SwiftUI often feels like an embodiment of Alan Kay’s: “Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible”

It took quite a bit of head-scratching to get this to work, but I was eventually able to get three different ScrollViews (each with a differently scaled chart in them) to synchronously scroll in real-time w/ backwards compatibility to iOS 17 Phew… 😮‍💨

Though on mornings like this I do wish more stuff was in the “Simple Things" bucket rather than the “Complex Things” bucket.

This week we recommend some TV shows, differentiate between types of vaporware, and break down the new iPad mini and Amazon Kindles. Then, Myke and Jason try to predict exactly what Apple might announce later this month.

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Upgrade+: What we didn't pick. (Get longer, ad-free episodes at http://getupgradeplus.com)

Multiple videos are now documenting North Korean troops at the Sergievsky Training Ground in Primorsky Krai, Russia.

In this video the soldiers are seen being equipped with Russian equipment. Other videos show them training outside.

This is World War II all over again — the longer we wait, the worse a threat we are dealing with.

For nearly a thousand days, our politicians have been drinking coffee and finding excuses not to decisively end this war. And now Ukraine is facing two armies.

How to build a low-tech internet - Kris De Decker, et al

I just read this book/collection of articles from Low-tech Magazine, and it's a fascinating look at their solar-powered web server, the optical telegraph, compressed air energy storage, and more.

★★★★☆

Links and more pics 👇
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Maybe think of my iPhone 16 review as more of a series of short essays written after a few weeks of using the new models.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/10/iphone-16-pro-review-control-before-intelligence/