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⭐️ I have finally published the source repository for Coppice, @pilky's mind-mapping app, as per his final wishes.
It is provided as-is, without a license, to help prospective #AppKit developers learn from a longtime Mac developer who really sweated the details, and always went out of his way to provide help to people who needed it.
https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/coppice
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114100571846787301
kinda wonky, but extremely relevant to what's been going on in tech the past couple of years: a change to the tax code in 2017 (which was engineered to fall outside the window of CBO scoring) fundamentally shifted how large companies calculate R&D, which has in turn led to a *lot* of layoffs. If you aren’t a CFO or an accountant, you may not have heard about this at all - I know I hadn’t. This provision in the tax code (dating back to before I was born) has certainly been abused, but is also responsible for encouraging innovation in startups' early years, where it's very expensive to get momentum built up. Removing it effectively stacks the deck against innovation later on. https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
We've created a site that lists transcriptions for all 3550 WWDC sessions for the past 25 years.
The modern session transcriptions are sourced from Apple. The older session transcriptions are generated using Whisper.
Many of the older sessions are still relevant today. For example we are working on adding Full Screen support to our Mac app, some session from 2011 and 2015 are still super useful.
Check it out at: https://nonstrict.eu/wwdcindex/
The internet has worked as a force multiplier for many bad things, but it also makes these sorts of things possible by virtue of the audience that is out there, an audience you would be hard-pressed to find locally, even in most bigger cities.
Whether it's bespoke objects like this, or the broad variety of art and craft available online, it has never been easier to witness human ingenuity and imagination at work.
It's easy to forget that, at times, with everything that is going on, but the internet really is amazing.
Not a day goes by here in the fediverse without amazing art, photos, and other work.
Please keep at it, folks 🙏🏻
Steve Troughton-Smith
Mathijs Kadijk
Adriano
Merlin's Wisdom Project
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective