Nick Lockwood

@nicklockwood

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

London, UK
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Joined March 2009
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    Aug 18

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

    3,551 retweets 4,587 likes
  2. 8 hours ago

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

    1,464 retweets 2,512 likes
  3. 7 hours ago

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

  4. 8 hours ago

    2016 found a way to get worse.

    Oh, God...
    1 retweet 1 like
  5. Sep 26

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

    3 retweets 13 likes
  6. 9 hours ago

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

    68 retweets 136 likes
  7. 10 hours ago

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

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  8. 10 hours ago

    FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMERS HATE THIS SIMPLE TRICK

    58 retweets 79 likes
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    10 hours ago

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

    1 like
  10. 13 hours ago

    Not really.

    18 retweets 67 likes
  11. 11 hours ago

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

    11 retweets 8 likes
  12. 14 hours ago

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

    77 retweets 77 likes
  13. 12 hours ago

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

    206 retweets 308 likes
  14. 15 hours ago

    Truth.

    773 retweets 970 likes
  15. 21 hours ago

    did these people ever actually write C code

    52 retweets 143 likes
  16. 13 hours ago

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

    11 retweets 25 likes
  17. 14 hours ago

    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.

    3 retweets 22 likes
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  19. Oct 16 Mayfield, Newcastle

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

    40 retweets 59 likes
  20. Oct 16

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

    This is beautiful.
    1 retweet 3 likes
  21. Sep 22

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

    272 retweets 361 likes

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