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mrbombastic

988 karmajoined 14 lat temu
Interests: Mobile Development, Open Source, Remote Work, Hiking, Digital Nomad

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Mobile Developer in Brooklyn. Primarily native iOS but comfortable working on and learning different parts of the stack. Contact me for remote work opportunities or opportunities near Brooklyn.

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mrbombastic
·przedwczoraj·discuss
Was driving in Lapland with a car like this, snow and ice everywhere on the road except in 2 narrow strips of pavement previous drivers had driven over, naturally it was not always in the exact area of lane that lane assist wanted me and I felt it was actively trying to kill me. Was able to disable but turned back on every time you stopped and started engine and I am forgetful.
mrbombastic
·9 dni temu·discuss
You are signing up for another hellscape of unmaintainable slop. Enable package cooldowns and only whitelist internal packages and you are better off than 90%
mrbombastic
·16 dni temu·discuss
not to mention rage posting dozens of time a day doesn't scream contentedness
mrbombastic
·23 dni temu·discuss
Presumably if they want ai regulation they want evenly applied regulation across the industry, not just for them.
mrbombastic
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Jira is fine and devs just grow to hate issue trackers because they hate that part of the job. Watch for another one to come and go when people get sick of linear.
mrbombastic
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I was a fan of Robinhood's mission of democratizing finance and prioritizing UX for casual traders. They seem to jump on every hype train though, crypto, prediction markets, now agentic trading, whether it is ethical or not or good for their customers or not, and it seems like the distance between "democratizing finance" and "finding new suckers" is closing. Disappointing but not surprising.
mrbombastic
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Not sure i understand. Sure it doesn’t require it but Apple doesn’t trust you to handle it because you’ll probably drain the battery or spam the user or whatever, that is Apple MO, putting themselves in the middle so they can control the experience.

The single persistent connection is just to receive pushes, there is still some daemon controlled by apple in charged of dispatching to correct app.
mrbombastic
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
yeah this is what author hints at with "Push as a battery problem". Apps are limited by default in what they can do in the background due to this, so most apps are in a suspended state not making network calls when you are not using them. To avoid the app having to keep running this stuff is delegated to OS which tells the app, "hey I have a push for you wake up and handle it!" You can send pushes locally but because of the background limitation it is not practical for unpredictable events like messages coming in.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
hey now, they should be grateful they get enough tokens for their appointments with ClaudeMD for their statistically below par data labeling performance, we could reduce the allowance if we keep hearing that kind of talk. We have been very generous with portions at the automatic canteen as well, that energy could be better allocated to the maintenance bots in the server farm.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
just this week i pushed back on some requirements in a very detailed product spec I was implementing to speed up time to ship. The pm had no idea what I was talking about because the requirements were invented by an LLM. This is not a bad PM, discipline doesn't scale.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
a bit of a roundabout way to answer this, but i think most native devs are okay with a self contained app element using webkit, that is what it is there for and generally stuff like rendering html, markdown, a one off static page, it is just a view from UI perspective. When things get more interactive, have a navigation hierarchy, animations etc are when things start to diverge from native feel and performance and you have gone too far.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Just make it a semi-hidden multistep option like browsers when you visit a site with a bad cert, just annoying to leave what you are doing go to system settings and fiddle.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Ruta Maya is quite good as well, probably not as big of a coffee snob as the author though.
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Are you sure you wanna live like costco people?

https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0

(I love the Shatner version, sorry!)
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Relevant snl skit: https://youtu.be/wXZNuwY_5-U
mrbombastic
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I use this all the time dropping files from old android device to mac, thanks devs!
mrbombastic
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
What do i have to be to get Fridays too?
mrbombastic
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
It makes perfect sense if you think things cannot improve indefinitely
mrbombastic
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Finally a product for me!
mrbombastic
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
productivity going right back down again, ah well they weren't going to pay us more anyway