All ready for today. 8 colors of pancakes - about 160 in total. Hoping that and the sausage, bacon, bagels, and donuts feeds the forty people coming. I’ll likely say more in this week’s essay- the tl;dr is a gathering of people to note 20 years since Elena died and 10 years for Kim.
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Suddenly T.S. Eliot is inserting himself into my talk for the Swift Rockies. I hope it speaks to the attendees as it does me - I worry about coming off preachy or pretentious
I won't be at Swift Island this year but it is a unique conference in a beautiful location.
Unique how? Well the sessions are workshops based around the new things announced by Apple at WWDC and in the past there have been activities including morning yoga or a run an evening of star gazing or biking to the ocean.
Anyway - well worth considering and they've sent me this code for you to use to get money off of your registration: DANIEL_APPROVED.
Tom Lokhorst and Mathijs Kadijk begin the afternoon Apple Track and #appdevcon
I've just revised my try!Swift talk on AsyncSequence. There's a lot there. I always want a talk to go well but being invited back to this conference after ten years means a lot to me and I particularly want it to justify them bringing me such a long way. #tryswift
Flight and hotel booked for the week of WWDC.
I probably won't apply for a ticket - that week I host my own conference - meeting people like you for coffee at Philz.
Hope to see you there.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social perhaps for a blog post some day - what is a general description of a situation for which you think “creating an actor is exactly what is called for” and what is a situation where you look at code and say “oh creating an actor has made things worse”. In the latter case what are alternatives to consider.
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@StewartLynch@iosdev.space You are one of my favorite speakers. I very much look forward to what you have to say.
The Podcast
On fighting against the move to progressive isolation.
He’s a great speaker - hope you can make it to Aberystwyth
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So many textures- 50+ years old
https://music.apple.com/us/album/watermelon-man/158571524?i=158571552
I'm starting to plan my fall tour. I've just said yes to a "new to me" conference outside of the world of iOS and Swift. My schedule is starting to fill up - I'm still hoping to be invited back to some of my favorites.
The Podcast:
On the importance of being able to answer 'I don't know' when you don't know.
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@samdeane@mastodon.org.uk @mattiem@mastodon.social that’s a point that doesn’t get made as clearly as you’ve made it. I’d love an essay or a blog post from you that others might point to
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@akosma@mastodon.online @leeg@fosstodon.org you lost me at the first one. One of two things I miss the most about obj-c are header files (the 2.0 variant where they were only the public interface). The other thing I miss is the code level * which told me whether I was working with a reference or value type
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@danielpunkass@mastodon.social @philippec@mastodon.social strong disagree - sitting around a fire and engaging with other humans is human. A car or plane lets me visit other humans. I want a technology that helps me interact with more humans not escape into a solitary shell of artificially generated experiences
The Newsletter:
On what happens when the things around us that we depend on change. Also, Miyazaki's clock, Flea's music quiz, training your brain to see possibility instead of doom, silent book clubs, Boots on the Ground, Maggie's link to a race around the world, and the try!Swift videos.
Friends in Japan or those who know - in addition to tourist tips I’m interested in
* a vegetarian sushi class. I love fish but in the US would be unlikely to buy that quality fish and would love to learn techniques for shaping rice for onigiri and sushi that use vegetables.
Also I’d be interested in
* a Go club or place that’s friendly to beginners and might have a class
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated
The Newsletter
The cautionary tale of making technology the cornerstone of your happiness or purpose. Also, Pillow Fights on television, Escher draws snakes, the future of film, odd Alaska laws, Maggie's link to St. Catty's Day, and Google's secret reference desk.
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@philippec@mastodon.social @danielpunkass@mastodon.social and not cited or credited or even used in context
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@StewartLynch@iosdev.space I’m so looking forward to this talk
I love Bomani. “They call it a cease-fire but you know what ain’t ceased? Fire.”
