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Links for September 9, 2024
Posted on Monday, Sep 9, 2024 5:55 PM
- ↪︎ Navigation Patterns in SwiftUI
Navigation Patterns In Swiftui - ↪︎ For a simple view, we can use onTapGesture to handle taps easily. At times you want to handle simultaneous gestures.
What is SwiftUI simultaneous gestures - ↪︎ Here are some strategies for taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team's work.
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process - ↪︎ The East Bay midcentury comes with bright orange beams, vintage wood paneling, and a Mies Van Der Roheâinspired ADU.
The ’60s Are Alive and Well in This Groovy Eichler Listed for $2.2M - ↪︎ Sometimes, we write code that needs set some state or perform some work at the start of a function and at the end of that same function we might have to reset that state, or perform some cleanup…
What is defer in Swift? - ↪︎ The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck.
This Walden Pond–Inspired Writer’s Studio Holds a Trove of More Than 1,700 Poetry Books - ↪︎ SwiftData adds predicate expressions in iOS 18.
SwiftData Expressions
Links for September 8, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Sep 8, 2024 5:46 PM
Links for September 5, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Sep 5, 2024 1:56 AM
Links for September 4, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024 12:43 AM
- ↪︎ Front-end configuration manager for 86Box
Moonif/MacBox: MacBox for 86Box
Links for August 27, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024 10:49 PM
- ↪︎ This article makes me want a TUI version of Xcode. I learned Turbo Pascal way back when and it was an excellent UI.
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost
Links for August 19, 2024
Posted on Monday, Aug 19, 2024 7:03 PM
- ↪︎ “Below are members of the original 6502 design and production team, as well as others who worked on the chip or at MOS Technology between 1974-1976 when the 6502 and related products, such as the…”
Team - ↪︎ “Julia Weber was walking home from work one day in San Francisco when an earthquake struck. She rode it out in the arms of a stranger.”
When an earthquake struck in 1989, Julia locked eyes with a stranger and embraced — NPR
Links for August 15, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Aug 15, 2024 2:51 AM
- ↪︎ The nonpartisan group targets regulations and fees that could be removed or waived to more quickly help displaced residents The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii has released a second policy brief regarding how to speed up homebuilding on Maui in the wake of the deadly August 2023 wildfires that killed 102 people in Lahaina and left […]
Grassroot brief suggests six ways to speed up homebuilding in Lahaina
Links for August 14, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024 6:33 PM
- ↪︎ I need a bigger backyard
This Wood-Framed Glass Box Is The Ultimate Backyard Office - ↪︎ Learn how you can decide whether a derived property makes sense as a computed property or should be a function instead.
Deciding between a computed property and a function in Swift - ↪︎ Fumihiko Maki, the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate and a leading figure in Japan's Metabolism movement, passed away in Tokyo on June 6th, his Maki and Associates firm announced late Tuesday. He was 95. Maki was born in Tokyo in 1928 and immigrated to America to study at the Cranbrook...
Fumihiko Maki, a leading icon of modern Japanese architecture, passes away in Tokyo aged 95
Links for August 11, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Aug 11, 2024 7:23 PM
- ↪︎ This building spins right round, baby right round
TOILETOWA W.C. / Tono Mirai Architects - ↪︎ Onion have layers, and so does this building
One At Palm Residential Building / SOMA - ↪︎ “Learn how you can use the if case let syntax to perform complex pattern matching against enums with associated values”
if case let in Swift explained - ↪︎ “Effective organizations create results, and to be fully effective, nonprofits must exhibit strengths in five core organizational areas — leadership, decision making and structure, people, work processes and systems, and culture.”
The Effective Organization: Five Questions to Translate Leadership into Strong Management - ↪︎ Find retro & vintage museums, arcades, clubs, cafes, bars/pubs, youtube channels, podcasts, repair services, upcoming events and more in the Retro Directory. All listings are free
retro.directory - Find Retro and Vintage Shops, Museums, Clubs, Websites and More in our Free Directory! - retro.directory
Links for August 6, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 6, 2024 6:32 PM
- ↪︎ “An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web.”
An Exegesis of Markdown, the Most Ubiquitous Piece of Code on the Web — WIRED
Links for August 5, 2024
Posted on Monday, Aug 5, 2024 1:14 AM
- ↪︎ “Macros in Swift allow you to extend the compiler with custom build errors and code generation to eliminate extraneous boilerplate code.”
Swift Macros: Extend Swift with New Kinds of Expressions
Links for August 1, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Aug 1, 2024 2:17 AM
- ↪︎ “Optimize your app for Networking Connectivity and prevent common mistakes like pre-checking for reachability.”
Optimizing your app for Network Reachability
Links for July 29, 2024
Posted on Monday, Jul 29, 2024 8:06 PM
- ↪︎ “Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working”
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter - ↪︎ Unofficial index of WWDC sessions.
WWDC Index
Links for July 18, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Jul 18, 2024 7:26 PM
- ↪︎ Good article about how design influences mood
Designing for Happiness: Exploring the Connection between Architecture and Mental Health
Links for July 13, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Jul 13, 2024 8:06 PM
- ↪︎ “Debugging SwiftUI views allows you to find the cause of a redraw. Solve unexpected animation issues using this technique.”
