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I have never made as much money as an indie developer as I did, or would, as a full-time employee. But do you know what never gets old? Seeing a "you just made $39.95" notification when you're not even working.

Michael Schwinges Feb 15

Russ Shanahan Feb 14

I suspect it won’t be long before all compiled software (apps) can be decompiled into readable source code.

There’s a large corpus of training data (open source) and there’s a tight verification loop (compile a guess at what the source is and see if it matches).

LLMs will figure out how to decompile small functions, and will gradually learn how to decompile more complex stuff.

I think within 2 years, all iOS apps will effectively be open source.

Michael Schwinges Feb 5

Slow going but here we are…

Michael Schwinges Feb 4

I’m trying a novel approach to my mental health by subscribing to the Japan Times and going cold turkey on big western news sites; JT reports on world news in an even, faraway tone, and isnt a polycrisis firehose

Michael Schwinges Feb 2

Received official confirmation that I’ve completed my BSc Informatics degree cum laude. Personal goal achieved - but it’s such a different world now compared to when I started 4 years ago

Michael Schwinges Jan 30

RDN Jan 27

An analysis of Terry Pratchett's novels finds that a decrease in lexical diversity--a characteristic of dementia--first appeared ten years before his diagnosis of posterior cortical atrophy.

Summary: https://theconversation.com/terry-pratchetts-novels-may-have-held-clues-to-his-dementia-a-decade-before-diagnosis-our-new-study-suggests-273777

Original paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/16/1/94

#Science #MentalHealth #Dementia #Language #TerryPratchett

Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests

The author’s vocabulary narrowed a decade before diagnosis – a clue that could transform early dementia detection.

The Conversation

Michael Schwinges Jan 28

Andre Meister Jan 28

Alle reden von digitaler Souveränität. Personalausweise sind Inbegriff staatlicher Souveränität. Die digitale Identität wird alle Menschen zwingen, Google oder Apple zu nutzen.

Michael Schwinges Jan 21

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Kyle Howells Jan 21

@helge I think a major problem with SwiftUI is it is a single high level black box.

It doesn't expose any lower layers or building blocks.

In UIKit you can drop down to CoreAnimation. UIButton subclasses UIControl, which subclasses UIView, etc...

There are layers, buttons not working for you? Subclass UIControl.

UIView doesn't expose what you need. CALayer (can even swap the CALayer a view subclass uses).

SwiftUI is more "you get what we give you", "Need more? tough".

Michael Schwinges Dec 29

Francisco Tolmasky Dec 29

I always figured that MongoDB was nothing but exploits that when put together experienced the emergent behavior of roughly (and I do want to emphasize *roughly*) approximating database-like behavior. It’s to software what a retro-virus is to life.

Michael Schwinges Dec 28

Finding visual glitches in x26 is like finding incorrect uses of apostrophes on the Internet… the top radii and bottom alignment on my iPad keyboard Enter/Search key can’t be right?

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