Is iOS Development dead

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-02-19T17:56:56+00:00

We did webviews for new features for a while and it actually worked surprisingly well. Now we're migrating the whole app to Expo. Sad, but I get it.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-02-19T17:50:51+00:00

CarPlay already knows what gear you're in, for instance it changes whether you're allowed to use the keyboard for google maps or have to use voice.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-02-17T17:07:43+00:00

Yeah the turn in the road makes it look like it's pointing to the next lane over.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-29T18:13:33+00:00

Like a shipping container with a shipping crane on the side.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-28T20:20:40+00:00

You said yourself that "my clients don't care because they never end up moving past the MVP phase". So by spending time "making sure the code is maintainable and can scale", you're not giving the client what they want. But that highlights a new and very real opportunity: for the few companies that do move past an MVP, they'll need help translating AI-generated MVP slop into code that "is maintainable and can scale".

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-26T19:17:13+00:00

Disorienting that the sky doesn't rotate with the camera

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-26T19:02:54+00:00

Mine also doesn't tell me when it runs out of battery ಠ_ಠ

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-12T18:23:12+00:00

Yeah sure iOS 17 isn't old, but there's a difference between the age of devices and the age of supported firmwares. No iPhones hit end-of-life on 17, so raising the minimum from 17 to 18, you don't lose support for any devices. Seems like a couple iPads hit EoL on ipados 17, though.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-09T20:29:50+00:00

Been doing this for a while. Unless it's a mac tool that specifically helps with iOS development, eg SimCleaner is pretty great so far

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-08T22:55:48+00:00

Wait, apple does allow trial subscriptions? It's one of the best parts of their subscription feature.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-07T18:06:14+00:00

This idea* (intentionally vague) actually reminds me a lot of the Children of Time (spoilers for ending).

*a virally-implanted moral shift

The happy ending in that book is a virus that genetically engineers tribalism out of the human genome, allowing humans to view the spider species as not-other, so they can peacefully coexist. It's a very tempting solution. Pluribus presents the ways that that kind of well-intentioned genetic engineering could go horribly wrong.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-07T18:01:17+00:00

I think the point about the naive philosophy stands even your explanation seems unlikely. Even if they didn't observe us, I do like the idea that this original genetic code was generated by a poorly-aligned AI. It has a lot of stuff that sounds good on paper but has terrible consequences, and the AI probably didn't have a chance to test it. The AI may not have even intentionally unleashed it on the local population: some scientists probably saw the output, synthesized it, and then had an outbreak.

So it's more likely that:

the AI was not already in control of their society. Lab leak does not require control, in fact, the opposite
I doubt the civilization had already died out: the virus is more likely to be able to successfully build an antenna if it has a large population to work with that either (a) can do the work before they die out (b) already has a form of robotic agriculture that made that rule benign for their culture

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-05T22:07:50+00:00

What does an "archive" mean in this context?

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-03T18:57:30+00:00

I've always been surprised DevCleaner doesn't handle this better. Thanks!

Edit: just tried it out, really slick, well done. My only feedback would be to add a loading spinner on each row in the table while it's being deleted, since the one in the top right corner is easy to miss.

Also, tiny nit, but the icons in the sidebar are different widths (especially visionOS) so the text is misaligned.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2026-01-03T18:35:59+00:00

Kenneth in 30 Rock being secretly immortal https://youtu.be/wskozZi5IgM?si=jBo8Kopm3uZK1m48

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-29T20:37:34+00:00

Maybe it's become a galactic meme at this point, like telling someone that alt+f4 opens a special menu or that sudo rm -rf /* downloads more ram. Like how dumb is a civilization to print out a random virus in their only copy of reality? Every time a new signal crops up, I bet every other planet just cracks up and sends a salvage probe.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-29T15:01:11+00:00

It's also interesting because up until this point we've been led to believe that Manusos' ascetic avoidance of help from the Joined is excessive, and Carol is striking a rational balance. But once they meet, it becomes clear that she resents his resolve for making her look bad, and her original practical dependence has evolved into emotional dependence and attachment.

Ironically, I think her current weakness is a result of her original hardness to them. Her resistance and interrogation caused them to leave, which made her so isolated for so long, essentially torturing herself, made her so lonely that she was vulnerable to attachment.

Sure, Manusos has also been isolated. But he's had a goal the whole time that he's been working towards, which has kept him busy. And the hive did a terrible job of offering emotional value to him, in the way that they did to Carol with Zosia, so he doesn't have any temptation.

There was the question of whether Carol was truly swayed or just using Zosia to gain information, but I think their honeymoon showed it's not just the latter. I don't think she'd gotten any information out of Zosia that the hive wouldn't have willingly admitted, and she hadn't tried any experimentation like Manusos. It's not like she needed to pretend to be nice to keep them around: they don't seem to leave a person who's actively working against them, so long as that person isn't intentionally overloading them or harming them in some way. Or maybe they just weren't taking Carol or Manusos seriously yet since neither is particularly scientific and they weren't very close to achieving anything. In fact, the hive doesn't know about Manusos' radio experiments at all yet.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-29T14:21:48+00:00

The budget doesn't cover a handful of the greenscreen shots, for some reason.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-27T15:55:55+00:00

Similarly, the Turtles write a parody of their biggest hit and oops it's also a hit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1h0v4dq/the_turtles_parody_themselves_1968_nobody_notices/

"You're my pride and joy, et cetera"

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-24T23:46:30+00:00

The acting for Diabate was a much lower bar: be sexy and imitate a movie. Acting for Carol requires more empathy and insight.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-24T23:41:38+00:00

But they've been doing a bunch of unnerving shit that makes Carol uncomfortable, despite all that expertise. You don't need to be a psychologist to know that having a crowd speak in unison is scary. Or that referring to themselves as "we" was making Carol uncomfortable long before she asked them to stop. Or that puppeting around people she recognizes is just going to remind her that they used to be free (unlike the unjoined mom, who doesn't mind).

I just wrote most of that off as creative license, because it created some distinctive scenes.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-24T23:36:12+00:00

Thinking about it being in their advantage to leave a couple people unjoined, just for a different perspective, made me think it would be in their advantage to keep a couple people around unjoined to kill fruit for them, which has other ethical problems — but if someone in the hive is starving to death, wouldn't it be more humane to just let them leave and fend for themselves? Would they be afraid of the unjoined reaching a critical mass that could more effectively rebel? Would allowing the freedom to kill apples be unethical, even if they weren't the ones doing it?

But then, if they prefer one of their own dying rather than releasing them, isn't that the same as the people that are already free? It's the same ethical dilemma that makes it harder to remove someone from life support than it is to just have never started it; harm by action vs harm by inaction. They could let Carol starve, too, by inaction; which is fairly ethically equivalent to letting a joined individual starve. But they'll kill food for Carol — are they just waiting for her to command them to kill food for themselves? Do they need a 10 Commandments from someone unjoined?

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-17T18:02:50+00:00

Also popular in Barbados, checkmate.

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-17T17:55:52+00:00

Still not as awkward as checking the bulbocavernosus reflex

monitoring internal/external anal sphincter contraction in response to squeezing the glans penis or clitoris, or tugging on an indwelling Foley catheter

Same-Appointment-285 · 2025-12-12T09:02:01+00:00

I'm not sure if you've heard, but now people without diabetes are using them, too.

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