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development

Pirate Engineering

If you're a pirate don't fight like you are in the navy.

development

Tech Philosophy: Svelte

Rich Harris talks and writes about 'the Svelte philosophy — our bedrock principles, that guide our design decisions.'

toread

Indie Spotlight: Good Enough

Links to the Good Enough LLC.

development

Links: Performance Art

How you do the thing, changes the thing you do.

thought

Build & SHOW Your Weird Idea

Not sharing the weird thing might be a real act of selfishness.

thought

Just Write. Just Publish

Publish more content.

links

Interesting Links

Interesting Links found in my tabs

swift

Dreaming of Ada Subtypes in Swift

Wishing Swift had Ada's subtype feature, and looking at what I can use in Swift instead to get a similar outcome.

development

Field Notes: OSLogger and Unit Tests

Xcode 15.0.1, OSLog and unit tests

development

SwiftUI: Sheets and Bindings

SwiftUI's `sheet(item:onDismiss:content:)` seems like the perfect way to display an editor view in a sheet presentation. I ran into some issues using this method, and eventually found a nice solution.

TIL: Swift Global Vars are Functions

I was trying to construct a SwiftUI Preview of a view using: WeekTasks(weeksData: demoWeeksData) `demoWeeksData` was defined as a global variable: var demoWeeksData: [WeekData] = [ WeekData(title: "Walk / Steps", emoji: "🚶‍♂️", week: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1]), ] But the Swift compiler said No. It turns

design

Vaporwave and Aesthetics

Vaporwave is an art movement, born in the early 2010s, that often toys with feelings of nostalgia, dream states, decay, the mundane, longing for pasts that never existed, and for futures that will never arrive. It is sometimes viewed as a meme, sometimes doused in irony, and sometimes interpreted as

development

GOAL - Lisp used in AAA Game Development

Links related to the Lisp used by Naughty Dog in some of their games,

mac

mac:Quick Note opening on Wrong Desktop

Have you tried turning it on and off again?

links

Links

Interesting stuff found on the web

readToday

Read Today

AI

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AI

How Stable Diffusion Draws

Using Stable Diffusion on Mac to see how an image is generated.

development

Stable Diffusion on Mac

AI

War Against The Machines: Art

Glaze protects art from prying AIsAn academic research project has launched a free ‘cloaking’ tool for visual artists to protect online artworks against style-ripping generative AI models.TechCrunchNatasha Lomas💡The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists to produce original art vs the speed generative AI models can

design

UI Annoyance: No aggregate operation support

Here is a familiar kind of UI: A collection of objects (images in this case). It's possible to put the images under different categories (eg: 'Favorites'). I think a pretty typical operation would be to want to categorise multiple images. Right now, in this app (DALL-E)

bookmark

Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

Ask HN: What’s the best lecture series you’ve seen? | Hacker NewsHacker News

metaverse

30 Years of Snow Crash

"Snow Crash" isn't my favourite Neal Stephenson book - that's the phenomenal "The Diamond Age" - but it's definitely an influential one for me. Neal Stephenson has done an AMA on Reddit: I am Neal Stephenson, sci-fi author, geek, and

google

Service Weaver

Introducing Service Weaver: A new open source framework for writing backend applications. And the dope part, Service Weaver allows you to write applications as a modular monolith, and deploy it as a set of microservices using custom deployers. 🤯https://t.co/i9WONShpGl pic.twitter.com/RW9x7szbcW — Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) March

blockchain

ChainLink Bootcamp

I attended the ChainLink Bootcamp in London today. A great intro to smart contract development. Thanks to ChainLink for the free Bootcamp!