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benpious.bsky.social
iOS engineer at Uber. Swift language Crime enthusiast.
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Big crypto vibes from the recent narrative that if you don’t “keep up with AI tools” you’ll be “left behind.”

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If you make an ABI, but don’t document it, do you actually have an ABI? Asking for a friend who is a multi billion dollar company

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

eekum bokum

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I for one will be spelling this `[Int twitter 5]` forums.swift.org/t/pitch-inli...

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John Developer (fictional) forums.swift.org/t/pitch-prop...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite swift language bug: stored properties whose storage takes up zero bytes have the same hash and are equal to other adjacent properties

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing, the swift forums really needs a policy requiring that any use of AI to generate pitches be disclosed

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I broke withTaskExecutorPreference forums.swift.org/t/equivalent...

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Seems like @ MainActor in Swift does different stuff at runtime than using an `isolated` parameter for a function called on MainActor. On a related note, testing unstructured concurrency is really hard

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

If Atlassian can afford an F1 title sponsorship they can afford to make updating a jira ticket faster than an F1 pitstop (2-3 seconds)

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Until the last homeless person in San Francisco is either housed or institutionalized, as appropriate, I don’t want to hear about a single California public servant’s podcast. I especially don’t want to hear their opinions about sports

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Body macros 🤝 typed throws crashing the compiler

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The funniest thing about the Zelensky half zip scandal is how shabbily Trump and a lot of the other conservative figures who are upset dress. Yet another of these “every accusation is a confession” things; clearly none of them enjoy the performance of wearing off the rack brioni suits or whatever

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Imo ukraine has given America the best deal since the Louisiana purchase: we spent trillions of dollars on defense specifically to counter Russia over the past fifty or so years, and they’re grinding the Russian army into powder for a measly hundred billion or so.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

list of things that have SEs approved, have not shipped, that i really need: - static member key paths - accessor macro on lets - body macro on computed vars - abi annotation (for crimes)

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Tired: update xcode, your UI snapshots have all failed Wired: update swift syntax, your macro unit tests have all failed

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

some people make Type Systems, i make Type Sins

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being Microsoft, spending billions on AI, and not bringing back clippy

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

do we really need ethics experts for this though come on we’ve seen this movie before and it ends with the entire country cutting up curtains to make masks while the dipshit capers on tv asking if drinking bleach will help

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

My WWDC prediction: apple will announce a core data replacement which leverages the new macro system to rewrite predicates as SQL queries, and the type wrapper annotation to duplicate existing core data behaviors.

submitted 737 days ago • 2 comments