Pierre

@maccatalan@techhub.social
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busy making apps to optimize supply chain operations, formerly head of undergraduate studies

If you find that your SwiftUI views have too many .sheet modifiers, the following article shows a way to reduce the number of modifiers:

https://swiftdevjournal.com/posts/reducing-sheet-modifiers/

#SwiftUI

Me: I really hate the advert when you search on the App Store, I wish Apple would change that.

Apple: Wish granted!

iPhone concepts from 2006, a year before the iPhone actually launched...
@icanzilb as often, there's an apt xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1237/
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xkcd
Sherlocked before it was born: LightBuddy | Rambo Codes

Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

Rambo Codes

“With the permission of Adobe Systems Inc., the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code to the 1990 version 1.0.1 of Photoshop.”

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

Adobe Photoshop Source Code

When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

CHM

Since @macguru17 stumped me on a water use question in my latest AI talk, I did some research - this article sums it up really well. https://www.wired.com/story/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-water-use-statistics/

“People who don’t think twice about eating a burger or buying a new T-shirt are angry about LLMs and water because they are rejecting the entire premise that AI is worth the price of its water use.”

Eating a burger: ~2500 liters of water
Average llm query: ~0.26 mL (This depends on loads of factors and a definition of average)

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.

WIRED

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise. Meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,

in fact,

a tortology

New double-to-string algorithm: https://github.com/vitaut/zmij

The final batch of 2025 videos are here! First up, Honza Dvorsky introduced the new Swift Configuration library!

https://youtu.be/I3lYW6OEyIs

Separate code from configuration with Swift Configuration - Honza Dvorsky

YouTube