Notices by jesse squires (jsq@mastodon.social)

AI is going to replace software engineers exactly like how Bitcoin replaced fiat currency.

Does anyone know if it is “open-source” (with hyphen) or "open source” (no hyphen)?

Which is correct? I never know.

This wiki article uses both. 🙃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

mood

@inthehands @dduan is it possible to make a custom operator for that?

Possibly the best comment ever left on “hacker” “news”

Yikes.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178079/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety

Kind of ridiculous that the first 2 default configurations of the latest M3 MacBook Pro (up to $1800!!!) can't even do full Xcode 16.

Call me crazy, but I think *every* MacBook *Pro* should be able to handle all of the new Xcode things.

How does a “Pro” level laptop come with 8GB RAM by default?

🤡

The hardest problem in computer science

@NeoNacho better: could have been a phone call

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/23/arc-search-call-feature/

I just finished reading all of @dgregor79’s posts on Swift / C++.

Excellent series. I was mostly interested in learning a bit about C++ (which I haven’t written since college lol) but I learned some cool stuff about Swift too!

Highly recommend.

https://www.douggregor.net/posts

When I worked at Instagram/FB, I routinely saw presentations with data harvested from the Onavo “VPN”.

I remember asking “how do we know this user data about YouTube and SnapChat?”

The answer: “Onavo.”

I still don’t know how this wasn’t illegal and anti-competitive. Surely it was.

FB is a company driven by cheaters and criminals.

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-snapchat-onavo-snooping/

Xcode 15.3 update:

Generated symbols for asset catalogs have not been updated for concurrency, so now every Xcode project that has ever existed has dozens of unfixable warnings.

>> "Static property is not concurrency-safe because it is not either conforming to 'Sendable' or isolated to a global actor; this is an error in Swift 6”

Cool. 😎

@NeoNacho is this good

Senior Principle Software Architect Level 10:

I’m pleased to report we have successfully merged the two codebases after the acquisition and everything works.

Question for security nerds:

With the recent revelations about governments spying on push notifications, doesn’t that circumvent Signal’s “sealed sender” feature?

If you can spy on APNS traffic, then you can easily see who is messaging whom. Right?

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Swift challenge for the week:

Given the example code, how do you correctly convert it to use Swift Tasks and Structured Concurrency?

Let's avoid discussing how crappy the example code is — the point is that *a lot* of existing "async” UI code has this general form. This general style/convention of code is everywhere.

I think the first thing folks will reach for is replacing the dispatch queues with `Task { }`, but according to WWDC videos and folks that work on the compiler, that is wrong.

To clarify it is the structure of the example code that I’m interested in:

1. Action is triggered by user via UI element.

2. Expensive, non-main thread work needs to get dispatched to a background queue.

3. When said work completes, dispatch back to the main thread to update the UI that notifies the user of the result.

So now: write this using structured concurrency.

Don’t tell me “well a ViewController should really only be responsible for…” Yeah, duh. You’re missing the point here.

Before wiping my old Intel MBP, I decided to test Xcode perf on a very big project. I did a clean build-and-run on both machines. The results:

M3 Max: 2m 23s

Intel: 11m 32s

That's over 5X speed up. This is an insanely different experience. Very happy with this business expense.

@inthehands

1Pass, Little Snitch, Tot, Pause (from @harshil), Lucifer (mine), Red Eye (mine)

Then I usually show: WiFi, Bluetooth, Volume, Time Machine, Scripts, Date and Time.

I think that’s it. It’s not much. (Not at my laptop right now.)

I honestly can’t believe the MacBook Notch just hides menu bar apps and icons with zero indication that there are more that simply can’t be displayed because of the notch.

I wasted so much time trying to figure out why Little Snitch and 1Password were not running — they were. But they were hidden by the notch.

This is seriously so dumb.

So now I have to buy a 3rd-party app to fix this.