Notices by Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social)

I haven’t found a single news article yet talking about the parade without comparing it to the concurrent protests.

The protest organizers did an amazing job under incredibly difficult circumstances. What heroes.

TIL homebrew has a min star barrier. https://mastodon.social/@ctietze/114393836065121154

This is rather encouraging. A fork of Homebrew in rust where they actually encourage feedback and pull requests. Instead of treating their users like vermin like the homebrew maintainers do.
https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire

@inthehands I can’t speak for ruby. But I look at something like Rust’s cargo.toml with envy. A package config that is easy to read, reason with and edit? Why can’t we swift developers have that.

Instead we have folks putting for loops into Package.swift. Ugh.

Trivial example of where config as code falls down.

Ever had to write` platforms: [.macOS("15.0”)]`, instead of `.v15`?

Congrats, you've just run into a problem directly caused by config as code. The fact that older SPMs can't even compile newer Package.swifts _is_ a problem.

The fact that you (and you tools) can't validate Package.swift without compiling it is a bigger one of course.

Reminder that just because you can it doesn’t mean you should.

“Config as code” is a bug not a feature.

Config should be easy to reason with and understand. Being forced to run the code to understand what the configuration is, is a huge failure.

Package.swift should have been something like TOML (or whatever) with a suitably expressive schema instead…
https://chaos.social/@ole/114381265023437618

Dealing with even the most trivial syntax errors in Package.swift is one of the most time consuming and frustrating experiences. Xcode just shits the bed and often gives you little to no information on what failed.

Even something like an extra comma in your Package.swift would cause inscrutable package resolution errors.

And they had to rev the _entire_ Swift language to solve that particular problem…

This is where someone points out `describe --type json`…

Which *checks notes* converts Package.swift into "something like TOML (or whatever) with a suitably expressive scheme" (in this case JSON but whatever indeed).

@killyourfm subscribed. Thank you!

The future of the software industry

When I was younger I never would have guessed that so many of my braincells would become dedicated to worrying about sRGB<->linear conversions.

My Metal code running on this M4 Max runs a _lot_ better when it's displaying on my external Apple Studio display compared to the internal Macbook display…

Not bothered to dig into why yet. But its dramatically better.

We all knew who Elon was when he called a cave diver rescuing children a pedo. At that point it was clear he was a petulant piece of shit who didn’t care about the actual problem at hand and just needed attention.

There’s a literal coup going on in the US government but traditional news media won’t let you read about it because your # of free articles has been exceeded this month.

If you have plenty of bandwidth and a home server (or a server/VM on a rack somewhere you can spare) you can help the internet archive backup US government websites.

It's a little like Seti@Home where you donate CPU time and bandwidth and you get assigned jobs.

I'm running it in a docker container on my home server.

The specific docker instructions are here:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior#:~:text=docker%20run%20%2D%2Ddetach%20%2D%2Dname%20archiveteam%2Dwarrior%20%2D%2Dlabel=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true%20%2D%2Dlog%2Ddriver%20json%2Dfile%20%2D%2Dlog%2Dopt%20max%2Dsize=50m%20%2D%2Drestart=on%2Dfailure%20%2D%2Dpublish%208001:8001%20atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior%2Ddockerfile
https://phpc.social/@ramsey/113943736240301661

Why is it you can only find out if you have jury duty by checking at 6pm the day before.

Justice is blind (hahahah bullshit) and also very inconsiderate too it seems.

Now I have to remember how to dress like a human.

Yay. Called in!

It better be sexy. I’m hoping for maybe piracy. Or jewel smuggling. Or kidnapping at least.

@RebeccaSlatkin wait is it still 2021?

Dude is still here. Been hanging out there for a good 20 minutes