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inickt | 5 months ago | on: Retiring Test-Ipv6.com

Anyone have a good replacement if a different organization is not able to take over? This has always been my favorite IPv6 test site, and really appreciate the author maintaining it for so long.

inickt | 1 year ago | on: Entering text in the terminal is complicated

Likely an unpopular take, but I switched to the "Natural text editing" preset in iTerm2 to get editing shortcuts that match the traditional macOS ones. It has the advantage of just remapping to the normal control sequences inside terminal apps, so you basically get this functionality everywhere without needed to change it in multiple places/worry about readline support/etc. It isn't perfect (I have rarely needed to enter sequences manually that then are remapped), but I find I have used way more command editing since its part of my muscle memory.

https://pliszko.com/blog/post/2021-10-31-natural-text-editin...

inickt | 1 year ago | on: macOS Sequoia Preview

You can already AirPlay from an iOS device to a Mac– doing this on a plane is a bit trickier because of the networking setup though. I think I have managed to successfully do it once by either 1. doing some sort of tethering/creating a local wifi network on my Mac 2. connecting both devices to the in flight wifi

I use AirPlay to my Mac (and external monitors) even at home since I can watch the 4K feed from apps, which isn't available for some services if you use the web browser (cough HBO cough),

inickt | 2 years ago | on: Skip: Transpile SwiftUI iOS Apps into Android Kotlin Compose Apps

Came across this on GitHub (https://github.com/skiptools/skip), thought it was interesting.

The docs go into a bit more detail of how this works: https://skip.tools/docs/

Seems notable that the transpiler is free during the tech preview, but pricing will be announced later. While the generated Kotlin code is probably not 1:1 with what a human would write, at least it seems you aren't completely locked in to it if you decide to leave.

Interesting idea– definitely a lot of surface area to cover and I am curious to see how it does. I personally love native app development, but wonder how big the downsides are once you start getting into detailed UX designs/architecture patterns...

Maybe using this for UI only and using Kotlin Native would be a better middle ground, but with Compose Multiplatform for iOS in development that might be an overall safer bet for native shared codebases.

inickt | 2 years ago | on: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

The Pros do use USB3? Or are you talking about the regular 15? I still agree with you, but unfortunately the vast majority of regular iPhone users aren’t transferring large files over a cable and won’t care.

inickt | 2 years ago | on: Leaving Haskell behind

I have really enjoyed Scala for the same reasons. Has some escape hatches if needed, and a large ecosystem.

sbt drives me insane though, and is probably my least favorite part of the development experience.

inickt | 2 years ago | on: Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria

A friend sent me the YouTube video, which is a fantastic watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY.

Minecraft computers have been done for a while now, but seeing a full RISC-V computer running programs is really impressive, and frankly just seems really cool. The programs are written in Rust, and then compiled to run in game. Plus, the author needed to write their own mod to make the Terraria wiring efficient enough to support the computer: https://github.com/misprit7/WireHead

inickt | 3 years ago | on: Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS

Guilherme’s stuff is great. pam-watchid is a reimplementation of Apple’s pam_touchid, but uses the other authentication flag which I patch in to the original binary.

inickt | 3 years ago | on: Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS

Does watch unlock now work natively with pam_tid? I know as of at least a few months ago it would only work if you could use touch ID, i.e. when the laptop was open. If it was docked, it would fall back to password auth.

I wrote a patcher that changed this behavior, it patched pam_tid directly on your system and just updates the API Apple calls to allow unlocking with watch-only when touch ID is unavailable:

https://github.com/inickt/pam_wtid

Was a fun reverse engineering experience and wrote up some more info in the README.

inickt | 5 years ago | on: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Just wanted to point out that iOS Safari currently does not support web notifications, even for PWA. Works on Safari for macOS, but Apple hasn’t allowed it on iOS yet (along with a lot of PWA useful APIs).
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