Senior Software Engineering
We love to see people meme on the new Siri logo
oh thank goodness they made the Siri icon pretty again
I’ve just released Deadass Simple Media Player beta 0.0.7!
Album art!
This prerelease introduces album art in the app & remote controls.
• Any audio files which include album art, now displays that album art in the player, as well as any remote controls (Control Center, dynamic island, car controls, etc.)
• Album art now displays in the Playlists tab next to each imported album
• Album art now displays in the History tab next to any entry which has it
• If a track has no video and no album art, default placeholder art will display instead
Album art intentionally doesn't appear in the Now Playing list. That's an open idea which might change.
Join the TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/qxHfgcAZ
(only iOS 26 & newer; backports planned for after 1.0 releases)
Known issues:
• #25: Video files don't display video thumbnails/posters; instead they show the generic "no album art" image
Album art!
This prerelease introduces album art in the app & remote controls.
• Any audio files which include album art, now displays that album art in the player, as well as any remote controls (Control Center, dynamic island, car controls, etc.)
• Album art now displays in the Playlists tab next to each imported album
• Album art now displays in the History tab next to any entry which has it
• If a track has no video and no album art, default placeholder art will display instead
Album art intentionally doesn't appear in the Now Playing list. That's an open idea which might change.
Join the TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/qxHfgcAZ
(only iOS 26 & newer; backports planned for after 1.0 releases)
Known issues:
• #25: Video files don't display video thumbnails/posters; instead they show the generic "no album art" image
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Senior Software Engineering
I hope this goes without saying: This is why we invented sandboxing and code signing!! So malware doesn't modify mission-critical software!!! The LLM is malware in this scenario and must be treated as such! Any program can accidentally become malware. Even…
Still can’t believe anyone is giving carte blanche of their personal machines to any AI agent
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Swift 6.4 is the Snow Leopard of Swift releases!
Non-copyable types can now conform to Equatable, Comparable, and Hashable. RigidArray and UniqueArray give you fixed and growable buffers with none of Array's copy-on-write overhead. You can borrow through a Span or InlineArray with a plain property instead of writing around it.
And on top of that: Subprocess reaching 1.0, SwiftPM defaulting to Swift Build across Linux, macOS, & Windows, and C++20's std::span bridging straight to Span with zero manual conversion at the boundary! Swift continues on its goal of being a true systems language that happens to also build your iOS app.
19 years writing Swift, and this is still a release I’m happy to read cover to cover.
https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.4-released/
Non-copyable types can now conform to Equatable, Comparable, and Hashable. RigidArray and UniqueArray give you fixed and growable buffers with none of Array's copy-on-write overhead. You can borrow through a Span or InlineArray with a plain property instead of writing around it.
And on top of that: Subprocess reaching 1.0, SwiftPM defaulting to Swift Build across Linux, macOS, & Windows, and C++20's std::span bridging straight to Span with zero manual conversion at the boundary! Swift continues on its goal of being a true systems language that happens to also build your iOS app.
19 years writing Swift, and this is still a release I’m happy to read cover to cover.
https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.4-released/
Swift.org
Swift 6.4 Released
Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include:
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Senior Software Engineering
Oops this happened during Our hiatus and We never sent it here. Mozilla/Firefox removing their promise to never sell your personal data 🥳 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/
Firefox announces AI in their browser, letting users choose the model and defaulting to Mistral
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mozilla-mistral-partnership/
https://bsky.app/profile/firefox.com/post/3mvo2neua2c26
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mozilla-mistral-partnership/
https://bsky.app/profile/firefox.com/post/3mvo2neua2c26
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Senior Software Engineering
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
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"How shall we tackle date/time formats?"
Windows: "You get a dropdown with 3 options"
macOS: "You just type the format you want, here we even gave you drag-and-drop format pieces"
Linux: "You get what you get, unless you pretend you live somewhere else"
Windows: "You get a dropdown with 3 options"
macOS: "You just type the format you want, here we even gave you drag-and-drop format pieces"
Linux: "You get what you get, unless you pretend you live somewhere else"
Senior Software Engineering
"How shall we tackle date/time formats?" Windows: "You get a dropdown with 3 options" macOS: "You just type the format you want, here we even gave you drag-and-drop format pieces" Linux: "You get what you get, unless you pretend you live somewhere else"
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Don’t update to macOS 27 Golden Gate.
It’s vibe coded and it sucks.
Tons of shit isn’t working at all, like minimized windows or the emoji picker.
Avoid this update for as long as you can. It’s bad.
It’s vibe coded and it sucks.
Tons of shit isn’t working at all, like minimized windows or the emoji picker.
Avoid this update for as long as you can. It’s bad.
Senior Software Engineering
Don’t update to macOS 27 Golden Gate. It’s vibe coded and it sucks. Tons of shit isn’t working at all, like minimized windows or the emoji picker. Avoid this update for as long as you can. It’s bad.
“We mustn’t delay 27.1β; our new phone was just announced and 27.1 will have support for it! Instead, the sensible thing is to release 27.2β first, THEN 27.1β with more features than 27.2β, and make 27.2β not support the new phone. Also the new phone isn't in stores for another month"
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