John Parron

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Lead Software Engineer @ Disney
Apple's Swift Working to Support Android App Development

Apple's Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development through the establishment of a dedicated...

MacRumors
Hackers is the best hacking movie ever made and I don't think it will ever be topped. It captured the vibe of that era perfectly in a "you had to be there" sort of way.

Apple Lawyers: "are we sure it's OK to train our LLM on this code? The license says 'attribution required'…"

Apple Engineers: "no problem:"

I'm happy to say #swiftlang will be posting news to Mastodon and Bluesky starting soon.

https://forums.swift.org/t/social-media-expansion-to-mastodon-and-bluesky/77999

Social media expansion to Mastodon and Bluesky

The Core Team is deeply appreciative of the community discussion and feedback around Swift’s social media presence. Our goal is to grow Swift and its community by reaching the widest audience while keeping the Swift Forums as the primary hub for meaningful discussions. We see the opportunity to reach more of the Swift community by communicating in additional ways. We are pleased to announce we will be creating official Swift handles on both Bluesky and Mastodon, increasing social media reach ...

Swift Forums
@arstechnica sure, go ahead, allow data caps. But make advertisers pay users for all of the bandwidth consumed in delivering their ads. If you're gonna turn my network access into a scarce commodity you better pay me every time you use my quota.
@arstechnica in other words, Mechanical Turk brought to us by a tyrannical jerk
New wallpaper in process! How it translates to the iPad and the Mac is anybody’s guess yet. That’s part of the fun though! 😂 #anime #totoro #WallarooApp

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately

Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-is-retiring-effective-immediately/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately

Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat.

Ars Technica
@bigzaphod with the mess Unity has created, it appears I might have a reason to learn Godot after seeing you post about it for so long