Necessary, as the cheaper & smaller AirPods Pro had all these features for a while now. But there aren't even new colors - the colors were released in a AirPods Max 1.1 release that changed to a U
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by jclardy 6mo ago
> I do find it interesting that people don't mind AI content, as long it's "their AI." The moment someone thinks it's someone else's AI output, the reaction is visceral. Somehow nobody that replied to you me
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by jclardy 6mo ago
Neo and Air are quite simple when looking at it from the bottom up. Air is the "nice" Neo for basically $500 more. Backlit keyboard, MagSafe, Thunderbolt 4, M5, way faster SSD speeds, double the RAM, larger display, Force Touch tr
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by jclardy 6mo ago
In addition to your research categories - is the fan going to sound like a jet engine when just opening slack? Is the case going to wobble and creak after a few weeks? Is it going to tank performance when unplugged? And if not - is battery
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by jclardy 7mo ago
Yeah - the sleep/wake one is crazy to me. I have had numerous mac's and windows machines over the last 20 years as well and Sleep/Wake has been perfectly consistent on the mac. In 2026 on year old hardware from Microsoft (Sur
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by jclardy 7mo ago
I’ve been experimenting with a 13” iPad Pro and Mac mini, setup with Tailscale. I love it, minus the general issues you run into with Remote Desktop. That plus not being able to deploy apps unless I’m on the same wifi (as an iOS developer.)
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by jclardy 7mo ago
Same. Plus with multi-user, I would own multiple size iPads since they instantly become more useful as shared family devices, rather than only being tied to one persons iCloud/messages/email. And more importantly for our old boy T
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by jclardy 7mo ago
A few iOS apps I’m working on: - Daylight Goals ( https://daylightgoals.com ) - I’m releasing a major update later this month, it is an app built around pushing you to spend more time outdoors in the sun, using automatic time in
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by jclardy 8mo ago
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by jclardy 8mo ago
Hmm, you could probably setup ad hoc builds and send them off to Firebase App Distribution or a similar service and get them a bit faster. Still pretty cumbersome but it skips the slow signing/slow uploads/slow processing that Tes
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by jclardy 9mo ago
In this case you are spot on, the landing page is AI generated, just because I've never enjoyed doing front-end web development myself. That plus this app is very deeply rooted in Apple's platforms (Essentially requiring an Apple
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by jclardy 9mo ago
Thanks! I'm looking into Vitamin D estimation for a future version, the main issue is there are a ton of factors that need to be considered, the main one is simply how much skin you have exposed when you are outdoors. A simple question
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Show HN: I built an app to review your time spent outdoors(daylightgoals.com)
2 points by jclardy 9mo ago|4 comments
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by jclardy 9mo ago
My portfolio of iOS apps ends up at an average of $500/mo. Most are older, still functional but rarely updated. A few of the newer ones include: https://daylightgoals.com - Time in daylight tracker, using Apple Watch/H
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by jclardy 10mo ago
Which "user" are you referring to? Cloudflare users or end product users? End product users have no power, they can complain to support and maybe get a free month of service, but the 0.1% of customers that do that aren't goin
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by jclardy 1y ago
> I don't understand how anyone can use LLMs and not see this instantly Because people in general are not thorough. I've been playing around with Claude Code and before that, Cursor. And both are great tools when targeted corre
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by jclardy 1y ago
I find a similar thing with budgeting apps. Manually tracking requires effort and for you to think twice before every purchase, whereas automatic transaction syncing with your bank means you can just not think about it. In the case of dieti

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