Alex Hay
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Documentary editor & indie app developer. @ToolboxProApp , @NautomateApp & @TheLoggerApp |
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Facebook’s new App Privacy report on the App Store is really something...
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Just to let you know that our son, Alex Hay, passed away in March after a brave battle with cancer. He was an amazing & talented guy who will be forever in the thoughts of his many friends, work colleagues & family. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Jack Hay
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Fun little beta for the Shortcuts pros!
Logger is a console app for Shortcuts. It makes it far easier to troubleshoot complex shortcuts with an interface that updates as your shortcut runs.
No more Quick Look actions required...
iPhone/iPad/Mac
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I’ve been using the amazing DALL·E 2 by
@OpenAI
to create D&D character portraits & the results are 🤯
You can see more here
@DnDalle
or on insta:
cc
@BeamdogInc
@TrentOster
@gdb
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GPT-3 by
@OpenAI
is wild. Will be adding these text generation actions in the next
@ToolboxProApp
beta!
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Wow third-party developers can now implement powerful predicate filtering in Shortcut actions similar to the ones in Apple’s first-party actions
#WWDC22
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Menu Box - my new app that makes building Shortcuts menus super easy is starting to come together.
You can give it a spin in the beta here:
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@9to5mac
Kill & Yank. If you don’t want to lose what’s on your clipboard, you can use Ctrl + K to cut and Ctrl + Y to paste using a second clipboard.
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@ParkerOrtolani
It’s an incredibly innovative solution to a necessary hardware shortcoming on iPhone hardware - will be interesting to see if it’s compelling enough to add to iPad too
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Four interesting, beautiful images from one prompt - and so accurate!
“A stunning portrait of a Chinese rogue. He wears brown leather armour beneath his black hooded cloak. The setting is an attic, dust hangs in sunbeams. Epic fantasy art. Sharp, award-winning on Artstation. 4k”
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@jonsopel
Have an artist create a portrait of Beckham from the shredding. Sell it for £20k. Donate the profits.
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@kebindgreat
@agg1987
He talks about writing it and pitching it twice to Druckmann in the companion podcast. They really landed the perfect co-writer in Mazin!
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@BethRigby
@ChrisMasonBBC
I reckon if Liz had said “I can’t quit now, because the lettuce is still looking pretty fresh” she’d have got a warmer reaction.
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@seanzjay
@ATRightMovies
I think it absolutely elevates this scene. You’re initially waiting for a cut which never comes, ratcheting up the tension. The viewer is trapped right in the middle of the action with each beat of the scene revealed in a slow, dread-inducing pans.
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@waxpancake
If he hadn’t bragged about how much money he was going to make, it would’ve flown under the radar & would likely still be available
#hubris
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@MarcMagn1
@OpenAI
@DnDalle
@BeamdogInc
@TrentOster
@gdb
"A portrait of a giant bald barbarian with purple face paint. A hamster sits on his shoulder. The scene is at sunset and he wears armour made from leather. Epic fantasy art, sharp, award winning on Artstation, 4k HD"
They weren’t all quite so Minscy but that one looked so nice!
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@TwitterDev
Disgusting lack of communication after suddenly cutting off your biggest API users. Why would anyone invest time into developing anything on your platform now? Such a shame after the big developer relations turnaround and improvements in the 2.0 API.
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@stroughtonsmith
Been making a fun little SwiftUI app for easily designing menus to use in Shortcuts.
Built using the the new Visual List and in-app intent handling APIs.
Just released a beta:
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Blows my mind how powerful Codex by
@OpenAI
is. Feels like 🪄✨
Here it is generating a functional SwiftUI view from a descriptive comment.
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Adding a quick way to use app icons in Menu Box by searching the App Store
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@ChristianSelig
Christian you’re going to have to create PixelPalsKit so this can be added to every app on my phone please
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@JPEGuin
@stroughtonsmith
Currently busy rewriting
@ToolboxProApp
as a multi platform app to bring all the functionality over to Shortcuts on the Mac 🦾
Progress! I’ve now got everything working within the Mac sandbox restrictions, which means I should be able to distribute on the App Store 🤞🏻
I’ve rearchitected the app & I’m now going through all ~140 actions to make them work on both platforms while adding more Mac actions. 🔥
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@TheOGapp_
I like the idea of your app but isn’t it just massively breaching Instagram’s terms of use?
