@fernandomorgan

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Between the Portugal, US and Germany, while writing software, from relational DBs to iOS/macOS to Fortnite.
When not work, then it's all about travel, art and especially ancient history.
Kinda personal bloghttps://olissipo.me/
GitHubhttps://github.com/fernandomorgan
Travelhttps://periplous.me/
Alto Dourohttps://altodouro.pt/

Shoutout to the team making Acme Weather for adding the perfect amount of whimsy to functional software. πŸ‘ŒπŸŒ¦οΈπŸŒˆ

https://acmeweather.com/app

A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot πŸ˜‘

What are we doing here?

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil

CF

'Codex in Xcode can probably take an entire ObjC project and convert it to Swift on its own'

Alright, bet.

I handed it the classic SameGame codebase, gave it my coding style markdown file, and said "So this is an old ObjC app for iOS. I would like you to completely convert it 1:1 to modern Swift, with the coding style in mind. Leave no ObjC behind"

No other prompts needed; I needed to update a few legacy things in the xcode project settings (min OS version, Swift version, etc), and got this:

🧡 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.

There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...

Old newspapers were wild. They had pages full of random one-line ads, announcements, and "fun facts" -- surprisingly like what social media became a century later.
Ancient Trireme to Be Displayed in New Greek Museum - GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/10/ancient-trireme-greek-museum/
Ancient Trireme to Be Displayed in New Greek Museum - GreekReporter.com

A replica of an ancient trireme will be the centerpiece of Greece's new Underwater Archaeology Museum, set to open its gates in 2026.

GreekReporter.com
IT industry jobs once were a sure ticket to get out of poverty and unemployment, but the golden age is now shadowed by recent developments in technology, especially driven by AI and automation. There is a massive shift underway, for sure. This is why recent grads are unable to find jobs in the tech sector. Of course, there is greed at top level to meet shareholders demands, and we all know the Magnificent 7 companies are enemies of mankind when it comes to privacy or anything else.

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Internet Archive is still adding about 500 million pages a day

By Wayne Williams

https://www.techradar.com/pro/internet-archive-reaches-new-1-trillion-page-landmark-almost-30-years-after-it-started-backing-up-the-www-and-more-than-100-000tb-of-files-have-been-safeguarded-since

Well done @internetarchive !!

#publicdomain #CulturalHeritage

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Internet Archive is still adding about 500 million pages a day

TechRadar
Chip and PIN technology is known as crisp and PIN in the UK