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Swift going open-source today is for sure exciting news, but we need to temper our expectations for what that means for the language. For sure it’s better to see an open-source Swift than a closed-source one, but merely being open-source isn’t a panacea for Swift. Lest you think I’m just being a pessimist, Objective-C is…

As I walked out out of the conference hall after DHH’s RailsConf keynote this morning, I felt this vibe that people are regarding him as out of touch with reality. Indeed, DHH did give off this sort of church sermon-like tone in his keynote, railing (pun sort of intended) against microservices and JS frameworks. For…

There are a ton of Bluetooth headphone options out there, but for some reason none of them work that well for me. Most are earbud-style and they always fall out of my ears (maybe that’s just how earbuds are). My previous Bluetooth headphones of choice were another pair of Plantronics headphones, the venerable PLT-BB903+ (just rolls…

The leaked specs and artist’s rendering of Apple’s alleged 12″ MacBook Air are a radical move for Apple laptops, particularly in that they are getting rid of most of the ports in favor of just two: a USB Type C connector, and a headphone jack.   Coincidentally, the iPad and iPhones have just a headphone…

You’ve all gotten that email or spoken message from a boss, preaching to the team about how everyone needs to break some bad habit. And then they say it. “I know it’s tough. I’m guilty of this too, but we all need to come together and stop doing this.” Can we agree this trope needs…

In a previous post i discussed a way Apple could tweak its development process to make its software products more reliable. But even if Apple can achieve a product that fails 0.0001% of the time, that’s still a pretty large absolute number of failures at Apple’s scale. And what’s worse, now that Apple’s products need…

Recently I’ve been thinking  a lot about Leelah Alcorn’s death. But this post isn’t really about Leelah. It’s more about the people who slog through the life that would have been too painful for Leelah to bear.   Being gay I can relate to trans people in that we’re both somewhat outsiders, but I am…

Everyone agrees that Apple’s software quality has taken a dive in the last couple of years. Interestingly, I hear a lot of fingers being pointed at Apple’s yearly release schedule as being too aggressive.    That isn’t the reason quality is suffering, though. Apple’s hardware is updated yearly (or more) and has been for years…