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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

@MonaApp the border radii look like they want more horizontal padding on the text imo

Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

@ivory ok this is actually broken in different ways; when I set '3' it adds 3 and now the window is comically wide (screenshot taken from Expose)

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

@ivory on Mac, adding columns is cool, but with 2+ columns visible, the slider shows '1' as the selection again, which is unexpected representation of state

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Waaaaaat Notational Velocity is back from the dead! notational.net

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

I need to _so_ update my notes on SwiftUI state management to finally all catch up with the Observation framework changes introduced a while ago. I still have notes from 2021 (oh god that's 5y ago) with State and Binding etc. which may historically be true but utterly irrelevant

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

😠 sidebar separator and toolbar, y u no align #swiftui

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

one screenshot is a 'one shot' of a macOS app according to spec after building a component library and visual language; took 15min to get there 'blind', adding many niceties unasked the other is WIP to get there with allllll kinds of mistakes in the process […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I believe BundleHunt uses Claude internally now

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Oh god within the hour I get _targeted_ spam for this Mastodon shitpost

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I can get Mircea Eliade's "Religious History" books in Turkish for reasonable prices, but not the English originals. Huh.

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So with #Lettera for Mac I'm maintaining a wiki with clickable links and minimal lock-in for video game concepts. Parts of the wiki contain literate programming blocks now that declare in an engine-like expression how points in the story relate to each other […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

OH GOD the whole app is Solarized now though

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm really happy with how the website overhaul turned out. It's never done, only released, but this will stay up for a while to test things out I think. I'm about to enter my 40's, so I'm craving to feel something in my eyeballs, more color!!, and with the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I mean yes, it's an irregularity, but no need to send spam

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I really really like what this syntax highlighting on my website turned out to become Make comments stand out, keep the rest minimal, use tasty fonts and contrasting colors. I wonder what people who can see the full spectrum of the color wheel see there :D

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Being part of a team with a successful App Store app opens my eyes for how weird the app store is. This is not the Bear Notes the Shiny Frog team is working on :)

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm almost done combining two things that are very dear to me in the upcoming website re-design. @ethanschoonover's Solarized color scheme and @nikitonsky's minimalist syntax highlighting insights.

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Gleek/org-timegrid: An SVG week calendar for Emacs, backed by Org files. Drag to create, move and resize; a read-only day strip for Org Agenda. github.com/Gleek/org-timegrid -- Read that again: An SVG week calendar. It's a normal-looking graphical calendar UI, rendered as an SVG. #emacs

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

whoah that Solarized violet looks very ... intense when not just used for font color but for large background fills I tend towards a cyan instead to reduce the visual violence

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I'm getting old and end up fiddling with CSS to recreate websites like I did in the early 2000's, with pixel borders and bevels I think that's the allergic reaction to flat macOS kicking in really

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Shaker furniture museum shows how a peg board runs along the walls. I'm thinking that this would've been awesome to hang pictures, too, if only they had hung paintings, because you don't need to put more nails into the plaster walls.

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

looking at the picture of traditional furniture for research, and wonder how many people could sit at a table like this. Super long! Then I remember that the Shaker period pieces also mean families had more than 1 child, maybe the elderly lived with them […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Oh also the sale was over 2 weeks ago. Is this website a scam?

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Oh god, Emacs 31.1 shows me Calibri for sans-serif variadic width fonts I feel like a teenager excited about new $MSFT Windows fonts again but in a bad way

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

What are these options? 3 DHL shipping options that all have unique brand names and say *nothing* about what's happening. Except maybe the shop, a bit, which implies "a shop"?

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Oh dear, 7 months uptime. Should consider a reboot maybe

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This book has art with unreadable text. Clearly avantgarde AI slop from 1980s

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Wading through AI forum spam/slop "The X is real." Classic Claudism.

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

someone gave my child weird linux stickers

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I now own a reciprocating saw and BOY HOWDY does it rip through sheet material. Bonus points for making it look like the Doom plasma gun somewhat

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-u-dxK0Vw It's a standing table variation of what' essentially a Japanese (low) sawing horse + many horses combined into one larger piece

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDjzw4NFtc This bench is cool. I am cutting with hand-held circular saws for the first time in my life and I'm super careful and don't trust the murder blades. Workholding and having clearance for the blade at once isn't […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

christiantietze.de/posts/2026/06/le… It lives! We're announcing the beta of Lettera, a native macOS Markdown editor for *you* yes, you!

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

I "love" how interface builder in Storyboard mode in Xcode shows an accurate window preview for a split view controller with inspectors!

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

This is one of the 'funner' associative image drawing sessions with my daughter. She added all the sprinkly dots with a #supernote brush and I added eyes, nose, and ear outlines

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Option C: keep everything as-is "I would not choose C." I had to laugh a bit :)

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

This is an example why I think Android apps are getting not enough love. The app works well. But nobody tested landscape mode, the toolbar takes up 2/3 of the height. Something is wonky in that whole ecosystem/platform.

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

can you see the recessed "Adjust" button on the #casio G-Shock watch? Me neither. Who designed this? It's unpushable; not even my toddler daughter with her baby fingers can activate it

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