Posts in the category “technology”

I joined Mastodon five years ago – a full decade after I started using Twitter, by the way – and still have absolutely no idea how it works.

It’s effectively impossible to manage uploaded photos on Amazon Alexa devices using the iOS app because if you’ve uploaded more than about 120 photos, the screen refreshes back to the top any time you scroll down more than a few pages.

I’ve reported this twice now to the Alexa team and gotten no response. I even explained why it was happening and how to fix it! (I had to deal with the same issue with my bartender app.)

Is there a sniglet for that moment of panic before you realize the problem is that you’re using your wireless mouse upside down and not that your computer is going haywire?

Pitfall

“Unless you were there in 1982, you can’t even imagine how baller this setup was.” – via @Super70sSports

Dealing with Word Breaks in SwiftUI Text

Dealing with Word Breaks in SwiftUI Text

What to do when .allowsTightening and .minimumScaleFactor are not cutting it

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.