Notices by Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social), page 4

Xcode build errors come in three varieties:

• Error: You MUST fix these.
• Warning: You SHOULD fix these.
• Errors from previous builds that keep leaking into the wrong build report (*): You MUST ignore these or you will go insane.

(* "Build Succeeded. 10 errors!”)

It's intriguing to see command-line only software take accessibility into account:

https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/wiki/Accessibility

@zens @mhoye @303 children growing up in the 50s through 70s made great tv remotes too.

“An investigating officer served a warrant to Meta, which provided unencrypted chat sessions showing the woman and her daughter discussing abortion pills.”

So many fucking things wrong with this…

But right now: fuck Meta.

Apropos of nothing at all. Honest.

Can’t boost this enough.

https://mastodon.social/@me1000/110617605046171565

Apple needs to stop this.

A “bhangmeter” is used to detect nuclear explosions. Sure sure.

Apropos of nothing: I don't generally get hung up on celebrity deaths. But holy cow did we lose so much when we lost Carrie Fisher. Crazy that it’s been ~7 years already.

@inthehands i believe the behavior is "filing bugs based on beta software". Shameful.

@inthehands In the context of how they respond and treat their users on github I think you're quite wrong.

Oh yes it's that time of year where home-brew admits it utterly hates and detests its users.

Is it just me or is their messaging getting worse?

One of the two big things I am working on for my day job is a new Swift SVG parser and renderer.

We found problems with all existing SVG Swift renderer libraries that proved somewhat intractable.

Tonight I stumbled upon a SVG map of Middle Earth in the 3rd age and I just had to see how my renderer worked with it.

This is a screenshot from my test app and even though the text is borked (expected, text isn't something I've been focused on) I'm really fucking proud of how good this looks.

And this version of the same map but with vectorized text instead of text elements renders as far as i can tell perfectly.

All the rendering is in a SwiftUI Canvas view (there's an optional CoreGraphics rendering mode too),

@RobW @sommer Apple is the only company I've every worked on where the project/product folks don't get to brush accessibility under the rug and forget about it.

It's empowering.

Xcode's 15 new advanced search queries are … beautiful.

People are going to do utterly terrifying things with Swift Macros.

I am half excited to see what people make with them and half cringing in fear.

One thing we shouldn’t forget coming into WWDC is how successful Apple has been making problematic labour and discrimination issues disappear.

It’s shameful how the Ashley Gjøvik story was basically killed by Apple.

Then there’s Cher Scarlett being forced out for making an internal salary spreadsheet.

And of course the anti-labour practices that Apple is using to prevent organising in Apple Stores.

So yeah celebrate the work of folks building these new products but let’s not forget the cost

This Washington Post article on the effect of AR-15 rounds have on the human body is disturbing. It uses 3d graphics to show that effect in a stylised manner.

What’s more disturbing is what effect multiple AR-15 rounds have on the body of six year old Noah Pozner.

The news reports of these mass shootings refuse to show the carnage. I wonder if it’s past time to show the true impact of what actually happens so that Americans are forced to deal with the truth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/

Amazon is in the unique position of being able to almost singlehanded, effectively overnight, reduce most single-use plastics from being used in consumer packaging.

They could demand all suppliers provide alternative packaging within (say) 5 years.

And yet they do nothing. We have such low fucking expectations of these enormous corporations.

@inthehands @sandofsky @nicklockwood @gruber @matt it’s literally the gym membership model.

And everyone loooooves paying that