A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.
What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.
But I guess that’s what you should expect from a shitty person.
Personally, I’m done. And with a vengeance.
First, arrogant bastards love seeing their names on tweets and other media. I want to starve him of the things that money can’t buy: respect and attention. Do the same by simply ignoring him and his kingdom.
A thousand times yes. Do not give clowns the attention.
I noticed that VR Planet Defense is completely broken on iOS 16. (Well, not completely, you can still view ads or check the leaderboards 😅)
The game was built by a really old version of Unity, and the last update was Jun 17, 2018. Fixing won't be easy. So I made a decision today to remove it from App Store. I'll keep the Play Store version a bit longer though since it still works.
I had a lot of fun building a VR game for Google Cardboard. Maybe I could get back to it some day.
I was tidying up my home office area the other day, and found a bunch of things I haven't touched for years. The first thing came to my mind was of course Marie Kondo's Spark Joy principle. But a lot of things in the past 3 years no long spark joy, yet they are still used often. This no longer works.
Then I changed the question to, does this thing have a purpose in my life? It worked surprisingly well. I got rid of many things and kept others. I came up future projects that can make some of them more useful. Promising.
2022 is also coming to an end. It means it's time for my 3rd attempt to a yearly theme. As you have already read the title, 2023 is going to be my Year of Purpose. The past 3 years have also worn down our life's purpose. It's time to bring it back. Let's move past this and look forward to a more purposeful year.
There are now 40+ folks in my Mango Baby discord community. It's mostly people asking support questions and me answering them. Occasionally, users also help with each other, and I love see more of that.
Increasingly, I don't feel Mastodon is for me. I'll keep checking and posting since there are a lot of activities moved from the bird site I'm interested in. But for now, I won't bother finding a better host.
My Micro.blog site continues to function, and I'm also back on Tumblr. Maybe t2 can succeed, or it's best to end social media.
I wrote my own blogging engine for mangoumbrella.com/blog. Currently it crossposts to Twitter. I should add Mastodon too.
While researching, I think another, maybe better, option is to add ActivityPub support to my blog. This way, Mastodon instances can directly talk to my blog. Folks on Mastodon can directly follow my blog. This is certainly an intriguing idea.
Posting on your own website doesn't just mean to own your content, it also pushes yourself to think deliberately before any post. They are no longer the raw first thoughts, but words that went through your digestive system.
AppIntents: How to Set a Background Color for Your App Shortcuts
And one last thing -- pick a color for your shortcuts in the Shortcuts app. We have a bunch of great colors for you to choose from, and all your shortcuts will use this color in the app. So pick one that complements your app icon nicely and don't just stick with the default.
To do that, you will override the shortcutTileColor in your AppShortcutsProvider like this:
struct MangoBabyAppShortcuts: AppShortcutsProvider {
static var shortcutTileColor: ShortcutTileColor = .red
static var appShortcuts: [AppShortcut] = []
}
