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iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.

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nicklockwood, to random
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I am "the earliest links in my Safari reading list now mostly return 404s" years old

Daojoan, to random
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Nobody who has ever made a cake has a neutral opinion of fondant.

nicklockwood,
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@Daojoan I'm not fond of it

rene, to random
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Sometimes I wish I had the average person’s ignorance towards IT issues. Every time I tell my wife or friends who are not in It about some new problem, like AI training on user data, or companies doing cross-service tracking for detailed user profiling, they just shrug and keep scrolling through Instagram. Ignorance is bliss.

nicklockwood,
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@rene I always think this when people give me the side eye for using DDG instead of Google for search.

I don't even proselytise about it except when they actively complain to me about Google and I point out that their problem doesn't exist on DDG, and then they still treat me the way I treat vegans

pikuma, to random
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Was anyone else raised to believe the worst financial decision that would immediately bankrupt one's family was to consume an item from the Hotel mini bar?

I mean, a thief better steal the wallets & all bags from our room before opening a bag of peanuts from that fridge!

nicklockwood,
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@pikuma I think I'm still afraid to take anything from the minibar to this day - even the complementary mineral water

ElleGray, to random
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being able to be funny while you're complaining is a very useful skill

nicklockwood,
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@ElleGray I think this the basis of most standup comedy

mcc, to random
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Hello. My computer is not working. Can anyone give me some advice?

nicklockwood,
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@mcc have you tried switching to Linux? Or if it's already Linux, have you tried switching to macOS?

nicklockwood, to random
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I briefly considered using this image to illustrate the concept of "progressive disclosure" in my Swift talk but ultimately thought better of it 😅

finestructure, to random
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30 hours into and it's great fun. It's not the most compelling story in the world but the graphics and the mechanics are great. An excellent space shooter, and native to the Mac to boot.

I'll be damned if Rockfish Games aren't looking into or even already working on Everspace for the Vision Pro. Feels like a no brainer. Surely Apple must be talking to them about it?

nicklockwood,
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@finestructure the name Rockfish sounded vaguely familiar - it turns out they are a spinoff of the Fishlabs studio that made Galaxy on Fire 2, which was maybe my favorite ever space shooter.

(Shame Everspace isn't on iOS tho)

nicklockwood, to random
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Does anyone know of a really nice tool for doing presentations with a lot of code in them (including transitions, etc)?

I generally use Deckset because it takes care of syntax highlighting at least, but otherwise it's very limited.

Keynote can do anything, but only with a huge amount of fiddly effort put into each code sample and animation.

I ideally just want something that takes a markdown document as input and "magic moves" all the transitions for you automatically with minimal effort 😅

nicklockwood, to random
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In a fit of madness I've agreed to give an internal talk about advanced Swift at my company. Has anybody got any favorite Swift tricks they'd like to share?

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze this is a great tip - also other related for loop syntax quirks like for case let foo as type and where clauses

ctietze, to random
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Objective-C professionals around the world, I summen ye 🗺️

Is there not a way to annotate an Objective-C method that returns a Foundation type like NSString to avoid automatic bridging to Swift.String?

I really want to stay in NSString-land.

(Actually, I probably even want to keep fiddling with an NSMutableString as a mutable string)

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze I think that's an easier problem - NSMutableString doesn't bridge, so if you return that it shouldn't be converted to String by default

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze otherwise, if you control the signature to the method then there are various (slightly ugly) workarounds I can think of, such as returning NSObject and casting it on the Swift side.

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze another option might be to create an objc protocol that mirrors the NSString API and then conform NSString to it. If you work exclusively with that protocol, Swift wouldn't know how to bridge it

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze I'm curious: if you call such a method by saying something like

mutableString.substring(…) as NSString

would Swift actually do a two-way bridging, or is the optimizer smart enough to recognize that the bridging is a no-op in that scenario?

ratkins, to random
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I’m pleased you’re all angry about the StackOverflow announcement, I’m not because I couldn’t parse any meaningful information out of the corporate gobbledygook.

nicklockwood,
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@ratkins it's unclear to me if they intend to use OpenAI to answer questions on StackOverflow (which will make it basically useless) or just use existing StackOverflow answers to train OpenAI (which should probably bother me, but tbh doesn't really)

airspeedswift, to random
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Y’all are putting way too much inside didSet.

I get how temptingly convenient it is but it’s setting things up for future sadness.

Also no taking all that logic and stuffing it in a single method you call from didSet. You’re not fooling anyone.

nicklockwood,
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@philip @siracusa @airspeedswift @beccadax in languages like Java where the syntax for calling a getter/setter is different from directly accessing a property, the reason for always using setters and getters is that it means you can change the implementation later (e.g. from a stored to computed property) without changing the interface.

In Swift, where the calling syntax is the same for stored and computed properties, there's no need to worry about it up-front.

nicklockwood,
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@siracusa subclassing?! In this economy?

nicklockwood, to random
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Me (as the sole swiftformat maintainer) filing an invoice against the swiftformat opencollective project to reimburse myself, and then (as the sole swiftformat opencollective project administrator) approving the invoice

nicklockwood, to random
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Whoever designed this church spire must have studied at the school of '90s FPS architecture

nicklockwood,
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@layoutSubviews yeah, plus that stock brick texture for the main building was a real cop out

icanzilb, to nature
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nicklockwood,
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@icanzilb Windows XP desktop vibes

ctietze, to random
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Why are the .ASM file comments never aligned properly, ever? 😭

nicklockwood,
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@ctietze the arguments aren't aligned either - my guess is different tab display settings (8 spaces vs 4?) from the author?

nicklockwood,
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@jsq @ctietze brb, just working on ASMFormat

csilverman, to random
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Curious to see how people interpret this pattern. Is the switch on or off?

(I would have done a poll, but apparently you can't have an image and a poll in the same post.)

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