bretto

@[email protected]
9 Followers
65 Following
55 Posts
I write software for Apple branded pocket computers.
PronounsHe/him/his šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ
iOs Dev Bloghttps://ampersandsoftworks.com/
Gosh Darn Format Style!https://goshdarnformatstyle.com
Deprecated Birdsite Username@bretto
brettoDec 5, 2022
mytwobits01Dec 4, 2022
$ cat file.txt | grep 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe.'
Show threadbrettoDec 2, 2022
@colinhumber Oh dang, I had no idea you were finishing up at Showbie! End of an era. Hope your next gig goes well.
brettoDec 2, 2022
Iā€™ve been on a journey.
A journey of reverse engineering some gnarly C code and reimplementing it in Swift.
Iā€™ve laughed, Iā€™ve cried, Iā€™ve learned LLDB debugging commands.
Iā€™m glad Iā€™m done.
brettoNov 30, 2022
ā€œA pretty nice consequence is that you can use mutating func to change a reference type property inside a value type, and have references to the value type still know that it has changedā€
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/11/mutating-struct-and-state-observers/
Mutating Struct and State Observers: How the Latter Will Be Notified Even for 'No-Ops'

I may be 7 years late or so -- but until last week, I didn't realize that didSet property observers would fire when the observed property hasn't actually changed. All you need is a mutating func that doesn't ...

Christian Tietze
Show threadbrettoNov 28, 2022
@jasongregori All in over here. Iā€™ve been wrapping every delegate based API Iā€™ve run across in AsyncThrowingStreams and having a blast.
brettoNov 27, 2022
Itā€™s one of those weekends for writing where Iā€™m on rewrite three of this post and questioning every choice thatā€™s gotten me to this point.
brettoNov 20, 2022

Apple gives us a modern replacement for the magical format strings we pass to DateFormatters, let's talk about the Verbatim Format Style.

https://ampersandsoftworks.com/posts/you-can-stop-writing-yyyy-mmm-dd-as-of-ios-15/

You can stop writing date format strings like

Apple gives us a modern replacement for the magical format strings we pass to DateFormatters, let's talk about the Verbatim Format Style.

brettoNov 20, 2022
It is proven! I am bretto on Keybase: https://keybase.io/bretto/sigchain#8b63facab32574e45383390725204011904763e895d299688dce270e987bb0420f
bretto (brett ohland) | Keybase

bretto (brett ohland) is now on Keybase, an open source app for encryption and cryptography.

brettoApr 17, 2019
Not only did Hollywood change the plot, but they also whitewashed it. But good on them for getting Scorseseā€¦
brettoMar 18, 2019
Shit. I canā€™t believe Iā€™ve already hit peak whiteness at 8am on a Monday: Iā€™m sitting in a Starbucks, drinking a ā€œskinnyā€ hot chocolate while Death Cab For Cutie sings about a sad breakupā€¦