Debugging SwiftUI views: what caused that change? - ↪︎ This is a very good thing.
Pōhākea public land purchase: 250 acres protected in perpetuity at Māʻalaea Mauka - ↪︎ The black and wood juxtaposed is excellent
Spring Harbor House / Johnsen Schmaling Architects - ↪︎ I love this curvy roof
Hybrid Flax Pavilion / ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart
Links for July 11, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Jul 11, 2024 7:45 PM
- ↪︎ “A wetland restoration project is bringing hope to Maui residents who want to honor Lahaina’s history and return water to the town after last year’s fires.”
After wildfires destroyed Lahaina, the battle to restore an ancient ecosystem will shape the town’s future.
Links for June 22, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Jun 22, 2024 3:11 PM
- ↪︎ that paint job and dashboard is nuts
Bugatti’s $4 Million Hybrid Hypercar Has the Craziest Steering Wheel We’ve Ever Seen — WIRED
Links for June 12, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 12, 2024 5:36 AM
- ↪︎ Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles
Elephants Call Their Relatives by Name across the Savanna
Links for May 21, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:43 PM
- ↪︎ Global wealth stands at over $454 trillion. This graphic shows how it's distributed, by various levels of net worth.
Visualizing the Pyramid of Global Wealth Distribution - ↪︎ “Over the millennia, human language has produced a variety of beautiful, unusual, and weird forms of writing. Here are 7 of them.”
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed - ↪︎ I didn’t know about this Swift feature. nice.
Swift Parameter Packs · paul-samuels.com - ↪︎ “Scientists can now use climate data to predict whale and sea turtle locations months in advance, helping fishing fleets avoid conflicts with wildlife.”
Where Will the Whales Be? Ask the Climate Model. - ↪︎ The Wayfarers Chapel, a national historic landmark in LA, is being disassembled to protect it from further damage caused by geological movement.
Lloyd Wright’s Historic Wayfarers Chapel Will Be Disassembled Due to Landslide Risk
Links for May 14, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 5:11 PM
- ↪︎ The story of how the graphing calculator application made it onto the Mac.
Graphing Calculator Story
Links for May 11, 2024
Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024 2:29 AM
- ↪︎ Parsing JSON Data is a fundamental in modern SwiftUI apps. This comprehensive guide covers all the aspects of the Codable protocols in Swift.
Parsing JSON in Swift: The Complete Guide [With Examples] - ↪︎ That is one nice toilet.
Public Toilet in Dalinggen Village / Aerobic Architecture + Songyang County Yuankun Construction Co.,Ltd
Links for May 10, 2024
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2024 8:38 PM
- ↪︎ “Nine months after more than 100 people were killed and nearly 2,200 homes were destroyed, Gov. Josh Green says the state is making progress on rebuilding the historic town of Lahaina and improving its emergency preparedness.”
Hawaii's governor says most residents displaced by wildfire now have long-term housing — NBC News
Links for May 9, 2024
Posted on Thursday, May 9, 2024 6:10 PM
- ↪︎ “To use for await item in streamOfItems {...}, you need an AsyncStream. It is very common that you already have an existing Combine publisher, and you want to use the nice Swift Concurrency syntax.”
How to create AsyncStream with a publisher - ↪︎ “The rapid growth of solar power led to a record-breaking year for clean energy generation in 2023, and the year is expected to mark the start of a long-term decline in fossil fuels”
Renewables supply 30 per cent of global electricity for the first time — New Scientist - ↪︎ Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort
- ↪︎ This is fun and fascinating.
US Baby Name Popularity Visualizer
Links for May 7, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 3:29 PM
- ↪︎ The beacon at the very top—and the entire spire—are going to look very different. We took a terrifying trip all the way up.
Exclusive: The Transamerica Pyramid’s renovation is underway. We got a peek from the top — The San Francisco Standard
Links for April 29, 2024
Posted on Monday, Apr 29, 2024 4:39 AM
- ↪︎ In 2024 MS-DOS is still .2%
A bar chart race visualization of the most popular desktop o...
Links for April 28, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 4:01 AM
- ↪︎ TIL why the default Ethernet MTU is 1500!
Magic Numbers | blarg
Links for April 23, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024 5:05 PM
- ↪︎ Naval Air Station Puunene
Abandoned building full of history
Links for April 22, 2024
Posted on Monday, Apr 22, 2024 3:41 PM
- ↪︎ “Love Notes to Newton is a film about what a beloved (but short-lived) pen-based Personal Digital Assistant created by Apple Computer has meant for the people…”
Love Notes to Newton - Full Movie - Official - ↪︎ I completely agree with David here — viewing panoramic photos in the Vision Pro is fantastic. I’m so glad that over the past years I’ve taken a lot of them without any good reason at the time. The Vision Pro was the reason.
Super-Resolution iPhone Panoramas for Vision Pro - ↪︎ When SwiftUI was first released, one of the great features that piqued my interest was the instant preview function. This feature empowers developers to
Using Xcode Previews in UIKit Development | AppCoda - ↪︎ This has come up several times on the forums, but I've never written it up in a standard place, so here it is: **There are only three ways to get run-time polymorphism in Swift.** Well, three and a half.
