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Michael McGuire

@monocularvision.bsky.social

Senior Staff Engineer @ American Express working on the Amex Mobile app. Everything expressed here are my own opinions and not those of my employer.

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A ★★★★ review of Christmas with the Kranks (2004) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

In which I defend an extremely unpopular movie

boxd.it/cd3slv

24.12.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My life motto as this point: “computers are the worst”

30.10.2025 03:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bro: do u even kubernetes.

20.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disappointed to learn the waffles thing wasn’t a Leslie Knope reference.

(I love waffles BTW)

03.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LOL… my very first thought after seeing the news was this comic.

02.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“LOL”? When talking about someone getting shot? I mean… I can see how it is a little bit of a stretch, but not that much to me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

10.09.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Political assassination is sort of a big deal.

10.09.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorta seems like it falls under “Wishes of harm: Expressions of a desire for harm directed at a specific person or group.” … just retroactive.

10.09.2025 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Enjoyed “Superman”. Felt fresh and different from lots of superhero stuff. But I definitely enjoyed F1 way more.

12.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

F1 in IMAX was pretty incredible.

08.07.2025 05:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there!

15.06.2025 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AlarmKit | Apple Developer Documentation Schedule prominent alarms and countdowns to help people manage their time.

Excited to see how Facebook uses this for evil: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

09.06.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2026 is the year of L̶i̶n̶u̶x̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶D̶e̶s̶k̶t̶o̶p̶ Gaming on the Mac.

09.06.2025 17:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Apple TV app on Apple TV has even more ways to push Apple TV+.

09.06.2025 17:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every time I read the news, I wanna get everyone’s attention in the room and say:

“Wait a minute… _this_ is the Bad Place!”

06.06.2025 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The MacBook Air charging ports being on the left and the iPad Air charging points being on the right when in landscape is a damn shame.

03.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blows my mind how much of the web is simply broken on Mobile Safari, which has to be one of the most popular browsers in the world.

01.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten unless you need to go to college then you should leave family to the state.

29.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess I don’t mind Bitcoin but generally get turned off by crypto, as the entire culture feels filled with scams.

I also think the transactional costs of Bitcoin make it seem more like an investment vehicle than a currency.

22.05.2025 06:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Every time I accidentally open LinkedIn, I end up wandering around like the Confused Travolta GIF.

21.05.2025 00:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‎Fortnite ‎Fortnite is back! Be the last player standing in Battle Royale, OG and Zero Build, carry your squad to victory in fast-paced Reload, build your own adventures in LEGO® Fortnite, or headline a concert...

Fortnite’s back: apps.apple.com/us/app/fortn...

20.05.2025 22:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course! Thanks for putting your code out there.

20.05.2025 05:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hahahahahha

19.05.2025 19:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think the “Why” should be higher and emphasize what benefits one might have in using this. Even if not a direct comparison with things you aren’t familiar with, there has to be benefits to structuring your persistence data in this way.

Other than that, great work! I was able to follow along

19.05.2025 19:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Nike needs to update their Xcode version

18.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favorite uses of GenAI and development isn’t it writing me code but being able to ask for ideas as to why something may not be working. Way more effective than Googling these days.

16.05.2025 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

responding just to throw your worldview into chaos

15.05.2025 02:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

XCUIAutomation has API for interacting with:

1. Siri
2. The Digital Crown
3. A remote

But not

1. Face ID / Touch ID

sigh

07.05.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you had shown 10-year old Michael the current Star Wars-themed season of Fortnite, he would have perished from happiness.

05.05.2025 05:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My main hope for this ruling is that forcing Apple to drop restrictions around outside payments makes them compete on the merits of the App Store itself. I would personally prefer to make all of my purchases through the App Store but it could use some major improvements for buyers _and_ sellers.

01.05.2025 05:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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