Jesse VanDerPol

@jmvanderpol
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An iOS App Engineer.
In a past life I was a:
• Front-end Engineer
• UI/UX Designer
• Graphic Designer
professionFront-end Engineer @ Thorne
interests3D Printing, Parenthood, Photography, Animation/Illustration, UI/UX Design
homepagehttps://www.vanderpol.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/jmvanderpol
rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

about.gitlab.com
This was HIGHLY entertaining and cathartic. https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

There it is, the good take about Gemini Nano being included in Chrome.

https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

Google is behaving abominably here, and acting as always like they own the web.

Google’s Prompt API

No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

Wil.to

This viral image of Saturn isn’t real; it’s AI slop

A new image of "Saturn's North Pole" has gone viral.

Too bad it's an AI fake.

Here's what the real things look like, and how you can tell for yourself.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/viral-saturn-real-ai-slop/

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.

#Obsidian CLI is now available with 1.12 (early access).

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

i hope you enjoy this read. https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/

Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural

A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, trying to save the mural, and a conference talk about it all.

cabel.com

I still have not found a decent IDE-like text editor for iOS/iPadOS that gives access to VIM navigation key bindings.

I feel absolutely silly 🤪 that my current state is an x86 alpine VM via iSH that is manually patched to obtain NeoVIM 0.11

I just want something with Files/Working Copy access like Textastic but VIM bindings like Obsidian provides.

🤷🏻‍♂️

Apple Watch G3

Concept by saffycreatives on IG
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSyklC-CNtv

At last, today is the day. I am immensely proud to announce that JavaScript for Everyone is here.

Tell a friend, tell a Slack channel — write it on a slip of paper, fold it once, and slide it across your boss' desk without breaking eye contact. _It's time to get weird._

https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone/

JavaScript for Everyone

A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

Piccalilli

I'm excited to share Screen Sizes 3

A major update with a fresh new design for faster navigation, rewritten guides, and supports the newest Apple devices