Neil Hargreaves

@glotcha
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I design and code software for Apple platforms to make learning languages easier.
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@thisismyglasgow it's amazing how you can walk past a building like that many times and not really give it the attention it deserves. Incidentally maybe it was a GOON that managed to start that fire ;-)
@adacosta @mrmacintosh good old days! I used to work in retail back then, amazing the excitement and willingness to pay > $100 for a new os + we were given an awesome t-shirt souvenir.
@cocoadog no worries, I only really use Xcode to interact with git, one less tool to know - also good for sanity :)
@cocoadog do you use the Xcode "integrate" menu command for the pull? I try not to run git in the termnal on open projects.
@_Davidsmith great post, great food for thought. Are you using the Codex.app? I'm hesitant to switch it on in Xcode because the setting is currently at the application and not project level.
@drdrang surely Apple could benefit from some more clarity when it comes to its philosophy toward hardware and software products (os + apps), there used to be an SVP of apps, Steve used to do a lot of UI reviews of apps, where does design live? Even though apple.com/apps exists it's not linked in the top or bottom navigation. Alan Kay's people who love software... philosophy seems to have been forgotten along the way. OKOK I will start a blog soon!
TIL #swiftlang function type variance (contravariance) which works really well if you want to call your UIActionHandler code from outside a UIAction! So (UIAction?) -> Void is a subtype of (UIAction) -> Void because it's more permissive — it can handle everything the non-optional version can, and more. Btw UIKit ftw in quite a lot of cases! 😅
@thisismyglasgow it's a real gem, the shade of the stone is really pleasant to the eye.
@sabrinaingermany the author of this book led courses at my local Volkshochschule maybe there's something similar near you (btw she taught us that if you can't hear/distinguish a sound correctly then you cannot know if you are speaking it correctly, I've used that trick on few languages after I understood it) https://www.amazon.de/Sprechen-Hören-Übungsbuch-Doris-Middleman/dp/3190073813
Sprechen, Hören, Sprechen, Übungsbuch: Ubungsbuch (Miscelaneous) : Middleman, Doris: Amazon.de: Books

Sprechen, Hören, Sprechen, Übungsbuch: Ubungsbuch (Miscelaneous) : Middleman, Doris: Amazon.de: Books

The fix for the unpleasant RSI I got moving from the M1 wedge MacBook Air to the M4 (32GB). I'll switch to the MacBook Pro fairly soon, the Air lost a point of differentiation. If you look at this page it feels like Apple doesn't even consider ergonomics as part of industrial design. https://support.apple.com/en-us/101928