We’ve started giving pocket money to the children. Rather than giving them cash we are giving them plastic tokens. When they want to buy something they can give us the tokens in exchange for cash or an online purchase. My son is saving for the Lego Avengers Helicarrier. After counting the money he’s been given over the past couple of years in his piggy bank he’s worked out that he has ten weeks to go. Thankfully he doesn’t seem disappointed that he can’t buy it today. Hopefully he’ll start learning the joy of saving up for something he really wants.
Listening to J.S. Bach: Spira, Spera by Emmanuel Despax 🎵This is a very welcome companion to some Friday morning bug fixing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Thank you to the updated Apple Music new albums which brought this to my attention.
A trick used by some manufacturers of low end Android devices is to deliberately disable animations. This makes the phone snappier and stops the UI feeling sluggish as the hardware struggles with animations which are used throughout the system.
Whilst this has no impact on functionality in general usage, there are many cases where the animation is the functionality. I had added a simple feature to an app recently which faded between two images - one a historical photo and another one taken recently. The client had a Huawei P30 lite which has animator duration scale disabled by default - and can only be changed by enabling developer mode. When they tried the image fader what they saw was the app quickly switching between two images - and was essentially a broken feature for this user.
Thank goodness for Stack Overflow. I’m hoping that this workaround, which uses a private API to set animation duration scale back to 1x for the app, doesn’t trigger the app being rejected. This is another demonstration of why indie developers are often iOS first - there are so many more variables to consider when doing Android development.
Listening to Vivaldi’s Seasons by Bolette Roed 🎵
I haven’t used Drafts for ages. The new custom syntaxes looks very interesting. Maybe I need to take another look.
The office-ish chair I ordered for home last year, as the stay at home order looked likely to continue, is starting to become uncomfortable. The foam in the cushion keeps getting squished to the sides leaving me sitting on the hard surface below. I’m hoping the memory foam seat cushion I’ve ordered resolves my discomfort.
Tippy.js - Tooltip, Popover, Dropdown, and Menu Library
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Listening to Highway Rider by Brad Mehldau 🎵
My go to radio station is Radio 3. BBC Sounds is a fantastic service for exploring it’s archive and recent programmes. This morning I’m listening to In Tune Mixtape - Countdown to Spring with an eclectic classical music mix
An app I’d been working on for a client was rejected by Apple this morning. It is a location based app which unlocks a small feature if you visit a particular set of places. As this is a feature that Apple couldn’t test they need a video demoing the feature. Whilst annoying to be tripped up by this I’m happy that Apple take the time to make sure apps don’t contain any hidden nasties.
