And, yeah, this might have something to do with my most recent toot (-:
TIL that Retired Sets just opened a store nearby. https://retiredsets.co.uk “Discover LEGO sets and minifigs you won’t see on shelves again.”
I didn’t know binaries could embed LLDB-specific bytecode for formatting custom data types nicely in the debugger, as shown in this swift-collections PR: https://github.com/apple/swift-collections/pull/607. The code also uses fancy new Swift features to place the bytecode in a specific linker section:
@section(".lldbformatters")
@used
let __BasicContainers___RigidArray______formatter: (UInt8, UInt8, …, UInt8) = …
TIL that Retired Sets just opened a store nearby.
“Discover LEGO sets and minifigs you won’t see on shelves again.”
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 reimagined as an episode of The Twilight Zone, in 4:3 black and white, of course (-:

Anyone know of a good way to convert PPAT Mac patterns on a modern Mac? I thought GraphicConverter might do it but it's not opening my file.
Ediit: Got it! Works well in ResForge.
Hmmm, this is likely to have a big impact on my future…
“A [Prospective] Vision for Networking in Swift”
https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-networking/85235

Hello Swift Community. The Ecosystem Steering Group would like to gather feedback on a prospective vision for Networking in Swift. Vision documents help describe an overall direction for Swift. The actual Swift and Swift ecosystem changes for executing on the vision will come as a series of separate proposals, so concrete details (e.g., specific syntax, API names, etc.) are less important than the overall direction. There is more information about the role of vision documents in the evolution p...
I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that this is not good…
“Fire causes major disruption at Glasgow Central Station”
Surely I’m not the only one who reads “MacBook Neo” as “MacBook New Engine Option”.
Actually, come to think of it, that’s rather apropos.
Software Unscripted: Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design #EskimoTV
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/software-unscripted/id1602572955?i=1000736896965