Nick Lockwood

@nicklockwood
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iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.
Stealing is a Skill

I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!

ben-mini

Plug-in, 1990
artist unknown
pixel on icl8

Whoever decided what icons Photoshop shipped with, decided that plug-ins should be represented by an "impossible geometry" optical illusion dependent on the indistinguishability of figure and ground.

Again, this is for an *icon*, a small readable pixel region with a figure-and-ground mask built right in. This was long before the introduction of 8-bit alpha masks for Mac icons.

May history record the audacity of this unknown artist.

Like green-screen CRTs I guess. This is probably how folks born in the '40s felt about blinking lights on consoles

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116804648360671774

I'm old enough to remember when neon seemed futuristic

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The older I get, the cooler older people get

You can now install a Swift IDE as an app and write, compile, and run SwiftUI fully offline. No Mac. No Xcode. No server.

The compiler and runtime are WebAssembly — and the live debugger (SharedArrayBuffer) keeps working even from the offline cache. So… compile SwiftUI on a plane.

https://miniswift.run/studio/

#Swift #SwiftUI #WebAssembly #PWA #iOSDev

MiniSwift Studio — write & run SwiftUI in your browser

A Swift IDE in your browser: live SwiftUI preview, breakpoint debugger, SwiftData inspector, console. No Mac, no Xcode, no install.

MiniSwift

Write and run SwiftUI in any browser.

https://miniswift.run/

MiniSwift — Run SwiftUI in any browser, no Mac

Write and run real SwiftUI in any browser — live preview, debugger, SwiftData and Foundation, all client-side. No Mac, no Xcode, no server.

MiniSwift

OMG new obsession just dropped.

An OS built on Swift, and it looks very tasteful.

https://swiftos.tech/

swift-os — a real operating system, written in Swift

swift-os is an experimental but real operating system written entirely in Embedded Swift for aarch64. It boots, runs a native Swift userland and an in-kernel TCP/IP stack, serves HTTP, and runs a native Swift AI inference server — try it in your browser.

swift-os