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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 04/04/2026

Been a while since I worked on this. Went to port it to @repebble.com's new app store, and I guess it's time to update this for the two new watches

Screenshots of the watchface on Time 2 and Round 2. The battery gauge doesn't fill the screen anymore, and Sly's head is way off to the side.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 09/03/2026

Seems to be different behaviors with posts that do contain images

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 08/09/2025

Seems a little too close to the share button on android

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/04/2025

This required me to redesign the Sly face slightly to give it a black outline rather than the white outline. As a side effect, this also updated the color watch, but I think for the better. It seems sharper now and gives it a little more contrast, I'm definitely happy with it.

A screenshot of a two color pebble watchfaces side by side; a circular pebble watchface and a square pebble watchface. The watchfaces have a light blue background and feature Sly Cooper's head in the middle of it outlined in black. Above Sly's head is the time displayed in the Bada Boom title font from the Sly Cooper video games. On the circular watch, above the time is the date displayed in the Blambot Casual dialogue font from the Sly Cooper video games. On the square watch, the font is below the head in the same font. Below Sly's head is the battery health meter that is shown as an orange wedge taking up the bottom of the screen. The right side of the wedge is a darker shade of orange, indicating the battery life is not at full capacity.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/04/2025

Secondly, with the announcement of the new B&W watch, I decided it was time I focus on getting the black and white version of the watchface to a state that I liked. I wasn't really happy with the black background, so I wanted to give it a white background and have the details be black instead.

Screenshot of a Square black and white pebble watchface. The watchface has a white background and features Sly Cooper's head in the middle of it. Above Sly's head is the time displayed in the Bada Boom title font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head is the date displayed in the Blambot Casual dialogue font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head and behind the date is the battery health meter that is shown as a black wedge taking up the bottom of the screen. The right side of the wedge is shaded gray, indicating the battery life is not at full capacity.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

One last tweak I made after the hackathon was to update the date font to be the dialog font from the game (Blambot Casual) instead of the title font. This made it a little more legible at smaller sizes and makes the whole thing look a lot nicer I think

Screenshot of a circular pebble watchface. The watchface has a light blue background and features Sly Cooper's head in the middle of it. Above Sly's head is the time displayed in the Bada Boom title font from the Sly Cooper video games. Above the time is the date displayed in the Blambot Casual dialogue font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head is the battery health meter that is shown as an orange wedge taking up the bottom of the screen. The right side of the wedge is a darker shade of orange, indicating the battery life is not at full capacity.

Screenshot of a Square pebble watchface. The watchface has a light blue background and features Sly Cooper's head in the middle of it. Above Sly's head is the time displayed in the Bada Boom title font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head is the date displayed in the Blambot Casual dialogue font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head and behind the date is the battery health meter that is shown as an orange wedge taking up the bottom of the screen. The right side of the wedge is a darker shade of orange, indicating the battery life is not at full capacity.

Screenshot of a Square black and white pebble watchface. The watchface has a black background and features Sly Cooper's head in the middle of it. Above Sly's head is the time displayed in the Bada Boom title font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head is the date displayed in the Blambot Casual dialogue font from the Sly Cooper video games. Below Sly's head and behind the date is the battery health meter that is shown as a white wedge taking up the bottom of the screen. The right side of the wedge is shaded gray, indicating the battery life is not at full capacity.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Huge thanks to the @rebble.io community for putting on the hackathon and being so helpful in the discord. It was a blast learning to make things for these cool watches and be a part of trying to breathe life back into the ecosystem. Definitely couldn't have done it without all the helpful people

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

With a little polish and some last minute bug fixing, that was a wrap for the hackathon. I fixed the date layout issue and also made sure the B&W version looked good as well. I also updated the blue to be a lighter color to more closely match the original health meter from the game

A row of three screenshots showing the imported vector centered in the middle of the watch with the time above Sly's face. The left screenshot is a black and white square watch, the middle screenshot is a colored square version of Sly's face on a light blue background, and the right is a colored circle version of Sly's face on a light blue background with the time slightly smaller than the square versions

On the square watches, the current date was displayed below the face in a smaller version of the bada boom font centered horizontally in the middle of the watchface. On the circle watch, the current date was displayed above the time in a smaller version of the bada boom font centered horizontally in the middle of the watchface.

Beneath all three watchfaces there is a wedge displaying the battery life of the watch. The wedge is slightly empty with the right side being displayed in a darker shade. On the black and white watchface this wedge is white with the darker shade being a gray. On the color watchface this wedge is orange with the darker shade being a darker orange.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Again, with A TON of help from awesome people in the @rebble.io discord channel (this project wouldn't have happened without them) I was able to get the battery gauge working exactly like I wanted it to. I found a bug in the dates where the text would get cut off due to truncation, so that was next

Two side by side screenshots of a the same pebble watchface. The screenshot on the left shows the round color version, and the screenshot on the right shows the square color version.

