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Would also love any other recentish articles about hiring macOS developers if anyone’s got em.

I’m very bearish on native macOS after the most stereotypical “worse is better” experience in the late 2010s working on a macOS (now electron) product, but am increasingly reconsidering.

It’s too early to say and I’m too cynical to anyways, but it’s starting to feel like the release of the M1s really has injected a bit of life and taste back into the scene.

SwiftUI is a mobile focused framework still being adapted to macOS, I think it’s just gotten tables this year? And even the best Catalyst app in the world (craft.do) will sit somewhere in between Electron and uncanny valley at times when it comes to things as simple as a button.

I would highly recommend using AppKit if the app is even slightly nontrivial and fit and finish is a goal.

If it’s a simple app and you’re ok with visual hitches and oddities but would like a native macOS “skin”, SwiftUI.

If fit and finish isn’t important, just use Electron.

Bird is claiming he consumed a large amount of cognac the night before with no BAC test, and cannabis was found in his urine with no possibility of dating ingestion.

The article isn’t paywalled, you can literally just read this in there BTW.

Hate speech isn’t equally as harmful, but does apply equally to non minority groups.

“Often”, “might”, “hopefully”, “wishful” is a bit too academic for free speech discussions in the US, I’m afraid.

I was led to a oddly human travel show and watched it go from a few thousand to millions of subscribers over the past couple years, they were recently on the Ukrainian / Russian border the day before the invasion talking to locals and ended up leaving on a refugee train in 1080p60, 3+ million views.

Questionable character I don’t want to promote and some of the episodes I don’t want to be associated with, but that’s tvesque isn’t it?

Repeat for true crime, history, cooking, children, educational, political commentary, informercials…

It’s literally senseless in comparison, lossy digitalization of basic analog humanity ie dystopian

Riding a peak in a self admitted niche market all the way down and then recommending it to others as you yourself exit your career isn’t evidence, it’s irresponsible.

The simple fact you had a book on Cocoa programming written in the past decade (and official programming guides, offline/online discussion groups, WWDCs with more than a handful of events) should tell you something about the relative difference in the market since then.

You will be spending inordinate amounts of time in the Documentation Archive reading still applicable (and well written) docs, on S/O reading the ~3 threads that relate to your issue, blog posts from ~2010 and a whole lot of time searching specific APIs w/ GH code search to see how a repo from 2014 used it. And you’ll be alone in time and space if you’re not at a co while doing it.

Web developers are far more common, far cheaper, and far better supported by the ecosystem, you can literally just plug and play them entirely unlike eg iOS developers -> AppKit.

If this is a personal thing, have fun it’s very rewarding. If this is business/career, either learn Mandarin or turn around now, there is no hope or future here.

There are more people over the age of 65 in China than the total population of the UK and France combined.

It takes 20 years to make a 20 year old consumer while the rest of the population ages 20 years.

Seems a bit optimistic and wishy washy to say the least.

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d...

If China can be more self-sufficient in staple foods, it would be a contribution to the world's food security too,” said Zhang. “The less China imports, the more other countries will have.

“Chinese food security is world food security” is a thing, absolutely rampaging across markets over the past few years.

Along with diversifying fertilizer production outside geopolitically active areas (including China), an increasingly food secure China would be a simply absurd boon to world food security as we enter an era of less than stable supply chains.

“Anarchy is what states make of it” is a great search phrase to pull on this thread with to say the least.

US refineries have replaced sanctioned Venezuelan oil with a Russian type bumping them up to a very respectable 10% of oil imports.

The US is also responsible for its own security, not the other way around.

Instead Go was selected, templating HTML by hand, and assumedly doing nearly everything else by hand well. That is not the optimal solution for a simple CRUD app’s implementation, and isn’t reflective of anything but poor engineering.

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I get it’s a book review of a “first pass” book but this is well trodden ground by techpol standards polished up for laymen with a “don’t plunder the global south!” wishy washy socialist bent.

For eg “how do we do content moderation then” it’s literally just: maybe a civil service will share content moderation software!

Xbox cloud feels like something from 2009 in comparison, ~720p/1080 max, long queues. Blurry, cloudy, artifacty rendering (and millions more users).

And yet, since finishing cyberpunk I barely touch Stadia. I can’t justify paying another discount, let alone full price and there’s 0 selection aside from Destiny 2 (which also looks and feels magnificent).

It’s like if Netflix had no catalog, didn’t invest in its own production, and ended up white labeling it’s shit out to the Hulus and Paramounts of the world. It’s all about the content.