Jason Howlin

@jasonhowlin
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Principal iOS Engineer at Yahoo. Actually likes both Core Data and Tahoe. MD Terrapin. Probably at Costco.
WorkPrincipal iOS Engineer at Yahoo
Websitehttps://www.jasonhowlin.com
Githubhttps://github.com/jhowlin
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In WA state
I get nauseous trying to listen to him…

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

#LLM #AI #ClaudeCode #vibecoding

I couldn't think of a better place where to take a portrait with my new, awesome @Mastodon t-shirt that reads: "I write #AltText" : the Louvre Museum, in front of the painting "The Battle of David and Goliath" by Daniele da Volterra.

🔗 : https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

And may I share an ambitious goal with you?

I want to start advocating for the Louvre Museum to join the Fediverse (they're currently on all Big Tech social platforms only). Let's see what I can do 🤗

🚨#Xcode26.5 beta 1 is out! 🚨

(It was released yesterday and I missed it! Sorry)

The SDKs in Xcode 26.5 (build 17F5012f, requires macOS 26.2+) are:

macOS 26.5 (25F5042g)
iOS 26.5 (23F5043e)
watchOS 26.5 (23T5541e)
tvOS 26.5 (23L5443e)
visionOS 26.5 (23O5441e)

Clang 21.0.0 (2100.0.123.102)
Swift 6.3 (6.3.0.123.5)

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Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

Beautiful day, beautiful park.

Felt like I was in a real life Myst game lol.

I used to hang around the Bell Labs Murray Hill 1127 lab -- where UNIX originated -- sometimes when I was in the area. A fond memory is sitting at a terminal in there (probably a Blit) working on a program back on my L.A. system over the Net. I ran into a complicated C declaration issue. Sitting a few feet away at the next terminal was Dennis Ritchie (dmr) -- a wonderful guy. Well hell, since he created C, who better to ask about this. So I did, and he instantly offered me an elegant solution I would never have thought of. Years later, it occurred to me that this was the closest I'd ever be to getting advice directly from a god.