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I’m getting my head around the new App Intents framework by building a simple demo app that makes use of the new APIs.
Very much an early work-in-progress but it’s public if you’re looking for sample code. There’s not much of it out there yet.
#WWDC22
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Such a huge engineering effort seems to have gone into the new App Intents framework - I wonder if it might play a key role in the rumoured realityOS?
Floating ‘snippet’ overlays that are SwiftUI views, conversational Siri UI & lightweight, widget-like mini app extensions etc
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Wrote a little about how to set up a shortcut that makes it easy to create framed iOS screenshots in different sizes on your desktop with two taps. 🪄📱
ℹ️ Uses the beta ‘Take Screenshot’ Shortcuts action,
@Picsew
,
@Noodle_Hazel
&
@ToolboxProApp
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@jsngr
Genuinely think Google Maps might be one of the best pieces of software ever written. Such a mind-boggling amount going behind the scenes on to provide a comparatively simple utility for the consumer. I mean the amount of physical mapping they do! 🤯
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In iOS 16 you can display rich sectioned lists as options for parameters using DynamicOptionsProvider.
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@stroughtonsmith
Thanks Steve!
Recently released a beta for an app that makes it easy to build and run advanced Twitter searches.
💨 Mighty Search makes advanced Twitter searching a breeze.
🔍 Find tweets from places or moments. Tweets with images (or without). From certain accounts, in specific lists & much more.
☁️ Save your searches to quickly run them again.
Join the beta:
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The niche-est of niche apps for us Shortcuts nerds is out now! 🤓🎉
Logger, the development console for Shortcuts is now available on the App Store! ✨
It makes editing even complex shortcuts *much* easier and maybe even… fun? 🙃
A one-time universal purchase for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
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Fun that the
@NotionAPI
is now in public beta.
Bottom of my list at the moment but going to have a play and see how well it could integrate with Shortcuts.
#notionapi
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@stroughtonsmith
Just starting to play with the new in-app intent handling that will give the actions in
@ToolboxProApp
a lot more power 🎉
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@mattuthompson
It seems to me that an important part of learning critical thinking skills is being able to objectively examine evidence - in this case understanding why something seemingly innocuous to one group can be grossly offensive to another and why the material has been created & so on.
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‘appStoreOverlay’ is a neat addition to SwiftUI on iOS14.
Here, if you try to view a JSON variable from
@ToolboxProApp
in Jayson and you don’t have the app installed yet, it shows a nifty little window to immediately download it 👌🏻
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@stroughtonsmith
The
@weatherlineapp
app is *so* good for glanceable weather. I find it clearer than any other weather app. Sad it’s going away.
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@viticci
Tuning about 30% of
@ToolboxProApp
’s actions to take advantage of in-app intent handling.
Going to be so much more powerful 🦾
This is going to be my
#ios14
experiments thread.
You’ll be able to perform on-device, Vision-powered text recognition on images *without* opening TBP.
Here I’m taking a screenshot & then using Back Tap to get text from the latest image, all in the background 🤯
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Some great new String parsing features have been added to SoulverCore. Sort of like a simplified RegEx in Swift with features like conversions. Easily pull out URLs, airport codes, places, timespans etc from a string.
Nice work
@soulver
!
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@KerryD_Mitchell
@nextcontext
@mustafasuleymn
@OpenAI
@gdb
@ilyasut
It’s funny that we’re basically the same. Decades of training data for an adult human to autocomplete their next spoken sentence based on what has worked previously.
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Making an app to replace
@Twitter
’s anxiety bar with something more useful 🔎
@mightysearch
makes it easy to perform advanced Twitter searches (using lots of obscure, undocumented operators) and save them for later.
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A whole set of 570 (!) images is now available to download for a couple of bucks.
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@stroughtonsmith
I'm just starting out with iOS development and I've found SwiftUI is making sense in a way that I just couldn't get to grips with trying to learn storyboards. The error codes are impossible to interpret though...