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@davedelong@mastodon.social I was hoping also for a modern EventKit to support integration with calendar and reminders
The Newsletter
On Buddhism and a plate of food. Also, the distorted face emoji, math meets fashion, a PC user tries the Neo, gas price challenges, Ars on Altman, Maggie's link to a 96 year old preparing for her birthday celebration, and Swift 6.3 is released.
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@dvrzan @SwiftIsland nice! It’s a great experience
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@akosma@mastodon.online @jeffwatkins@mastodon.social I’ve had inexpensive supermarket chocolate in Switzerland that was better than so much of what we call chocolate in the states
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @dnanian@mas.to thank you
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@foon@mastodon.social oh given the history I’m not sure I would agree. The baguette had to be brought back and the Tradition is different than some of what it competes with
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Thanks Bruno - I enjoyed your workshop
@brentsimmons oh good - it does it when I’m teaching and I’ve told my students my Mac is haunted. It also made me wonder if I should buy a new Mac when the M5’s appear. Your post makes me think “nope”
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@flargh@mastodon.social I think he went to Oberlin
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I cancelled my subscription to MasterClass about a month ago. The subscription ends next week. It shows this clearly in my account.
They’ve billed my credit card for the renewal amount anyway. You may want to check on your MasterClass billing.
Fortunately they have an old credit card on file so it won’t go through
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@SergKoren@writing.exchange thanks
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@danielpunkass@mastodon.social I don’t understand those as parallels
The Newsletter
Relearning the lesson that the problem isn't always where you think it is - this time while learning to sketch buildings. Also, remembering early Zefrank, great advice, reliving WWDC when it had a playlist, Thurber and White ask "Is sex necessary", Manoush wonders why it seems everyone has ADHD, Maggie links to a border crossing cat, and Natalia has a new book on SwiftUI.
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@brunoscheele thank you. I’ve asked if I can sit quietly in the back of yours tomorrow
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@mgorbach@mastodon.social students get all the fun!
Anyone have a favorite source in the US for organic brown rice from a grower?
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@jwz@mastodon.social mine is set to arrive today and that’s exactly my plan
James O’Brien on LBC makes me laugh. Talking about the weirdos and the “other word beginning with W that I can’t say on the radio.”
And then for people that didn’t get it he said he could use rhyming slang and call the. “Bankers”
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@ebariaux I’m not sure what the current obstacle is but I’d love numerics to become part of standard swift - also an example like this let me to play with metal - it’s stunningly fast for applications like this
The Podcast
On skating to where the puck will be and not to an average of where it's been.
https://dimsumthinking.com/Podcast/2026/156FasterHorses.html
I need to verify but I think Apple fixed an on app intent execution bug
Swift/Java people - This may be a stupid question.
The W3C's epub validator is a jar file that can be executed from the command line.
Is this something that can be easily wrapped in a small swift app? I.e. can you call a jar file from a swift Mac app and pipe the output. Do you need to install Java on your Mac to do so?
I clearly haven't thought about this much but woke up wondering if I could replace this use of Docker and remembered @airspeedswift@mastodon.social 's session at Server Side 2024.
The Newsletter:
What happens when we break a habit. Also, Wiggly Paint, Favorite Tube stations, the WNBA's Nobel winning advisor, invisible women, Netflix's AppleTV changes, Maggie's link to Japanese train melodies, and Leo Dion's quiet timer.
I've tried to cancel my Wells Fargo credit card many times this year. I've tried over the phone, I tried online, and I even went into a branch office while in California. I haven't used the account for years - what more can I do to tell them I'm not interested.
The Newsletter:
Football is life. Also, a Fotomat lives on in San Francisco, three members of the Japan football team take on one hundred school children, a cool way to watch a baseball game from Ribbie, Ethnic cleansing in Ohio, the Stonehenge experiment, nutmegging, Maggie's link to Philosophers playing football, and John Gruber remembers Om Malik.