cthielen

finestructure, 13 days ago to Starfield

I recall #Starfield getting mixed reviews on launch. How is it a few months in?

finestructure, 1 month ago to random

You know how we all run failing tests twice in the hopes for a better outcome?

Yesterday I found weird behaviour in Vapor that caused test failures. Ran them many times, isolated the issue and reported it.

Got feedback this morning that this is weird and should be working (agreed!) and so I went to make a minimal reproducer. Which didn't reproduce.

Then I re-ran the tests I'd left in failing state since yesterday. And now they pass. 🫠… (1/2)

cthielen, 2 months ago to random

Too cool. Ordered! https://www.crowdsupply.com/madmachine-limited/swiftio-playground

cthielen, 3 months ago to random

Pkl (pronounced Pickle) is a new programming language from Apple for building rich configuration files, with support for Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin. https://pkl-lang.org/blog/introducing-pkl.html

dgregor79, 4 months ago to random

Finally landed the first of many #SwiftLang standard library updates to replace "rethrows" with generic typed throws: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/69771. The feature has been a fantastic exercise in generalizing in place: it maintains the same behavior for existing Swift code, maintains the stable ABI of the standard library, and yet any Swift code that adopts typed throws will see typed errors propagate through the standard library in the natural way.

dosnostalgic, 5 months ago to random

So early in this year I saw that I was beginning to develop a serious problem, and decided to stop drinking, except for when out in public with friends. Well, today I made the decision to stop drinking altogether.
(Just wanted to put this down in writing in case I need to refer to this later.)

superbetsy, 6 months ago to random

Today is my 15th Appleversary! In 2008-ish my mom took the left photo of me. I was exiting the first Apple building I ever worked in. It was later torn down and its site (and its recycled materials!) were used for Apple Park. Funny how things come full circle, because Apple Park is where I’m able to leap with joy (with amazing coworkers!) today, as demonstrated in the photo on the right! What a truly remarkable 15 years. Here’s to 15 more!

Two fairly anonymous people leap into the air in front of the rainbow sculpture within Apple Park

dosnostalgic, 6 months ago to random

Super Solvers: Challenge of the Ancient Empires!/Ancient Empires (The Learning Company, 1990) #DOSGaming

Migueldeicaza, 6 months ago to random

My talk on “Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake” has been posted: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/godotcon2023/relive/57866

djlink, 6 months ago to random

oh snap, Carmack and Romero will be livestream talking about DOOM (and hopefully other things) on December 10!!!! birdsite link: https://twitter.com/romero/status/1720489883590939047

djlink, 6 months ago to random

Pretty cool Nintendo still GameBoy tech details up on their website. Look at that 4x more memory jump on GBC
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Game-Boy-Pocket-Color/Product-information/Technical-data/Technical-data-619585.html

cthielen, 6 months ago to random

A 70m dish drawing 19kW to transmit a software update at 16 bps to an object 18 light hours away. Amazing!

brennansv, 6 months ago to random

Has anyone made a “Where's Waldo" app which uses ML to find him in a book yet?

cthielen, 7 months ago to random

DocC makes for beautiful and functional documentation.

Nice roundup of community examples from @daveverwer in the latest ⁦‪ @iosdevweekly.

https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/630

cthielen, 7 months ago to random

I’m about five years late but …

If you were a fan of the computer game Descent back in the 90s, its creators built a spiritual successor with a modern engine.

I got lost on the first level, so the formula still works!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

cthielen, 7 months ago to random

Nice quality-of-life improvements to debugging in Swift 5.9 https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-swift-debugging-5.9/

krzyzanowskim, 7 months ago to random

pixel perfect design is somebody's passion

cthielen, 7 months ago to random

Congratulations to the Swift team on 5.9: https://swift.org/blog/swift-5.9-released/