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  • Commoditized Social Networking

    July 24, 2023 · 530 Words · 2 Minutes
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    Meta's Threads is joining the Fediverse, now what?

  • SwiftUI: ScrollView clipping

    March 13, 2022 · 109 Words · 31 Seconds
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    ScrollView's clipping behavior can be surprising.

  • SwiftUI: Dynamic status bar style

    March 12, 2022 · 262 Words · 1 Minute
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    A minimally invasive approach to dynamically alter the status bar style in SwiftUI 2 projects.

  • Obtaining Apple Health Workout Icons

    December 26, 2020 · 540 Words · 3 Minutes
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    Acquiring the official workout icons used across the Apple Health ecosystem is surprisingly difficult.

  • Pedantic Review: Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock

    May 30, 2019 · 698 Words · 3 Minutes
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    Overly pedantic review of Elgato's Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock.

  • Developer Diary Excerpts: machinectl auto-login

    March 16, 2019 · 492 Words · 2 Minutes
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    Circumventing manual password input for fun and profit!

  • Python Quirks: Implicit Return

    February 24, 2019 · 950 Words · 4 Minutes
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    Python function always have to return something, right? Well, its complicated...

  • Python Tips: Generator unrolling

    January 26, 2019 · 948 Words · 3 Minutes
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    There are many ways to unroll generators in Python, but which one is the best?

  • Python Tips: Dynamic function definition

    January 10, 2019 · 776 Words · 3 Minutes
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    Function definition in Python can be considered static, right? Wrong!

  • Python Quirks: Lambdas

    December 26, 2018 · 822 Words · 3 Minutes
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    Python lambdas are weird and underpowered... But why?

  • Three days of owning a Dell XPS 15 (9570)

    August 10, 2018 · 1786 Words · 7 Minutes
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    Detailed Dell XPS 15 (9570) review and postmortem from the perspective of a previous MacBook owner.

  • Python Quirks: Comments

    July 12, 2017 · 879 Words · 3 Minutes
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    Performance comparison of various Python comment types.

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