Robin Phillips

@erithacus
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iOS Developer. Campaigner for people first urban spaces. Former Architect (built environment). Father (one). Pro vaccination (happy to have a chat if you’re unsure)
First bread baked in a long time. Felt good to be back at it. #sourdough #baking
This is fun!
Any ideas what could cause my Mac to decide to run its own battery down without any user interaction? Fairly steady / flat line until around 7am, then battery use accelerated until it died around 2pm. This all happened whilst the Mac was sleeping with the lid shut.

Blur at Wembley last night were exceptional. It’s the third time I’ve seen them and it seems they are just loving playing music together again; great to see.

This review sums it up pretty well.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/09/blur-review-glorious-reunion-wembley-stadium-london

Blur review – glorious reunion buzzes with energy and ragged joy

The enduring friendship between Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree shines through in a set that veers from lairy capers to bittersweet ballads

The Guardian

@twostraws I got your Pro SwiftUI book the other day and I’ve been working my way through it. It’s great so far (unsurprisingly). Thanks 😊

One thing I came across I had some questions about was this `ViewBuilder` extension.

In the book you mention needing to repeat it for each of the BuildBlock size variants but I’ve found that having implemented it, I can create a `TupleView` of any size. Presumably the compiler is breaking any block size into parts using this implementation? Is that new?

Ordered something via ebay from the US and wow, the shipping is comically slow.
Yesterday in my corner of south east #london #croftonpark #brockley #rainbow

Huh?!

LinkedIn doesn’t know what I’m interested in because I hardly use it.

Elon Musk keeps sinking to new lows. I’ve pretty much abandoned Twitter but read about it on the bbc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64871183

Even if laying people off was required, it’s possible to do it in a kind and compassionate way. This is not it.

Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?

In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.

BBC News