LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Great things to do THIS week instead of next:

- Prepare test devices **with a test Apple ID** to run the betas

- Decide which devices will stay on iOS 16/watchOS 9/etc. (keeping in mind that Watches cannot downgrade!)

- Start wearing your test watch to collect health data if applicable (thx @_Davidsmith)

- Create a new version of your app in App Store Connect, and get its first build through TestFlight approval, so you can quickly issue another build next week if beta 1 breaks your app

Oooooo, the sign-ups for the “Activities”(Slack based virtual events) are up on the WWDC main site. These have been the real star of the show for me recently, I get a ton of value out of the Q&As and related sessions. I highly recommend getting setup for them and participating as much as you can next week.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=6yr4jbxv

Sign ups are open for WWDC online activities! https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/activities/

The privilege of being allowed to “report to prison” on one’s own for multimillion-dollar swindles, as opposed to being taken there in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit for stealing groceries, is maddening

Make sure to sign up for #WWDC23 #activities to join in all the online, text-based fun, like Meet the Presenter watch parties, Q&As, and Icebreakers!!!! You can sign up *checks notes* RIGHT NOW! https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/activities/

Mind. Blown.

I think a lot of gay and lesbian people very foolishly thought that Obergefell would be the end of the fight for civil rights. As if Queer dignity was settled.

And I think you can look at any other marginalized group historically, and see how fast the tide can turn against you.

I think that’s why it’s really critical to not have any delusions about throwing trans people under the bus to assuage the lunatic fringe on the right.

We have to take the long view on LGBT rights.

New in Public Notice: Biden is making the federal courts look more like America. But that's not the only way he's diversifying them. https://www.publicnotice.co/p/nancy-abudu-biden-reshapes-federal-judiciary

WWDC is around the corner. Every year the platform I’m excited about is watchOS. This year is no different. Last year’s update was a big one. Looking forward to what watchOS 10 will bring.

I'm starting to feel very emotional about WWDC only being a week away; this will be my 13th as an Apple employee. I've spent my entire adult life in this role and in this community and I can't wait to see some familiar faces.

Bombshell Louisiana Report Led To Republican Senator Rejecting Youth Trans Ban

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bombshell-louisiana-report-led-to

A Republican Senator voted against a gender affirming care ban in Louisiana. Today, it was revealed he did so because of a bombshell Louisiana report showing the care is safe and effective.

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

The most common gender affirming surgery is breast augmentation -- in cis (non-trans) women.

The regret rate is around 20%.

Gender affirming surgeries in trans people have around a 1% regret rate.

Guess which people need approval from a mental health provider...

@stroughtonsmith Just in time for #wwdc, we released Where To? 12.6 with a new watchOS app completely rewritten in SwiftUI. Using Where To? you can easily find the closest and best rated restaurants, shops and services. The watch app features a new search UI, swipe-to-fave and a new complication reflecting the last viewed place from the iPhone. #showcase
https://whereto.app

Humans are REALLY BAD at thinking at large scale, and it's on full display in this "Ha ha ha the Mythical Man-Month doesn't apply to me." It doesn't apply to you because you are working on tiny projects. Your 50-engineer project is so tiny that you don't even understand that it's tiny.

You see this a lot in warfare contexts when chickenhawks are all "Well, why don't we just invade Iran?" (or wherever. Set aside ethics for a minute.). We don't invade Iran because we're a naval power and literally don't have the force available to put enough boots on the ground to maintain control of it. But you, the chickenhawk, don't know this, because you don't understand what type of scale you need to run that type of operation.

In that thread, people are talking about how adding 25 or 50 engineers to a project can be absorbed by being clever. There are two problems with this line of argument.

The first problem is: most of your co-workers (including you and me) are not actually clever. You and I are just as bad at things as everyone else. Planning a project around the conceit of "Let's plan to be brilliant and not make mistakes" is planning a project that will fail.

The second problem is that you've never run a project at scale. When Fred Brooks was working on S/360 software, he experienced IBM trying to add ONE THOUSAND engineers to the project. Consider for just a moment that maybe the dude has a little more experience with engineering at scale than you do working on your Eggs And Milk Minder phone app.

I only recently discovered that in Xcode 14 we can test real remote push notifications on an iOS simulator. Before, simulators couldn't provide a token, limiting us to testing on a device or using .apns payload files and simctl push command.

Now we can send notifications from a server to our app running on a simulator, and even test other features like Notification Service Extensions.

I summarized what setup is needed for this to work in my new post: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/TestingRemotePushOniOSSimulator

#iOSDev #Xcode

With WWDC just around the corner, this week @marcoarment and I talk through how to make the most of your week whether you are on-site for the event or at home: https://www.relay.fm/radar/269