Francisco Tolmasky

@tolmasky

Founder and TC-39 Delegate. Previously: Original iPhone team on MobileSafari, Creator of Objective-J and Cappuccino.

Joined April 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Mar 2016

    My talk on HyperCard, TI83, Cooking & why the Browser Isn't Feature Complete: The Internet as an Incremental Skill:

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  2. 8 hours ago

    Is there an address I can send back all the pistachio shells that were already empty in the bag so I can get a refund for those?

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  3. Feb 1

    Idea: a back horn for clearly honking at people behind you.

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  4. Jan 31

    If my gf gets in the Tesla and drives out, with no warning or confirmation, my phone’s audio switches away from my AirPod Pros and pairs to the car and I just have no control of it at all. I just need to realize that’s what happened and manually switch back.

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  5. Jan 30

    I think I’ve figured out the perfect security vs. privacy compromise: Apple won’t end to end encrypt Messages, BUT the FBI will be forced to scroll up, wait for load, scroll up, etc. just like users. And if they look away *for a second*, it scrolls them all the way down again.

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  6. Jan 29

    The ads on the iPhone AppStore search results are as, if not more, egregious than Google’s. Due to the size of the table view cells, it means the *only search result* doesn’t completely fit on the screen. They’re also not clearly differentiated and absurdly unrelated of course.

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  7. Jan 27

    I don’t think if I went back in time 10 years & gave myself an iPad Pro that I’d be blown away by the progress. I think I’d say the hardware is nice but be shocked that that’s all the progress the software had made. Compare that to showing devices from 2010 to people in 2000.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    There’s no words to express the pain Im going through with this tragedy of loosing my neice Gigi & my brother I love u and u will be missed. My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board. IM SICK RIGHT NOW

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  9. Jan 22

    I think there is also a separate safety of your employees argument for E2E encryption. Having a master password puts employees with access to it in danger of attack (especially when you consider US government officials use iPhones!). This exists in a much less potent form in E2E

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  10. Jan 22

    Perhaps more importantly, it means you not only have to trust current Apple, but any possible leadership at Apple in the future forever: any new CEO or board could change their minds, be it 5 years from now or 50. With E2E, it doesn’t matter if Apple’s values change in the future

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  11. Jan 22

    In case this isn’t obvious, iCloud’s lack of end-to-end encryption has nothing to do with trusting Apple — it means your data is susceptible to entire classes of attacks. If someone hacks Apple or blackmails an employee with access, it’s possible to get the key and get your data.

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  12. Jan 22

    I now straight up leave due to the annoyance of having whatever is selected start playing and blaring at me. I used to just quickly hit left/right on the remote to prevent it. Now I just go see if there’s something on . Does this actually give them good results?

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  13. Jan 21

    I would be very surprised if Deno’s community doesn’t end up adopting some kind of centralized package management before they reach anything comparable to node’s popularity.

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  14. Jan 20

    One of the things laptops still have over iPhones is when there is an image with hard to read rotated text you can still pick it up off the table and turn it without the screen rotating the opposite direction and working against you.

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  15. Jan 20

    Idea for a Columbo reboot series for Netflix with a modern TWIST: instead of being a master detective who tricks suspects into confessing, he spends every episode whining like a crybaby on Twitter that he can’t do his job because mean ol’ Apple won’t unlock iPhones.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 17

    EFF Asks the Supreme Court to Put a Stop to Dangerously Broad Interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act via

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 17

    And I’m not satisfied with the answer being “should have known better than to use my code sucker, read the license, AS IS”. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I think we should be talking more about the fact that with great impact comes great responsibility.

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  18. Jan 17

    And I’m not satisfied with the answer being “should have known better than to use my code sucker, read the license, AS IS”. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I think we should be talking more about the fact that with great impact comes great responsibility.

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  19. Jan 17

    But this goes back to the way it *feels* to write software: no one ever got hurt by you proclaiming your Star Wars alternate ending is better than everyone else’s, it all seems like good fun — but that’s not the case at all with software.

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  20. Jan 17

    If someone walks in on me practicing my first cookie batch and tries it and throws up, its different than me putting up a sign on the street saying “FREE COOKIES BETTER THAN COMPETITOR’S COOKIES” and then whispering ”might cause you to throw up” under my breath.

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  21. Jan 17

    It’s one thing to leave something sitting out with a clear warning, it’s another to pitch it heavily with fine print stating “caveat emptor”.

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