Ugh. A fresh Windows 11 is so barren.

There are no useful tools installed and no easy package manager to get basics installed. Everything is "find app web page, find download link, download installer, install stuff, wonder what got installed and where, fiddle with PATH". It gets boring really quickly.

Not even a good Bash terminal... How can people develop like this?

I have a need to port an app to Windows. I have been fortunate to not have to use Windows since the Windows 7 days. I wonder if there's a nice way to get a basic Windows version up and running in a virtual machine on a Mac. I don't need much more than Visual Studio (for the C+ compiler, or is there a better alternative?) and a sane shell (Linux subsystem?).

Is Parallels the way to go still or are there better/cheaper alternatives? I'd like to avoid VMWare.

#windows #vm #on #a #mac

Well, that was underwhelming. The iPad windowing could be cool assuming a keyboard and mouse, but I have neither. I do expect it to be pretty buggy and never get fixed properly.

#wwdc

Redoing an old Python monitoring tool with PyQt. It was originally done with Curses and it's hanky at best nowadays. Back when I made it in 2017 or so it was meant to be a quick hack to view logs, stats and data about some custom hardware I was developing for. It survived a bit longer than planned. :) I enjoy making these kinds of tools with Python in general and PyQt in particular. So easy to get going and get something working. Nothing beats them on speed to market.

#qt #pyqt

For WWDC my only wish is that Apple doesn’t break all existing apps and force us to do needless porting just to work around their bugs and laziness. To me a new theme is an instant failure if even one app doesn’t work anymore. I fear there will be frantic fixing for the rest of the year for my app while I try to make things work again. I have absolutely no faith that’s Apple can pull something like this off without massively breaking everything.

#wwdc

One day I need to learn wtf this @ sendable stuff is that Xcode whines about nowadays. It seems to be something that should be simple that has gone through a concurrent swiftification and instantly become hard to understand and impossible to implement correctly. Everything about concurrency in Swift feels unnecessarily complicated and cursed. Or maybe I’m just too dumb for for this? Very plausible.

#swift #concurrency #sendable

It's mind boggling how bad the documentation for SwiftUI views still is after all these years. Most of them are not documented at all, like ControlGroup.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/controlgroup

There's no explanation:

* what it is.
* what it does.
* why and when you would use it.
* how to use it.
* what are the parameters.
* what modifiers affect it (most don't).
* examples on how to use it.

All these are bog standard stuff in any normal docs, but Apple just doesn't care about developers.

#swiftui #apple