davedelong

davedelong, 9 months ago to random

On this trip to #NSSpain, I tried the whole "fast for 16+ hours before arriving, and then eat again at the target destination's 'breakfast' time” thing. I also pushed myself to stay up late and go to bed at a “regular” time last night.

And … I think it worked. I feel basically normal today. A little tired, but nothing really out-of-the-ordinary. We'll see how the day progresses… 🤞

davedelong, 4 months ago to random

☑️ Decision

⬜️ Communication

⬜️ Execution

#IntentionallyVague

davedelong, 8 months ago to random

Remind me why eSIMs are better? Before I could swap a little chip and be done in about 60 seconds.

Now I have to go through this transfer process that always fails and makes me have to call AT&T in order to make changes.

This is not better. This is much, much worse.

davedelong, 1 month ago to random

All I want for #WWDC is for this to be fixed.

davedelong, 4 months ago to VisionPro

The very first movie I had to watch on the #VisionPro is one of my absolute most favorites and is pure eye-candy: Speed Racer.

However, this revealed a fatal flaw with the device, which is that if you get emotional watching something, there's no good way to wipe your eyes 😂

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

Years later and I still have no idea how Xcode's tabs are actually supposed to work. They tend to get in my way and I just ignore them as much as I can.

⇧⌘O FTW

davedelong, 4 months ago to VisionPro

@ulyssesapp I’m really disappointed that i can’t have my Ulysses notes on my #VisionPro. I understand not making a dedicated app yet… but it looks like I’m not even allowed to install the iPad version! 😩

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

There is zero benefit to using the OSLog APIs in your own app. The logs are hard to get in your own app, and impossible to get from previous app runs. You can't get logs from a device except via a sysdiagnose, and no developer wants to walk a customer through that arduous, privacy-invasive process.

OSLog is an API that Apple made to solve Apple's problems. It is not a developer-friendly API.

Use the Logging package instead: https://github.com/apple/swift-log

https://twit.social/@kharrison/112253393743175498

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

I think I just found a calendar bug in libicu.

Wheeeeeee!

davedelong, 1 year ago to random

Anyone know of a viable alternative to meetup.com? The organizer fee ($200+/yr) is extremely high for what I get on the site, and I just discovered I can't seem to make unlisted events.

Not really sure what I'm paying for at this point.

davedelong, 9 months ago to random

Spent about 45 minutes this morning working on a single 30-second slide for a presentation, and it's still not "done”.

Related… it is very hard to find a high-res mercator projection of the earth with the Apple Maps tiles. I ended up stitching together a whole lot of screenshots from a quick SwiftUI app. 😅

davedelong, 6 months ago to random

I think today's the day where i give up on #AdventOfCode. I've now wasted like six hours of my day on part 2, and it's just not worth my life to do this anymore.

davedelong, 9 months ago to random

Soooooo… who else is going to #NSSpain next month?

There are still a few tickets left if you're not! https://2023.nsspain.com

davedelong, 5 months ago to random

It kind of blows my mind that there's no simple way to play around with a javascript module. I can't just make a .js file, import the other code, and run it. I seem to have to resort to some sort secondary build system, or run things in a browser w/ an html file.

This seems so … backwards. Why does it take so much ceremony to just run some code? Why doesn't it work out-of-the-box?

davedelong, 5 months ago to Ubiquiti

I bought a #Ubiquiti Express the other day to extend my home wifi network, and for the life of me i do not understand how this company stays in business. The experience of trying to set up this device is infuriating. It refuses to see my wired network (which my previous AP saw just fine), and so I can't set it up at all. I've wasted a significant part of my evening fighting with what should be a 60 second process to "see that wifi? extend it via your LAN connection.”

davedelong, 7 months ago to random

We are coming up on unix timestamp 1700000000.

Be sure to leave out milk and cookies for your sysadmins.

davedelong, 19 days ago to random

Instead of just ranting about the state of the tools, I decided to do A Tiny Something about it and signed up to sponsor @krzyzanowskim on Github: https://github.com/sponsors/krzyzanowskim

I’m even more excited now about the Swift Studio alpha coming later this year 🙃

davedelong, 3 months ago to random

My hunt for the perfect to-go cable bag continues. I've been through half a dozen different options and none seem to be quite right. The option I dislike the least so far is Peak Design's Tech Pouch.

davedelong, 3 months ago to random

After four years, it's TIME: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-time-1-0-0-type-safe-calendar-calculations/70366

https://github.com/davedelong/time

https://swiftpackageindex.com/davedelong/time

#HappyLeapDay

davedelong, 1 month ago to random

Is iMovie really not a document-based app anymore? I want to have an iMovie project with only its source files saved on an external hard drive, but I'm not finding how to do that on my Mac. I could've sworn this used to be possible.

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

TFW you discover a major logical flaw in some code you've written that means you need to re-think your entire approach to the problem.

Oops.

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

Why are Peanut Butter Rolos not a thing?

I've had them once (imported from Canada) and they were fantastic and it seems like such an obvious thing to make and sell in the US.

Now they're basically impossible to find online. I’m having to ask Canadian friends if they've seen them and will ship them to me.

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

After three years, I've been brushing the dust off this side project (converting a Go-based server app to Swift) but instead trying to get #Vapor to work is absolutely killing all the joy and motivation I have to work on it.

My code works great locally. But as soon as I run it within Vapor and use its stack for stuff, nothing works. There are bugs and gaping holes all over the place.

So…

What should I be using instead?

davedelong, 1 month ago to random

It looks like last night's hair-tearing is a bug in SwiftNIO.

I think I'm cursed.

davedelong, 1 month ago to random

I’m very excited for this to get on the Mac app store. Thanks @sindresorhus for the great project! This is one of my essential developer tools.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/Pasteboard-Viewer/pull/31