software engineer. teaching agents to write code so i can play more wow.
England, United Kingdom
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Here's a first look at my Apple Reminders 'rescheduler' app that makes it simple to balance your workload visually.
It runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, shows you your calendar events to help with scheduling, and handles bulk rescheduling.
It has some delightful UI details, too – many thanks to @viticci who's been great to collaborate with on it.
There's still work to be done, but here are some early screenshots of it runing on the Duo simulator.
chris retweeted
Introducing tiny.london
A massive isometric pixel map of London, based on amazing NYC demo by @_coenen from 9 months ago
My agent created the dataset, finetuned qwen image LoRA adapter, did a multiday inference run and built an efficient tile viewer!
I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents.
I didn't write a single line of code.
chris retweeted
Honestly still don’t think enough is made of this basically being Scottish. The biggest entertainment release of all time - bigger than any film or TV series - and it all started above a chippy in Dundee and still largely comes out of Edinburgh. Mental.
Watch the Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer, featuring the debut of “Flower in a Hurricane" from original score composers Justice feat. Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19: rockstargames.com/VI/ps5
chris retweeted
English is the new programming language. So what’s still worth learning?
Vocabulary.
Architectures
Design patterns
Refactoring techniques
Security protocols
Performance optimizations
UI/UX patterns
The greater my technical vocabulary, the more precise my prompt.
chris retweeted
So I had the WOW Forever moment that I wanted.
Almost 1am, well past bedtime. Just in a vibe and somebody hits general to do a quest.
It's Level 12, I'm Level 8... Of course I'm in.
Find the person... They're Level 8 too.
I open a trade, give them one of my three pieces of food, they give me a sharpening stone...
I'm a priest and.... that's not the point.
You know I'm about to sharpen the shit out of this grey mace for the culture (And 2 Attack Power).
We eat, slap on our stones, pull this Level 12 Elite and ping pong him over five minutes with the finesse that only 22 years of muscle memory can get you.
Like Riding a Bike...
..A Bike Made of Heroine.
Peak.
chris retweeted
/Applications/Battle.net.app/Contents/MacOS/Battle.net --game=wow_classic_beta --install
you're welcome
chris retweeted
If you like what we do at @macstoriesnet and are interested in getting even *more* of it, plans start at $5/month and include a whole bunch of extra articles, podcasts, downloads, a Discord community, and more.
macstories.net/plans/
chris retweeted
Let’s get some good advertisers to sponsor MacStories.
This is one of longest-running, well-loved independent blogs covering Apple technology and automation.
Federico is a power user’s power user, & he’s bringing that same quality coverage to the overlap of this space with AI.
MacStories is being “cancelled” for rejoining X.
If you support @viticci, a great way right now is signing up & paying directly.
I saw many folks expressing appreciation for his work – help buoy any lost subscribers.
Here’s how to advertise too: macstories.net/advertise/
chris retweeted
Just subscribed to Club MacStories Premier: macstories.net/plans/.
I’ve really enjoyed listening to AppStories this year, and now is a great time to support the whole publication. (Going back and listening to bonus segments now!)
Viticci and John have taken a lot of not-so-friendly fire this week. The reason? Sharing the same great work they’ve been up to all along, just with their audience on X.
I get it. Still, Federico and John are clear in their values. That’s important.
As someone who shares their interest in building and unlocking value with existing tools, I appreciate them meeting the community for these things here.
It’s also been great to see their warm welcome back this week. Seeing people learn about the things that they’ve long been sharing elsewhere shows me it’s the right move.
Anyway, I encourage you to show your support as well if possible.
