Mastodawn

maybe the real work experience is the friends we made along the way…

I will remember which of my friends said nothing, did nothing, remained complicit - you will never be able to escape the fact that you didn’t speak up about the genocide funded by your tax dollars. We will not let your silence go unknown.

Eslam Jul 8

Robert Roskam Jul 8

AI is hurting engineers.

Many new engineers think the AI is smarter than they are. It's not.

You're paid to think about the problem. One important way you learn to think about the problem is to go through the exercise of writing code—especially the boring parts early in your career.

So if you're new to this, turn off Github Copilot and struggle on some of it for longer than is comfortable. Learning takes place at the edge of comfort.

Eslam Jul 7

Collin Donnell Jul 7

I feel bad for people who blow a ton of money with an agency that does a bad job on their mobile app/backend. They probably could’ve saved a lot of money paying me from the start and had an app that works. Plus I’ve got friends if I need to scale up, so there’s really no limit to what I can do.

Eslam Jul 4

@mattiem i have a tricky Swift Concurrency situation.
the code is running on Swift 6 mode with Strict Concurrency enabled. we are trying to migrate a class that sublasses UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes, which is a MainActor.

the class has a mutable value, and we are trying to access it from a nonisolated method, that we are overriding.

what are you suggesting we do here?

we can mark the property nonisolated(unsafe)
or use MainActor.assumeIsolated

but these don’t look like safe options 😅

Eslam Jul 3

Show thread

Steve Troughton-Smith Jul 3

https://zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-doctors-under-attack

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Film the BBC Refused to Air

Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

Zeteo

Eslam Jul 3

Steve Troughton-Smith Jul 3

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-crucial-film-stuff-of-nightmares

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

The Guardian

Eslam Jun 24

Sima Nerush Jun 24

Mentee interest surveys are now open for the @swiftlang Mentorship Program! This program enabled me to start contributing to Swift.

If you're interested in participating in Swift's open source community, I encourage you to apply using the link below:

https://www.swift.org/mentorship/

Swift.org

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Swift.org

Eslam Jun 24

Collin Donnell Jun 24

I’ve been making macOS and iOS apps since 2008. I’m the person who coined the term “Mac-assed Mac app.” Someone should definitely hire me to work on their app. I’m a real catch. #getfedihired #macos #swift #iosdev

Eslam Jun 17

Collin Donnell Jun 17

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve been made redundant at my job. If you want to hire an excellent Apple platforms developer (iOS, etc.) with 17 years of experience, time at Apple, and lots of SwiftUI experience, or a great Ruby on Rails developer, reach out.

Full-time or freelance. Ready to go immediately. Please spread the word. #Swift #RubyOnRails #GetFediHired