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Nice that we can now add keywords to actions in the library. Should make it easier for users to find the right actions quickly even if they type a different search term.
You can also add custom categories so that when the user taps on an app, all actions are grouped accordingly.
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Still waiting for app review after a week 🙇🏻♂️
Submitted an expedite request which has just been accepted, hopefully that moves things forward... 🤞🏻
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@JPEGuin
Thanks Shihab!
Working on ‘Menu Box’, an app that makes it easy to build beautiful menus for Shortcuts.
Beta is open:
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I’d like an iOS Safari Extension that gets rid of the Instagram pop-up when you’re not logged in to an account (and don’t have the app)
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@scottygb
One of his Ds was a distinction!
@Valeloyal
@lcfckini
I haven’t helped myself, one of the Ds was a distinction so I’ve Baso got A,C,D. a D is still a pass. I’ve come away with 3 A levels just not with “a couple Bs”🤣🤣🤣
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@JordanMorgan10
Really delightful being able to swipe between today and week view from the home screen. Lovely
@rjonesy
👌🏻
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Delighted with the response to
@TheLoggerApp
so far!
Seems to have hit a (small) chord with developers who have been tinkering with Shortcuts but get frustrated with the clunkiness of troubleshooting.
Achievement unlocked seeing it on
@daringfireball
✨
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@natfriedman
God the replies to this are so negative. It’s an incredible technology in its infancy. This is the worst it’ll ever be and it’ll totally change how many engineers work in a few years time. Older engineers will grind against it but new engineers will fly with it.
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Available to download! If you’re into
@NotionHQ
and want to automate it with Shortcuts, give it a try
Nautomate is a new app which adds powerful, native
@NotionHQ
actions to Shortcuts, giving you automation superpowers 🦸🏻♂️
Download it now for free on iOS, iPadOS & macOS:
#notion
#shortcuts
#nocode
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@BvdBijl
@a2
@ToolboxProApp
I’ve been using a similar system as a rough prototype for a new app which is a fleshed out version of my Preview tool, letting users build fully interactive, linked SwiftUI pages by combining ‘content blocks’
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The difference in creating a ‘hello world’ Shortcuts action on iOS 15 vs iOS 16.
Hopefully this drives a lot more developer adoption.
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@ChristianSelig
You should track how many people don’t enable the extension but only downloaded for his Lordship
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@azzoor
This looks fantastic, congratulations!
I wonder if it would benefit from Shortcuts support so you could create a voice-activated shortcut that would prompt you to take a photo (or grab the most recent one) extract the text from braille found and speak it back to you.
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And being able to just pass in a SwiftUI view as a confirmation is interesting. Looking forward to playing around with this for displaying rich output to the user.
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‘Rich Text’ is listed here as a parameter’s possible input type, which wasn’t available previously when using an Intent Definition file 🤔
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@simonbs
Noticed that too, ha! Don’t have one for you even though I have all your apps though so must just be for devs
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@stroughtonsmith
Thanks Steve! Dipping my toes into Mac development & bringing
@ToolboxProApp
to the Mac as a SwiftUI AppKit app. Will be adding lots of powerful new Mac-specific actions to Shortcuts on Monterey.
Progress! I’ve now got everything working within the Mac sandbox restrictions, which means I should be able to distribute on the App Store 🤞🏻
I’ve rearchitected the app & I’m now going through all ~140 actions to make them work on both platforms while adding more Mac actions. 🔥
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It’s really annoying how Apple hasn’t updated the Reminders API as they’ve added new features. Tags, When Messaging, URL, images, flagging, subtasks, smart lists, shared lists, assigned reminders and list icons are all inaccessible to devs 👎🏻
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Really love the SF Symbols app but the search could be greatly improved.
Searching for ‘education’, ‘school’, ‘college’, ‘student’ or ‘hat’ should show the ‘graduationcap’ symbol, for example.
At the moment you need to know the exact symbol name.
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@rodrigoaraujo
@mattcassinelli
@viticci
I noticed some links weren’t working today and assumed the service was down for maintenance or something.
