It’s already been well over a year since I looked at Facebook or Instagram, and at the beginning of the month I stopped looking at Twitter. After two weeks, I checked back in and nope, I hadn’t missed anything amazing, but I sure had missed out on a bunch of anxiety and whatever we’re callingContinue reading “So, I’m Out”
Author Archives: pirateguillermo
Serializing SwiftUI Color
There are plenty of resources out there that will tell you how to make SwiftUI’s Color conform to the Codable protocol. They all boil down to creating a UIColor (when you’re running on iOS) or NSColor (when you’re running on macOS) and then grabbing the color components from there, because SwiftUI is helpful by notContinue reading “Serializing SwiftUI Color”
Do They Even Use These?
So, the new 16″ MacBook Pro has a notch. The choice is always there. You could, of course, not include a camera at the top of the screen. Nowadays that’s pretty much a non-starter, what with video conferencing being the way so much happens. So then, if you put a camera up there, do youContinue reading “Do They Even Use These?”
Three Dots at the Mall
I get that wearing your N95 mask under your chin keeps your neckbeard from getting COVID but what’s the deal with the women doing it? … I am sure your dog is awesome and I’d love to hang out but not inside the restaurant …
What If Tulips, But…
In the early 90s, you could patent anything if you took an existing product and appended, “…but on a computer.” By the late 90s, you could sell anything to the public at large, claiming that it was a disruptive business that would change the way every human on the planet did the thing they’ve beenContinue reading “What If Tulips, But…”
Sturgeon’s Law
My Audible subscription just renewed and I got all enthusiastic. Back when Netflix was DVD only, we had a, “go ahead and try it,” policy: stick whatever recommendations in the queue, and when they showed up, pop ’em in and hit play. If the movie wasn’t compelling after the first 15 minutes, we’d put itContinue reading “Sturgeon’s Law”
Daily News
Once upon a time, before the death of irony (what do you think, did irony really die in 2001? I feel like it’s sort of still around) there was a link soup column called, “Suck.” The format was a short essay written in a glib, cynical voice (I just typoed that as, “void,” and that’sContinue reading “Daily News”
Put a Bird on It
I have been nerdsniped by the dratted Russian hackers. Those darned “hackers”, causing trouble and getting people all excited about security. So now I’ve got to deal with thoughts and suggestions in my peripheral awareness, and remind myself that I’ve already done the work of threat modeling and risk analysis for my data and forContinue reading “Put a Bird on It”
Open Letter to the FSF
I have been professionally active in software development for 27 years and I have used and even contributed to Free Software. While Richard Stallman has played a critical role in the development of Free Software, he has also contributed to a toxic atmosphere of male entitlement – a sense that rules only apply to otherContinue reading “Open Letter to the FSF”
App Clip
So, when I saw the bit about App Clips at WWDC last year, I wasn’t terribly excited. After all, QR codes have been around for ages; the fact that Apple ignored them until they could figure out a proprietary version struck me as par for the course. Even the example use case they gave (stillContinue reading “App Clip”