Mike Abdullah

@mikeabdullah

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  1. Jan 7

    Hurry, today is the last day of special pricing for The Hit List! Take advantage now to start 2016 in style:

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  2. 17 Dec 2015

    How have I left it until now before trying the beautiful pairing of scrambled eggs and guacamole?

  3. 11 Dec 2015

    In the excitement yesterday, I didn’t quite get round to tweeting this: super proud we shipped for iPad!

    8 retweets 3 likes
  4. 30 Oct 2015

    My game XWing Fighter is out for Apple TV.

    5 retweets 9 likes
  5. 17 Oct 2015

    Free ticket to going for free. I can't make it so I'm willing to re-assign it. Please RT.

    9 retweets 2 likes
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  7. 5 Oct 2015

    I bought a pair of shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with, but I've been tripping all day!

    19 retweets 32 likes
  8. 27 Sep 2015

    Papal threat display. Popes can also spit holy venom up to twenty feet.

    6,748 retweets 8,155 likes
  9. 24 Sep 2015

    In case you were wondering, I can assure you the folks at are lovely people and give away marvellous t-shirts

    2 retweets 2 likes
  10. 20 Sep 2015

    mine

    5 retweets 4 likes
  11. 19 Sep 2015

    Looks like the non-appearing modal controller problem is a bug, oddly related to UITextView.

    1 retweet 2 likes
  12. 16 Sep 2015

    a lot, but the benefit is larger the less contiguous the data is. Try dispatch_write()ing one with 100MB in 100 byte chunks.

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  13. 16 Sep 2015

    . many of the apparently Foundation improvements are actually from CoreOS though. Way faster locks and dispatch data helps us :D

    3 retweets 6 likes
  14. 16 Sep 2015

    . certain combinations of arguments to -isEqualToString: are 1.2x and 3x faster respectively

    3 retweets 7 likes
  15. 16 Sep 2015

    . some more boring ones: CF collection copying functions do retain-if-immutable, 1-element index paths <10 are cached…

    3 retweets 8 likes
  16. 16 Sep 2015

    . there’s a subtle one in immutable NSArrays: use a zero-length array instead of object_getIndexedIvars. +~10% on indexed access

    3 retweets 5 likes
  17. 16 Sep 2015

    . oh, there’s a dedicated subclass for single-element immutable NSSets now. Cuts the footprint of those by 2/3s.

    11 retweets 21 likes
  18. 16 Sep 2015

    Fun iOS 9 tidbit: NSNumbers with floating point values that have exact integer representations are also tagged pointers now 😊

    47 retweets 75 likes
  19. 15 Sep 2015

    Dear Brickies of the world, do you get home, and when you close your eyes, all you can see is endless brickwork?

  20. 13 Sep 2015

    The fallacy of “length”:

    42 retweets 38 likes

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