caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026Caturday 1.3 is out: add the widget right after installing and it shows a cat straight away — no need to open the app first. 001 1
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026v1.3 is upcoming and now available in TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/DGEY4j93testflight.apple.comJoin the Caturday Widgets betaAvailable on iOS 000 0
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026V1.2 is out now with a small bug fix and a polished about-screen - enjoy your #caturday 000 0
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Side effect: during image processing, some hairy details are lost - fur and hair have been the most complicated objects to remove from a background for decades (I spent hours if not days on that back in my Photoshop days). You'll notice it in the moment the depth viewer kicks in over the normal […]social.werk01.comOriginal post on social.werk01.com 000 0
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Widgets were running nicely, but that leaves the iOS hosting app as a mere CloudKit sync container - right? Or could we spice up a cat closeup? Sure, let's give them some "depth"! Again Vision plus Core ML: Depth Anything estimates a depth map, Vision separates foreground from background, LaMa […]social.werk01.comOriginal post on social.werk01.com 100 1
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Catamine is the macOS counterpart to the #caturday widgets: fetching cats, preparing them for the "image clusters" the widget sizes need, then pushing them to CloudKit. All widgets (aka their iOS host app) update from there. Fun part, and the reason this […] [Original post on social.werk01.com] 100 1
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026But all these problems vanish on macOS: long-running background task, basic image processing, a widget to display it in. #ez So what if I combine that with CloudKit? Let a background macOS app do the heavy lifting, pushing optimized cat images to the widgets... 100 1
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Widgets' seemingly close relationship to apps is compelling, but they suffer from severe limits during background updates (40 to 70 refreshes a day, and yes, there are backdoors: youtu.be/NdJ_y1c_j_I) and from memory pressure. So regular fetches of #caturday posts, showing their […]social.werk01.comOriginal post on social.werk01.com 100 1
caturday @caturday.werk01.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026#caturday started as a side-hustle during my time at Sketch, when we investigated bitmap background removal by means of Apple's Vision framework. I dug deeper and found interesting APIs solving some real hard problems I had tapped into back in my university days - one of them image […]social.werk01.comOriginal post on social.werk01.com 110 1
