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Robert Ryan May 4, 2023

Any macOS users having troubles with Charles HTTP proxy messing up their network configuration? If you're a macOS Charles user, let me know, either way.

For me, it works for a while, but I eventually find my network getting hosed, only fixed with a reboot. I don't like the Wireshark UI nearly as much, but Charles is just not worth the headaches.

(Running macOS 13.3.1 on M1 Mac; Charles Proxy 4.6.4.)

Robert Ryan Apr 26, 2023

In 2002’s *Minority Report*, they kind of destroyed the “halo” product name for me, as it was a dystopian form of restraint. I can see why the Halo Collar (https://www.halocollar.com) got away with it, but it always struck me as a very odd name for Amazon’s fitness/health products. I guess that problem now goes away.

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Robert Ryan Apr 26, 2023

I find it curious that `@objc` methods are not inherently `nonisolated`. What does it mean to say “this is available to Objective-C”, but also is a member of the actor isolated type?

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Robert Ryan Apr 19, 2023

Now that I fully understand the new pricing scheme, I am no longer conflicted: I am jettisoning Postman. Asking us to pay $1200/user/year to run tests on our own hardware is just outrageous.

Robert Ryan Apr 5, 2023

I am conflicted re Postman evolution: I really appreciate the recent UI enhancements. But, I am not crazy with how they handled the lowering of the freemium bar (now only 25 test runs per month, even when doing this locally!). Worse, there was no clear warning, so I just got cut off. So, I’m reverting to CLI for now. The GUI is nice, but not enough to justify the recurring subscription price.

As an aside, I'm far more open to subscription pricing when I’m using ongoing cloud infrastructure, but I *really* don’t want to use their cloud services. (Historically, their cloud integration has introduced a *lot* more problems than is justified by the meager value prop.)

Hey, I completely get the need for subscriptions for sustainable biz model, but pricing for doing everything on my boxes should be different (and lower) than one that uses their cloud infrastructure. The price, for indie developer, is not outrageous, but it’s high enough that I have downloaded and am testing alternatives.

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Robert Ryan Apr 4, 2023

I am seeing enough folks trying to pass ChatGPT answers off as their own original content, that I have to ask *why* they’d bother doing so. The only think I can think is that they want to have future employers assess them on the basis of their postings. But they’re oblivious to the fact that it’s generally pretty easy to sniff out ChatGPT content (and is to their detriment when uncovered). As an employer of IT talent, it’s certainly been added to my list of things to check.

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Robert Ryan Apr 2, 2023

For what it’s worth, ChatGPT does a credible job in simple noob questions. But for more complicated questions, it spits out answers that are just flat wrong. I took my last three forum questions and its answers were way off, but did so in a very convincing, authoritative, tone, which I would have believed if I didn’t know better.

Robert Ryan Apr 2, 2023

There is a rash of ChatGPT lunatics on S.O. In the past week, I’ve stumbled across two people (which means there are probably a lot more) try to pass ChatGPT answers as their own (clearly oblivious to how bad the answer was). When others pointed out that the forum does not welcome ChatGPT answers, both of these offenders quickly spun out of control and went into some pro-ChatGPT rant.

It would be funny if it weren’t sad. People willingly reducing themselves to unpaid human-ChatGPT interfaces.

Robert Ryan Mar 28, 2023

I’ve been re-running some old benchmarks and am finding `NSLock` is faster than unfair locks. Historically, the opposite was true. Anyone else seeing that?

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Robert Ryan Mar 27, 2023

The temporary/intermittent freezing in the Podcasts app appears to be fixed in iOS 16.4. Good on them! Much less frustrating!