Hopefully that gets fixed soon! cc
@5tu
You can use 'Get Link To File' to create links for your shortcuts programmatically:
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@stroughtonsmith
Recently released
@TheLoggerApp
, a cross-platform development console for Shortcuts (and my first foray into Mac development).
Would love to see continued improvements for integrating CoreData with SwiftUI - more abstraction along the lines they’re already going.
Logger, the development console for Shortcuts is now available on the App Store! ✨
It makes editing even complex shortcuts *much* easier and maybe even… fun? 🙃
A one-time universal purchase for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
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With
@viticci
’s recent ‘Shortcuts Injector’ discoveries, I’ve found it’s also possible to run a Shortcut which strips all of the logging actions out of your shortcut when you’re done developing it 🤯
cc
@mattcassinelli
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@BearNotesApp
Automated meeting notes in Bear with actionable tasks parsed into Things or Reminders 👍🏻
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Doing some experimenting & I think there are some interesting uses for Focus Filters + Shortcuts 👨🏻🔬
In this example you can enter text when setting up a Focus then use a Shortcuts action to retrieve it from whichever one is active 👀
What else would you want from Focus Modes?
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Anyone got good uses for Focus modes on iOS15? I thought I’d use them lots but actually I’ve found I just want a binary “I don’t mind being disturbed” or “silence everything”.
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This is awesome.
The new Shortcuts ‘snippets’ act like medium/large widgets so you can embed multiple links in them.
They don’t disappear when you tap a link & they don’t lock up the screen.
Just wish you could minimise them like a rich notification!
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Ok starting to get my head around App Intents and putting together a rough project to experiment with the new features.
Really substantial new API to get to grips with but seems really powerful. Easier to start with but you can quickly pile on the complexity.
#WWDC22
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@AndrewHartAR
Can imagine SwiftUI snippets and floating widgets being key elements
Such a huge engineering effort seems to have gone into the new App Intents framework - I wonder if it might play a key role in the rumoured realityOS?
Floating ‘snippet’ overlays that are SwiftUI views, conversational Siri UI & lightweight, widget-like mini app extensions etc
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@andrewchen
It’s pricey but doing a 🚁 tour over lava fields, watching the sun rise over frozen waterfalls, landing on an active volcano and having our pilot dust the snow off of mountain tops was one of the best experiences of my life! Black diamond beach is beautiful too.
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Mac
@ToolboxProApp
beta rejected because it crashed for the reviewer on launch. I’ve run the same build on a clean install with latest dev beta, iCloud on/off, permissions as restricted as possible etc and can’t yet replicate. Maddening! 🙍🏻♂️
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Beta link for my new advanced Twitter searching app is now live…
Give it a spin and let me know what you think!
💨 Mighty Search makes advanced Twitter searching a breeze.
🔍 Find tweets from places or moments. Tweets with images (or without). From certain accounts, in specific lists & much more.
☁️ Save your searches to quickly run them again.
Join the beta:
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The first iOS14 developer beta is *incredibly* polished.
No resprings, app crashes or major unexpected behaviour from the default apps after a week of heavy usage.
Whatever new systems were introduced after the problems they had with iOS13 have been really effective👌🏻
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Hate that feeling of staring at
@Netflix
not knowing what to watch so I knocked up a little app for myself that makes it easy to quickly find something good that’s currently streaming (uses
@JustWatch
’s API)
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Making some menu improvements with optional gradients and drop shadows
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Had to start unfollowing people who regularly use the Spaces feature just so it stops showing up at the top of the UI 😕
Insane that it’s such an intrusive element on the screen with no way to dismiss.
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@JPEGuin
Looks fun! Would be cool to do a salient crop on the cover for the central vinyl sticker?
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It’s also less than 20 lines of code to create an action in Shortcuts that shows a snippet when run 🤯
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I haven’t used windows for years but this looks interesting - like a cross between Automator & Shortcuts.
I particularly like being able to see variables and their values in the right-hand window, much like Apple’s Playgrounds app
I see you
@Microsoft
with all the new automation tools!!! 👏🏾
Introducing ⚡️Power Automate Desktop⚡️ - a free tool to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks
cc:
@MSPowerAutomate
@rezadorrani
@isonic1
#PowerAutomate
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