@twostraws I vaguely remember looking at that a while ago! 🤦‍♂️

@twostraws I'm a complete n00b with Apple dev, objective c triggered me hard, last developed guis for OpenLook with DevGuide (best and easiest gui dev platform ever). Basically, I hate boiler plate code and love focusing on solving the business logic.

Will I be disappointed with Apple's approach, and if I buy the subscription, where do I start?

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Boss: wow this web portal is really fast, light and responsive
Me: of course it was 100% developed on Train WiFi it had to be light 😂

NEW POST

Increasingly our industry favors deep specialists. But we've found our most effective colleagues have a broad-based skill that comes from spanning many specialties. Unmesh Joshi, Gitanjali Venkatraman and I write about explicitly recognizing this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html

Apple's beta Speech APIs include a speech-to-text transcription model that runs on-device and blows away OpenAI's Whisper, the model many apps use today. My hands-on tests are on @macstories:

https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-on-how-apples-new-speech-apis-outpace-whisper-for-lightning-fast-transcription/

You’re worried that a robot is lying to you. Or making it up. You know who else does this? Humans. Like… all the time.

@francois @davetron5000 If you don’t already know, there are `defaults write` to change settings that sometimes help!

@stroughtonsmith If only there was a way to get feedback from the public before launching…

@infobeautiful I now know where the Seychelles are!

@solnic One of those definitely helps. The other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Leadership is the art of telling someone else how to win.

@francois @davetron5000 Make that 2. First thing on any new device is disabling or minimizing animations. Also, transparency.

Installing MacOS 26 right now so I won’t be quite as annoyed come October.

@yuhasz01 @QasimRashid Walter Lippmann 100 years ago more or less predicted this.

"The citizen will pay for his telephone, his railroad rides, his motor car, his entertainment. But he does not pay openly for his news.
He will, however, pay handsomely for the privilege of having someone read about him. He will pay to advertise."

Given the propensity of Capitalism to amalgamate it's easy to see media concentration leads to what we are seeing today. This is perfect for any Propagandist. (See Ellul, Bernays)

@solnic Dat background!

(Also, dat beard!)

Both Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape handle SVG differently. Each seems to re-invent the output between saves in some cases.

I’m getting the feeling SVG is either a poor standard, these tools suck, or one’s better off crafting it by hand :(

@searls Someone mentioned Windows Aero. I'm not going to hate on it until I see it, but the first thing I usually do is turn off all transparency

@solnic And despite all this you are still producing amazing work.

Keep trying something new until you find what works. It took me a longer than it should have because I gave up multiple times out of frustration.

I'll repeat the general saying that you should partake in, and enjoy, Fatherhood as much as possible.

@ianb If you are flying all the way to Mars, and you want to land starship, it makes more sense to pre-ship your landing fuel. They already know how to land safely.

Hell, they could pre-ship additional landing rockets/boosters as well so they aren't stranded when they realize human life on Mars is untenable and unprofitable.

One of the biggest drawbacks of GQL is that most APM services aren't set up to deal with the idea of a single URL/controller action that can do any of N various operations. Observability goes down the drain by default and everything gets put into one big "GQL" bucket.