Nick Lockwood

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iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.

The year 2026 in one animation

#year2026

It's probably well past time Apple renamed UIKeyboardTypeTwitter to something more generic 😬

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uikeyboardtype/twitter

UIKeyboardType.twitter | Apple Developer Documentation

Specifies a keyboard for Twitter text entry, with easy access to the at (””) and hash (””) characters.

Apple Developer Documentation
Has anyone else noticed that the coding assistant integration in Xcode 26.4 has a tendency to get "stuck" quite frequently when doing things like file searches, network requests or project changes, and needs to be interrupted and told to try again? I don't recall this being a common issue in 26.3

from @sushee over here, (can't attach images in quotes) and apparently discussed on HN so i'm late, but...

They REALLY ARE using REGEX to detect if a prompt is negative emotion. dogs you are LITERALLY RIDING ON A LANGUAGE MODEL what are you even DOING

RE: https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/116335906231095024

Remember that old trope from the 70s/80s?

“It’ll be a good day in American when schools have all the money they need to educate our kids …and the Air Force needs to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

I built a pure Swift XML parser (no DTD, external entity, transcoding support) at https://github.com/compnerd/xylem. Some informal testing indicated that it is faster than libxml2 and xmloxide, a rust port of libxml2.
GitHub - compnerd/xylem: XML Parsing Library

XML Parsing Library. Contribute to compnerd/xylem development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
tfw you're signing up to a website and the email verification link takes so long to arrive that you dissociate and forget what you were doing until 3 hours later when the session has long since expired
I'm not trans but as today is TDoV I want to say:
1. trans rights are human rights
2. literally every trans person I know is one of the coolest people I know
3. Fuck JKR
Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool

As DarkSword spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will enable iOS 18-specific fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on that iOS version rather than force them to update to iOS 26.

WIRED