Run-time Polymorphism in Swift
Links for April 18, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 7:18 AM
- ↪︎ “Coral bleaching is evident across 73 percent of the famed marine park, as abnormally high ocean temperatures propel the world’s fourth mass bleaching event.”
Great Barrier Reef experiencing one of its worst coral bleaching events
Links for April 8, 2024
Posted on Monday, Apr 8, 2024 5:17 PM
- ↪︎ A wetter-than-expected winter combined with an impending dry summer spells a risky few months for fire in Hawaii.
Hawaii Faces An Above Normal Risk Of Significant Wildfires Over The Next Three Months
Links for April 6, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Apr 6, 2024 3:07 PM
- ↪︎ “Neil Peart of RUSH co-wrote with Jeremy Bout (Edge Factor) and did his own voice over in this short film. "Growth Rings" was created in collaboration with DW...”
"Growth Rings: A Short film narrated by Neil Peart" - ↪︎ Sowing The Seeds of Tears For Fears - Documentary
- ↪︎ America’s Last Morse-Code Station — The Atlantic
Links for April 5, 2024
Posted on Friday, Apr 5, 2024 9:09 PM
- ↪︎ The new Xcode bookmarks are FANCY
Xcode Bookmarks
Links for April 4, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Apr 4, 2024 9:36 PM
- ↪︎ “SwiftNIO is Apple non-blocking networking library. It can be used to write either client libraries or server frameworks and works on macOS, iOS and Linux.”
SwiftNIO: Understanding Futures and Promises / ProcessOne - ↪︎ “When he died, admirers believed that he deserved the “gratitude of posterity.” Posterity, of course, has a mind of its own.”
How Captain James Cook Got Away with Murder — The New Yorker
Links for March 31, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2024 9:20 PM
- ↪︎ The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation!
(1247) The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! - YouTube
Links for March 27, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 27, 2024 6:31 PM
- ↪︎ “Low-level framework SwiftNIO developed by Apple corporation is a foundation for all major server-side Swift frameworks: Vapor, Kitura, Smoke. However, none of these instruments comprehensively clarify main concepts and principles of usage of the most important part of NIO’s EventLoopPromise and EventLoopFuture, which leads to fundamental misunderstanding and confusion, and therefore questions like ‘How to get value from Future?’ are asked in all kinds of forums and chats.”
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the EventLoopFuture - ↪︎ Infinite Mac now supports NeXTStep!
Infinite Mac: Turning To The Dark Side
Links for March 26, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 26, 2024 10:13 PM
- ↪︎ I’ll say it again, our representatives should not be able to hold stock. This is corruption in the open.
Ban it already: Lawmakers made $1 billion from stock deals last year
Links for March 25, 2024
Posted on Monday, Mar 25, 2024 3:57 PM
- ↪︎ A long-awaited official cause for the Lahaina fire is being left to Maui County to determine, with help from the federal ATF.
A Number Of Investigations Have Been Launched Into The Maui Fires. Here's Where They're At
Links for March 24, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Mar 24, 2024 6:32 PM
- ↪︎ New Omniverse Cloud APIs to let developers stream interactive, industrial digital twins into Apple Vision Pro.
NVIDIA Omniverse Expands Worlds Using Apple Vision Pro
Links for March 22, 2024
Posted on Friday, Mar 22, 2024 6:08 AM
- ↪︎ First used in Toy Story, the tools revolutionized animation
The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software
Links for March 19, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 8:29 AM
Links for March 17, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Mar 17, 2024 4:08 AM
- ↪︎ Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.
A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It — Popular Mechanics
Links for February 26, 2024
Posted on Monday, Feb 26, 2024 9:14 PM
Links for February 24, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Feb 24, 2024 10:56 PM
- ↪︎ Visiting West Maui after the 2023 fires sheds light on how travelers can help shape the future of tourism in Hawaii.
How Travelers Can Responsibly Visit West Maui Following the Fires
Links for February 20, 2024
Posted on Tuesday, Feb 20, 2024 6:16 PM
- ↪︎ Crazy fast.
Groq - ↪︎ The cat, named Mahina, was rescued by the Maui Humane Society
Cat Reunites with Its Owners in Montana After It Was Displaced by the Maui Wildfires: It 'Took a Village' — People - ↪︎ The new Apple Vision Pro device is almost here, and SwiftUI is the best way to build a visionOS app quickly and natively. This week, we will continue the topic of the new SwiftUI APIs that we can use to adapt our apps to visionOS. We will learn about the new user interface component called ornaments.
visionOS ornaments in SwiftUI
Links for February 18, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Feb 18, 2024 6:06 AM
- ↪︎ “The residence radiates vintage flair with cork flooring, extensive glazing, and beautiful brickwork.”
The Midcentury Home of Textile Artist Mary Jane Leland Hits the Market for $1.3M in L.A. - ↪︎ Company claims to be able to sequester carbon dioxide into the ocean, and solid material as well as produce hydrogen as a byproduct.
