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jamie_blumberg

@jamie_blumberg@hachyderm.io

Swift Software Engineer of indeterminate gender
I play video games, read comics and produce podcasts
Currently on a neurodivergent journey of self-discovery
Pronouns: they/she/no/please-don’t (don’t collapse the probability waveform)
Jewish, in the never finished Hebrew school way
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Profile pic description: a vaguely feminine person with green hair and black lipstick wearing a black turtleneck.

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Impossible_PhD, to random
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I am listening to the most recent Haus of Decline podcast, because Way Back When (before it went batshit), I used to love the comic Sinfest

and

this shit is wild.

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD I was also a Sinfest reader back in the day, and then it started going off the deep end. deep sigh

MuseumShuffle, to random
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"Why is this credit card bill so high??" says the person who went to Chicago and also bought an iPad Pro in May.

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle Alternate version: “Why is this credit card bill so high??" says the person who went to Chicago and also bought both an iPad Pro and whole-ass house in May.

This person is me.

MuseumShuffle, to random
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Never change Siri. 😑

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle My favorite (as in least favorite) recurrent Siri error lately is if I am in the car with CarPlay active I simply can't look up destinations via voice. I try to add a stop to a trip, use the voice prompt to say where I want to go and Siri shrugs. Stop the car and type it in (which you can actually do via the CarPlay screen 😅) and it works fine.

MuseumShuffle, to random
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Now that I'm almost done with supporting landscape mode with @PleaseDontRain I'm realizing that I might be running out of excuses for not having an iPad version. 😳

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle @PleaseDontRain As my Deep Dish talk demonstrates, once you’ve got an iPad version you might as well go ahead and do Vision Pro as well. 😉

imyke, to random
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For Moretex subscribers, Grey and I are watching and reviewing each of the Lord of the Rings movies.

This is my first time seeing these movies!

There are two special episodes available so far.

As well as these specials, you get ad-free longer episodes of Cortex.

http://getmoretex.com

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jamie_blumberg,
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@imyke @BenRiceM There comes a time in every Relay podcast's life wherein I can't put off subscribing to the membership version anymore…. and I think that time has come for Cortex.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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I'll be taking next week off on SGW. Several reasons why, but generally busy. I'll be out of town for part of the weekend and....

I bought a new car on Monday. My very first new car. For those who haven't, buying a new car is a Whole Fucking Process.

So yeah. Taking the breather.

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD Woo! Fellow all-electric driver here. The lack of noise isn't the main point for me, but it sure is great.

mikaelacaron, to random
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Perfect way to start @swiftcraft ! 🤪

Good thing I decided not to bring an umbrella

jamie_blumberg,
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@mikaelacaron @MuseumShuffle Honestly if I didn't have a traditional day job (and some more disposable income/savings) I'd probably do the same for at least a year or two.

christianselig, to random
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Dumb question, but if I bought one of those "MagSafe stickers" on Amazon, that are traditionally used to give an Android phone MagSafe-like-stickiness, could I instead use it in reverse, and stick it to a non-MagSafe accessory so it would stick to my iPhone?

For instance, say I want to stick it to a banana so the banana magnets to my phone

jamie_blumberg,
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@christianselig This took a dramatic turn right at the end, and now I feel like maybe @jamesthomson needs his own line of PCalc MagSafe Bananas.

jamie_blumberg, to random
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Some time ago @rooster made a post along the lines of “there comes a time in every divorced person's life when they realize they forgot to buy a plunger". And while my divorce hasn't quite gone through yet I did just buy a plunger for my new house so she may have helped me dodge a bullet.

MuseumShuffle, to random
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Finally! 😭

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle I’m using mine right now. Really liking the new Magic Keyboard.

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle Unless I am reading something really calls out for the vertical orientation (i.e. reading American comics) then mine is almost always in laptop mode.

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle I'm a Marvel Snap player too, but ironically on just about every device except the iPad. I got a notification on my Mac about 10 seconds ago from it 😅

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle I've been blowing mine about as soon as I get them lately because they keep featuring characters that I like. (It doesn't help that I've been a regular Marvel comics reader for over 20 years.)

charliemchapman, to random
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I would be amazing if I could “Mac Mirror” from an iPad Pro just like I can from Vision Pro, but it would run from my MacBook sitting closed in my backpack

It would be the perfect portable computer on planes, coffee shops, etc where I’m more than happy to give up the big screen

jamie_blumberg,
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@BenRiceM @charliemchapman The funny thing is that this is more or less mirroring via SideCar, with the only real difference is that it would be initiated from the iPad instead of the Mac.

