Richard Lewis on Letterman

Weather Up 3.0

Larry David Promoting Siri

‘Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products’

The Talk Show: ‘The Essence of Stealing’

Should Game Porting Toolkit Be Built-In?

Dan Moren (Mastodon): What a difference eight months makes. That’s in no small part due to Whisky, an app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very…

Leap Year Bugs

Deborah Pickett: Kazakhstan, which has not observed daylight saving for 20 years, is turning the clocks back at 0:00 on 1 March 2024, to 23:00 on leap day February 29 2024. Definitely playing time zones on Hard Mode, Kazakhstan. Thanks for doing som…

Time 1.0.0 Swift Package

Dave DeLong: Four years ago I introduced Time 0.9.0. It is appropriate that today, on its first birthday, it finally graduates to 1.0.0![…]All “fixed values” keep track of their calendar, locale, and time zone, enabling you to easily work with calen…

How the Swift Compiler Knows That DispatchQueue.main Implies @MainActor

Ole Begemann (Mastodon): A bit of experimentation reveals that it is in fact a relatively coarse source-code-based check that singles out invocations on DispatchQueue.main, in exactly that spelling. […] Fun fact: since this is a purely syntax-based …

Where View.task Gets Its Main-actor Isolation From

Ole Begemann: SwiftUI’s .task modifier inherits its actor context from the surrounding function. If you call .task inside a view’s body property, the async operation will run on the main actor because View.body is (semi-secretly) annotated with @Mai…

Larry David Promoting Siri

Larry David Promoting Siri

Humane, Nearing Launch of Ai Pin, Is Gathering Steam

FineWoven iPhone Cases and Watch Bands

Stephen Robles: Hands-on with Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone 15 Pro Max case in Taupe and Cypress Green Silicone Case! Apple’s announced at the Wonderlust event that it will no longer make any leather products, with FineWoven replacing the higher end …

Why Quora Isn’t Useful Anymore

Nitish Pahwa (via Hacker News): Today’s Quora, however, hardly meshes with those utopian aims. The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, a…

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Samantha Cole (tweet, Slashdot): Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. […] The internal doc…

Sony Is Laying Off 900 PlayStation Employees, 8 Percent of Workforce

Richard Lewis Dies of Heart Attack at 76

Are Customers Returning Vision Pros in High Numbers? Seemingly Not.

★ Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases

Apple’s not going back to leather, but they need a better-than-leather replacement, and FineWoven 1.0 isn’t it.

★ Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases

Apple’s not going back to leather, but they need a better-than-leather replacement, and FineWoven 1.0 isn’t it.