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  Ever heard about WebScript? It was an interpreted, Mini-#ObjC that came w/ #WebObjects. IIRC using WO w/ WebScript was free, building apps w/ ObjC required the $$$$ expensive license. WebScript even had a "modern syntax" (I think this must be ~1998?) w/o the brackets (but `function doIt() { }` style). https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LegacyTechnologies/WebObjects/WebObjects_3.1/PDF/DEVGUIDE/SCRIPT.PDF

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  Oh nice, another #WOWODC. That is tempting, probably going to join that: https://wowodc.com/ #WebObjects #SOPE #GETobjects ... #SwiftObjects!

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  LLM's feel a little like #CorelDraw to me, if someone remembers that. It felt awesome for a while. Because coming with a ~20000 clipart library it enabled non-designers to produce flyers that felt good-looking. But it didn't take that long until you could easily tell apart those from stuff being done by real designers / people w/ a clue. They just looked too obviously CorelDraw. LLM's are somewhat similar, you get a huge lib of code to cherry pick from. It won't innovate on its o...

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  @ulrichkelber@bonn.social @me_@sueden.social Das Problem ist gar nicht so sehr das reine Volumen, sondern das es sich in 2 Jahren fast verdoppelt hat: https://mastodon.social/@helge/116081892039622108

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  People are wondering how the iPhone foldable would work, API/screen wise. Do you open separate scenes for the screens? With our fancy “declarative UI” framework you could also build things where your 3-part foldable is actually: [Sidebar] | [.              Content              ] | [ Inspector] (to close, you'd put the sidebar/inspector on top of the content and the back becomes the regular combined thing) Kinda like the iDrawerMac, but for reals. Might be less crazy than it sound...

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  Thomas Gottschalk wird auch immer schräger #lanz

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  I don’t know a single app in the current „Apple Design Award winners“ email. But i suppose that’s the idea, get to know new apps by featuring them. Recognizing apps that people actually use is a different thing.

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  You can't make this up, we have *two* RFC'ed standards for JSON calendar data (and address data): - RFC 7265: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7265 (standards people from various companies) - RFC 8984: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8984 (FastMail) It's seems clear that someone just didn't like the format of the other. So now we have two. For the same freaking thing. Yes, I read 1.1, all 4 points seem like utter nonsense to me. Yes calendars are...

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  Since I just walked over it again, on non-Darwin platforms the MainActor does NOT necessarily run on the main thread. I think it's just a regular global actor there that can run on any thread. Actually I wonder how to fix this. Could you do an own MyMain actor w/ an executor that uses the GCD main queue? If so, why doesn't Swift do this in the first place?

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  People often complain about some SwiftUI bugs, lack of feature XYZ and such. But I think they often miss the structurally deep / conceptual issues. Like how many instance methods does `View` have? Something like 500+?

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  @obrhoff@mastodon.social @chbeer@mastodon.social @eugenpirogoff@chaos.social ... in Berlin 🙂

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  @steve@discuss.systems I’ve been wondering for quite a while when we are going to have that. Ie the car proactively disallowing you to go faster than the speed limit rather than just giving you the annoying beep.

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  With iOS 26.4.2 #CarPlay stopped connecting to the car (I can still pair). Anyone else?

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  Apple has given up on the Pro Display XDR. Apparently the large high res display starting at $5000 just didn’t end up being a hit https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/03/apple-discontinues-pro-display-xdr/

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  So what I’m going to do at the workers day? I guess going to work?

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  Those are the kind of markers you get from using AI in your code. They intentionally tag you and will surely come for you if the ship goes down.

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  Mangos rock

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  Shitty day, but that might help a little.

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  Who is going to do supply chain now?

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  @kcase @OmniWeb Back then the sole way to print websites in glorious 400dpi.

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  I don’t know what you do, but I treat myself a mini baguette …

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  @jrose But but, it’s Objective-C w/o the C?! Have we’ve been lied to all the time?