And technically VNC/remote desktop apps can already do a so-so version of this. I frequently remote into my always on desktop from my iPad if I need to do something Mac-specific.

jamie_blumberg,
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@charliemchapman @BenRiceM So when I am mobile and I need to do day job work (aka Xcode) or record a podcast, I use a 15" Air. (Awesome laptop BTW.) But otherwise I generally use my iPad Pro (12.9” now, 13" as soon as UPS delivers it 😅) for just about everything else, including editing podcasts, reading books and comics, web browsing, etc.

At home I have a similar dynamic: my Mac Studio is the Xcode, recording and PC gaming machine while the iPad retains all of its use cases.

MuseumShuffle, to random
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I know that a horrible crime against Pizza is going to be committed in this episode. I’m going to listen anyway.

@charliemchapman @malin @kai

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle I think you've got the wrong @kaidombrowski there 😅

@charliemchapman @malin

MuseumShuffle, to accessibility
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I just made my first pull request to the @revenuecat code tree. 😳

That's something I didn't realize you could do until yesterday when @thillsman told me.

I spotted a (small) accessibility issue yesterday when I was testing my new RevenueCat paywall with VoiceOver.

jamie_blumberg,
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@MuseumShuffle @theevo

The year is 2049. All software has contributions from Chris Wu. Yes, somehow even the closed source tools. Every repository tool and service now includes a "Chris Wu approval" step for PR approval. No one questions this. No one remembers a time before the Wu ascension.

jamie_blumberg, to animals
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Welcome to another thrilling edition of “Shit My Cat Stole!” with two entries for you today.

First is the case for my Steam Deck OLED. Now granted she did not source this elsewhere in the house and then bring it to my room, but she did literally go to sleep in the case while I was playing Balatro, so I’m counting it.

Next is one of those sink stoppers you can use to fill the sink up with hot water during your morning routine, or pudding during a breakup or whatever.

a bathroom sink stopper laying on its side on brown hardwood floor

coder_pilot, to random
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Sitting at the airport waiting to go home. After a super fun few days at DeepDish with so many wonderful developers including @MuseumShuffle

jamie_blumberg,
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@coder_pilot I will team up with you to extol the virtues of comfortable temperatures (just took a walk in shorts and a t-shirt with temps in the lower 60’s) in defiance of @MuseumShuffle's meteorological perversions.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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Hades 2 hit early access yesterday.

I can see room for improvement. Particularly with how a couple of the weapons work, just in terms of how they move and interact with enemies.

But Hades 2 is already a better game than Hades was.

Unbelievable.

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD I've only played about an hour but it is so very good.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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Oh, wow, I'm already LOVING Hades 2!!

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD Downloading on my Steam Deck now, using my phone as a hotspot because I'm at a conference and the hotel Wifi is being obstinate 😅

chucker, to random
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So in Swift, try! means “I’m confident the following will work; if it does not, crash”.

Similarly, in C#, someVar! means “I’m confident this isn’t going to be null; throw if I’m wrong”.

But in Dart, is! means “is not”.

The little inconsistencies between languages. 🫠

jamie_blumberg,
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@chucker I'm sure this is exactly why Google just laid off a ton of Dart/Flutter folks.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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I've had quite a fair lot of surgery. I am very, very tired of it, and I want no more transition surgeries. Period.

But I saw a trans gal recently who got lipo and a tummy tuck, and afterward, her hips and ass came the fuck in. No BBL, but kinda looked like she had.

And I've got a tummy pooch that's literally the only part of my body I'm not a fan of, and the idea I could light some money on fire and cast "transmute tummy to ass" is... more tempting that I'd like.

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD My gut/tummy combined with a lack of hips and ass are two of my biggest body complaints, so the idea of something like this is very intriguing.

For the gal you cited I wonder if maybe since her body saw her tummy area as damaged/wounded it automatically started putting fat stores elsewhere? I’m fascinated to know the science behind that.

jamie_blumberg,
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@Impossible_PhD I’ve been reading about the fat redistribution process for years and no one has ever explained it as clearly and succinctly as you just did. Thank you.

shippychaos, to random
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greatest fic dialogue of all time:

"Ma'am, respectfully? Go fuck yourself."

"Fuck me yourself, you coward."

jamie_blumberg,
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@shippychaos Have you read the books? The show ends before a major (and fascinating) paradigm shift for the story.

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