LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

We're watching a small group of billionaires decide that society itself is an expendable luxury in the pursuit of more wealth.

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

Was helping a coworker understand text in SwiftUI and this idea popped into my head. Had to get it out.

#Matrix #SwiftUI

California drivers take note: You are now required by law to change lanes when you pass a bicyclist, if you can.

The same “omnibike” bill that made that change to the law also stops enforcement of bike-license laws, which is good because “some jurisdictions have used [bike-license laws] as an excuse to harass youth and BIPOC bike riders.”

https://www.calbike.org/governor-signs-omnibike-bill-ab-1909/

@paolamata @schwa @lorihc On top of what the others said: the EPM is the interface between engineering and everything else. They have a good knowledge of what can, or not, be done, and it what timeframes. They shield the engineering teams from absurd requests. They ask clarification of requirements before engineers get stuck in the ambiguities. They make sure what product management is asking is realistic. In essence: getting the answers to the questions they know will need to be asked.

things invented by black people:
- videogame cartridges
- bash shell
- crop rotation
- transgender
- GPS
- Stop Lights
- the Lingo scripting language in Macromedia Director
- IBM PC
- VoIP
- Mailboxes
- Lawn sprinklers
- ISA bus
- Supercomputers
- the rendering software used in Terminator 2
- Chemotherapy
- Spectrographs and Spectrometers
- nuclear reactors for power generation
- dustpans
- ironing boards
- light bulbs and telephones - Lewis Latimer (in collaboration with edison and bell)

Want to work on the Apple Messages platform (Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI) with some of my friends? Check out this job listing! https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200384148/software-engineer-messages-platform (Silicon Valley position, no remote)

I’m not sure about the look of the Apple Watch Ultra, but the big extra side button is definitely helpful.

"The institution of American policing lies outside of any meaningful democratic control. … Indeed, anything resembling a root-and-branch transformation of American policing will only ever occur after the public is able to exercise real control over the institution itself.”

– @jbouie, with a 🎯 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html

With all the layoffs happening, it’s probably a good time to mention we are hiring 2 iOS engineers at Dropbox. Tell your friends.

Looking for IC3 and IC4. Send me an email with your resume and I’ll refer you: jboulter@dropbox.com

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

"City planners are questioning the point of parking garages'

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913968

@asymco

#micromobility

Super excited to be selected to attend #AppleEntrepreneurCamp with MusicHarbor this week! I'm learning a lot with experience and guidance from Apple experts and engineers, and fellow attendees.

Here are more details about the program if you're interested in applying: https://developer.apple.com/entrepreneur-camp/

One thing to understand about police "reform" is that, if you have to teach someone that it's wrong to brutally beat an innocent person to death, you _can't_ actually teach them that it's wrong to brutally beat an innocent person to death.

We're hiring a (PAID.) summer intern to work on @glitchdotcom at Fastly. If you're an undergrad who wants to get some amazing experience and mentorship while working on really interesting challenges, please do take a look — and underrepresented candidates are, of course, warmly welcomed. https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply/?gh_jid=4819921

Interested in investigating and triaging problems for some of Apple’s largest frameworks, while collaborating with both developers and qa? This may be a great role for you! https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200445963/swift-platform-experience-screening-engineer

Just published my first Swift article of 2023! 🎉

This one is about how the content offset (or scroll position) of a SwiftUI ScrollView can be observed without requiring any UIKit bridging. Very useful when implementing things like collapsable headers, or when performing other kinds of scroll position-dependent operations 👍

https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/observing-swiftui-scrollview-content-offset

Everyone talks about “rockstar developers.” And sure you might need some of those but not many.

Usually, you’re looking for the software equivalent of the session or studio musician. The folks who can turn out amazing stuff in varying styles, but can do it all the time, on demand, consistently. They’re not going to have design philosophies, or manifestos, or lofty-sounding stuff in their bios.

They’re going to have code, and a long list of folks who say “this engineer, you want them. Really.”