LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Just got laid off. 😞

If anyone knows of any senior iOS positions that are open to remote, I’d appreciate knowing.

Thanks

Bug your reps to support financial incentives for e-bikes and bike commuters

https://bikeleague.org/take-action/action-center/

#urban #urbanism #ebike #green

Dear Americans

Not a single news outlet aired President Biden's event at the White House just now where he announced over $40 BILLION in investments to expand broadband across America.

When will President Biden get the coverage & credit he deserves? This is why our media fails all of us.

Thank you, President Biden!

.....fuck it, imma just ask. Where are my fellow black folks? #blackmastodon #blackfolk I'm learning a bunch on here but the only time I see a face that looks like mine is when I search the hashtags above. And it's the same 3 people in the results. #pointmetowardsthecookout

Six Flags Magic Mountain in California is building a massive canopy of solar panels over its 30-acre parking lot that will power all of the rides and offset 100% of the amusement park’s energy usage while providing shade to the cars parked beneath.

When completed, it will be California’s largest solar energy project & the world’s largest renewable energy site built by a for-profit organization.

Way to go, Six Flags!

https://www.dailynews.com/2023/06/20/solar-powered-roller-coasters-coming-to-six-flags-magic-mountain/

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#Solar #SolarPunk #energy #RenewableEnergy

Been following #visionOS pretty avidly, but if you’re working on an app or experience for this platform… @lindadong and I wanna know about it! 👀

Quicker than ever to see which card to use at checkout thanks to the watchOS 10 redesign.

Few things left to tweak, but totally digging the translucency and vertical paging with the tab views (bonus: now you can have a tab view with swipe actions, so useful!)

Working on the Watch app is such an awesome experience due to the constraints of the platform — really requires focus on the core functionality, but I also add the full app experience for power users with a few extra taps.

Instead of a submarine it's the Earth's biosphere, and we're all unwilling passengers. But the same arrogant, ignorant, foolhardy billionaires are driving. They think they can just decamp to Mars if things go badly. That is far less realistic than the submarine.
#ClimateCrisis #oligarchy

"...it feels like the government has granted motorists total carte blanche to pull all sorts of questionable maneuvers in the streets while the self-preservation instincts of cyclists are barely tolerated. You could say I’ve become radicalized!"

https://slate.com/business/2023/06/nyc-bike-tickets-riding-on-sidewalk.html

Watch debugging is rock-solid in Xcode 15. I've yet to have to do the reboot dance to get a debug session going. Thank you to whoever improved that.

we should treat adults learning new skills like we treat kids: with endless patience, not expecting miracles from day one, praising the little steps rather than shaming them for it

I'm busy watching back to back WWDC videos, and needed to pause for a moment to say how freaking awesome the new MapKit/SwiftUI integration is – everything I wanted and more! FB7857481 ✅ This plus the new StoreKit work shows how much of an impact SwiftUI is having across Apple.

If all announced clean energy manufacturing projects are realised, solar & battery manufacturing already meet the needs for 2030 to stay on track for net zero. Wind, heat pumps & electrolysers are not yet on track but are expanding rapidly.

Data from International Energy Agency (IEA) graph from Energy Monitor.

We should do this in Canada too: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/09/new-law-50-solar-power-over-parking-lots-in-france/

France ... requires that that large parking lots have at least 50% of their lot covered in solar canopies.

As someone who maintained the venerable genstrings utility for a number of years…

String Catalogs look amazing!

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!

What a major enhancement to the localization workflow in Xcode—for projects *and* Swift Packages! Thank you!

So many Americans are like, "I don't want the superwealthy to pay more taxes because I might win the lottery some day."

Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡

Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.

The Senate, on a 50-49 vote, confirms #ACLU lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the US District Court for the Eastern District of #NewYork, making her the first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge in the country.