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
Supertodos: Do Great Things!https://apps.apple.com/us/app/super-todos/id1195333305

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.
Hermès made a $5K leather MagSafe Duo charging case for iPhone and Apple Watch - 9to5Mac

Apple may be out of the leather business for environmental reasons, but its partner Hermès is far from it. The...

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You should develop a petty reminders app called I Told You So.
i took this picture of odin and then he took my lunch money
Happy March Madness to all that celebrate!!
He doesn't think he needs Congress to do anything.