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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:20AM (#21081085)
I've been looking forward to this feature, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed that most of the personal automations still require a manual approval before they will execute. For example, I can schedule a particular shortcut to always run at a specific time. When that time comes, however, my phone will display a notification which I must physically tap to execute the automation. If I miss the notification, nothing will happen. The same is true for "When I Arrive..." and "When I Leave..." triggers. Which means, often, I'll get a notification in the car, while I'm driving, which I must tap to execute the automation.

I can see why Apple would want to step cautiously with consumer-based automation, but I was really expecting that all of these new automation triggers would fire without needing any manual approval, or at least that there would be a way to configure them to do so.

I have read that you can use a HomePod, Apple TV, or always-plugged-in iPad as a home hub, and my understanding is the triggers offered here will run in a fully automated fashion. I hope to explore that at some point.

Still, I'm very happy to see the progress in Shortcuts, and I expect it will only get better.

Re:SRL – Simple Regex Language on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:13PM (#12385878)
Consider changing "either of" to "any of".

The word "either" implies only two choices, making your opening example confusing when the first "either of" was really picking from three possibilities.

Re:Show HN: ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:10PM (#8423295)
This looks very nice.

Since you mentioned Swagger--We've started using API Blueprint for internal API design and collaboration. Do you have any plans to support importing from API Blueprint?

Re:A review of RubyMotion on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:20PM (#3929081)
RubyMine doesn't support RubyMotion or the iOS SDKs now, but they're considering it (cf. http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5458781#5458781). You can vote up the feature here:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-11039#tab=Comments