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whoopsie··on Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious
Ah this is why CarPlay isn’t worth adding, right?
whoopsie··on Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store
What if testing for launch is higher volume than post launch downloads?
whoopsie··on Could Cruise Be the Theranos of AI?
Call centers barely handle simple requests. Why do I want a foreign driver handling my life and a $70k chunk of metal that I insure?
whoopsie··on Kotlin multiplatform is stable and production-ready
Object lifetime semantics differ, forcing devs to think about non-native considerations on both Android and iOS. For a lot of CRUD apps the savings is minimal for networking / logic layers.
whoopsie··on How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console
It’s a major improvement. And faster. Structured logging is great. But Optional<String>.none as “” is news and shocking to me.
whoopsie··on Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning
Useless as car salesmen. Hire an engineer or lawyer to protect your rights. Do you really need a 6% consultant? No, you very likely don’t.
whoopsie··on Costco Capitalism
Great products, by shopping there is a nightmare. Wade through clogged aisles of people abandoning carts in the middle of others way. Wait to checkout or do the labor for them, but with scrutinized ID verification. Squeeze past the hot dog people to wait again to get a highlighter on your receipt. Ah, finally, back to the parking lot of new drivers.
whoopsie··on Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
Taxing primary homes is regressive and counterproductive. Tax empty lots and commercial / industrial zones to encourage better uses. Tax personal income, not property.
whoopsie··on Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
ADO is the death knell to collaborative modern teams. Who the f wants to waste their day with that UX and feature set?
whoopsie··on Breakelse: When Compiler Developers Get Bored
In Swift this is more sanely and maintainably handled without a breakelse anonymous goto ``` do { try thowingMethod() } catch { // interrogate error } ```
whoopsie··on Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%
Tell this to Big Candle
whoopsie··on NSA publishes ten most common misconfigurations in networks
We don’t look at porn on our network so I believe he will be pleased and grant us protection.
whoopsie··on I'm Loud Quitting My Job Due to RTO Policy, Bad Company Culture
Thanks. There should be a legal accreditation setup so anyone who worked on that’s site’s advertising is life banned from participating in VR or any new medium.
whoopsie··on Costco aims for a low ~17% margin on most of their products
Briefly worked in their It dept and was told it was 8% except on alcohol. Buyers who got great deals were bound to a max percent margin, even if it meant a ridiculous price.
whoopsie··on Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
Spot on for Washington state real estate market. Pre early and post pandemic.
whoopsie··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
Ah, the older you get the more you lament the youngin’s aren’t what they used to be in the good ol’ days.
whoopsie··on How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Yep. My fintech serves people with bad financial history. If you’re my customer, your credit score is low and you’ve got an active loan. Simply being my customer is PII. We should be guarding IP addresses as PII.
whoopsie··on Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Apps
No no no. Just look at the janky stuff one needs to do to compile Kotlin for an iOS project. Plus, object lifetime semantics differ. Now you won’t be able to write Kotlin native code without thinking of iOS rules. So now you have the worst of unfamiliar worlds with a “most fast” product speed.
whoopsie··on Most UI applications are broken real-time applications
What’s a printer? Does it make cheap iPads?
whoopsie··on Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power
So true. I feel sorry for my Android colleagues. There’s a reason our iOS team ships much faster and has a far lower crash rate.
whoopsie··on Nonograms - Japanese Crosswords
The top puzzles are penises.
whoopsie··on Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics
It’s such a hilarious misdirection, that mentality. Finding ways for every employee to work less is the definition of efficiency and profit.
whoopsie··on How mobile apps illegally share personal data
If an IP is PII (it is for my regulated app in many jurisdictions), perhaps every app is at risk as SDKs generally phone home without being first routed through a server of ours.
whoopsie··on Slack’s jarring new design – can you go back to the old one?
What’s read and unread? The unread counts don’t seem to update for me without quite some delay or a tab change. Confusing.
whoopsie··on UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
A little dramatic. Put it in list mode and you’re good. Or drag the folder you want into the window.
whoopsie··on Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
lol on measuring interruptions. You’ll never capture why I lose 2 hours per day 3 days a week and if you do you’ll kill off collaboration
whoopsie··on Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Worked on this. Contrast does change non linearly. You can apply simulations quite easily. The Machado at al simulations are just a matrix transform.
whoopsie··on Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Personally worked with oklab and several other LAB spaces. Oklab is fantastic for cutting into simple computations!
whoopsie··on Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
It’s a little sad the most widely used algorithms/guidance for contrast accessibility do not have peer reviewed evidence behind them. This goes for 2.1 and the upcoming standard. For something so impactful, I wish the industry help sponsor rigor here.
whoopsie··on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
Meanwhile, my startup is profitable, hiring, and permanently 100% remote across 7 countries. Hiring is easy.
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