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by brantonb 5mo ago
This isn’t unique to Apple. The Windows developers were very vocal about a full screen start menu in Windows 8 being a bad change. We were told that we weren’t allowed to talk about it anymore on the large mailing list about the product. Th
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by brantonb 8mo ago
> In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be. It’s relatively recent in iOS history that Safari’s address bar is at the bottom. There’s a setting to move it back to the
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by brantonb 1y ago
They list sponsors on their website: https://ladybird.org/#sponsors
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Disconnecting from Discord(omglol.news)
3 points by brantonb 1y ago|1 comments
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by brantonb 1y ago
I definitely went into the wrong restroom a couple of times after an office move to the opposite side of building 9.
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by brantonb 2y ago
Enough people use 867-5309 as their grocery loyalty card's phone number that it's often got savings available at the gas pump. Use the local area code. It works great for filling up rentals while traveling, too.
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by brantonb 2y ago
I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.
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by brantonb 2y ago
From a pure numbers perspective, if you work 40 hours/week and commute 3.5 unpaid hours/day, then dropping the commute and taking a 50% pay cut results in only a 28% hourly pay cut and an extra 17.5 hours in your week. And let’s n
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by brantonb 2y ago
I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next
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by brantonb 2y ago
There is a “Comic Code Coding Essentials“ bundle for $30, licensed for up to 5 users. Unfortunately, it’s at the very bottom of the page so it’s easy to miss.
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by brantonb 2y ago
I think your link got cut off. Here’s the direct link to the section on when to use typed throws. I hadn’t read this before, and it changes how I’ll approach them. Thanks for pointing it out! https://github.com/swiftlang&#x2
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Code Fellows has ceased operations(codefellows.org)
2 points by brantonb 2y ago|0 comments
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by brantonb 2y ago
If you want a more software focused take on it, there’s The Phoenix Project. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
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by brantonb 3y ago
I didn't want to have to organize my work and personal repos using a directory structure, so I use matching on the remote instead. Since my job uses a GitHub organization, I'm able to conditionally include a config file that uses
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by brantonb 3y ago
At my last job, we slowly started adopting Swift in 2016 by writing some unit tests with it. Once we felt comfortable and established some coding conventions, we started adding some production code. By the time I left in fall 2023, we were
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by brantonb 3y ago
I totally understand that you have to play the game, even if I think the game makes search results worse. Appreciate your consideration and the post itself. (I'm an iOS dev that's made the jump from Obj-C to Swift and now from UIK
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by brantonb 3y ago
Yes, I'm asking for a bit of work to be done so that I can read their future posts like this. I spend money on well-crafted indie software but typically only after following the author for a while. I'd like to remain engaged and w
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by brantonb 3y ago
This post was great, so I added the RSS feed to my reader and I almost instantly removed it. I always knew those "7 Best Writing Apps for iPhone (2024)" posts were only there for SEO, but seeing a post from 2021 with that title is
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by brantonb 3y ago
> For instance, the NSPopover is a good candidate for bubbles that hint at stuff in the Mac app. An iOS counterpart sadly does not exist, so no bubbles in the iOS app. Ignoring popover presentations in UIKit, there’s also a new TipKit f
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by brantonb 3y ago
20 years ago, I was a college kid who built a running log website as an alternative to keeping paper records. My college cross-country team lived all over the country, so this let us keep each other accountable during summer training. It wa
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by brantonb 3y ago
Thank you for making me one of today’s lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by brantonb 3y ago
In high school, I took two semesters of typing on typewriters. For our tests, Mrs. Beck would take the correction ribbons out. There was no point in trying to fix anything, keep going as fast as possible. We went to a tri-county competition
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by brantonb 3y ago
> This is the same for encryption: the number 1 threat is lost encryption keys This is so true. I worked on v1 of BitLocker. Key management was a much bigger feature than the actual full-disk encryption. I only recently got a Yubikey bec
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by brantonb 3y ago
I assume any anonymous surveys at work that roll up through my management chain aren’t anonymous at all. My manager will get responses from only ~10 people and my writing style will be unique within that small sample size.
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by brantonb 3y ago
There are differences between iCloud and local backup. For example, iCloud backup doesn’t backup your Notes or Health data but local backup can. Sync != backup — without a backup, if you sync a bad change you’ve lost the data. https:/
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by brantonb 3y ago
I can’t solve the whole problem for you, but you can `git commit --fixup HEAD~4` if you know it’s 5 commits back. No need to figure out the hash. `HEAD^^^^` would also work — sometimes if I have to repeatedly fixup the same commit, adding a
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by brantonb 3y ago
My first job was pumping gas at a full service station in Ohio in the late ‘90s, where full service stations were rare. We had two islands, with two pumps each. When out-of-towners would pull up and see us approach, they’d often drive to th
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by brantonb 3y ago
I did two long training days in Cool this past weekend, on some of the same trails as Canyons the week before. High temperatures were in the low 50°s. Y’all got really unlucky with the heat. That DNF rate was brutal — congrats on getting a
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by brantonb 3y ago
> It’s “fun”. Type 2 fun is my favorite way of describing it. Usually starts with good intentions, it’s miserable while it’s happening, but afterwards the mind convinces itself that the experience was enjoyable. https://www.re
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by brantonb 4y ago
A counterpoint is that if the companies running these platforms are run by American companies, then their efforts to combat hate speech will be disproportionately focused on English language and American hate speech. This can allow it to fl

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