Equatic
Links for February 17, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 5:45 PM
- ↪︎ ‘In the 1980s and 1990s, Mystic Fire was a New York-based producer of direct-to-VHS videos at the intersection of art, music, consciousness, and the counterculture. They released films by and…”
Visit Brian Eno's imaginary landscapes and explore his creative process in this 1989 documentary (video) - ↪︎ ‘Venezuela, the despotic economic hole kept running by oil, declared plans to annex most of Guyana, the much smaller country next to it. Guyana, with its cricket and tea, enjoys…”
Venezuela says it will annex most of Guyana—and all of that newly-found oil there - ↪︎ “The RIOS and Foster + Partners-led One Beverly Hills development in Los Angeles has broken ground on a 50-month construction phase that will result in one of the country’s most expensive residential developments upon its opening in 2028. The 17.5-acre development will connect the Beverly Hilton...”
RIOS and Foster + Partners-led One Beverly Hills breaks ground in Los Angeles - ↪︎ “The winners of the 2024 Emerging Voices awards have been announced by the Architectural League of New York, celebrating the 44th cycle of honorees who are said to represent the best practices in addressing contemporary issues in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.”
CANO VERA, AD—WO, HILLWORKS, and others among the 2024 Emerging Voices winners
Links for February 16, 2024
Posted on Friday, Feb 16, 2024 5:20 AM
- ↪︎ The launch of Apple Vision Pro is Apple Retail at its finest. An in-depth look at the demo experience.
The big demo - ↪︎ About
retro.directory - Find Retro and Vintage Shops, Museums, Clubs, Websites and More in our Free Directory! - retro.directory - ↪︎ The Amazon founder made a very public commitment to help rebuild Maui after the August wildfires. Here’s the progress since then.
Here’s What Happened To Jeff Bezos’ $100 Million Pledge Toward Hawaii’s Recovery — Forbes
Links for February 15, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Feb 15, 2024 11:05 PM
- ↪︎ “NEC PC-8801MC The Z80 was a popular processor around the world, powering such classics as the Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.“
PCs of 8bit: The NEC PC-8801MC #RetroComputing - ↪︎ “Revolutionizing patient care & advancing medical solutions, Foster + Partners unveils plans for Mayo Clinic healthcare vision in Rochester, NY.”
Foster + Partners To Design Transformative Healthcare Center for Mayo Clinic in Rochester - ↪︎ Mastering SwiftUI Scenes'. Delve into the world of app structure and learn how to effectively manage UI components, app lifecycle, and multi-window setups. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers, this post offers in-depth insights and practical examples to elevate your iOS app development skills using SwiftUI
Mastering SwiftUI Scenes
Links for February 14, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024 5:28 PM
- ↪︎ LOVE IT
In Austin, a Cantilevered Home Packed With Vintage Vibes Asks $4.5M
Links for February 12, 2024
Posted on Monday, Feb 12, 2024 7:00 AM
- ↪︎ “Learn how to manually symbolicate crash reports using Xcode Organizer, IPS files and dSYM files to generate symbols.”
Symbolicate crash logs with Xcode - ↪︎ “Discover 'How to use @Bindable in SwiftUI' with our detailed tutorial. This guide covers everything from the basics of the @Bindable property wrapper to advanced usage examples. Learn to create responsive and dynamic UIs with SwiftUI's latest features, all explained step-by-step.”
How to use @Bindable in SwiftUI - ↪︎ “As a senior leader, you'll find yourself managing other managers and also senior individual contributors. How on earth do you do this?”
It's all just leadership after all - ↪︎ “Workplace leaders are responsible for helping their teams navigate uncertainty. Developing and relying on guiding strategies can help leaders and teams make it through.”
Employee Engagement Strategies During Uncertainty
Links for February 11, 2024
Posted on Sunday, Feb 11, 2024 5:15 PM
- ↪︎ Officials provided the first comprehensive look at where the 100 victims of the Aug. 8 wildfire were found.
9 Key Revelations in Maui’s First Review of the Lahaina Inferno - ↪︎ A dedicated group of neighbors has tried to fill the breach left by government agencies stretched thin after successive, cascading natural disasters on Maui.
An overlooked Maui community realizes ‘no one is coming to save you’
Links for February 7, 2024
Posted on Wednesday, Feb 7, 2024 2:55 AM
- ↪︎ “A new generation of blood tests can help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's without a brain scan or spinal tap. But only a few perform as well as traditional tests.”
Blood tests can help diagnose Alzheimer's — if they're accurate enough. Not all are
Links for February 2, 2024
Posted on Friday, Feb 2, 2024 10:01 PM
- ↪︎ Apple Vision Pro – available today in the US – is a wearable spatial computer that blends the digital with the physical, heralding a whole new platform for experiencing technology
Apple Vision Pro: exclusive interview with the Apple Design Team
Links for February 1, 2024
Posted on Thursday, Feb 1, 2024 3:15 PM
- ↪︎ Inside Apple Park, the tech giant’s CEO talks about the genesis of a “mind-blowing” new device that could change the way we live and work.
Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
Links for January 20, 2024
Posted on Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 10:18 PM
- ↪︎ Mauka to Makai team formed in wake of wildfire
- ↪︎ In general I think Apple’s APIs are pretty good. However there are the occasional exceptions where my brain, for whatever reason, can’t seem to get a hold on the essence of the API design and results in me constantly looking up the docs. In UIKit, the UIAnimatedTransitioning and UIPresentationController APIs come to mind.
