alex pretzlav

He’s seen Alf’s hog

A stop sign with a yellow sign mounted below it which reads CROSS TRAFFIC DOES NOT STOP PRETTY UNSAFE FOR A BIKEWAY, YEAH? SOMEONE MAKE A PETITION OR SOMETHING

A pair of kid’s sneakers with iridescent rainbow coloring, shiny silver accents, and pink elastic shoelaces. They’re tsukihoshi brand.

Very jealous of my four-year-old’s new shoes. He picked them.

Absolutely! Even the existence of a puzzle can be a spoiler. I have no idea how far along I am vs others. Also no idea how much is left 🫣
Just last night I found a major clue to a puzzle I’ve known about since the very early game, and now I’m like, was I supposed to solve this ages ago?

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

“Only on day 52” this game is a fractal! I just hit 40.

I’ve been loving it on PS5. Wind up streaming it to my steam deck a fair amount too, since latency doesn’t matter.

Four bottles of fish sauce standing on a kitchen counter — Double Parrot, Red Boat, Thanh Ha and Flying Lion.

It is done. I have tasted TWENTY-NINE fish sauces in multiple stages across two days, and I have some thoughts. Here are my favorites, but for the curious, read on. Three Crabs, Squid and Megachef devotees, hold your fire. All 3 were near misses, and we may not agree, but I will explain... (1/33)

Orion — HDMI Monitor for iPad Orion: use iPad as an external HDMI monitor.

That’s basically what orion.tube is, I don’t think it’s possible without some additional hardware.

The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, with “NO KINGS June 14” on it.

NO KINGS

Literally next in the TL bsky.app/profile/theo...

a colorful painting of a woman with the name bjork on the bottom ALT: a colorful painting of a woman with the name bjork on the bottom

rt if u agree

I thought into the breach nailed the mobile port

Thanks! A tiny tasty of stardom! A coworker pinged me about it too, I still haven’t gotten to the episode!

I wrote a blog post about KVO and #SwiftLang: "The Curious Case of NSObject.observe" https://pretzlav.com/blog/2025/02/16/nsobject-observe/
#iOSDev

Honestly, liberalism fucks so hard. I should not feel this much fire and steel in me for such such abstruse concepts of equality and justice for people I've never even met.

And yet I do. Humanity is my brother, and I will defend my brother.

The federal shut down feels eerily familiar to when Elon & co took over Twitter. They came in, asked no questions, had no idea who did what and it was absolute chaos. That was a social media platform. This is the country. People are going to die because these are incompetent cruel bullies.

My extremely niche hot take today is Meow Wolf's Omega Mart is super cool and impressive and it's fucking awesome to see how #Nonchalance and the #Jejune Institute's influence has continued to reverberate for years. Big big elsewhere public works agency vibes.

"I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue."

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Blippo+

Screenshot of code: extension NSAttributedString.Key { static let userID = NSAttributedString.Key("UserID") } let nsAttributedString = NSAttributedString( string: "Good morning!", attributes: [.userID: "12345", .foregroundColor: UIColor.orange, .link: "http://mastodon.social"]) print(nsAttributedString) /* Prints Good morning!{ NSColor = "UIExtendedSRGBColorSpace 1 0.5 0 1"; NSLink = "http://mastodon.social"; UserID = 12345; } */

More adventures in #iOSDev #SwiftLang AttributedStrings:
It can often be convenient to add custom attributes to NSAttributedStrings, to pass along additional metadata for whatever reason associated with a specific part of a string.

This is straightforward […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

The inside of an open Steam Deck showing all its internal components on a desk next to an iFixit screwdriver set

A photo of the screen of a Steam Deck showing “Internal Drive 1.6 TB FREE OF 1.8 TB”

Screenshot of KDiskMark showing read and write speeds from 2,200 MB/s read and 1,200 MB/s write

Screenshot of KDiskMark showing read and write speeds from 3,500 MB/s read and 3,200 MB/s write

Great Success!

if you want a religion, go get yourself a religion that demands good works and isn’t venture-backed

A picture of an apple 2 computer with a widescreen green screen display sitting on top, displaying a screen from Oregon Trail. The apple 2 is also extremely wide and Ned has pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Widescreen gaming on the
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I read those books as a pretty young kid and they really stayed with me. That and Earthsea kind of inoculated me from the HP universe early on.

a recondite family awaits ... at home depot

Shopping center sign with Nordstrom rack and Michaels signs, and a faded remnant of comp USA

there are cathedrals everywhere, for those with the eyes to see

how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com

the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon!

Like many other transit agencies, Caltrain ridership was stuck at a lower level post-2020.

However, with electrification complete, allowing faster and more frequent trips, ridership has soared and is now approaching 2020 levels 🚋🚋🚋

Ok I think I’m going to try to fix this as an educational exercise. It should be possible??? It will at least teach me more Swift 6.