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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social The choice is clear: either vote for a walking pile of garbage with no serious place in public service or vote for Count Binface.
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Michael Critz
@pixelscience@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Design Technologist. Swift Developer.
I organize the SF iOS Coffee Meetup
https://www.coffeecoffeecoffee.coffee/sf-ios-coffee
iOS engineer at Amazon
Previously:
- Amazon Devices
- PlayStation doing PS5 & PSVR UI design
- PlayStation design lead for the PS dev/publisher experience
- Salesforce Mobile App Hackathon winner
- Emmy for motion graphics (CBS/ABC)
Posts are my own, well-qualified, opinion
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@skeletor@mas.to I humbly disagree. My grandfather was paid by the government to punch Nazis. (Actually, he was issued a bayonet, but close enough.)
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San Francisco iOS Coffee Meetup
9am Friday at Shoji
140 New Montgomery
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This is rad
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@donhawkins@mastodon.social @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social No. That’s the Conservative playbook. They need you to believe that everyone who wants to serve the citizenry is as crap as them.
If you believe that nobody wants to take sides with the electorate to fight Billionaires and a system designed to exploit people over profits then the Conservatives have already won the battle for your soul.
RE: @pixelscience@mastodon.social
I got my Omnimo nRF52840 up and running with Embedded Swift!
I guess this is where I live now
@ii_infinitum@mastodon.social Have you considered using generative AI to reply to requests to use generative AI?
Re: Mandatory AI
Hey Bob,
I’m Lucy, Andrew’s mailbot for handling these types of messages.
Andrew is busy actually understanding the job himself and can’t reply to emails about generative AI use. Here is some research showing why AI isn’t actually increasing productivity…
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@donhawkins@mastodon.social @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Yep. If they complain about it then enact ranked choice voting. Actually, just enable ranked choice voting.
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SF iOS Developers Coffee Friday from 9am onwards at Motoring Cafe
1525 Union Street
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@flexghost@mastodon.social Dominion / Mother Russia: 55 points
- 10 Cold War Goth vibes
- 20 DDR & Mother Russia
- 25 A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun ø no time travel specific lyrics
Long enough for the edibles to kick in. But truly an epic song. Pairs well with Freemark Abbey 2009 Sav Blanc.
The Sisters of Mercy @ Dominion / Mother Russia
I’m at SF Swift Language User Group and @saagar@federated.saagarjha.com starts his talk with, “Swift concurrency is hard. You’re either wrong or Apple will change everything.” 🤣
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@Catfish_Man I remember when NIMBYs were arguing that the new buildings at UCSF Parnassus — including dorms for students — would CAUSE CANCER! And chewing on using CEQA as a threat.
It’s like — my brother in Christ — wouldn’t be nice if there were SOMEPLACE to go if you ever get sick with — I dunno — FUCKING CANCER? And that when you got there SOMEONE was trained in the treatment?
NIMBY brain is a void so deep it could consume a black hole.
San Francisco iOS Developer Coffee Meetup is 9am Thursday (April 16) at Saint Frank Coffee in the Mira building. 120 Folsom St.
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@daniel I was chatting with my brother about this. It’s absolutely marvelous that Reznor gets to do the stuff he really loves. Sets with his wife and friends. Just having pure creative expression. Love it!
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@RupertReynolds @pheonix I see your Facebook identified address and raise you ActBlue-sold-you-this-email(at)my-email-domain•com
San Francisco Swift Language User Group × CocoaHeads meetup is 7PM April 9th.
Space it limited. Plan ahead.
San Francisco iOS Developer Coffee Meetup is 9am Thursday bayside of the Ferry Building. Blue Bottle is right inside.
All are welcome! Join us!
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@Bogeon@mstdn.social @flexghost@mastodon.social 90s Bowie is best Bowie. Black Tie White Noise is highly underrated. Jump, They Say is one of my favorite songs of all time.
STILL the most interesting company in tech: @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org
☕️ SF iOS Developer coffee meetup is 9am today at Motoring Coffee.
RE: @applemlresearch@mastodon.social
Apple previews WWDC
How many films would you need to see to be familiar with everyone in Doomsday? Minimum 8
Endgame — Thor, Steve Rogers, Bucky, Ant-Man, Loki
Wakanda Forever — Shuri, Namor, M’Baku
Shang-Chi — Shang-Chi
Brave New World — Sam Wilson, Joaquín Torres
Thunderbolts — Yelena, Red Guardian, Ghost, Sentry, U.S. Agent
The Fantastic Four — Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Thing
X2: X-Men United — Professor X, Magneto, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Mystique
Deadpool & Wolverine — Gambit
I’m not a huge fan of 3rd party Mac launchers, but this energy is so charming
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San Francisco iOS Coffee Meetup is 9am Thursday at Dolores Park Cafe.
I rather love the IxD and VisD of Particle. It’s the AI news aggregator app I’d design given the same creative brief.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/particle-personalized-news/id6683283775
@jripley@mastodon.social The Onion doesn’t roast NYT financial columnist Landon Thomas Jr. who called Epstein “one hell of a guy” AFTER his pedophilia conviction.
It’s The Onion. I know. But parody is reality.
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@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social don’t be afraid to book a “meet with Apple” session with App Review. I have had good success talking to an actual human.
I’ve been replaying Control on iOS. It’s one of my favorite games. If you’ve never played it, iOS is a fine platform to enjoy it on. I recommend turning on ray tracing if you have a fast iPhone or M-series iPad.
As I did some research on the game, I learned it was inspired in part by Danielweski’s House of Leaves. Which, I just learned is the companion novel to Poe’s album Haunted: one of my favorite all-time albums. Kismet all around.
“Now I have taken Control” ~ Poe
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@danielpunkass@mastodon.social I always feel that people concerned about federal taxes are always one search for “federal discretionary spending pie chart” away from self awareness.^
^ then you can remind folks that the nondiscretionary still includes $1.5 Trillion for financing past wars, veterans benefits, healthcare costs, maintenance of nuclear weapons (DoE budget not DoD). Because of how debt is structured it’s not entirely possible to say, but I argue that we still haven’t paid off World War 1.
Sure, it’s burning forests and draining the groundwater for reappropriated software piracy, but at least it has two nines of uptime.
What could go wrong?
Atsuko Okatsuka’s crowd work. https://youtube.com/shorts/2TwrntWuqC8?si=DTeULL7AfPXVmS4c
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@kickingvegas hahahaha! Maybe one day.
This joke was originally about screen but it was far less relatable.
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@josephcox@infosec.exchange I totally agree with this article… or at least the AI summary of this article that I skimmed.
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@schwa@mastodon.social Like a broadly-typed Span?
Edit: read my own link. I suppose you could type a Span. Ex: `Span`.
But maybe Span isn’t exactly what you’re looking for.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/span
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@skeletor@mas.to My science teacher, “great work on the egg drop challenge yesterday. We’re going to watch a science program today.”
The TV drops that good beat, “Bill Nye the Science Guy! Bill! Bill! Bill!”