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kyle

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker.

I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free.

I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kyle, to random
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My partner is looking for a senior-level backend engineering role in Seattle or remote. Holler if you hear of something.

  • 10 years of experience
  • AWS @ Amazon for majority
  • Platform & product roles
  • Mentor to many
  • Ideal tech lead

She is in multiple underrepresented demographics in tech.

kyle, to random
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I come from Japan to tell you: big pants are coming. They’re already here but you don’t know it yet. In two years you’re going to be gawking at hip 20-something’s wearing JNCO jeans and baggy shirts with parted hair and you’ll be boosting jokes about the early 2000s. I’m trying to warn you now so you don’t sound old then but we both know you won’t listen. We are both cursed in different ways. See you soon.

kyle, to random
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SwiftUI -> Swift Concurrency -> SwiftData kind of buried my perennial WWDC enthusiasm under an avalanche of reality. After the last four years, my hands are full of technologies that I eagerly anticipated but are tiring or impossible to hold right. This is the first year I don’t feel guilty for not being excited and that’s progress for me.

kyle,
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Adopting these new Apple technologies has made me lower my quality bar year-over-year and I feel resentful. That’s not productive, that’s my problem to deal with. But our collective problem, if one cares, is that keeping up with Apple & working at the top of our craft used to be synonymous and feels increasingly less so.

kyle,
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I have more confidence in Apple than anyone else that they can get these new technologies right in the long-term. But SwiftUI debuted in 2019 and my career – at best – has 6 more 5-year spans in it. It is crucial to reflect on the ROI from the attention I have paid to this space for the last 5 years and the outcome is not good. These technologies have not allowed me to be build better, safer, and more performant software: they have encouraged me to sacrifice those tenets for time to market.

kyle, to random
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I got 99 problems but a homicidal chauffeur ain’t one.

kyle, to random
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My timeline has been full of folks sharing lots of (benign) dubious information that confirms their biases. We spent the whole pandemic flogging the Fox News crowd for that behavior and never reflected on our own capacity for cognitive dissonance? Dang it.

kyle, to random
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Conversations around Radar / Feedback are weird because both sides are acting in good faith and not getting what they want.

My best effort to explain the public side: we are being asked for a superhuman level of engagement with a quiet and opaque system. It is psychologically challenging to put in the effort that good feedback takes, about a subject one cares about, and receive no response for years-to-decades. Those are the ingredients for burnout. So, justified or not, it’s simply too much.

kyle, to random
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My gift recommendation this year is the same as every year: the Ember Mug 2. It’s the perfect gift because it’s more expensive than someone would want to spend on a cup for themselves but it’s also worth it. A meaningful quality of life improvement that they might use several times a day. It never needs to be connected to an app.

kyle, to random
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Current status: keeping Plex downloads running while I work. It’s as enjoyable as it looks!

kyle, to random
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They don’t make words like halcyon anymore. What mouthfeel.

kyle, to random
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I love being at the Pokémon Centers in Japan. Adults and kids, parents and children, all just as excited to be there. The vibes are immaculate.

kyle, to random
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shit shit it’s iOS 17 shit I forgot the fucking shit the fucking bento boxes fuck everyone else beat me to the press shit ok here we go

I am proud to announce that Super Headache is ready for ios 17 on Day 1!

kyle, to random
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Is it too late to ask for cellular statistics to be automatically reset somehow on iOS 17? That’s my longest-living recurring reminder.

kyle, to random
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Trying as hard as you possibly can to do a good job at the thing immediately in front of you is a compulsion that is overwhelmingly rewarded in school and is overwhelmingly unsatisfying ten years after school. I was so good at school.

kyle, to random
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Use promo code 5BY5 to get 10% your first $6.9B purchase of Squarespace.

kyle, to random
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The writing is on the wall with AI. There’s only one way to differentiate myself going forward:

I’m happy to announce that I’m dumber than ever.

kyle, to random
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In 2008 my best friend × neighbor got his license and started driving me to school. I jokingly burned a CD with music we didn’t listen to: hip hop & Taylor Swift (Fearless had just come out). By the end of the year it was all we listened to, earnestly. I learned everything I needed to know about myself and popular culture that year.

kyle, to random
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Remember how every single story that ever circulated about Millennial trends was a useless and inaccurate generalization? Good thing they fixed that problem with Gen Z.

sandropennisi, to SwiftUI
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I am playing with shaders and i found this post pretty useful. On shadertoy there are tons of shaders but not in the exactly same language. This post shows what changes you have to make. For „simple“ shaders it’s really easy to make them work in SwiftUI. There’s so much cool stuff. Crazy what people are making on shadertoy.

https://medium.com/@ikeh1024/swiftui-metal-shader-tutorials-replacement-from-glsl-to-msl-6e97b7307dc2

kyle,
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@santiago @sandropennisi Before reading your reply I did this exact thing, with my tags “swiftui” and “shaders”, in raindrop.io. Great service.

kyle, to random
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I go to Japan when I need to feel like the richest and tallest person in the world.

kyle,
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Just put me in the concussion protocol now.

kyle, to random
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The iPhone is the most ephemeral mainstream computer platform and Vision Pro is hoping to be the least ephemeral / most immersive mainstream computer platform. I do not assume that products that make sense for one will make sense for the other.

kyle,
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It’s possible that the only market for Vision Pro apps is “apps you use on your phone while the TV is on because now you can’t use your phone while watching the TV.”

kyle, to random
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I prefer using my iPhone via Vision Pro passthrough – as blurry as it is – over using any equivalent apps in Vision Pro. I did not expect that.

kyle,
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@JustMeDevin But you’re also on to something. Vision Pro made me realize how frequent text entry is in all software because now I fear it. I’m never far away from needing to respond to an iMessage or type something into Safari.

kyle,
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@JustMeDevin It’s for sure heightened with text input – I don’t use Messages at all in it anymore – but even now I’m scrolling through Mastodon on my phone with my headset on. It feels so much more responsive and robust and I never do things I don’t intend to do. It’s an intangible psychological thing… everything just feels clumsy in Vision Pro. I feel clumsy, and that manifests in persistent low-key frustration.

joesteel, to random
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Oh the YouTube app on Apple TV now overrides the Apple TV screensaver to do a Ken-Burns-effect slideshow on their own photos when the app is open, or if you pause during it a video it infinitely loops on a zoom, fade to black, zoom, on the YouTube THUMBNAIL for that video.

I guess I should be glad I’m on Premium because this is probably a future space for ads, but I’d be really glad if the app just didn’t fucking do this.

kyle,
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@joesteel soon turning off one’s TV will be an expensive luxury that we only spring for during parties

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