Both the square and circle watchfaces have Sly's face on a blue background with the time above his head. The time is slightly smaller on the circle version than the square versions.

On the circle watch, the current date is displayed above the time in a smaller version of the bada boom font centered horizontally in the middle of the watchface.

On the square watch, the current date was displayed below the face in a smaller version of the bada boom font centered horizontally in the middle of the watchface.

The dates in both watches are truncated due to a graphical bug where the day of the week didn't have enough space to display.

At the bottom of both watchfaces there is a orange wedge displaying the battery life of the watch. The wedge is slightly empty with the right side being displayed in a darker orange color.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Since I was wearing this personally, the next thing I was missing from the watch that I really liked was the date. The pebble tutorial had a section on displaying the date, so I followed that and got dates working, and positioned in the spots I wanted

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

I really wanted to get the new version to a place where I could wear it daily, even in it's super unfinished state, so the next thing was getting the time, as well as the face in the correct position on both square and round watches. Since I had done some work with this already, this was pretty easy

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

With a working PDC and some more help from the discord, I was able to get vectors to render on the watches. This was a huge hurdle, and was very rewarding to figure out. Still a long ways to go, but a lot of the technical unknowns were being checked off, leaving just the design and layout work.

A row of three screenshots showing the imported vector offset to the right in the middle of the watch with the time overlapping the bottom of Sly's face. The left screenshot is a black and white square watch, the middle screenshot is a colored square version of Sly's face on a blue background, and the right is a colored circle version of Sly's face on a blue background

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Now that I was a little more comfortable with the programming, I started on the actual design work. This is when I made the mock ups shown in the first post in this thread, and also when I got the idea to use the stamina/gadget meter as the battery life indicator.

Mock up of the square color watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the title font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that will show the battery health of the watch

Mock up of circle color watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date above the time in the title font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Now that I was getting better at laying out things in code for the watchfaces I wanted to add some color. I got the background color set for colored watches, and black and white watches were still displaying well, so everything seemed to be working

Side by side screenshots of the watchface. The screenshot on the left is a screenshot showing a circular pebble watch. The background of the watchface is a light blue color. The top half of the watchface shows a black image of Sly Cooper's face, and the bottom half of the watchface display's the font in bada boom, which is the title font for Sly Cooper.

The screenshot on the right is a screenshot showing a square pebble watch. The watchface is mostly gray. The top half of the watchface shows a black and white image of Sly Cooper's face, and the bottom half of the watchface display's the font in bada boom, which is the title font for Sly Cooper.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

I really wanted something I could start wearing on my watches, and was still trying to get my feet under me with pebble development, so I made pre sized PNGs with Sly's head in the spot I wanted for both square and circular watches. Not the best since for each new watch you'd need a new image for it

Screenshot showing a circular pebble watch. The watchface is mostly gray. The top half of the watchface shows a black and white image of Sly Cooper's face, and the bottom half of the watchface display's the font in bada boom, which is the title font for Sly Cooper.

Screenshot showing a square pebble watch. The watchface is mostly gray. The top half of the watchface shows a black and white image of Sly Cooper's face, and the bottom half of the watchface display's the font in bada boom, which is the title font for Sly Cooper.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

I'd never made a watchface or anything else for a Pebble before, so I was trying to follow their watchface tutorial at developer.rebble.io/developer.pe.... First was getting the font imported and a png I found online of Sly. The font wasn't so bad, but the picture alignment was giving me some issues

Screenshot of a circular pebble watch. It shows a mostly gray watchface with the time in the center in the Sly Cooper Bada Boom font from the Sly games. On top of the time is an oversized image of Sly's face. Only the top left quarter of his face is visible, the rest is off of the edge of the watchface

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

The inspiration I had was to remake the “thief meter” from Sly 2 and 3 as the watchface. This was basically the health bar in the game. I figured the main “health” section would just serve as the theme color, and the yellow “gadget meter” below would show the battery life of the watch

Screenshot of the thief meter from Sly 2. It is a blue oval with a picture of Sly's face in the middle. There is an orange section on the bottom of the oval showing the stamina, or "gadget meter"

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 03/04/2025

Going to start a #BuildInPublic dev thread for my Sly Cooper #PebbleOS watchface. I started it as part of the 2nd @rebble.io Hackathon, and I’ll share some updates of what’s been going on so far as part of this thread so that I can look back at it if I want, and people can follow along if they want

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/03/2025

The #Rebble and #Pebble community hosted a hackathon last week. I made a Sly Cooper watchface for it. It's based on the "Thief Meter" (health bar) from Sly 2 and 3. I plan on continuing to work on it, but for now it has a picture of Sly, shows the date in addition to the time, and the battery life

Square screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

Circle screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a light blue background with a picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date above the time in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

