Nick Lockwood

@nicklockwood

Writer of Objective C and objectionable Swift. iOS . Ex-. Author of iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques, iCarousel, FXForms

London, UK
Joined March 2009

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    The hardest problem in computer science is fighting the urge to solve a different, more interesting problem than the one at hand.

  2. Whenever I see news about how SNL or John Oliver or John Stewart "destroyed" Donald Trump my mind instinctively goes to this Vonnegut quote

  3. Does anyone have a link to the SwiftEvolution post explaining why dispatch_once was removed (assuming there is one)?

  4. You have two tabs: Notifications and Today. The top heading in the Notifications tab is…

  5. New blog post is up — with lots of code! Objective-C ‘id’ as Swift ‘Any’:

  6. So Apple will make car software but not the hardware. Because that worked out so well last time.

  7. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMERS HATE THIS SIMPLE TRICK

  8. In reply to

    . this is also the canonical reason why Spock lets Kirk be captain.

  9. Your customer doesn't care if the culprit was a third party library. To them, it's a problem with your product.

  10. I'M CRY: The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this"

  11. fuck, for my entire career I've thought I was shitty at time management because of the last point here ()

  12. did these people ever actually write C code

  13. I just published SwiftFormat v0.13, which includes an awesome Xcode Source Editor Extension created by !

  14. My experience of notifications on iOS is mostly that things pop up on the screen, disappear before I can read them, and then can't be found.

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  16. Hybrid native/web apps: for when you just don’t give a shit about your user’s experience!

  17. Where are those so called "moderate Republicans", denouncing the hatespeech of Trump and his lackeys? Oh, they're here. Good. Carry on then.

  18. Due to an unforeseen security event on our network, we advise all users to change their password, telephone number, and mother’s maiden name

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