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"A big steaming pile of management work" might be a more apt description... ;-)

Former manager here - you'd be very surprised at how much effort it takes to act as a human shield for your developers to keep the interruptions to a minimum and keep their roadmap…

Don't forget sales/marketing overpromisers and nosy executives who get in the developers' hair.

In a perfect world you would be right, but spend some time with a bunch of clueless executives who don't know how clueless they are (or are trying to pretend they do have a clue) a…

Not necessarily. macOS and iOS have multiple accommodations for users with accessibility needs, from dynamic type to UI element voiceover plus pretty decent speech-to-text recognit…

This line of argument sounds like a petition-gatherer trying to get signatures for a niche local issue and getting frustrated that they can't get enough people to see things their …

"I'm spread too thin" isn't an actual lie as much as it's a reframing. Working with difficult people can take a lot of mental energy, which ought to be considered part of the work …

This reads like an amateur with a grudge.

Was this a Seagate drive?

"Technologies like objective C, C sharp, Azure or swift are designed so you can not escape the company platform. So easy to get in, so hard to move your code to other platforms onc…

You do not have a "duty to your job". Employers love it when they can get their workers to think that way because it raises the threshold amount they can overwork and over-stress y…

It helps a lot to think your management knows what it's doing. If you're stressing out on the latest likely "swing and a miss" feature that you think they picked using a dart board…

"Samsung Branded iPhones"? This can't possibly be a thing.

One can certainly hope.

How can this possibly go wrong?

Pretty sure you're wrong. If you drive, the commute can be a stressful waste of time.

I think you're right, and I think it will motivate those of us who want to work remotely to quit and find companies that have that as their culture and let the "back to the office"…

Already you sound adversarial, like this is a battle of work cultures and you want your side to win. You say things like "return to work", as if the people who are working from hom…

FWIW, the styling system mainly talks to the parameterized native components that the build system pulls down from GitHub. You can do the same kind of thing in SwiftUI using View M…

You make it sound like users are switching among Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS all the time so the app UI has to have the lowest common denominator. By and large they're n…

It's kind of odd that you mention Apple as a company that has "ditched standards", considering it's got very public, detailed design standards and has had them for a very long time…

> (Actually, the ad industry ate software.) If Google follows Apple's lead (summarized in https://wwdcbysundell.com/2021/security-and-privacy-at-wwdc2... ) then software may become…

"Smart Approaches to Marijuana". Right. Prohibition failed when it was tried with alcohol; it's been failing with cannabis for decades and decades but these modern-day bluenoses do…

This. If you're willing to routinely go "above and beyond" your normal work hours, then in management's mind that "above and beyond" will become your normal work hours and it will …

You might not have seen this: https://developer.apple.com/swift-playgrounds/ It's pretty nice to be able to build entire Swift playgrounds on your iPad, then share them with your M…