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Oh boy! Creating/maintaining Shortcuts is such a pain! Having to do it on a small iPhone screen with a touchscreen keyboard, through a no-code interface... I want an actual text editor, I want to version things with git... It feels like with Cherri I'll finally be able to actually do things! Thanks!
Cool! As a professional programmer few things consistently succeed in making me feel inept like trying to build an Apple Shortcut
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I didn't realize you were the Lunar guy! I freaking love your apps! Thank you for making good and useful software. Being able to adjust my monitor brightness during the pandemic actively changed my quality of life for the better (I was in a small SF apartment).
Thank you for the kind words! Love to hear from people that were helped by my work! That was also my pain point with Lunar, working on a small balcony in a small apartment where the light from the window was constantly changing and the monitor always being way too bright or way too dim. I broke one of those LG monitor joystick OSD buttons before I got to building Lunar.
Cool! As a professional programmer few things consistently succeed in making me feel inept like trying to build an Apple Shortcut
Still confused on why there is no social component of this? What is the best place to find examples of actual useful Apple Shortcuts?
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I felt really smart after I made a fancy Shortcut that did complex playlist generation based on rules and whatnots. Of course, adding music to a playlist broke a couple of updates down the line and, as far as I'm aware, still doesn't work properly several years later. (I moved to Marvis Pro[0] because it has reasonably complex smart playlists that just about mimic what I was doing with my generator except they're tra…
This is what prevents me from putting any effort in to shortcuts. I have zero confidence in Apple respecting my time by committing to compatibility or even just not breaking things. The constant feature churn from new PM’s tearing down Chesterton’s fence to make way for their own career ambitions makes Apple user hostile.
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The biggest problem IMO is the loooooooong animation delay built into every UI interaction. It's so hard to get into a flow state or even maintain a train of thought when you have to wait for everything on the screen to stop sliding, wiggling, wobbling, jiggling, refracting, distorting, and flashing.
I’m guessing you might know already, but just in case you don’t, “reduce motion” in the accessibility settings menu is essential to productivity and sanity.
My biggest problem with authoring shortcuts is that the editor goes out of its way to obliterate context while you're working. Full-screen editors to change a setting lay on top everything else you're working on. Placeholders for variables, which themselves have no actual names. It's a mess.
Adjacently, does anyone know of a Terraform-like syntax for creating GitHub Actions YML files?
I've just used this extensively to build 200 Shortcuts for my event-based automation app on macOS [0], because some actions you simply can't do without Shortcuts: changing Focus Mode, toggling Accessibility functions like Color Filters, accessing the Private Cloud Compute model etc. I also wrote about how Claude was able to basically learn the language from scratch and write those fully compilable Shortcuts for me [1…