There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

If you ask me, we can skip straight to February.

I’m very much looking forward to the new Spaceballs movie. #spaceballs

People seem sometimes surprised that those humanoid robots are controlled by actual humans. Unfortunately, it feels like this is going to be a pretty big thing. Remote humans are cheap and can be exploited efficiently. And the rich consumers are protected from their shame. It seems like this may […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115605942957826285 The bigger problem is that you can create social problems with code 🙈

The trend charts in AppStore Connect for quite a while, I wonder what’s up with that.

I was not amused to learn about this #swiftlang feature apparently breaking regular static linking semantics. Has this been fixed, will this be fixed, it sounds a little like it? (comments are from 2021?) https://forums.swift.org/t/why-public-symbols-are-always-no-dead-strip/47264

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

I made the AI do useful work for me today ("Selber machen lassen"), so I decided I celeberate (not-my-work) w/ a neat midnight snack. That little beef probably won't be measurable in today's natural-resources-wasted-bill #food

M1…M5, 2x improved code compilation performance. Well, and 2x single core performance. We all know what language we are compiling here 🙃

This post is entirely made up / AI slop, right? There is no NIOXML lib or https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-xml.git package? https://ssojet.com/parse-and-generate-formats/parse-and-generate-xml-in-swiftnio/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I actually bought this … and sent it back. It felt really expensive but I thought it would be OK if it is really cool. But it was extraordinarily boring to me. https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115556118308527134

Ich hatte mal gefragt warum die 300kW Stationen um die Ecke außer Betrieb sind, heute kam die Antwort: "Die angesprochenen anderen Ladepunkte sind derzeit aufgrund von Kabeldiebstählen außer Betrieb. Aktuell arbeiten wir an einer Lösung, um die Stationen wieder in Betrieb nehmen zu können und […]

Almost like they want to sell cars … https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/tesla-might-finally-bring-carplay-to-its-evs/

Is "ReportCrash" buggy?

How sick would it be if Apple gave up the Mac brand and rather produce the computers under die NeXT umbrella. That’s what they are anyways. https://bitbang.social/@overeducatedredneck/115538324033291763

I would really like to do HTML templates using Elementary, but the iteration cycle is just too slow. I need that damn SwiftScript 🙃

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115527777269072386 Code amazing programs, what would you do during Smalltalk? 🙃

This one didn't age well "John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?"

One reason (among many) why I never really liked Rails is that the experience literally starts with generating boilerplate code. You don't start to code, you start by _generating_ code. Compare that to things like D2W (old at the time) where you get the whole app for free, and you only start to […]

I was considering to ask @PrototypeFund to sponsor a project to convert the ScalableOGo Objective-C core to Swift, but considering all, rebuilding something in a different language is probably not innovative enough 🙂

If Apple would have bought BeOS instead of NeXTstep, the whole Swift thing would have made *so* much more sense :zwinkersmiley:

BSky is a penny stock 😬

Yes, so what now?

It's just a personal impression, but I actually do think that Swift nil handling has lead to many more app crashes due to force unwraps. And in a way that is _intentional_. Sending a message to nil may occasionally be unintended and not strictly the right behavior, but seems very rarely an […]

Midnight snack (I really like that peppered cheese) #food

Want to think different? Have a look at that somewhat WO like #smalltalk web framework, Seaside: https://github.com/SeasideSt/Seaside

Alternative timeline: SJ insists that 3rd party iPhone apps do not get a native framework but have to be written in HTML5 as originally intended.

Swift was introduced over 10 years ago. Promising better software quality due to the extensive static type checks, optional checking, etc over Objective-C. Given the scope of the effort, surely the overall quality of the software in the Apple ecosystem should have improved significantly. Right? […]

I'm really trying to keep my types non-sendable, as that seems like the best thing for most non-primitive stuff, but it is really, really hard and I may give up. Originally I thought that for example one HTTP transaction (working the request, sending the response) should strictly stick to just […]

The new web-app store is b0rked. It doesn't show ASCII Cows when searching for "cows". But just utter crap.

Klären die noch warum die Bundesdruckerei Mitarbeiter nicht einfach in der Kantine essen gehen und statt dessen Gorilla's bestellen müssen? Ich war da schon ein paar mal, die ist wirklich nicht schlecht 🤷‍♀️ #tatort

Funny enough the AppleTV+ show "Invasion" is called "Infiltration" in Germany (different English word ...). Presumably some name copyright conflict?

It's end of the year, so I'm again... looking into how Swift concurrency works w/ SwiftNIO. The funny thing is that in the OpenGroupware port I'm working on I don't actually need any concurrency 🙂 Most of the work/logic it does is PostgreSQL queries running in a transaction. So nothing you'd put […]

W/ #swiftlang, can I do this: ( MyClass, isolated (any Actor)? ) async -> Void W/o having to take the actor parameter? Because the callee itself doesn't use it for anything. Only the Swift compiler cares on the callsite. To avoid: blub.run { value, _ /* unused actor */ in } Instead I want […]

Periodic reminder to myself that a #swiftlang concurrency Task switch / suspension point is *not* necessarily a thread hop w/ the related performance implications. The other task can stick to the same thread even if it goes to an entirely different Task (e.g. on some actor). (it still is a […]

Canal+ Creation Originale 🇫🇷

I sometimes wonder how Zack de la Rocha deals with the current situation. I assume we just got a bullet in our head?

Came up elsewhere, but those are some great #swiftlang slides by @bas, like `self` was `this` in some iteration: https://speakerdeck.com/basthomas/taken-for-granted

It feels like for so many things I'd like to do, I'd need #swiftscript. The regular compile cycle is just too slow for something generally workable. E.g. SwiftUI like server side templates are highly desirable, but I can't just recompile the stuff on every minor change 🙈

Did you know you can eat Parmigiano straight from the block? Now you do! Is this breaking some 🇮🇹 food law, I wouldn't be surprised. #food

That was not a good take 🙃 Nice Sunday evening entertainment thread. https://mastodon.mallegolhansen.com/@philip/115395656389281792

The easiest way to get me to not buy a #gm product is to not offer any connectivity or infotainment options. https://www.theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-gas-cars-mary-barra #carplay #androidauto

While we wait until all of the precious spice is harvested, we can build some pixel art using the remaining units. #dune

Now that it is getting cold, I miss my Intel MacBook. Instead of warming my legs, this M1 thing is actually doing the opposite.

Ihr könnt das C noch soweit herumziehen, es bleibt ein O 🤦‍♀️

The biggest flaw of mastodon is the users, they simply don’t know how to tag their content 🤷‍♀️ (sorry but my timeline is flooded again with stuff I’m not interested in and which would be easy to filter with proper tagging) #blub

A big issue w/ the AvP is that it doesn't have a multiuser OS. Same for the iPad, fwiw.

If the US wants new kings can’t they look at their northern neighbor for inspiration?

So, @anildash got it exactly right: There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"! Shame on Apple. https://www.anildash.com//2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/