Toots for matthew@mastodon.me.uk account

Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-02-03 at 22:02

Randomly remembered a joke that I’d hear skydiving instructors say to their students, during the climb to altitude:

“First time?”

“Yeah”

“Me too!”

Some instructors would say it every time. It always made me laugh.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-31 at 19:28

There are few things more depressing than being forced into a job-search, especially when you’re really happy where you are.

Fuck’s sake, I don’t need this.

[#]iOSDev

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-24 at 18:28

[#]iOSDev … I need so make a UI for choosing “time of day” and don’t like any of the options.

Entering numbers via the keyboard is a bit clunky.

Selecting from a list of options is restrictive.

Draggable interactive views aren’t particularly accessible.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-23 at 07:46

I know I’m very late to the party, but started watching Gavin & Stacey this week.

It’s very good. You all knew that already.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-21 at 20:59

Interview with Jeff King (of York City FC):

Jeff, you came on in the 91st minute…

Yeah

And you got a yellow card and a straight red?

Yeah, I wanted to make an impression…

[#]YCFC

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-19 at 18:40

This weekend’s hackery was changing my Swift lambdas so they can call Apple’s AppStore API.

There are good things coming in @NearlyDeparted in 2025.

I’m sure my 200 regular users will be delighted!

[#]iOSDev

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-17 at 08:33

I signed up for a beginners Chinese Mandarin course, because I need something to stretch my brain which doesn’t involve staring at a computer.

It starts next Tuesday. I am slightly terrified.

[#]HSK #HSK1

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-13 at 12:12

I’m not anti-AI… just disappointed that this is being sold as a massive thing, like the invention of the plough, steam engines, the Jacquard loom, or even the e-commerce revolution in the 1990’s.

It’s an evolution in IT, not a revolution.

We’re also gonna learn some hard lessons on what it’s not good for - like when we decided to put radium in toothpaste.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-13 at 11:33

I’m not surprised by our government’s idiotic embracing of AI being our saviour.

They’re desperate for something magical, and here’s a convenient magical thing.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-11 at 09:28

I’ve never used Facebook or Instagram or Threads, but today I deleted my WhatsApp account.

Screw ‘em.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2025-01-08 at 21:43

I’m sure you would be a wonderful hire, but if you don’t say where you’re located, or where you’re willing to work… or, at the very least, an approximate timezone… I won’t be boosting your #FediHire post.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-30 at 22:38

Spent the week updating my #Swift #lambdas (for @NearlyDeparted) to Swift 6, and migrated the final two Ruby lambda to Swift.

Thank-you to @sebsto & friends for all your hard work on Swift lambda and the #AWS runtime libraries.

I can now build a single lambda natively, instead of needing to build all 15 in Docker (yay!), but have lost the ability to build for Arm.

Next job: try building on a raspberry pi, as it’s cheaper than buying a new Apple-silicon Mac.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-26 at 12:38

The login experience for PayPal is trash.

Enter username, then passkey, then TOTP code.

Is this why consumers aren’t getting excited about passkeys?

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-25 at 15:58

Yikes, that last post blew up!

I think it’s been favourited by the whole trans fediverse, and I love you all.

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-24 at 23:13

Today I learned that Blåhaj are difficult to gift-wrap.

[#]blahaj

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-24 at 11:57

Apple: AppStore reviews may take longer over the festive period

Also Apple: We’ve approved your app in 40 minutes

Not complaining! #iOSDev

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Written by Matthew Flint on 2024-12-21 at 17:35

I’ve always joked that regexes are “write-only” code, meaning that they’re difficult to read later… but I find them easier to read than the Swift Regex Builder DSL.

I’ll still use Regex Builder, because it’s more typesafe, but… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[#]iOSDev

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