Sommer

@s0mmer
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262 Following
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📱Professional: Accessibility EM at Slack. iOS/Swift developer. Previously Apple & Twitter.

🎪 Semi-professional: Aerial artist and coach on vertical rope.

💜 Unprofessional: thrill seeker, rollercoaster lover, language learner (🇪🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮), flute player, peanut butter connoisseur

📍 SF -> NYC
💁🏻‍♀️ she/her

Websitehttps://www.sommerpanage.com
Githubhttps://github.com/spanage/
Twitter [inactive]https://www.twitter.com/sommer
Instagramhttps://instagram.com/sommerope
SommerFeb 7, 2023
I've learned a lot of stuff with varying levels of success in my life...and I can, without a doubt, say that learning even just BASIC figure skating is the hardest thing I've ever tried to learn. I've never felt more awkward in my LIFE and falling off a rope has nothing on falling onto cold hard ice. But I shall keep on keeping on and maybe someday be able to show you all me not falling down.
SommerFeb 4, 2023
Michael GorbachFeb 4, 2023
Migrating to App Intents? We have a new video for you with lots of details! https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/10168/
Migrate custom intents to App Intents - Tech Talks - Videos - Apple Developer

Learn how you can easily convert your existing custom intents to App Intents. We'll take you through the conversion of your intents to...

Apple Developer
SommerFeb 4, 2023

Ok since you all did a wonderful job of talking me out of hosting my own Mastodon instance (thank you 🙏) my next question is:

I’d like to be on an instance that feels like community and mastodon.social is lovely but a bit too big for that (for me). Why do you love your instance? What makes it fun?

(As far as community goes, I think iOS, dev, tech, Swift, IDing as female are all areas I’d feel at home in.)

SommerFeb 4, 2023
Show threadMichele TitoloFeb 4, 2023

Out of the blue idea: advice column where folks ask questions about things at the intersection of business and technology, answered by a principal engineer and MBA (me!)

I lack the audience to do so now, but hopefully once I finish my MBA in March I’ll have energy for side projects 😬

SommerFeb 4, 2023

Smalltalk’s training has been going really well! Here’s a selection of her favorite tricks (and me looking a proper WFH mess)! (Video description contains the alt text).

It’s been so fun to work with her a little bit each day! Jumping thru my arms is her newest one. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

https://youtube.com/shorts/Kuvjo-0dMr0

Smalltalk training time!

YouTube
SommerFeb 4, 2023
Paola MataFeb 4, 2023

I got the most BS interview feedback I’ve had in my entire iOS career. I got dinged for making minor mistakes during a pairing exercise (that I corrected in the moment, mind you).

They want to do another technical round (four wasn’t enough!), and surprise, surprise it’s DSA in Leetcode.

If the other company I’m waiting for a response from doesn’t work out, I will seriously consider leaving tech. I’m done with this gatekeeping bullshit.

SommerFeb 4, 2023
Do I want my own mastodon instance? Please talk me into or out of this...
Show threadSommerFeb 4, 2023
@jscholes makes a GREAT reply in this thread. My contrived label "You should set up your notifications" IS awful. So before you use a hint there, you should certainly see if you can improve that copy. James also points out that many users have hints turned off. Unfortunately, hints have to be turned off at the system level and cannot be turned off per-app. Since they can be a source of great verbosity, it's important to use them well and sparingly!
SommerFeb 4, 2023
Show threadJames ScholesFeb 4, 2023
@s0mmer I agree with the second two, but "you should set up your notifications!" is a terrible button label that shouldn't be fixed with a hint. As so many VoiceOver users have hints turned off (someone at Apple told me it was over 80% at least on macOS), I think their usage is generally best kept to a minimum.
SommerFeb 4, 2023

Was discussing today when to add an #accessibility Hint to an element in #iOS; here's the list we got:

- When the label+trait doesn't make it obvious what will happen when I tap this item. (i.e. "send, button" is pretty clear, but “you should set up your notifications! button” doesn't tell me where I'll go if I activate)
- When the label is user generated content (i.e. activating a post on mastodon goes to a detail page)
- When the element supports other gestures like long press

Any others?!