Unfuddling the SwiftUI Alignment Guide API - ↪︎ A peek behind the scenes to see how we make Apple Vision Pro, our first spatial computer. Available for pre-order.Learn More: https://apple.co/4b3klgzAudio D...
Making Apple Vision Pro
Links for December 20, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023 8:40 PM
- ↪︎ In this article, we'll look at view modifiers which we can use to setup a SwiftData model container and model context directly in SwiftUI.
How to get a SwiftData model container and context in SwiftUI - ↪︎ I need a bigger backyard.
Garden Pavilion / coolstock - ↪︎ After studying chimpanzees and bonobos, scientists have documented the longest-lasting nonhuman social memory ever.
A bonobo was separated from her sister for 26 years. She still remembers her. — National Geographic
Links for December 13, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023 8:36 PM
- ↪︎ During WWDC 23, SwiftUI introduced a new view modifier called visualEffect. This modifier allows us to attach a set of animatable visual effects by accessing layout information of the particular view. This week, we will learn how to use the new visualEffect view modifier in SwiftUI.
Visual effects in SwiftUI - ↪︎ Why were those colors chosen to be the default palette for 256-color VGA?
Links for December 11, 2023
Posted on Monday, Dec 11, 2023 10:47 PM
- ↪︎ With the release of Xcode 15, Apple introduced an exciting feature called String Catalogs. This feature aims to streamline the localization process for your
Working with String Catalogs for App Localization in iOS 17 - ↪︎ Foundation framework has many useful implementations, that can make our life easier. One of them is Unit and Measurement APIs.
Unit conversion is easy in Swift - ↪︎ Many people learning Core Data take the following steps when creating their first Core Data app: Create a new Xcode project that uses Core Data. Create Code Dat
Dealing with Core Data Duplicate Class Errors - ↪︎ iOS 17 bring a new trick to animate number in SwiftUI. Let's learn how to do it.
Animating number changes in SwiftUI - ↪︎ Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
- ↪︎ Navigating the Complexities of Date and Time in Programming
You (probably) don't need DateTime - ↪︎ Blazing-fast special effects for your SwiftUI apps.
Introducing Inferno: Metal shaders for SwiftUI - ↪︎ How much more income people need to be happy
- ↪︎ Hobbit Library anyone?
A submerged Japanese library by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP as a ‘tranquil place’ for reading and rest
Links for December 9, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Dec 9, 2023 12:55 AM
- ↪︎ Great resource for debugging 3D printing issues
Print Quality Guide | Simplify3D Software
Links for December 8, 2023
Posted on Friday, Dec 8, 2023 7:07 PM
- ↪︎ Haunted Mansion: Making of by Framestore - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ How to show anchor bottom view in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to Generate a Useful Xcode Gitignore to Avoid Noise in Git
- ↪︎ I would like a mystical portal, please.
This $8M Sea Ranch Dream Home Has a “Mystical Portal” to the Ocean
Links for December 6, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 9:11 PM
- ↪︎ In this post, we’ll take a look at how to customize the macOS menu bar for a SwiftUI app, using SwiftUI tools like CommandMenu and CommandGroup.
How to customize the macOS menu bar in SwiftUI - ↪︎ In this post, we’ll take a look at how to customize the macOS about panel for a SwiftUI app, to let us show custom content.
How to customize the macOS About Panel in SwiftUI - ↪︎ As more companies work to integrate the capabilities of powerful generative AI language and vision models into new and existing software, high-level interaction...
AI Models in Software UI - ↪︎ Please donate to my GoFundMe.
Perched High Above Topanga Canyon, a Woodsy Midcentury Seeks $2.9M
Links for December 5, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 9:53 PM
- ↪︎ Learn how to create reuse styles using ViewModifier.
How to create custom view modifiers in SwiftUI - ↪︎ Learn Swift and iOS Development on tanaschita.com. Stay up to date with guides and tutorials on topics like SwiftUI, Combine, concurrency with async/await and more.
How to migrate to a new schema with SwiftData in iOS - ↪︎ This looks like something straight out of a SciFi movie and I’m here for it.
Ascension Paysagère / MVRDV - ↪︎ Animations were the most powerful feature of SwiftUI from day one. You can quickly build fluid animations in SwiftUI. The only downside was how we control animations whenever we need to run multi-step animation or scope the animation to a particular part of the view hierarchy.
Scoped animations in SwiftUI - ↪︎ One of the more innovative items announced by the Governor’s office when it comes to disaster relief measures is the creation of a Lahaina Recovery Fund. In a press release announcing the measure, the Governor’s Office said that the concept was similar to the 9/11 Fund created in the aftermath of the destruction of the […]
The Lahaina Recovery Fund - ↪︎ Ultra-short laser pulses may allow us to measure entanglement in a way that answers questions about the quantum nature of the vacuum
Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum - ↪︎ Learn how to efficiently store larger amounts of data in SwiftData by using the .externalStorage attribute.
How to store images in SwiftData - ↪︎ alexthecat123/Lisa-GALSCSI-Card: A GAL-based SCSI card for the Apple Lisa
Links for December 4, 2023
Posted on Monday, Dec 4, 2023 6:01 AM
- ↪︎ With Neil Peart they became Canada's most legendary rock group. Lifeson and Lee (author of a new memoir, "My Effin' Life") talk about their particular blend of musicianship; how tragedy upended the band; and what might constitute Rush's next chapter.
Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the band's next chapter — CBS News
Links for December 2, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Dec 2, 2023 4:54 PM
- ↪︎ Gov. Josh Green is proposing using taxpayer and private funds to build new housing and to pay home owners well above market value if they rent long term. Short-term rentals would simply be banned.
Hawaii Governor Wants To Entice Maui Property Owners To Rent To Fire Victims
Links for November 21, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023 5:51 PM
- ↪︎ CASA Game solution archive
CASA - ↪︎ Mini vMac, in a website.
Mini vMac
Links for November 11, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 3:25 AM
- ↪︎ Politicians should not be able to trade stock. They have too much influence, knowledge and power.
Quiver Quantitative (@quiverquantitative) on Threads
Links for November 9, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 3:34 PM
- ↪︎ | REALITY CHECK | The science behind the headlines
Mysterious signals at a US particle smasher could lead to a new force of nature — BBC Science Focus Magazine - ↪︎ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized in Mexico City on Wednesday due to a possible stroke, Mexican media outlets reported, but a TMZ report citing sources suggested the illness was potentially a less serious bout of vertigo.
Apple co-founder Wozniak suffers possible stroke in Mexico -local media — Reuters - ↪︎ Tech entrepreneur Franklin Antonio, the co-founder of California chipmaker Qualcomm, left a generous donation to the alien research community when he passed away last year.
Late tech mogul left South Bay company $200 million for extraterrestrial research — San Francisco Chronicle
Links for November 2, 2023
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- ↪︎ Archaeologists hope to reunite the 18-ton torso of the Assyrian deity with its head, severed by smugglers decades ago
Stunning 2,700-Year-Old Sculpture Unearthed in Iraq — Smithsonian Magazine
Links for October 28, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Oct 28, 2023 5:31 AM
- ↪︎ The Greenhouses, a Timber Eco-District Towards the Lake Geneva | Vincent Callebaut Architectures | Archinect
- ↪︎ The Toolbar API has been available for a considerable period, having been introduced with the release of iOS 14. It was a valuable addition to the SwiftUI
Customizing Toolbar and Navigation Bar in SwiftUI - ↪︎ Those of us who seek - and study - human creativity are besieged with overused tropes. “Think outside the box” and “color outside the lines” are right up
What a Japanese Word Teaches us about Creativity - ↪︎ I have 308/1436 Neanderthal DNA traits according to 23andme. Neat.
New Study Explores Why Some People Have So Much Neanderthal DNA - ↪︎ Anything we can do to kill off Intuit’s stranglehold on keeping taxes complex is a good thing.
The IRS Comes for TurboTax With Free ‘Direct File’ Service in 13 States Next Year - ↪︎ Deeplinks allow you to link to any page in your app externally or inside. If intelligent, you can use them to increase productivity.
Deeplink URL handling in SwiftUI - ↪︎ How Employers Can Support Employee Mental Health
- ↪︎ Category 4 and 5 hurricanes arriving earlier due to climate change, University of Hawaiʻi study finds
- ↪︎ The four completed towers symbolize the Evangelist authors of the Bible’s canonical Gospels. The tallest tower, which represents Christ, will follow in 2026. Some doubts remain as to whether or not the construction timeline can stick to its scheduled completion by the end of that year, which...
Sagrada Familia reaches important construction milestone
Links for October 25, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023 4:54 AM
- ↪︎ COOKFOX has announced plans for a new musical archive and education center dedicated to preserving Bruce Springsteen’s legacy on the campus of Monmouth University in New Jersey. The new Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) will be realized as a 29,000-square-foot...
COOKFOX to design Bruce Springsteen archive at Monmouth University
Links for October 22, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 2:38 AM
- ↪︎ When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?
Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' - ↪︎ This map explainer looks at the Gaza Strip from a structural point of view, delving into geography, infrastructure, demographics, and more.
Map Explainer: The Gaza Strip
Links for October 21, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Oct 21, 2023 11:09 PM
- ↪︎ Value and type parameter packs allow you to write generic functions that accept an arbitrary number of arguments with distinct types
Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples - ↪︎ How the Creator of Alone in the Dark Came Back to Games - The Making of SKEW for Playdate - Playdate News
- ↪︎ Automating RawRepresentable Conformance with Swift Macros
- ↪︎ What does Game Mode do?
- ↪︎ Apple added a content unavailable view in iOS 17. It's available for both SwiftUI and UIKit.
Content Unavailable Views - ↪︎ For All Mankind - Season 4 - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ Highlighting the Selected Item Button in a SwiftUI List
- ↪︎ Today’s challenge: use the standard SwiftUI list view to navigate through a folder structure. All examples I could find work based on a pre-defined nested data structure, but that won’t work for a folder / file hierarchy: the nesting can be so deep that loading performance will be not acceptable. Especially when browsing a network […]
Dynamically loading a hierarchical list in SwiftUI - ↪︎ At WWDC23, Apple introduced SwiftData - a framework which focuses on persisting data by using declarative code. SwiftData uses Swift's new macro system and is designed to work with SwiftUI.
