jesse squires

@jsq
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indie dev • iOS & macOS • freelance

📱 apps @hexedbits

all posts are opinions of my former employers.

Website 🌐https://www.jessesquires.com
Apps 📱https://www.hexedbits.com
Hire Me 🧰https://www.jessesquires.com/hire-me
GitHub 👨‍💻https://github.com/jessesquires

Me: "hey are we sure this code is correct and still necessary?"

Other developer: "claude says yes"

Cool. I fucking hate it here.

San Francisco is literally hell on earth

I updated to Sequoia 15.7.7 and now there's this virtual "Update" drive stuck in Finder.

It won't go away, even after multiple reboots.

What the hell?

great app

@mattiem what is the ideal way to do file I/O with NSFileManager and Swift Concurrency?

An actor doesn’t seem correct.

I’ve seen using withCheckedThrowingContinuation wrapping a DispatchQueue. This seems… good? I’m not sure.

How would you approach this? I guess I’m looking for “NSFileManager, but with async/await”

I continue to be baffled at the comical level of complexity that has manifested in Swift.

Did AI design this language?

https://www.massicotte.org/step-by-step-designing-protocols/

Concurrency Step-by-Step: Designing Protocols

Swift protocols comes with trade-offs at every turn. Understanding them is the key to a successful design.

massicotte.org
@NeoNacho are you still alive