Steve Barnegren

@SteveBarnegren
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Senior iOS engineer at Plex
Previously ITVX
London, UK
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Every developer or dev team can relate -

#dev #development #Tech #techdev

@kyle Is this a quote from the Epstein Files?
Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

Often a designer will just throw in a “use this icon inline in the text” requirement into the design. It’s not unreasonable, but problematic to make it happen.

Except… for symbols you can do this easily in SwiftUI with localisation support using string interpolation 🤯

if I was writing a programming language I would simply define all the behavior
Marking a function as `async` and `@concurrent` feels somewhat `@redundant`.

ChatGPT is so two-faced. I can literally see the snark in the reasoning.

"The user must be inexperienced in X and is obviously confused..."

Then it comes back with something like "That's an astute observation!"

Impressive as it is that computers can accurately classify images after seeing thousands of examples, my 11 month old had cake once and can now identify any food as cake or not-cake with 100% accuracy.
I need that thing where the Apple Vision Pro knows what UI element you're looking at, but for which tmux pane I'm trying to type in.

My wife and kids are visiting family for 5 weeks so I'm home alone. In just one week I've regressed to my mid-20s lifestyle of late night coding, an unhealthy amount of pizza, and dubious personal hygiene.

Might ship something though!