Turning Awardee Sir Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Jim Miles remembers.

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

Ever wondered how macOS blur effects really work under the hood? This fascinating reverse engineering journey challenges assumptions about 𝑁𝑆𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤, explores alternatives, and shares great discoveries along the way.

🔗: https://oskargroth.com/blog/reverse-engineering-nsvisualeffectview by Oskar Groth (@oskargroth)

#macOS #AppKit #ReverseEngineering

It's #InternationalWomensDay, so there's no better time to celebrate amazing women in the Swift community. Here are some sites I heartily recommend:

- https://nilcoalescing.com from @natpanferova
- https://danijelavrzan.com from @dvrzan
- https://tanaschita.com from @tanaschita

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032

The sleight of hand – or the fundamental flaw – of this observation, is that it took their team a year to understand the problem by actually building a thing. Once you deeply understand a problem, it's trivial to get the dumb code vomit machine to produce code.

But producing the code is not the hard part, and using the code vomit machine is not a great way to build a system you understand from scratch if you haven't already solved the problem.

So the shortcut is a mirage.

This looks really good.

https://nshipster.com/replay/