Matt Banks

@soapboxsoftware.bsky.social the Feature Request link in the app isn't working, so figured messaging here works. Would love to see Share be a button directly on posts without needing to tap the "…" button. Keep up the great work on this app!

@addyosmani.bsky.social In Safari, Gemini web app makes you hit enter twice to send a message. It's once (normal behavior) in Chrome. Is there somewhere I can report this bug to the team to get fixed?

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

I spent the weekend trying to process what's happening in my city of Minneapolis, Minnesota by creating this video. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Fuck ICE and fuck every person that supports this

Switched to light mode on my iPhone and iPad after years of dark mode. Feels like walking out of a movie theater during the day into the sunlight. Getting used to how bright it is, but I really like the colors and looks of apps in light mode better.

WE OUT HERE 👋

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

Listening to Rage Against the Machine while snow blowing this morning was a great choice. “Wake Up”, especially, should be required listening for everyone in 2025. @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social

Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you

This must be read. By every person who cares about the hijacking of this nation. By every Democrat in Congress. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov Thank you @jamellebouie.net. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Has anyone studied how much alcohol consumption has increased in the US in the past 2 weeks and then cross referenced that by political affiliation? I would bet some solid money it’s way up. This dumpster fire is getting worse by the minute.

I really hope Sonos can actually fix the app. Half the time it can’t find my speakers.

Is there a way in Shortcuts to detect if I’m connected to CarPlay? I want to change what my Action Button does whether it’s in CarPlay or not. @matthewcassinelli.bsky.social @stephenrobles.com @viticci.macstories.net maybe one of you knows the answer?

Really hoping more sports folks move over here to Bluesky. A lot of my favorite soccer feeds are here already, but golf, and Formula 1 particularly I'd love to see more of over here.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and hangs out with a bunch of other ducks, and writes for a german newspaper saying vote for the alt-right duck party, and does a nazi salute like a duck... my dude, that's a duck and you should throw away your duckmobile.

It's ok to unfollow people to try and get away from political discourse for a while. I'm mostly saying this for myself, but prioritizing your own mental health is important. It doesn't mean you don't care or that you don't want to see a positive change in the world.

If @openvibe.social synced timeline positions between devices, it would be the perfect app for using Bluesky and Mastodon

Verified my domain and changed my handle here to @mattbanks.me. Pretty straightforward to do, and I'm happy that @bsky.app reserves your old username for you automatically.

Fresh snow made for some cool glow on the Christmas lights last night. 📸 Fujifilm X100VI #Photography

If anyone from Apple’s Screen Time or Parental Controls team somehow sees this, please add an option to prevent kids from permanently deleting text messages from the Recently Deleted section. Or deleting at all.

Shrinking named an episode “The Drugs Don’t Work” and I waited the whole time to hear this song and they never played it. Now I have it on repeat. The episode and all of season 2 was fantastic, by the way. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Amir is legit a good ass dude.

Been using the Apple Podcasts app for the past week or two after having too many crashes with Overcast lately. Enjoying Apple Podcasts, but it’s not good at syncing between devices. Having listening position or played status sync between my iPhone and iPad is rough.

I wish more AI tools were like the RAW denoise in Lightroom - a wild technological improvement that breathed new life into my old cameras, made me love taking photos all over again, and which feels like all the training is in service of making new art, not merely stealing the old

Been using Reeder as an RSS client with Feedbin for years. Giving @unread.app a try instead. So far, I'm really liking the design!

Go work with @slothy.com!

I would pay good money for a Tapbots port of Ivory/Tweetbot for Bluesky

On the lookout for good gaming podcasts or video series. My favorites of all time are the old 1UP Show and the CO-OP series from the awesome @area5.bsky.social team. Anything out there with a similar vibe these days?

Didn’t listen to as much music this year as previous years. Did not expect Goose to be my top streamed artist this year, but pretty happy with that. Kendrick Lamar took over for November with the GNX release, which is what I’m listening to on repeat right now. #AppleMusic #Replay24

I wish some of the newer games coming to Mac would also get released for the M4 iPad Pro. This thing is pretty powerful and would definitely run some of these game like Stray from @annapurna.com, Arco, and Thank Goodness You're Here from @panic.com.

All the devs on this list are awesome! I use @halideapp.bsky.social and @darknoise.app all the time, and I highly recommend following those folks and checking out their apps (or trying to win some codes).

I’ve been in gaming for over a decade and recently started as a new role at a Partner at Piton Labs, branching out into the startup world. Loving the chance to check out new industries, see how they intersect with gaming, and build teams across that span across focuses.

Picked up a Fuji X100VI a couple weeks ago and I've been loving it!

Would love a proper iPad app for Bluesky, or an official port of Ivory without SkyBridge

Four games I've worked on

@gamedevlist.bsky.social looks pretty cool! Going to have to spend some time going through and finding some folks to follow here.

Actual lol

New week, new reminder that Gravity Well is hiring. We are adding roles to our team for art, animation, fx, engineering, narrative, production, qa, and tech art. Come and join our team! https://gravitywell.games/ #GameJobs

There are entirely too makes takes of “if you like that other social network, you suck” across all of them. Let people enjoy things.

Checking out Threads. https://www.threads.net/@mattbanks

I want to go to an Alice Merton concert to jump around and scream the chorus to Waste My Life at the top of my lungs.

Feels like we’re at that part in Goodfellas where Layla plays except instead of bodies it’s websites that used to be good. Reddit frozen in the back of a meat truck, Twitter thrown in a dumpster, Google walking into a house with A.I. thinking it’s about to get made

Love that I can pin a Game Dev feed to the top of my timeline

Hi friends! I'm a VP of Engineering at Wolfjaw Studios. We work with #GameDev studios to help teams build great player experiences. I lead teams creating online services, game clients, admin portals, web & companion apps, & more. I love photography, soccer, and pour over coffee. Happy to be here!

If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place

Happy to finally be here! Thanks to @hellocontrol.bsky.social for the invite!