Michael Critz

@pixelscience
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Design Technologist. Swift Developer.

I organize the SF iOS Coffee Meetup
https://www.coffeecoffeecoffee.coffee/sf-ios-coffee

iOS engineer at Amazon

Previously:
- Amazon Devices
- PlayStation doing PS5 & PSVR UI design
- PlayStation design lead for the PS dev/publisher experience
- Salesforce Mobile App Hackathon winner
- Emmy for motion graphics (CBS/ABC)

Posts are my own, well-qualified, opinion

michaelcritz.comhttps://michaelcritz.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/mcritz
LocationSan Francisco

SF iOS Developers Coffee is 9am Thursday at Andytown Salesforce Park.

https://www.coffeecoffeecoffee.coffee/sf-ios-coffee

What could go wrong?
Gong hey fat choy, all y’all! 🐎🧧🧧

San Francisco iOS Developer’s Coffee meetup is 9am Thursday, at Paper Son Coffee 303 2nd Street.
https://www.coffeecoffeecoffee.coffee/sf-ios-coffee

Same day at 7pm is the Swift Language User Group at Sentry, 45 Fremont St.
https://luma.com/tqb3l8w6?tk=edoTCL

Notifications summary is now officially useful and cool.

FB21905703

Music app does not provide search results in Spotlight.

Also, if you haven’t heard Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer in a while, go give it a listen:

https://link.musicmatch.co/?sourceURL=https%3A%2F%2Fmusic.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fdirty-computer-feat-brian-wilson%2F1350021308%3Fi=1350021310

I use Transit.app a lot

Adding btop to any setup makes you look like you’re Lord Nikon hacking the Gibson.

But the reality is you need to know a surprisingly small amount of skills and tools to deliver a simple backend service. I wrote all of the https://coffeecoffeecoffee.coffee server myself using my existing Swift skills, handle deployments with a few Docker commands, and use less than 5 terminal commands on my server.

What if the “undifferentiated heavy lift” wasn’t heavy?

We should stop paying rent for basic dev skills.

Swift Fluent: use the ~~ operator to match a property to any value in a Collection type.
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