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  • 3 days

    NetNewsWire Status

    It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. �
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    My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire....

  • 14 days

    Seattle Xcoders Presentation by Justin Miller Tonight

    I’m psyched for @incanus Justin Miller’s presentation tonight at Xcoders on “Swift Result Builders Case Study: Parsing.” I like writing parsers, and I’m very curious about Swift result builders. Should be a good one!
    See this post on the Xcoders blog for more details about the talk and for when and where to be....

  • 3 months

    I Tried to Explain What I Do

    I’ve known for decades that most of family and friends (except for family and friends in tech) have no idea what I do — they just think it’s math-heavy and mysterious.
    Well. It’s definitely not math-heavy and it shouldn’t be mysterious. So I figured I’d write up What I Do....

  • 3 months

    Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable

    The title is a little over the top, but barely — we have two fantastic talks this Thursday (March 5) that you should go to. (I’ll be there!)
    Laura Savino will present “Learn Out Loud”:
    As devs today, we’re supposed to demonstrate immediate skills in tools whose configs change once a fortnight, while shipping cutting-edge features in long-standing apps (that may still have a legacy bug or two). Laura is a trained teacher and Photoshop...

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