Square screenshot of watchface. The watchface is predominantly a black background with a black and white picture of Sly Cooper in the center. It features the time above it in the title font from the Sly Cooper games, as well as the date below it in the dialogue font from the Sly Cooper Games. There is a white wedge coming from behind Sly that shows the battery health of the watch

A screenshot showing the original Thief Meter from Sly 2. It is a light blue oval with Sly Cooper's face in the middle. There is an orange wedge coming from behind Sly's face that shows how much focus he has to use gadgets and abilities

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/11/2024

The goal of horizon as it exists in my head today is to follow as closely with the built in iOS apps as I can to make Horizon feel like a built in app itself. Bluesky has a ring to show you progress on character count. I might do something similar but with the Apple Watch complication rings

Screenshot showcasing the character count indicator for the official Bluesky client. There’s indicator is a circle whose perimeter gradually fills in as you get closer to the character limit of a Bluesky post

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 15/11/2024

Like the rest of the app, the compose window is written in #SwiftUI and done using a Sheet. The main component of this is a big ole TextEditor, and that’s pretty much it right now. I’m also planning on the view having two Toolbars, one up at the top of the sheet, and one on top of the keyboard

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 13/11/2024

Yeah. It makes the butterfly huge and blurry and looks pretty bad imo, plus you lose a lot of space for the preview of the text

Screenshot of a Bluesky link in a Signal Messenger conversation

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

So where am I now? I have both the "Like" and "Unlike functionality working, but the UX is definitely broken. I can like the post fine, but the issue is after I like it, I have no way of knowing the likeURI without refreshing the post object from the API, so I can't call the function to delete it

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

Speaking of the repost button, the repost button is actually a different type of button I've called a PostActionMenu. The "More" button will likely be the same, but this was needed to support sub options, like "Repost" or "Quote Repost". This uses a SwiftUI Menu to display the different options

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

The icon for each button is an SFSymbol, and the eventual plan is to allow the user to create new buttons with any SFSymbol. The button actually takes two different SFSymbols in, one for selected, and one for unselected. This allows for using something like heart, and heart.fill for the like button

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

The idea is that each button has an icon, with an optional number/label next to it. This give the flexibility to use it for something like a comment or like button where a counter is usually next to it, as well as a share or "more" button which is just an icon

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 22/10/2024

Now, to set the scene, when I mention Post Action Buttons, I'm referring to these buttons below the post outlined in red here. To start, they're going to be "Comment", "Repost", "Like", and "More". I'm trying to turn these things into reusable #SwiftUI components to hopefully make them customizable

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 21/10/2024

@pfrazee.com @samuel.bsky.team @haileyok.com is it possible to get the previews inside @signal.bsky.social working better? I think it’s up to the individual website. Anytime I share a post it has a big blurry picture of the butterfly which takes up a lot of space and doesn’t look great.

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 18/10/2024

@bsky.app and @atproto.com now has more users than ActivityPub according to @jaz.bsky.social’s bsky.jazco.dev/stats and @dansup.bsky.social’s fedidb.org

Screenshot of Bluesky stat page showing 11,627,285 total users

A screenshot of FediDb showing 11,585,107 total users on ActivityPub

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 13/10/2024

Drake Maye with a 40 yard bomb for the first TD of his career

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 16/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #117,315!

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 12/09/2024

Followed by the first Gatorade Shower of Mayo’s HC career #Patriots

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 12/09/2024

Celebrating getting access to video by posting the first touchdown of the Post Bill Belichick Era™ #Patriots

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 16/07/2024

The wording of the setting tries to explain this, but it might not be obvious that it’s also viewable to anyone who can use the API or spin up a relay. But yes, everything is public except for DMs currently. (However these are readable by Bluesky Admins. End 2 end encryption is planned for later on)

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 12/06/2024

Firefox 126.0.1 on Ubuntu 24.04

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 12/06/2024

Paul Frazee is Chip Skylark confirmed

The character Chip Skylark from Fairly Odd Parents surrounded by cartoon teeth with faces

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 05/04/2024

Sony Bean. One of the coolest MP3 players looking back

A picture of two Sony beans. The Sony Bean on the left is a blue bean shaped MP3 player with headphones appearing from behind it. The bean on right has its USB plug exposed, showing how you connect it to a computer

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Josh Holme 📎 @josh.holme.social · 11/07/2023

One quick and easy way to check privacy of apps if you’re on an iPhone is the App Store Privacy Labels. Here are the sections for both WhatsApp and Signal. You can see WhatsApp has a decent amount of data linked to you, and signal only has contacts not linked to you, which is only for finding people

App Privacy Label for WhatsApp. They only collect data that is linked to you including purchases, location, contacts, identifiers, diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, and usage data.

App Privacy Label for Signal Messenger. They only collect data not linked to you, and it’s only contact info. This is used only for finding contacts who are also on the app.

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