Tell me if this makes sense or not: I would never spend 3k on a bike myself. But, if I ask people for money for my birthday for a 1k bike and I add 3k on top, thus getting a 4k bike, it now makes sense, even though my out of pocket was the same. Does this makes sense just in my head or…?

People are now claiming that the Pope saying Trump shouldn’t wipe out a whole civilization is wrong and that he shouldn’t interfere in politics, because that’s not his place. Bitch…pick up a book. That’s literally the only reason he exists, to interfere in politics. Like that was the whole point.

good algorithmic work tho, i do like stories about AI promoters getting their shit wrecked by AI

5k on a track > 5k on a road all day every day

To answer a question posed to me recently, no, I don’t have any issue with socks. I actually have a system which helps me to avoid any socks related problems. #NotTestedButEverybodyPrettySure

It happened. We knew it was coming, but I dreaded the day its going to happen. Knowing something will eventually happen doesn’t make it easier when it does, sometimes its the exact opposite. Today, my wrists started to hurt while holding my Xbox controller. I am officially old.

Xcode builds once again started crashing my audio

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.

Apple moving from primarily hardware revenue streams to primarily services is one of the greatest tragedies of modern tech

I’ve been banned from notifications

It should be illegal for real estate agents to put up visualizations of how could a house look like and then showing you a complete ruin.

Do you remember the press conference scene from Love Actually where David call the US president a bully and they won’t let him bully them? That scene seemed extremely far fetched then, but if it happened today, it would be a very calm reaction to what the US is doing to its allies.

Here are some thoughts in no particular order about Apple/SwiftUI/whatever 1. I don’t actually believe Apple is using SwiftUI in any meaningful way, and if they do, they must be using a much more stable version. Don’t get me wrong, I really like SwiftUI and what its bringing to the table, BUT […]

Is there a way to allow multiple apps to interact with the same SQLite database on iOS? I’m wondering if there’s a place a package could put it so that any app which uses the package gets access to it. My brain says no, but what do I know.

If you want to understand modern #Swift concurrency, you should first go through the @massicotte.org blog www.massicotte.org and then straight to the @pointfree.co Isolation series www.pointfree.co/collections/.... Those are a god send. For the first time I feel like I am starting to understand.

In the past I had so many ideas for new apps but not the experience to build them. Now I have the experience, but no ideas. Sigh.

Seeing how some of the people out there work I can see why they think AI is so good at their job

Nothing does more to limit my doom scrolling than the “ad break” bullshit on Instagram where it blocks scrolling so you have to look at the ad for 5-10 seconds.

US wants to leave NATO? Let them. We will manage without them and once they join again with the next administration, it will finally become a union of equals without the US as a disproportionate leader. We don't need to be associated with fascist administrations.

"No miss teacher, you have to trust me, I did the math homework, but the calculations are too dangerous to share with you"

The bases should never have been opened to US use. They should now immediately be closed to them. This is patently the case. It is a military power with explicitly genocidal intent. Given how severe that danger is, the reassurances of its military officials about authorised use are insufficient.

My face when my wife, while watching the Hannah Montana Anniversary special, told me that the actress of Lilly is the same one as Mandy in the Young Sheldon universe. To be clear, this is my face when she tells me anything like this. My mind is just completely unable to recognize actors over time.

I just refactored a LARGE part of a client app to a new architecture pattern and I can't imagine how I would even approach doing so in a non-strongly typed language. How do people using stuff like JS do it? Honest question, I am really curious.

It feels so good to be a beginner again. Todays topic...Flutter.

no we aren't. skill issue

AI code reviews are one of the dumbest things in tech right now. What is sold as a time saving mechanism is actually prolonging reviews and installs a false sense of security. You now not only need to review the code, but also review the AI review, if you want to do the CR properly.

When I was young and watching shows depicting software engineering, I thought it was not “a lead developer” but “elite developer”. Ever since that I wanted to become an elite developer. Now I am a lead developer, but it just doesn’t hit the spot.

Okey, async class init, yay or nay? #swiftlang

“Every day I wake up around 7:30 and go for a 2 hour, 10-14 kilometers long walk where I focus on breath exercises” is a very LinkedIn, onanistic way of saying I have to walk and sing so my kid sleeps in the stroller.

Code review is only a bottleneck if your goal is bragging about how many lines of code you generated and pushed to production. But if your goal is revenue or happy customers, it might be the last bottleneck you should remove. Bottlenecks only matter when they block the goal.

Modern societies went through numerous changes to arrive where we are now but I think the most important one was the moment when horrible people could stop worrying about an angry mob coming to their house with pitch forks and quartering them.

The thing about the supposed software engineering AI takeover is that when you leave social media for a few days, you completely forget it’s supposed to be happening. Almost as if it’s only happening here and not in the real world.

Giving AI uncontrolled access to your terminal is certainly a choice. Not one I would be willing to make, but you do you honey.

🍊🤡: The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make…

I hate that it’s possible to OWN an ebook and OWN a reader and yet NOT BE ALLOWED TO READ THE EBOOK ON THE READER

If you think Bluesky is full of dumb AI takes and predictions(I do), don’t even think about going on LinkedIn.

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair". "Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

the president is a child rapist and the entire administration and republican party is working to help cover it up and it's not even a conspiracy theory, it's all right out in the open

Johnson threatening us with a good time.

I support tech that shifts power from billionaires to individuals. That's why I love open source. I'm against tech that shifts power from individuals to billionaires. Like LLMs, mass surveillance, and autonomous weapons. Tech is always political. We, the people, decide which tech lives and dies.

“If you don’t know what to tell Claude to do in your codebase, you can tell ChatGPT to give you 50 ideas” is an actual take I just heard and it’s probably THE dumbest thing this week.

Unpopular opinion: dependency management libraries exist only due to prevailing bad cross-feature dependency design.

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

I'm not respecting President's Day until we have a president worthy of respect.

We will be moving out of the city soon and I started thinking about getting an old Land Rover with wooden dashboard and shit ton of miles on it for literal pennies. Somebody stop me before I do it.

Seeing the Jony Ive Ferrari interior design makes you think all the great Apple designs must have been made by someone else

I am currently rewatching Silicon Valley (yes, again), and in the last episode I watched, Gavin gets soft fired because he spent "3/4 of a billion dollars, with virtually nothing to show for it"...he should have pivoted to LLMs! 750 million with nothing to show for it are rookie numbers there.

ID checks, where platform providers get the actual IDs, is an incredibly dumb idea. That data will eventually be leaked. It is just too attractive a target.

The more I use other languages the happier I am going back to Swift. The language sure does have its quirks, but man oh man does it fit how I think about programs.

Currently awaiting delivery of my 4th keyboard…soon I will have to hang them somewhere visible so my wife couldn’t say they are just hidden somewhere in a cupboard 😁 This one is the NuPhy Node 75 high profile. It is said to fut on top of a MacBook keyboard, so I definitely want to give that a try.