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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-27 at 17:53

Sorry — can’t work today. Slack is showing an unread count of 1 on its Dock icon badge, but there are no unread messages or activity of any kind. I’ve searched through everything and refreshed multiple times.

Till this clears up I’ll just be spinning in my chair.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-24 at 00:34

I strongly dislike UI that requires tap-and-hold.

I don’t like that it’s so slow compared to other interactions — it’s more about waiting than just tapping and holding, and I just don’t have any patience when using my phone.

And there’s the weird mental brace-for-impact during the wait — waiting for the menu and haptics and whatever that will happen not immediately on tap but at some unpredictable time later, as my brain anticipates it on a loop until it finally happens.

Just me?

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-07 at 22:23

The good news is that we can continue to use Slack for free, and we will. We will lose older messages forever, yes, but I don’t care about that.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-07 at 21:45

I was curious how much I’d have to pay to upgrade to Slack Pro for the NetNewsWire group — and it’s obviously more than the revenue from my free app can sustain. :)

Note that the lower price is just for three months, and then it would go up to the full price. And let’s not even talk about adding AI! (Seriously — let’s not.)

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-07 at 18:34

Engineers — new rule — pay attention: whenever you hear or read the word learnings, as said or written by someone in your company, you have to take the rest of the day off.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-03 at 01:42

Seattle Xcoders venue change for tonight!

Bale Breaker (normal place) is closed this week, so folks are going to Reuben’s (5010 14th Ave NW).

(I’m personally missing it tonight, for secret reasons, but I do hear about other folks going.)

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2025-01-01 at 22:53

Muting everybody who looks back at 2024.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-18 at 23:18

This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew!

I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. 🐥

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-06 at 21:53

I get that “stop doing Combine!” sounds like an old guy thing to say — but I’m in on Swift structured concurrency and SwiftUI.

My argument is the opposite of curmudgeonly — Combine is not the future, and we want to use future things.

But I get that Combine tastes like honey and sparkles.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-06 at 21:47

I keep telling the younger developers “stop doing Combine!” and… they keep doing Combine.

To be fair, though — and I mean this sincerely — they’re all smarter than me. :)

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-05 at 17:44

The worst time of the year at my job, and maybe at yours, too, is feedback-writing time.

What if we skipped it — what if we saved the time all this browser-work takes — and just gave everybody a raise?

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-03 at 02:45

For Apple employees who are fans of fixing crash bugs I submit FB 16026524 — presenting a .fullScreen view controller when running a tab bar app as iOS-app-on-Mac (not Catalyst) crashes. Super simple test project included.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-12-01 at 02:18

Muting everyone who uses the word gifting.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-27 at 21:08

Experience tells me these are rainbow conditions.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-27 at 21:01

Seattle. Raining on a brilliantly sunny day. Steam’s coming off the roof of the moss-covered garage and of the house two doors down.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-21 at 17:26

It’s Seattle Xcoders night! Standard place and time — 7 pm at Bale Breaker in Ballard. We’re usually outside by the fire things.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-10 at 21:28

Featherweight sewing machine receipt from 1951 (with names blocked out, just in case).

It looks like it was paid for on installment plan, hence all the extra bits of info. Note that the second field, right after Full Name, is Color.

And this was in New York city, relatively — emphasis on relatively — advanced at the time.

Noted just in case anyone says it will be okay to go back to how it was in the ’50s.

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-10 at 10:11

Featherweight detail

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-10 at 10:08

Featherweight

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Written by Brent Simmons on 2024-11-10 at 05:42

Map of Oz

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