i live in a totally normal city
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/london-mayoral-election-count-binface-151534829.html
(I like Gruber and I understand his sentiment but the way I cackled at that punchline 😂)
*highlights a thing that is ✨literally✨ happening now on the App Store*
Gruber: A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME WITHOUT THE APP STORE
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/12/dealmachine-wtf
And for the record, I think some devs SHOULD be treated differently.
It makes sense for Apple to help Spotify have the best app possible because guess what: IT HELPS TO SELL IPHONES.
No one is buying a phone they can’t run apps on. Apple’s position of “be grateful” is just detached from reality at this point. Totally bizarre.
Of course it’s kinda funny that even within a single press release they can’t make a coherent argument.
“Everyone is equal! Except for some select developers. And everyone loves the App Store! Except when we got so much ‘feedback’ we had to change it.”
😂
“developers compete on a level playing field”
“We’ve even flown our engineers to Stockholm to help”
@phill “it’s not much but it’s honest work”
#SwiftUI: Stop using AppStorage directly. It’s prone to typos, value mismatches and more.
Instead give yourself strongly typed keys and associated defaults, à la EnvironmentValues.
I’ve published my implementation as a package, but you can just as easily wrap AppStorage yourself with a few dozen lines.
The whole thing made me paranoid; how could I have been compromised in such a catastrophic way?
Turns out (perhaps unsurprisingly) the weakest link in the chain was human. A fake ID was used inside a branch to gain access to my accounts. Additional checks that were supposed to be carried out, weren’t.
The bank issued the fraudsters with a new card and PIN number. And that was it. They had everything they needed.
This time last year I had a life-changing amount of money stolen.
There was no obvious scam. I hadn’t sent any payments. It was just gone.
The police weren’t helpful and the bank did nothing but gaslight me the entire time.
Today the Financial Ombudsman found the bank at fault and have ordered everything to be paid back + compensation.
I cannot begin to express the relief I’m feeling after such an awful year.
Lots of happy crying this morning 🥲
🏳️🌈 Founder / Maker
Building that new email app.
Swift and rollercoasters are my thing.
Recovering VC.