Russell Finn

@rsfinn
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Experienced software developer focusing on macOS/Swift development. Currently at Nightfall; ex-Delinea, Sophos, OPNET, MicroProse. MIT '83 (VI-3). He/him. (Once mit-vax!neutron!rsfinn)
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Good post from the author of rsync on the recent pile-on:

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

rsync and outrage

I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…

Medium
INIT HELLO - Celebrate the Apple II - June 19-21, 2026 in Hunt Valley, MD https://init-hello.org/

Hovercraft is how I always wanted to share my slides. So I made it. It’s a virtual camera for macOS.

No more disembodied voice. No more “can you see my screen?” Just me, tossing around my windows like it’s 2027.

I like to say it’s a visionOS app in macOS clothing. And I hope you’ll give it a try, and let me know what you think.

https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft

Just wrote about building a Mac-assed app in pure SwiftUI, based on my experience porting Shopie to macOS.

The TL;DR: we’re not there yet.

If you’re interested in why, I collected the issues I ran into with selection states, context menus, drag & drop, keyboard shortcuts, toolbars, and all the tiny details that make Mac apps feel Mac.

https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/

Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026 - Paulo's Blog

I’m Paulo. A software developer based in Lisbon, Portugal, founder of Outer Corner, currently building apps for Apple platforms.

@igorkulman I have memories of Geneva 12 and bold keywords 🙂
Years ago I wrote a Pascal interpreter in #swiftlang so I thought, why not try making it an iOS app. Pascal is still taught at some school as the first programming language and the retro theme is just so nostalgic. #iosdev

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/

#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora

Verminsteel isn't in the Summer Sale, because I'm developing it right now, but it's a game where you're a bird with a broadsword who kicks thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun, so if you think that's cool maybe wishlist, RT and tell your friends? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/

#indiegame #gamedev #gamenews

Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett