Joseph Duffy

@josephduffy
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Software engineer, focussed on iOS. Hobby web dev.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116274330297497647

this also includes a little trick I’ve been using for a while: there’s an undocumented Info.plist dictionary you can enter to generate an app icon.

Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pastey/116092923492865669

Something I've always known is bad but never articulated this well. Good read.

Writing my AGENTS.md file is quite cathartic and very useful for planning.

I'm working on an app I've wanted to create for a while but there's a lot of cumbersome setup, which felt perfect for AI.

Claude hasn't been as good at adding the base features as I would like though and I am doing some refactoring in this early stage. It's worked better on established projects so I hope it gets better.

If I just went full vibe code with it I can see how it would get bad quickly.

I am certainly not against AI – I use it multiple times per day – but I do not want AI in my products, I want my all my products in AI.

I don't need AI to search my bookmarks. I want to provide my bookmarks to AI so it can learn from them and combine them with other data.

I know this is what MCP is meant to provide but I feel like the incentives aren't there for companies.

Absolutely blown away. Swapped the telephone sockets for Ethernet sockets and I have PoE working over it. Will try and get data (100MB) to make this somewhat usable.

Took the screen off my 10+ year old MacBook Pro, which I no longer use and I don't think could boot without a power cable. The stickers on the lid are a nice time capsule so it's great to have it hanging on the wall ☺️

Turns out this was very quick and easy to remove!

Whoever turned on the "suggest 10+ year old gems" switch on the YouTube algorithm is a genius and I appreciate them.

Apple really needs to come out with a CLI solution for pulling certificates and provisioning profiles, generating an IPA, and uploading it to App Store Connect.

Juggling this all with fastlane or Codemagic CLI tools is still painful and full of pitfalls.

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.