Michael Ochs

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Software "Engineer" by profession, pilot in my spare time.

Doing something with fruit. Opinions are my own.

@jamesdempsey as always I had an amazing time at live near WWDC! Is the “make something wonderful” song available somewhere? It was amazing and I don’t find it on Apple Music 😢

Nothing quite angers me like using an app that recommends to me people that I “should” know.

Which means that person probably allowed the app access to their contacts.

Giving an app access to your contacts is like spreading a venereal disease. Now this app knows who I am connected to, and can probably figure out why and how. That’s more information than I wanted to give them.

Don’t give apps access to your contacts. It’s not just your privacy that’s at stake.

Sigh. If you have 2FA enabled in E*Trade you must enter your password and the TOPT code. But if you forget your password you can choose a new one with just a TOPT code and immediately login without a going through an email confirmation flow. 🙄

How many engineering orgs are adding "AI accelerated engineering" projects to their 2024 priorities, but not any projects/time dedicated to actually finishing their 200 half-completed migrations and addressing obvious developer experience paper cuts? I bet a lot of them.

But sure, throw another thing onto the pile. That'll help.

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

Getting better on the one wheel. I’m starting to get the hang of carving, which makes this so much more fun, and weirdly more stable going over bumps.
So I finally have a NAS with a CPU good enough it could actually run some side tasks. What’s everybody running on their home servers?
If you are using HomePods as the speakers for your Apple TV, plug the Apple TV into your HDMI arc port, and then go into the Apple TV settings and make sure that Apple TV audio is set to play for sure through the HomePods, and then also turn on audio return channel. This will make all TV audio Come through your fantastic HomePod speakers. Video game systems, the TV itself, everything. You are welcome.

Who needs Unity? I present: Flappy Bird in MacOS Finder.

Complete with tap to flap gameplay, high score tracking, and marqueed banner ads.

Blog w/ details: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/

Code: https://github.com/nolenroyalty/flappy-dird

#indiedev #gamedev #macos #mac

Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird implemented in MacOS Finder

Unity who??

eieio.games
I finally figured out an issue that made me question my sanity for the last week. I’m now in the amazing state of “I’m a computer god and there is nothing I can’t handle.” This is the best state that makes becoming a software engineer worth it! And I’m going to cherish every little bit of these 5 minutes before I look at the next issue and question my life choices again.