Jesse Newland
@jnewland on the internets
Austin, TX
Now: @bopsapp.bsky.social / apple.co/3WikmYk / bopsapp.com/beta
Previously: 💻🛠️ @github.com
- Reposted by Jesse NewlandIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- The app intents in the latest Bops release have totally changed how I interact with my Sonos system; I barely use an app at all to adjust volume / group membership! Just two shortcuts in my Action Button folder.
- The shortcut for applying scenes is almost *too* quick. Blink and you miss it.
- Anyway I'm super happy with this thing: I'm so proud to be able to share my daily-driver music app with all of you! Bops is just $0.99 through Friday to celebrate the new release. apps.apple.com/us/app/bops-...
- Reposted by Jesse Newlandnew iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
- Reposted by Jesse NewlandToday's beta release has a pretty rad new feature; an interactive snippet for quick adjustments to the current Sonos group. Launch with Siri ('Bops volume') or via Shortcuts. Coming to the App Store for Bops Gold subscribers 🔜 www.youtube.com/shorts/pJSfL... changelog.bopsapp.com/v2025.11.0-b...
- "widgets don’t resolve parameters for app intents" why not tho
- hmmm, this says iOS 26.1+ but it's not in 17B55 🤔
- end of an era www.theverge.com/tech/796119/...
- from 2014
- > Film the demo video to show both the designated hardware and the app running on a physical Apple device. kinda amusing that the easiest way to film such a video for App Store Review is ... my meta glasses 😎
- nearly shipped a subtly broken tabViewBottomAccessory to the App Store, now going back to the drawing board 😅 lotsa notes in github.com/urcomputerin...
- obtained a ton of cursed knowledge about debugging AttributeGraph cycles along the way 😬
- Submitted Bops for review Saturday evening 😗 Sure would be nice if UI refinements were allowed while waiting for review to start 😬
- welp, had to resubmit to fix some placeholder subscription plan promo images so that’s not a problem anymore! 😅
- Reposted by Jesse Newland👀 Getting closer to a public release over here. This beta is packed; support for volume control and queueing/playing music with Siri, Control Center buttons with volume / quick device playback, a Widget, Genius lyrics links, an easy way to ⭐️ songs from the Lock Screen + more
- leaning into UIDesignRequiresCompatibility and focusing on features this summer. it's Friday; time to shuffle the favorites playlist and take a walk
- Happy Friday! A new version of the Bops iOS beta is out today, with a couple features worth highlighting: a Sonos group volume control Live Activity and new queue syncing functionality that helps you continue your Sonos queue on your device when you leave Wi‑Fi. changelog.bopsapp.com/v2025.7.1-be...
- if you like fish and chips and all that pimp shit everybody lemme hear you say oh yea-er
- went to add a button to play Albums / Playlists in shuffle mode - something I rarely do - to @bopsapp.bsky.social and am am shocked at how varied shuffle behavior is across popular providers. “Play later” and “Play next” ignore shuffle on Apple Music, Sonos randomizes tracks. wtf, shuffleheads
- got woken up by a phone call from @pagerduty.bsky.social today at 4am, years after being on any sort of on call rotation. TTS bot said the service name but it was unintelligible. gonna assume a side effect of poor off-boarding at an old client; wish I could figure out who I should invoice!
- Sonos CEO: “No reasonable person would’ve shipped the software if we had understood the reliability and performance characteristics of the product in our customers’ homes” Me, building my own Sonos app, understanding *deeply* that The Network is not and will never be Reliable:
- cleaned up that view a bit and wrote a proper blog post about it changelog.bopsapp.com/v2025.5.1-be...
- Reposted by Jesse NewlandA new version of Bops: Now Playing for Sonos is available for download on the Apple TV App Store! Animations have been improved, album art is now displayed for all speakers in picker views, and new overlay controls support volume/playback adjustments with a quick swipe. apple.co/3WikmYk
- new hobby: asking the AI agent to rate its performance when it doesn't do the right thing > > Poor Communication: Instead of admitting I was on the wrong track, I kept suggesting parameter tweaks and adding complexity that didn't address the fundamental issue.
- gonna lie down now
- Reposted by Jesse NewlandHi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.
