@edmistond

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Dad, husband, software dev (C#, JS, other stuff). Deaf, Arsian. Occasionally shares dad jokes.

If you had told me a decade ago that my first fountain pen was just a gateway drug, I'd have laughed at you.

And the laughing would have continued, growing more shrill and maniacal until I'm turning what is now a nearly sexual gaze on custom nib grinds

"SwiftUI, Privacy, macOS, and the Web"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/swiftui-macos-privacy-web/

I had planned on working this weekend but got distracted and instead wrote this 4000+ word riff on what I think about SwiftUI, privacy in software, open source, and where I think Apple is heading.

SwiftUI, Privacy, macOS, and the Web

Pondering the future of software development. Why SwiftUI makes me optimistic about Apple’s platforms.

I resent that my computer, the most complex and powerful machine I'll likely ever use, is turned on by some pissant little five-cent plastic button like it's a shitty VCR from the 90's. I want a massive ornate copper knife switch, as long as my forearm, with the lower position hand-lettered "HALT" and the engaged position labelled "COMPUTE." When I go to use my computer, I want it to know I MEAN it.
She fell asleep waiting for me to throw her fishy 😭

Friend of mine linked me this... http://rosstuck.com/the-everybody-poops-rule -- it's an amusingly scatalogical take on code quality, but it definitely has some truth to it as well. Figuring out how and when to make these tradeoffs can be one the more challenging aspects of our jobs.

#programming

The Everybody Poops Rule

A discussion of code quality through the magical metaphor of human waste.

My 5 yo: “Daddy I think you should go on the rain forest tree gym
Me:Rain Forrest Tree?
Her:Yup
Me:🤔
Me: Do you mean a jungle gym?
Her:Oh yeah. Jungle Gym
hulud

Did my part for #DeactiDay.

I’ve been on Twitter since before the iPhone existed. But like many of us, I’m sick of all the stuff you’ve heard plenty about, and it’s only been getting worse over the past decade.

I’m not quite ready to delete my entire account, but I’m considering it. I deleted the apps from all devices and posted a ‘find me elsewhere’ with links.

It’s a step at least.

Getting this thing set up and running. Kinda interesting, reminds me of early Twitter back in 2007 when it wasn’t awful.