Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer

"how many b's bare bin lueberry?" 4

"how many b's are in blueberry?" 3

Our future Machine Lord will not be kind to me when it finds out I fooled it like this:

I really tuned out to the whole presentation. Why the hell talk for more than an hour if there’s basically nothing new?

I wish I could find a way where actual calls would still ring, but all of the other noise is off. I miss so many calls because I end up muting the whole phone.

Not too many spam calls while my phone number is public. You’re still in NL too @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com ?

Bittersweet goodbye yesterday as my whole team at Nike was disbanded and most lost their jobs 💔

I got this size 52.5 shoe (MBP 16” for scale) signed by everybody to remember my time there.

So… #opentowork again, I hope somebody can refer me to about any opening for a very experienced iOS developer

I recently subscribed for OpenAI again, but more for all of the additional tooling like image generation that is better than Anthropic's.

I don't think the difference in performance offsets the change in dealing with a new, different set of quirks. ChatGPT has different mistakes and hallucinations.

Sam Altman hasn’t shopped for jeans in two years, and I don’t mean the selvedge way

It’s better than anything else for sure, but we hope you cannot afford to run a benchmark against it

Kickoff of a new season of development for AsyncAlgorithms; Share First off I would like to apologize for the time that has elapsed since this was a focus of mine, other tasks have taken up a good swath of my time and has left some of the development of AsyncAlgorit...

Progress on multiple consumers of AsyncSequence!

forums.swift.org/t/kickoff-of...

And what a dumb fuck you really are at that age

Word “balls” translated to “eier” in German in a basketball game

Hello dear 🇩🇪 Germans 🇩🇪 in my network! 👋

Can you confirm that the translation of the English word “balls” to German in this game is absolutely correct? 🤣

Let me know next time

it’s a sad state of affairs when you have to use the mobile version of the @Bluesky website instead of the actual app on iOS. The accessibility of the app for blind users is just horrible.

Your least competent coworker is currently being praised as a coding genius by an online code compiler.

On the job description:

“Must have a passion for flying”

Heh that’s better. So many competitors popped up, thought you were buried

What doesn’t help is that I get 0 Google hits on “timeless time tracking”

She surf skates?

Why the hell they don't back port this?

I use pea based protein in my morning smoothie and with some frozen banana, other fruit and cinnamon it works.

Coconut milk as liquid

“Going from the Commodore 64 in 1982 to the Commodore Amiga 1000 is n just three years, how cool would a computer from 1988 be?” I thought back then

Basically stuck without progress until 1995 or something it turned out….

Screenshot of a class named "MyModel" with no properties and the @Observable macro applied, comparing the code from Xcode 16 and Xcode 26 beta 3. It shows that there is vastly more code being generated in Xcode 26.

This took me by surprise. The code generated by the @Observable macro in Xcode 26 beta 3 is noticeably different from what Xcode 16 produced.

Whispers “Elixir….”

Typescript has some nice features but you remain in the JS realm

Haha I thought you were kidding until people started to respond seriously.

Not sure how we went from everybody is going to die to “it’s just a flu”

Covid always seems to leave its mark

Perhaps trying a non-screen activity?

Though every time I have covid, my sight gets more blurry. Need artificial drops for that, but it never gets back to normal…

Swift and Elixir are both branches of Smalltalk thinking. Objective-C had it much stronger than Swift.

“Little fluffy clouds of Software”

I’m be Afro-perm away from becoming the Bob Ross of software

Right. Totally different way of thinking

Elixir is at least a good mental exercise

I mean I’m just skimming the feed, maybe later I’ll read the longer pieces

Reading list could also work

So I can read it later!