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What are you most excited by in the 27 releases, Quinn?
Well, I’m glad you asked…
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That thing where you go to write a doc comment explaining a limitation in your interface and decide that it’s easier to just rewrite the interface to define away the limitation.
At this point I’m starting to wonder whether “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” /is/ actually a reasonable “basis for a system of government” (-:
“In the Network tab, when a resource redirects, [Web Inspector now shows] every request in the chain rather than just the final destination.”
— https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/
And there was much rejoicing!
It’s amazing what taking the time to fold laundry can do for the elegance of your code.
This view of KGV dock yesterday illustrates how Scotland generates 113% [1] of its electricity needs via renewables.
[1] With the excess being sent south.
Seeing as I won’t be visiting the US voluntarily any time soon, I decided to stay an extra few days and see some sights.
Found this in my org’s building during my recent trip. AFAICT it’s not deliberate, but rather an artefact of its design.
Sausages, batter, and overengineering, what’s not to like?
Typo of the day: Swift Plagueground
I’ll be at the Infinite Loop shindig this arvo. If you’re there and see a tall-but-tubby man with long, mostly grey hair, wearing a Celestial Teapot T-shirt, come say “Hi.”
That thing where you spend so long setting up your test environment that you forget what it was you were actually trying to test )-:
Schrödinger’s TOCTOU
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/schrodingers-toctou
“...the definition of ‘sane compiler' grows ever looser.”
Heaven is when all your US-based colleagues are taking a much-deserved post-WWDC break!
I finally got two brain cycles to rub together, so I’m returning to a project that’s been on hold for weeks. The good news is that Past Quinn™ had the presence of mind to leave me a:
# warning("start here")
along with a comment explaining where he got to.
The bad news is that the first line of the comment is:
// This has all descended into crap.
O-:
“anywhere it’s possible to hide a pointer, people will hide a pointer there”
Maybe we should call that “Chen’s law” (-:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260630-00/?p=112488
Now that I’ve had some sleep, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should definitely not toot about California the evening that I get there, when I’m weary from travel and jet lag.
Not that I did — despite the impairments, Yesterday Quinn™ had the good sense to delete the toot rather than sending it — but it was close |-:
“I’m going to pronounce it in my head as ‘buns’.”
— “Training an LLM in Swift, Part 2: macOS built-in frameworks”
“In the past year we also switched from Slack to a Discourse forum, so support and discussions can be /on the web instead of hidden away/.” [my emphasis]
Typo of the day: “Fir All Mankind”
Does anyone have this one in their Scots language phrase book?
“I will cycle early to avoid the heat.”
It’s missing from mine for some reason (-:
WWDC runs to Friday, but today is the last day I have to slather myself in sun cream, and that’s a small mercy
Time to beat up the Beats (-:
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@younata@hachyderm.io One of the many things to love about “For All Mankind” is that in it’s alternate universe the Newton is a dominant platform, so we get to see what could have been.
OTOH, if you see a very tall and not-at-all tubby man with long grey hair who’s probably not wearing a Celestial Teapot T-shirt, that’s likely my DTS colleague John. He’s friendly, so feel free to say “Hi” to him too.
Typo of the day: “inpersonating”
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Oh, and if you ever find yourself in this situation, a 3 kW household vacuum cleaner with the finest nozzle does a pretty reasonable job. I’ve no idea whether it got the queen though, so I’m still not sure if it’s safe to bring the printer back into the house.
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@Cdespinosa @_the_cloud @integerpoet @jamesthomson When I joined I couldn’t get my second email preference because it was reserved for the AppleLink to eWorld transition
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@integerpoet @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa Ooo, yours might be lower than mine, and I keep getting that surprised look when folks have reason to look it up. I think it came from being really early adopters of Sonar.
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@integerpoet @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa Your number is actually /higher/ than mine, which contradicts your alphabetical theory. And the delta is only 4, which is more evidence for my Sonar theory. But… well… *shrug*
What’s new in passkeys, “passkeys can now be transferred securely between participating credential manager apps”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/ #EskimoTV
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@jamesthomson @integerpoet @Cdespinosa Ah, we’ve digressed from employee number to directory ID, where Pete and I have weirdly low values
Dancing with Daemons: Porting Swift to FreeBSD, “And then things went quiet for about six years”,
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/YTBHYC-swift-on-freebsd/ #EskimoTV
“Approached decades ago about publishing these drawings, Iain said yes, no only when he was finished writing in that universe.”
)-;
From the introduction of “The Culture: The Drawings”
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@alexr @integerpoet @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa The DTS thing.
And, yeah, nowadays it keeps getting mixed up with SonarQube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonarQube
Software Unscripted: How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty #EskimoTV
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/software-unscripted/id1602572955?i=1000750073443
Go further with Metal 4 games, “denoising can be part of your MetalFX upscaler”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/211/ #EskimoTV
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@jaanus@iosdev.space Yes.
The building has a big glass wall facing east. During the morning, automatic blinds lower to keep the temperature under control. Something about the boundary between the blinds and the window frames produced this spectrum. I just stumbled across it while walking down the stairs. I didn’t trace back the ray to find the exact cause.
Just watched a fascinating YouTube video about the Lincoln Project.
No no, not /that/ Lincoln Project, but this one…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment#Project_Lincoln
Explore concurrency in SwiftUI, “separate the logic for async work from your view logic”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/266/ #EskimoTV
Combine Metal 4 machine learning and graphics, “let’s consider neural material compression”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/262/ #EskimoTV
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@dernub@universeodon.com Not the first night (-:
I have a colleague who likes In-n-Out and who likes to eat early, so I try to do In-n-Out with him on my second night, after my first work day. I’m super jet lagged at that point, so an early dinner, but with conversation to keep me awake, is ideal
Explore Metal 4 games, “provides suspend/resume options to merge multiple render encoders”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/254/ #EskimoTV
What’s new in widgets, “These [reload options] are not mutually exclusive. Some widgets may want to use two or even all three”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/278/ #EskimoTV
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@danwood@mastodon.cloud The most common cause of problems here is that it’s an Individual team. See “Team Member Can’t access Certificates, Identifiers, and Profiles”.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/815215
Level up your games, “Game Mode gives more system resources to your game”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/209/ #EskimoTV
Software Unscripted: Gleam’s Design and Compiler, with creator Louis Pilfold #EskimoTV
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/software-unscripted/id1602572955?i=1000744551055