It's 10:40 and I am now ready to open Xcode and do work, after a solid morning of messaging people about the corporately mandated security software on their laptops.
Again, I'm not sure it’s the best use of a principal engineer, but at least I get to have a chat to individuals on the team 🍻
@tonyarnold@troz there’s a certain attitude that people join Apple to do their life’s best work and should make sacrifices to do so (like working evenings and weekends when the company needs it).
I’ve literally heard leadership say the same about the open source development ban. You should be spending your energy on Apple products not open source.
I think some of this is if you’re not willing to make a sacrifice to move to the bay you’re not the right kind of person
Oh dear. I bought a used set of the 2nd gen AirPods Pro with the USB-C case, and they were delivered today — they are the most remarkable counterfeits! 😓
Now I have to play the game with eBay to get a refund.
I was watching a YouTube tutorial on running nix on macOS, nodding along and impressed by defining a setup using a flake file, and then the person said "and now we're going to install homebrew using nix because there are packages in there that aren't in nix” and I nope'd out so hard.
@tonyarnold I used nix at my n-2 job and it's impressive technology but has holes. E.g. it would set up most of a Rails environment but you still had to install Postgres and Redis separately - which are the hard bits! So I never fully saw the appeal over just using asdf or whatever to manage installs.
What web platforms are people enjoying for writing technical content that aren't Medium? I want something low friction to get setup and running, that allows for well structured articles, code syntax highlighting, etc.
@simonbs you mention on the Tartelet page that running two VMs on a single 16Gb Mac mini works well — what's the config of the tart VM in the performance example?
Does anyone have any guidance on running multiple VMs for CI on a single Mac mini? If I run two side-by-side, it's so slow as to be unusable - I'm looking for advice on memory setup, core counts, etc.
@tonyarnold We rotate runners depending on demand, that's why the Sonoma runners are currently stopped. We ran them very hot when we ran the first two batches of Swift 6 preview testing (7.2k builds each) on them and they held up perfectly.
They handled most of the load with only one other non-VM Mac handling Swift 6 builds.
Those were OpenAI employees cheering at their Spring update, right? What is it with the US and fake corporate excitement? It's the same vibe as Apple employees cheering and high-fiving conference attendees.
I want to join The Browser Company just to fix the bodgy focus rings on their custom buttons in Arc, and then I'd fly off into the night like a vengeful, bug-fixing Mary Poppins.