Kyle @ikyle@mastodon.technology

#introductions I'm Kyle. 👋

iOS developer 📱 (now Android too actually, by accident; long story).
Started programming making simple games for iOS, then iOS jailbreak tweaks, then making apps as my job.

Love tech, programming, sci-fi, StarTrek (TNG 👍), Marvel, etc...
Also love Snowboarding and parkour.

I've been on Twitter for years (90k posts, mostly retweets). Was on mastodon.social but have moved here now.

Muse: designing a studio for ideas https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html

IT runs on Java 8 · Vicki Boykis https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/

Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/

"While regular practice might include mindless repetitions, deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance."

The Beginner's Guide to Deliberate Practice | James Clear https://jamesclear.com/beginners-guide-deliberate-practice

My Mac is awesome, so why worry? - Jack Baty's Weblog https://www.baty.blog/2019/my-mac-is-awesome-so-why-worry

Generating PDF Content https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/2DDrawing/Conceptual/DrawingPrintingiOS/GeneratingPDF/GeneratingPDF.html

Unpopular opinion: I actually miss Manual Reference Counting in Objective C.

This isn't just nostalgia, I actually disabled ARC for the first year or two in my projects.

You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-getting-enough-sleep-and-its-killing-you/

Bret Victor - Showreel 2011-2012 on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/62049081

"Video games are perhaps our culture's deepest interactive systems, so it shouldn't be surprising that game developers have been building these tools into their games for a long time. On-screen metrics and diagnostics are the norm, and live adjustment of parameters is not uncommon."

Bret Victor, beast of burden http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

"Perhaps someday this will change. Perhaps IDE makers will focus on dynamic exploration instead of static analysis, rich visualization instead of line debugging. Perhaps language theorists will stop messing around with arrows and dependent types, and start inventing languages suitable for interactive development and discovery."

Bret Victor, beast of burden http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable"
https://www.mgasch.com/post/crash/

Periodic reminder that the original Twitter for iPad was one of the best iPad app UIs ever released.

Thoughts On Twitter for iPad: This Changes Everything – MacStories https://www.macstories.net/ipad/twitter-for-ipad-review/

AMP pages will now show original URL in Chrome's address bar https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/16/amp-pages-will-now-show-original-url-in-chromes-address-bar/

At this point Google is just being recklessly irresponsible messing around with the web.

Better playgrounds that work both for Objective-C and Swift - krzysztofzablocki/Playgrounds https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Playgrounds

"Developers are lazy creatures, we like to automate stuff, we write scripts, use File Automation to get rid of repetitive work.

One would think that we’d use the same principles in our jobs, yet I’m constantly surprised how few developers actually invest their time into building tools and setting up processes inside their app to ease their day to day work."

Investing time into developer tools http://merowing.info/2016/08/investing-time-into-developer-tools/

johnno1962/injectionforxcode: Runtime Code Injection for Objective-C & Swift https://github.com/johnno1962/injectionforxcode

Krzysztof Zabłocki - How hard would it be to adjust your iOS app in real-time? http://merowing.info/2017/01/how-hard-would-it-be-to-adjust-your-ios-app-in-real-time/