Quick developer guide on SwiftData for iOS - ↪︎ Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer" - Simple Talk
- ↪︎ Gaza Strip size compared to U.S. cities
- ↪︎ Over the past 100 years, Disney has created postmodern hotels, art-deco cinemas, futuristic monorails, fairytale castles and a deconstructivist concert hall. To mark the brand's centenary on 16 October, we round up its 10 most interesting buildings.
Twelve examples of Disney architecture that border on make-believe - ↪︎ Using SymbolEffect to Animate SF Symbols in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Stunning house. Just wow.
Two Spiral Staircases Help Create This Unique Home Design - ↪︎ Neat house, great name.
Pixel House / AGi Architects - ↪︎ In the earlier tutorial, I have walked you through the basics of SwiftData, a new framework introduced in iOS 17 as a replacement for Core Data. If you have
Using SwiftData with Preview in SwiftUI
Links for October 16, 2023
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Links for October 14, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 4:50 AM
- ↪︎ The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.
I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me
Links for October 12, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 3:57 PM
- ↪︎ Vesuvius Challenge $700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student
Links for October 11, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 10:44 PM
- ↪︎ Unit testing async/await logic can be done by marking your unit test as asynchronous and using a new XCTest method.
Unit testing async/await Swift code - ↪︎ The fifth iteration of the SwiftUI framework brings a lot of new APIs related to ScrollView, making it much more powerful than before. This week will begin the series of posts about new abilities of the ScrollView in SwiftUI, and we will start with scroll transitions.
Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Transitions - ↪︎ Integrating a Macintosh SE, and an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer into a modern network: browsing the web, printing with AirPrint, and sharing files
Browsing like it's 1994 - ↪︎ Now that you should understand how to work with a PhotosPicker, let’s see how to embed it in our demo app. What we are going to do is to replace the “Select a
Creating an Inline Photo Pickers in iOS Apps with SwiftUI
Links for October 8, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 6:09 AM
- ↪︎ Preserving the History of Computing
BitHistory.org
Links for October 6, 2023
Posted on Friday, Oct 6, 2023 11:38 PM
- ↪︎ Look everyone, luggable are back!!!
HP wireless all-in-one has 83 Wh rechargeable battery, handle for portability — Ars Technica - ↪︎ One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s.
Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing - ↪︎ The Lost Art of Makefile: A Guide for iOS Developers
Links for October 4, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023 12:58 AM
- ↪︎ TV Market Listings and other OTA TV Info
RabbitEars.Info - ↪︎ Which broadcast channels can you receive for free? It's time you cut the cord!
Antenna Signal Prediction
Links for September 29, 2023
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Links for September 27, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 4:19 AM
- ↪︎ Retail shrink, and theft's role as a share of it, is largely in line with historical norms, even as companies call it out more, according to a major NRF survey.
Retail theft isn't actually increasing much, major industry study finds — CNBC - ↪︎ Designed by the famed architect, the house is hitting the market for $1.5 million
A Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Milwaukee Lists for the First Time in Almost 70 Years — The Wall Street Journal - ↪︎ Lahaina's beloved Banyan three is showing promising signs of resilience, weeks after destructive wildfires tore through the area.
Maui's Banyan Tree Is Miraculously Showing Signs Of Life And Beginning To Bloom, Weeks After The Lahaina Wildfire — UPROXX
Links for September 24, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Sep 24, 2023 5:18 AM
- ↪︎ Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency
- ↪︎ SwiftUI EnvironmentValues
- ↪︎ Designing for the unexpected is hard, if not impossible. However we can train ourselves to make the unpredictable nature of people a part of our design process. Here's what I learned while designing for kids.
Designing for the Unexpected - ↪︎ Beyond the mystique lies a complicated history.
Where Did “Tibetan” Sound Bowls Really Come From? - ↪︎ Quick question: How would you align all subviews horizontally while keeping their centers aligned using autolayout?
Autolayout and aligning subviews - ↪︎ Parse and generate Swift code using SwiftSyntax packages. It is especially useful when writing custom Swift Macros.
SwiftSyntax: Parse and Generate Swift source code - ↪︎ In addition to the PhaseAnimator, SwiftUI introduced the KeyframeAnimator in iOS 17, allowing developers to create advanced animations using keyframes. In
Creating Advanced Animation with KeyframeAnimator in SwiftUI
Links for September 21, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 4:09 PM
- ↪︎ I was watching Succession and this building was in the episode “Dundee”. Gorgeous!
VA& Dundee: A Cliff Hanger - Kengo Kuma & Associates
Links for September 16, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Sep 16, 2023 5:15 AM
- ↪︎ Military laboratory specialists assisting local officials identify human remains cautioned that death tolls sometimes change as body bags are processed.
Death toll from Maui wildfires drops to 97, with 31 missing — The Washington Post
Links for September 7, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Sep 7, 2023 6:37 PM
- ↪︎ The town’s historic preservation group is considering plans to reconstruct some buildings that partially survived the Aug. 8 fire.
Some Historic Lahaina Buildings Could Rise From The Ashes — Honolulu Civil Beat - ↪︎ An open source Nintendo Network replacement that aims to build custom servers for the WiiU and 3DS family of consoles
Pretendo Network - ↪︎ The plaintiffs want a court to force the state to let more water reach the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River.
