![]() ![]() Politics aside, the event was humiliating for Elon Musk and Twitter. In the end, the event had all of the appeal of a glitchy conference call. Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire on Ron DeSantis’s much-ballyhooed campaign launch on Twitter Spaces yesterday: Any other use of underlining should be considered a typographical *faux pas. The only reason underlining should be used today, in any context, is to indicate hyperlinks. I hate to complain as Markdown continues its march to world domination, but it’s really dumb that Discord added syntax for underlining (and ugly syntax at that). ( Via Kottke.) Thursday, Discord Adds Support for Markdown ★ ![]() There hasn’t been a decent Tetris game for the Mac in decades, but now you can play it on a Chicken McNugget. See also: John Voorhees’s review at MacStories. If you use Mastodon on a Mac, you’re nuts if you don’t try Ivory. And on the whole, Ivory for Mac as it stands today is not just a glass of ice water in hell, it’s a whole pitcher. Progress during beta testing was steady, and knowing Tapbots’s high standards, I’m quite sure will continue to be. Catalyst isn’t like that - or at least isn’t like that yet.īut this is Ivory for Mac 1.0. A lot of these are things that I consider shortcomings in Apple’s Catalyst framework - the whole point of Cocoa from 20+ years ago is that standard controls get standard behavior out of the box, alleviating developers from the drudgery of making simple expected platform-standard features work. Some views scroll via standard keyboard shortcuts (space/shift-space, Page Up/Page Down), but some don’t. Smart punctuation (automatic curly quotes and proper em-dashes when you type two hyphens) only work when you type slowly. System-wide Services menu items don’t work. But, numerous Catalyst-isms show through. (If that’s what it were, Tapbots could have shipped it months ago, when Ivory for iPhone and iPad shipped.) Ivory for Mac is a Mac app. ![]() Ivory for Mac is written using Catalyst, but it by no means is just Ivory for iPad with a few tweaks. $15/year just for the Mac client, but the real deal is Ivory’s $25/year “universal” subscription for Ivory across both MacOS and and iOS. It’s not just the best Mac Mastodon client, it’s the only good one that exists. I’ve been using it in beta for a few months, and don’t know what I’d do without it. Now shipping in the Mac App Store: Tapbots’s Ivory for Mac. “I’m not at the whims of a dictator anymore,” he said. “There’s aĭespite the pressure, Haddad seems to be thriving in this brave “Without, we have no business,” Jardine said. But that’s not what entirely motivates him. Launch of Ivory, which he admits was released without all theįeatures he wanted to include. Jardine said he has received positive feedback on the initial The reason third-party clients were so important to Twitter, though, is that Twitter power users were drawn to them. Obviously the overwhelming number of Twitter users only ever used Twitter’s own first-party clients. To my knowledge no one at (or formerly at) Twitter has ever revealed that before. Which played a vital role in defining Twitter’s identity. He said about 17 percent ofĮngagement on Twitter, historically, was through third-party apps, That the tools Twitter provided independent software developers Platform, who lives in Round Rock, was responsible for ensuring Speaking of Tapbots, here’s Andrew Logan writing for Texas Monthly:Īmir Shevat, Twitter’s former head of product for the developer Texas Monthly Profiles Tapbots Founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine ★ The mood after DeSantis’ botched announcement was nothing short of Inside the largest Slack and Discord channels of former tweeps, Musk, who uses the employee-only build of the app known asĮarlybird, was said to be furious afterward. Musk’s own Twitter app crashed repeatedly during the event, we’re But too many people joined the first stream simultaneously, ![]() That Spaces would be able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of In the run-up to the event, engineers expected On Wednesday, the lack of servers led to a predictable series ofĬascading failures. Underprovisioned” relative to the need for them, according to aįormer employee who worked on the project. Spaces are hosted on Twitter’s own servers and servers rented fromĪmazon Web Services. Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton, reporting for Platformer: Platformer: ‘Inside Twitter’s Failed Space Launch’ ★ ![]()
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