Shout out to all the dads falling asleep on the couch after exactly one (1) beer

Code reviewing was never the most interesting thing to do. But it had one important element. That, if done right, it was knowledge exchange between the reviewer and the coder. That can be quite motivating. Helping a fellow coder to become better. Reviewing "AI" written code does NOT come with that potential reward. The machine doesn't learn the way a human does. This turns code review into a menial, fruitless task that leads to frustration instead. That's my observation and opinion.

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@abc_bot

RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116860083462778847

She’s going to wear a giant platypus costume

Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today

Penguins????

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116804231107672025

Neil for PM

Me, driving in the country side: Wow! Look at that fat horse!
My wife: That’s a cow.

I haven’t had nearly enough stout this year

Puffy cocky

RE: https://mastodon.social/@airspeedswift/116716470741905934

Interested in learning more about how we're using Swift at lower levels? @numist writes about his work on the #swift rewrite of the TrueType interpreter on the swift.org blog:

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

Fondly remembering the time we were in school and the teacher was talking about food named after famous people and a guy put up his hand and said a kind of ice cream is named after a French emperor

Another on my list of small niceties in macOS 27 beta: we have decoupled Show Borders from Increase Contrast for apps using the new design. This is great for people who just want a little more edge definition on UI elements, but don't want to jump all the way to the weighty color changes of Increase Contrast.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116719403897699957

I love how curl tracks how many CVEs are “C mistakes”

In Xcode 27 @State changes from a property wrapper to a macro, gaining lazy evaluation of the initial value. I summarized what this means for managing @Observable classes in our SwiftUI views: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/InitializingObservableClassesWithTheStateMacroInXcode27/
#WWDC26 #SwiftUI #iOSDev

I'd prefer to scrunch my iPhone

They should make a foldable Mac

What is new in Swift was solid.

A bouquet of great incremental improvements, quality of life enhancers and targeting new platforms and form factors.

Specially excited about the tools to help developers tune their libraries for the embeddable profile which before was just too painful to practically consider.

Met someone else today…