software developer & vfx artist
currently @ Lightstorm
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If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.
If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.
This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.
I'm so confused as to why I still need to manually sign into the Feedback app...
Can it not auth via my Apple Account automatically?
This Fable drama is hilarious. Marketed a little too close to the sun, Anthropic did.
Dark, because it’ll clearly aid in the “ID verification” initiative crap, but still funny.
Last year, my team shipped a Swift rewrite of Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter. The new code is strictly memory safe, relentlessly tested, and faster than the C code it replaced.
This year, it is my pleasure to ship it for a second time, now as an open source package, and to share our experience on the Swift blog: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displays. Modern high-resolution displays enable beautiful typography from outlines alone, but TrueType fonts that need hinting to render legibly remain in use and we continue to support them. Font parsers process data from untrusted sources, making the TrueType hinting interpreter a security-critical attack surface. To make the format more resilient on Apple platforms, we rewrote its hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for the Fall 2025 releases. In addition to memory safety, we also improved performance: on average, our Swift interpreter runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced. To accompany this post, we’ve also published the source code of the Swift TrueType hinting interpreter. We hope sharing our experience helps others doing similar work in Swift.
> "For the 27 releases, we've started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift."
Swift for the Kernel was an awesome project to work on this year! I'm very happy to have been able to make these first steps towards a truly memory-safe kernel possible :)
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