Have a look at MakePass[0] - which sounds exactly like you describe. It allows you to design a pass as per spec.

[0] https://pvieito.com

MakePass is an app that creates independent/proper Wallet *.pkpass files. You can completely customise the pass appearance according to Apple’s specs.

(Not sure whether the current licensing offerings are worth it, though. I’ve got grandfathered in from before it had AI support.)

https://pvieito.com

This looks like it would work well, but it’s a subscription. It makes no sense to charge me a yearly fee to make one pass file for my library card.

Look at Pass4Wallet - free from the start.

Commented in another reply, this is the answer. Works great and supports a dozen barcode types.

absolutely ridiculous. $10 for a single pass. I'd pay 99c for this app, and no more. Oh well, $0 it is.

I’m currently evaluating whether I’m happy with Kagi News in my RSS reader compared to separate news outlets. So far it seems to capture all the important bits.

You forgot that even poor old notepad.exe also got the Copilot treatment.

Fuck did it really? How on earth does that pan out? Who uses notepad? Writers? Word. Coders? Vim or VSCode or <IDE of choice>. I just don’t understand their logic.

They make this beautiful pasture (Windows XP wallpaper) and then lay mines all over the field. Put up signs that say “Free Lemonade” and charge for parking.

Lots of people do use Notepad as a digital notepad. Random texts, mostly, or as a clipboard manager. It used to start really fast.

It still starts very fast, even with quite large files and line wrapping. (pretty much on par with lite-xl, though lite-xl did get much faster with some recent version. prior to it though, it was easier and faster to launch notepad)

...and paint.

NO! really? Are you just kidding, right?

(I'm on an older server version, so I do not know)

Sadly not you can generate images with copilot directly in paint now.

Yep, 20-odd years ago, I had modified a radio scanner and added a discrete output. Then used Poc32 to decode pager messages from the scanner via the PC’s sound card.

Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too.

That is the exact vibe I wanted to capture. The feeling of a raw, unencrypted signal that just "appears" without a handshake. It felt more alive than a JSON payload over HTTPS.

>Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too.

That vibe is reflected in the 9/11 pager messages as well... https://911.wikileaks.org/

How does this compare to flohmarkt?

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

Planet Computers Gemini? Or their Cosmo Communicator? (To be fair they’re more Psion 5-sized.)

Or do you remember the Beepberry/Beeper?

OTOH, your phone is more than capable, so maybe a small bluetooth keyboard is all you really need. There are apps like iSH on iOS or Termux on Android that give you a Linux shell.

I did a fun experiment once to confirm it’s not me sausage-fingering but the stupid iOS keyboard. There’s an app called xKeyboard which lets you design your own keyboard. I remade the FITALY[0] keyboard in it and even though the keys are slightly smaller than on the original iOS keyboard, I can type without making any error. Yet the iOS keyboard often detects the wrong key because of those stupid hitboxes. I wish there was a way to turn them off.

[0] https://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm

Same here. Despite Legendary status, I’ve used Alfred as a souped-up launcher and implemented my workflows app-agnostic either as a shell script, a Shortcut, or an AppleScript. I haven’t launched Alfred since upgrading to Tahoe.

Especially since you can now create Shortcuts that get input directly from Spotlight or the active window.

Just make the battery banks container sized and swap them out with fresh ones while doing the main cargo. Then service and charge the old ones.

That also means you can trivially optimize your fuel/cargo ratios. Going across the pacific? Just load 200 more battery containers. Singapore to China right after? Room for 400 FEUs more than normal.

It’s not quite “just”. A way to safely and efficiently connect and disconnect them would be needed.