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devandangeron Vehicle Motion Cues

I think this is a good example of how Apple is doing well in the application of AI and also uncharacteristically doing poorly in the application of AI.

Doing well as it quietly is coming up with helpful product updates like this which are buried in support docs and limited splash.

I kind of prefer this more quiet usage of application of AI.

devandangeron Wobbly clock

Waited 3 minutes to see the minutes hand move. Waste of time but satisfying.

devandangeron I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores heres what I learned

> From minor things like “iOS Safari won’t let you play audio without first interacting with the page” to major, show-stopping things like, “iOS Safari won’t let you play the next song if your app is in the background or if your screen is off.”

Ugh... these are the sort of capabilities that I think people don't realize are often misused. iOS has been good about being pro-consumer first. This missing feature in iOS Safari is intentional for that reason.

devandangeron Ask HN: What are modern architecture patterns for desktop applications?

I agree if you have technical requirements needing it to support (x transactions)/second coming in, optimize your ingress architecture. If these transactions/messages are based on UI interaction in a single offline application, I can't imagine this being too complicated to begin with.

devandangeron Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

Same conclusion.

devandangeron Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

We are using the on-premise solution with our own build agents to build iOS. Looking to move actually into Azure Devops to reduce the effort of maintenance on our own build agents. I've been using AppCenter for hobbyist projects and I feel its been a good replacement for BuddyBuild. Seems to be pretty reliable additionally we've thrown a lot of builds at Azure Devops to validate how well those hosted-agents can handle a large project which also worked out well. So all in all, we are excited about the hosted-Mac agents as well as the flexibility to BYO-agent (helps in the transition).

I have seen a lot of these same problems noted in this link as well, just didn't see to prevent from getting our work done as much. So YMMV depending on your product/devops use case.

Personally have been using their APIs with some custom CLI scripts to get around some of these issues.