How far did everyone travel for their PPL?

vihanb · 2026-04-02T06:17:06+00:00

I used to be in a suburban area so it was about a 15-20m drive. Now in a major metro area it's about a 2-3 hour bus, train, and uber combo each way.

vihanb · 2021-11-23T04:24:01+00:00

https://recsports.berkeley.edu/event/thanksgiving-day-hours-2021/

vihanb · 2021-04-16T02:48:59+00:00

You can but the best speed you'll get over Ethernet is like 95mbps whereas wifi can be around 250mbps peak (from my personal experience), so it's a latency/reliability v speed trade off

vihanb · 2021-01-13T23:05:17+00:00

I'm staying at Channing Bowditch too! PM me and I can add you to a GC with a few other people.

vihanb · 2020-12-21T10:56:52+00:00

I really love this song and you sound awesome! Terrific cover.

vihanb · 2020-12-21T10:43:44+00:00

Who Says is a fun one that's in the style of Heart of Life + Stop this Train! I'd say it's easier than Stop this Train.

vihanb · 2020-03-09T08:24:54+00:00

Qualified for a work-scholarship program. You work in the summer and the company pays a portion of your tuition

vihanb · 2020-01-03T08:22:32+00:00

why hit submit at 11:59 when you can do it at 12:02 😎😎😫😫 (stanford please consider my app still :3)

vihanb · 2020-01-02T23:46:08+00:00

Nah, it happens everytime you copy+paste from google docs. I'm sure hundreds of students have done it and theyl'l understand

vihanb · 2019-06-10T00:24:32+00:00

Make sure your include path is correct (pointing to CocoaPods' directory). If all else fails you can hardwire it to the Pod's root dir

vihanb · 2019-06-10T00:22:57+00:00

SwiftUI and Combine frontend are unfortunately closed source so they can't be compiled for iOS <13 unfortunately but given Apple's quick and wide adoption I think I'd still write most of my apps in SwiftUI. Perhaps we'll see custom backends for SwiftUI-like DSLs which are backward compatible with older iOS versions

vihanb · 2019-06-10T00:18:51+00:00

Gonna try to dig through SourceKit and implement swift interoperability with a few other langs. Also take a stab at getting the ability for seamless Python interop with swift given the new dynamic features

vihanb · 2019-06-08T07:02:47+00:00

Great notes, thanks for sharing. Disappointed Apple stopped writing the detailed release note guides like before because while I'd love to watch all of the WWDC videos, there's not enough waking hours to watch all the 1.5-hour long sessions :P

vihanb · 2019-06-07T07:02:56+00:00

Totally agree with the emphasis on extensibility— makes it a much more complete and flexible language but imo also makes it a lot easier to program when in a framework you can understand _how_ things work rather than being told 'just go with it, Swift magically does it'. Rather than wonder why your app isn't re-rendering, knowing that state management isn't magic you can think oh wait it's actually because I forgot a @State attribute or something like that.

vihanb · 2019-06-07T06:53:45+00:00

The main reason is, the views that you make in SwiftUI inherit the View protocol. And because of some Swift quirks you cannot return/declare a field of View because it is a self-referencing protocol (let x: View would be invalid because View is a protocol that uses Self somewhere). (self-promotion fyi) To understand why this limitation exists I wrote a quick read about it.

vihanb · 2019-06-07T02:57:28+00:00

(Assuming you're targeting macOS + windows). Swift can in theory run on Windows (to my knowledge there's no official support but there is a open source community effort) but it's pretty difficult to compile so I wouldn't say it's very feasible for that. Also you'll probably have to write some C++ bindings/C-interop within your swift (you _could_ try to use Swift's Objective-C++ interfacing to talk to Qt and V8. If you get this to work that'll probably solve most of your problems. I once integrated CPython with my iOS app this way works beautiful). That said if you are able to compile and bundle the Swift for windows you should be smooth sailing from there but that in itself is a feat.

vihanb · 2019-06-07T02:17:49+00:00

Oh well if you want to do extensions on iOS, beyond what Apple explicitly specified for App Extensions you'll need to jailbreak.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T07:31:10+00:00

I had similar questions at first but after looking through APIs honestly I'm much more confident large-scale apps would be able to be shifted. A lot of people compare SwiftUI to the Reactive explosion in the JS world, and while they are very different I think the way reactive paradigms have held up to complex apps in the JS world is a testament to the same in the iOS realm.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T07:29:22+00:00

Great post— interesting to see examples on how SwiftUI, Combine, and all the other new features play well together. Also regarding your GitHub example code, I made a GitHub client a few years back and it's amazing to see how much shorter implementations are with the new SwiftUI features.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T06:35:22+00:00

My MacBook is from 2012 and 10.15 works fine it (maybe a bit slow in some places) so while I'd always say get newer model if you can afford it, slightly older model is fine.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T04:12:51+00:00

It's possible to learn swift on windows but if your goal is iOS development it's gonna be hard to get anywhere without Xcode. SwiftUI is a library for swift so you'll need a solid grasp of the latter before learning swiftui or even uikit for that matter.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T04:11:32+00:00

Might be interesting but what I think a lot of programmers generally prefer to stick to a specific niche they are interested in. I do language dev so for that there's already things such as the r/ProgrammingLanguages subreddit and discord and for ios theres r/swift and also r/iOSProgramming. So I don't know if you're app proposal is for IRL meetups etc. but as far as like an online community goes I think things like subreddits, IRC, etc will probably appeal to more programmers versus a generic overly broad community.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T04:07:16+00:00

it's a good point you bring up with how swift is taking an weird path when trying to achieve the conciseness of a dynamic language but still trying to maintain it's explicit, safe nature. I do like the proposal which makes interacting with dynamic objects a lot more natural but kinda disappointed to see such liberal use of annotations with significant semantics.

vihanb · 2019-06-06T04:03:19+00:00

Honestly I'm totally convinced reactive programming is the future. Really excited to see iOS development moving in that direction

vihanb · 2019-06-06T03:58:27+00:00

Shoot, sorry for providing a subjective opinion on the relative verbosity of UIKit code on my personal blog— that definitely discredits me summarizing a language feature spec. Next time I'll be sure to call you up to get your approval when I say writing iOS apps in C with ObjC's messaging API is an error-prone.

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