Mastodawn

The metaverse obsession in Silicon Valley coincided with the most urgent years of the pandemic. I wanted to know more about this weird time, so I spent a couple of months on this. https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/

The Metaverse Fever Dream

1. Meta You probably know the gist. Predictions and dire warnings of a future lived in an immersive virtual world had been around for decades before Neal Stephenson solidified the concept in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash”, but Stephenson called it the “metaverse”, and that was important. It was a cautionary tail. Not everyone understood […]

Rob Mathers 2d ago

RE: https://objc.social/@macguru17/116601439755724012

This, but also decoupled from Mac OS versions!

Maybe not possible for every combination, but at a minimum it seems like new OSes should be able to run the previous Xcode, and old versions should have at least a full year of new Xcode (not cutting off at .3 or .4)

Rob Mathers 3d ago

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Ged Maheux 5d ago

Capturing actor Robert O’Reilly as the bug-eyed high chancellor was tricky but oh so satisfying. Getting the LEGO pieces in the correct colors was another matter all together. You might have seen some of my frustrations in my LEGO posts these last few months.

The result was totally worth it however. This is likely a one-off creation. #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine

Rob Mathers May 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@helge/116558051923071310

When it’s easier to browse the autocomplete than the documentation, you have a problem

Rob Mathers May 10

Nick Heer May 8

We are becoming a society beholden to the interests of extremists and conspiracy theorists. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/im-an-albertan-whos-been-covering-donald-trump-for-10-years-i-went-home-to-write-about-the-independence-movement-i-was-terrified-by-what-i-saw/article_2a003f93-2769-4509-97bd-5b03e841c966.html

Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found

Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.

Toronto Star

Rob Mathers May 6

Fesshole 🧻May 5

On a software project, I used dummy text as a placeholder to be replaced later with actual descriptive error messages. Predictably, not all instances were fixed before release, and bemused corporate clients reported "Error: There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen".

Rob Mathers May 2

Swift Language May 1

Inside the latest ‘What’s new in Swift’ digest: two talks on Embedded Swift, a guest contribution highlighting a Swift client for Valkey, new packages, and more: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-april-2026/

What's new in Swift: April 2026 Edition

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

Swift.org

Rob Mathers Apr 28

Will Lumley Apr 28

New blog post 📝

Swift enums are not a list of named constants - they're one of the most powerful tools in the language, and I don't think they get enough credit.

I wrote a deep dive covering associated values, raw values, exhaustive switching, error modelling, view state patterns, recursive enums, and how they stack up against Kotlin's sealed interfaces.

https://lumley.io/blogs/swift-enums/

#Swift #iOSDev #iOS #programming

Enums. Swift's Secret Superpower.

Enums Are Swift’s Secret Superpower If you’ve come from a language like Java, C#, or even Objective-C, you might think you know what an enum is. A list of named constants. An integer with a pretty label. Something you use for a switch statement and then forget about. That’s not what Swift enums are. Swift enums are one of the most expressive, flexible, and genuinely powerful tools in the entire language. Once you really understand them, once you stop thinking of them as fancy integers - they’ll change the way you model data, handle errors, and architect your apps.

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Rob Mathers Apr 20