nicole @nicole@myna.social

My partner spiked my coffee with Xanax this morning. This is why she’s a superhero, and I’m just some Jane slinging ink for the Daily Planet.

@pauline 🤣 I love your mom.

@stevestreza I’ll for sure let him know. 😁

@stevestreza I will say that the person I know who’s had the most success getting SwiftUI to do what she wants isn’t an engineer at all, but rather Pocket’s Head of Design. SwiftUI is as much she knows, and she loves it.

I stand corrected. This is actually just a random shot from a 2017 trip to Okinawa. Wow. 👵🏻

Okay, so the two sheets that were stuck together were unrecoverable, as feared. Of the other four: two were blank, and two were photos of an antique store that came up in conversation just yesterday. (😳)

@evangreer Aww. That’s really lovely. Hard to imagine a better avatar image.

@pauline Oh no you didn’t: you learned it in the LawBox office in Berkeley, right after I showed off my then brand-new party trick of knowing the order of the months of the year. #latetoeveryparty 📆🥳

Or maybe it’s just because, on my character sheet, there is one tag that stands above them all: #opsimath. 😌

Yeah, that’s probably it. #latetoeveryparty

Maybe it’s because of the lack of ABI stability; or because early versions had poor support for multiple protocol conformance; or the (still) immature state of the debug tools; or the fact that, for a very long time, while it let you do old things in a new way, it didn’t actually let you do anything new; or maybe because after a decade+ of C supersets, #Swift feels like safety scissors.

If you know me, you might wonder, “Nicole, you’ve been an iOS developer for 13 years; you’ve led multiple iOS teams; you manage a team of Swift developers—how is that you’re only reading about #Swift now!?”

@rebrafsim@mastodon.sdf.org literal lol. 🤣

Wiping away the tears and snuggling up with Eidhof’s Advanced #Swift.

Every once and awhile, usually towards the end of a chapter, there’s a sentence or two that are just too square for me to easily squeeze through my round eye holes.

“Under the hood, instance methods are modeled as functions that, given an instance, return another function that then operates on the instance.”

📖🧱➡️🫣💦

Read. Thunk. Thunk. Thunk. Ahhhhhhh.

Standing on scale to find yourself three pounds heaver. 🤔

Realizing it must be water weight. 😳

Investigating yesterday’s food log. 🧐

Realizing that the meal planner you used didn’t take into account the _salt_ on your salt and pepper bagel. 🫣

Realizing that you consumed 6x your allotted sodium the day before. And 3x this morning. 😵‍💫

Crying. Because, of course you are. 😭

T-4 Days.

@pauline the CW was insufficient.

@pauline Well, by next week, at least we’ll be able to blend them. 😝

The sheets I processed this morning are just backups of other mediocre setups (probably why they were never processed: why yawn twice?).

In one envelope, I found two sheets that are basically glued together. I have them soaking in a warm bath now, but I have little hope for them: the run-off from the first rinse was gray. ☹️

#photography