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Cool, but can it make parallel grooves like HENGE’s Journey to Voltus B? https://www.outofrage.net/post/review-henge-journey-to-voltu...

Yes, though the API of having a write-only value that is a monotonically increasing counter is much simpler than having to think about causality or logical clocks.

Unfortunate that the author doesn’t bring up FoundationDB version stamps, which to me feel like the right solution to the problem. Essentially, you can write a value you can’t read…

Unless Apple comes up with a way to have the crease still physically be there, but visually seem like it isn’t. Perhaps using a waveguide or something similar.

I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to make the gap when u…

Gaudi is among the best engineers and artists who ever lived, and I won’t belabor his greatness. It is cool though that Rhino ( https://www.rhino3d.com/ ) got a shout out in this a…

While this is a common view, recently I’ve begun to wonder if it may be secretly an antipattern. I’ve run into a number of cases over the years where additional fields don’t break …

One thing is the graphics are a generation behind what you would usually expect from a game of this quality. I’ve been playing it and I can confirm it is wonderful, and the graphic…

For the record, I’m not saying this is the perfect model and we should move to it immediately. My only claim is that it isn’t crazy. I think the fundamental difference between adve…

The idea of product discovery has value. Advertising funds product discovery by taking some of the funds that you pay for goods, and funneling that money to platforms and creators …

Then you probably have already heard of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzB9Ks5H939XLuSuVLuPVw He does a bunch of awesome stuff with PVC and 3D printed parts.

I’ve been wrestling with Swift’s region isolation checker recently and had a similar experience.

I’m genuinely surprised it took this long for Apple to do this. Having a full contacts list has long been one of the most valuable pieces of information for ad targeting. It’s why …

If I’m not mistaken, the embedded swift mode aims to make ICU (the 27mb file for Unicode support) optional (and thus easily removed where it isn’t needed)

I ran into this problem a while back working at a company that was working to distribute video streams with low latency (lower than Low-Latency HLS) to a large number of viewers. I…

I have in several capacities over the past few years. VSCode works pretty well with the sswg extension (powered by sourcekit-lsp). Devcontainers are particularly nice if you are in…

One thing I’ve noticed in my career is that it is often quite difficult to distinguish “good” technical infrastructure improvements (meaning ones that will actually help a company …

For the record, borrowed references are only going to be really usable in Swift 6 which isn't released yet. That said, Swift's implementation of borrowing seems significantly more …

It wasn't too bad to switch for me, but the problem is going back and forth. I don't love over-customizing my IDE but I've created my own keybindings for the commands I mis-type mo…

This is spot-on. Though I think the interesting thing here is just demonstrating that you _can_ build this kind of thing at all and a cross-platform-SwiftUI-like framework isn't a …

sourcekit-lsp works really well, VSCode integration is solid[1]. I've been using VSCode+dev-containers+sourcekit-lsp for a couple years now for Linux development on macOS and it ha…

For the record "No macros", is one of the things that is out-of-date. There is some discussion about it in the comments... maybe I'll be forced to actually update it :)

It is a little out of date but a few years back I wrote up a few key differences: https://gist.github.com/GeorgeLyon/c7b07923f7a800674bc9745ae...

Great summary! One addition: Swift WASM support has recently become stable enough to be [included in CI]( https://forums.swift.org/t/stdlib-and-runtime-tests-for-wasm... ). The fol…

Really unique product with a super-strong founding team! I’m not a working with them, but am cheering from the sidelines. One of the founders gives a great talk here: https://m.you…