Did a 5 day glassblowing intensive course since I have a month between jobs. I cannot adequately express just how helpful it’s been to get incredible instruction + at least 20 more hours of studio time. Pictured is Day 1, then day 2, then day 4. Straighter, taller, thinner, and more consistent.

Now that it’s December 31st I can confirm, only 3 recipes from the NYT cooking calendar can be sung to the tune of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song: March 8 & 9: Caramelized Banana Pudding May 9: Caramelized Zucchini Pasta September 9: Creamy Vegan Tofu Noodles

South Carolina learned 35 years ago that easy access to gambling is a deeply corrupting influence on society, and learned 25 years ago that ending it basically immediately improves lives without any downside. www.goupstate.com/story/news/2...

y’all glass is a really fun medium

liquid glass is so last release. it's all about solid glass now

the swift forum today has me saying "swift 7" like a Gen Alpha kid

pallet/palette/palate has gotta be the most insidious homophone group

if your p(doom) is predicated on The Singularity happening, we don’t need to take you seriously. the doom comes from what humans do to each other

I’m quite excited today. Why? Because I got to delete 3500 lines of custom navigation (like 5 different navigation bars) and replace them all with system navigation. Good riddance!

My friend and I used to make a YouTube video series that gained a cult following back in ~2008-2012 and has a TV Tropes page. I used the money from YouTube partner revenue to buy my first Mac, which started my career.

I guess I find vibe coding difficult because the fun part about making stuff is the making, not the stuff.

why does Linear have like 8 different ways to look at a subset of bugs, where each of them have different views and requirements and structure

owning a cat means strategically leaving soft blankets in sunspots every day

starting a cover band called creedence graywater revival

I love that my Deep Dish talk got sherlocked by my former team in visionOS 26 developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

Working on a little side project for myself and some friends: an app that tracks my location and sends me a push notification when it's 69º github.com/harlanhaskin...

There are many design/engineering concessions I am willing to make. Corner radius concentricity is not one of them.

I wonder how many times I have written this line

Rochester is pronounced “rooster”

Does anyone know how to update a UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource synchronously? I need to do this, all on the same frame: - Update the data source without animation - Compute the difference in content size - Scroll up to compensate for the difference (without animation) - Scroll down animated

Typo 1.0 is now Ready for Distribution (in invite only public beta) 🥳✳️ apps.apple.com/us/app/typo/... DM me for an invite if you want to try it out.

It's always a fun time when a problem starts to look vaguely "build system" shaped...

new pope, who dis?

Swift footgun: Dictionary.updateValue(forKey:) and Dictionary.removeValue(forKey:) return the old value, which means if you have nested collections, this will frequently cause a COW. Use the subscripts accessors.

For my @deepdishswift.com talk, I put up a small sample visionOS project demonstrating Immersive Space <-> Volume coordinate conversions in a small Pizza Builder app. github.com/harlanhaskin...

I had a blast giving this! Thank you so much @deepdishswift.com and @joshdholtz.com for the opportunity!

I love that <objc/objc.h> is like a little history lesson, a little museum exhibit showing the evolution of software in situ

sql is short for squilliam

I’ve long been opposed to prescriptive rules for structuring programs, but if there’s one thing that I keep coming back to as my guiding rule it’s to write all code as if it’s designed to be deleted and replaced.

📣 Speaker Announcement How many different coordinates spaces are there across Apple platforms and how do you build interactions with them? We honestly don't know 🤷‍♂️ But... @harlanhaskins.com will be taking the stage with "Coordinate spaces and you" so show us 🔭

you're telling me a daylight is saving this time

Got my Swift Game Boy Advance project building with the latest Swift 6.1 toolchain -- Embedded Swift support in SwiftPM has come a long way in the last year. github.com/harlanhaskin...

camel-casing initialisms as if they're words gives me a massive ick. what are you talking about HttpRequest ApiUrl UserId 🤢

Updating a 13 year old project, this is a nice feeling

For the visionOS-inclined here, the visionOS 2.4 SDK now has a very useful function — onGeometryChange3D! And it's back-deployable to 2.0!

Small SwiftUI helper that inserts the parent view controller into the environment for children. Use at your own risk; it's very easy to mess up using this. But it's nice to be able to have @Environment(\.parentViewController) gist.github.com/harlanhaskin...

the term “wall time” refers to the additional time taken by the compiler due to the additional warnings enabled by -Wall

this is too much right

Another small Swift package, this one computes a rolling average velocity from gesture positions (in 2D or 3D!) github.com/harlanhaskin...

I sure am glad that I have to add “before:2022” to every single google search to avoid having to wade through inflated GPT-written articles repeating the same information over and over.

I'm not sure why I did this. I guess I'm glad SwiftParser exists.

Feeling this a whole lot, it feels like the industry has fully succeeded in penetrating our personal lives and it's purely extractive now.

Little Swift side project, a Link Preview generation library that works on Apple platforms and Linux, so you can do link previews client side or server side. github.com/harlanhaskin...

I have something to confess that might ruffle a few feathers. I think Mac Catalyst is pretty good, and if I had to make another cross-platform app that's not just simple and pure SwiftUI, I'd probably use it.

National Treasure is a national treasure.

Shout out to @johnhaney.bsky.social for this excellent little package: github.com/johnhaney/Ha... It’s exactly the API surface I would hope for when making custom hand gestures.

By far the biggest thing I’ve had to retrain in my brain after moving from Apple to a startup is that we can just ship the feature next week. It seems like a very simplistic observation but like, moving from yearly/quarterly release cycles to weekly really changes the mental math.

The #Swift team at Apple is hiring Windows engineers! We have a number of roles focused on improving the experience of using the Swift language and tools on Microsoft (and other) platforms. These roles would be based in our City of London office, with two days remote.

Made a small Swift package: a morphing view for UIKit (top) and SwiftUI (bottom). It's not as feature-rich as the one that UIKit uses, but it works pretty well. github.com/harlanhaskin...