Tech
The YouTube app on Apple TV is so frustrating to use. When opening a link from another app — such as the awesome Play — it will present the user profile selection screen first and then will lose context and present YouTube home screen. And ads seem much longer than on the browser. An alternative such as Juno on the Vision Pro that I read about would be awesome. 💻
Clicking “Trust & Enable” for every macro every time Xcode updates to latest package versions sucks. 💻
I wrote a Swift script to find iOS simulators identifiers. What I did over time explained here: bootstragram.com/blog/find… 💻
Got reminded of this awesome joke today.
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
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Un membre de ma famille m’a demandé d’inspecter un email annonçant une lettre recommandée électronique venant de AR24 pour savoir si c’était un message légitime ou un scam. Après 10 minutes d’investigation, il s’avère que c’est légitime mais c’est comme si La Poste, Docaposte et AR24 faisaient tout pour avoir l’air que ce soit l’œuvre de pirates. 🤦♂️💻
I am not a big fan of the latest iterations of Craft: global search results are harder to read, calendar/journal entries are harder to navigate in, and overall new features seem to focus on parts I have no interests in, rather than approaching Finished Software.
Notion and Obsidian might get back on the table pretty soon. 💻
This Chores 2.0 demo fake app is obviously hilarious and could be life-changing. But my point about the Apple Vision Pro being still holds. 💻
How much the Apple Vision Pro costs… environmentally
The carbon footprint of an Apple Vision Pro amounts to 335kg of greenhouse gas emissions, slightly higher than the 300kg emitted by the 16-inch MacBook Pro I currently use. This represents approximately 15% of a yearly emissions budget of 2 tons, or about 3% when depreciated over a 5-year period.
As a programmer specializing in Apple technologies, I am naturally curious about the Apple Vision Pro. However, I have decided against purchasing one, not primarily due to financial constraints, but because I believe its environmental impact exceeds what is justifiable for a product that remains largely nonessential.
For numerous reasons, I hope the Apple Vision Pro fails to gain traction. However, it seems unlikely. Therefore, I urge you to consider its environmental cost as seriously as its monetary expense before making a purchasing decision. Please aim to offset emissions elsewhere, just as you would seek to save money in other areas if you choose to acquire one.
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I gave swift-openapi-generator a try to interact with Apple’s own App Store Connect API. The result was… unconvincing.
1️⃣ Compile time of my CLI reached 19 minutes:
[671/671] Linking mobile-cli
Build complete! (1137.97s)
2️⃣ The size of the CLI was 348M.
3️⃣ The command I wrote crashed because the API returned values that were not included in the OpenAPI spec.
Not a great 1st experience. 💻
Jekyll still has a pulse. Should I reconsider moving on? Probably not. Since Ruby is not as needed for iOS development as it used to (CocoaPods being replaced by SPM, fastlane being replaced by Xcode Cloud), it became my 3rd language. Soon to be 4th if I hold on to my resolution to learn Rust this year. I also found out about Astro, which is a good mix between Jekyll and going full on Remix. 💻