The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly, and Utah has failed to stop it, a lawsuit contends
Links for September 4, 2023
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Links for September 2, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Sep 2, 2023 6:10 AM
- ↪︎ A Muted Palette Unifies The Interior Of This Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home
- ↪︎ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ Convenience Property Wrappers vs Custom Data Access Layer in SwiftUI
Property Wrappers Vs Data Access Layer - ↪︎ SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondrion in heart, other organs, study finds
- ↪︎ Xcode 15 can automatically create Swift symbols for your resources without any third party. Let's learn how to do it.
Access Images and Colors with Enum in Xcode 15 - ↪︎ OSLog is a unified logging framework available for a long time, but I haven’t adopted it much. But things are about to change with a new feature from WWDC 2023.
Why you should use OSLog in 2023
Links for September 1, 2023
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Links for August 29, 2023
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Links for August 27, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Aug 27, 2023 8:53 PM
- ↪︎ This summer, El Capitan Meadow is being restored by a group of Indigenous youth passionate about protecting the land and culture of their tribes.
A new generation preserves tribal land and culture in America’s national parks - ↪︎ Fundraisers for Maui wildfire victims in Hawaiʻi , California, Washington : Maui Now
Links for August 26, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Aug 26, 2023 4:13 PM
- ↪︎ The Aug. 8 fires in Lahaina and Upcountry killed at least 115 people and left thousands more without their homes and businesses. Here's a look back at the past two weeks.
The Maui Fires In Photos: Devastation And Recovery
Links for August 25, 2023
Posted on Friday, Aug 25, 2023 10:17 PM
- ↪︎ In iOS 17, Apple introduced the SwiftUI Preview Macro for previewing SwiftUI and UIKit views. This tutorial will walk you through its usage.
How to Use the SwiftUI Preview Macro in Xcode
Links for August 23, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 23, 2023 1:27 AM
- ↪︎ As the Hawaiian island starts its recovery from the Lahaina fire, it relies even more heavily on out-of-state visitors than its neighbors
Maui Residents Reckon With How Much Tourism They Want—and How Quickly — The Wall Street Journal - ↪︎ The Lahaina fire – the most devastating of the blazes – burned an estimated 2,170 acres.
How many acres have burned in Maui? — CBS News - ↪︎ In iOS 17, Apple introduced a new and simpler way to make a view response to data changes.
Observation Framework in iOS 17
Links for August 20, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Aug 20, 2023 4:33 PM
- ↪︎ A changing climate is an obvious culprit, with elevated temperatures generating more severe weather, drying out landscapes and then whipping them into an inferno with strong winds
The lush and humid island of Maui wasn’t supposed to burn. Why did it? — The Globe and Mail - ↪︎ Photoshop maker Adobe's co-founder John Warnock died on Saturday aged 82, the company said in a statement early on Sunday.
Adobe co-founder John Warnock dies at 82
Links for August 19, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Aug 19, 2023 5:41 PM
- ↪︎ Residents are also trying to safeguard Upcountry homes from the increased chance of dangerous mudslides.
Race Underway To Glue Down The Lahaina Fire's Toxic Ash Before Rains Wash It Into The Ocean - ↪︎ Sandwich Isles Communications had already buried miles of lines and is in position to extend service to other companies.
Fragile Fiber Lines In Lahaina Were Burned And Battered, Taking Out 911 And Cell Service. Now What? - ↪︎ Foundation’s URL (née NSURL) is a nearly ubiquitous API on Apple platforms. One of its shortcomings is that it is heavily overloaded – an instance of URL cou...
Swift URL absoluteString versus path
Links for August 18, 2023
Posted on Friday, Aug 18, 2023 1:08 AM
- ↪︎ Herman Andaya, administrator of the county’s emergency management agency, had defended his decision not to use the sirens.
Maui's top emergency official is out after failing to sound sirens as fires approached — NBC News
Links for August 17, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 4:09 AM
- ↪︎ The Maui Emergency Management Agency didn't see the sirens as a viable tool to warn Lahaina's people about the incoming blaze.
Maui Emergency Chief Defends Decision Not To Activate Warning Sirens
Links for August 16, 2023
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Links for August 15, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023 10:34 PM
- ↪︎ As the Maui wildfires’ death toll approaches 100, Hawaii’s governor ordered an official review of decisions leading up to the disaster
What to Know About the Government Response to the Maui Wildfires — TIME - ↪︎ The famous tree is "still breathing" – even as ash and rubble cover the world around it.
Amid Maui wildfire ash, Lahaina's 150-year-old banyan tree offers hope as it remains standing
Links for August 13, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Aug 13, 2023 4:05 PM
- ↪︎ Cadaver dogs have searched just 3% of the hardest-hit area.
Death toll in Lahaina rises to 93 as families with missing loved ones are asked for DNA samples - ↪︎ See map and details on fatalities, rescues, resources and other live updates in the wildfires raging across Maui.
LIVE: Maui Wildfire Photos And Updates, Lahaina And Kula
Links for August 12, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Aug 12, 2023 11:47 PM
- ↪︎ Here is what we know about the origin of the Maui fire and how it so rapidly became an unstoppable force that tore through Lahaina.
Anatomy of a monster: Maui fire seemed under control. Then it exploded with lethal force — Los Angeles Times - ↪︎ Before the Maui wildfires, Hawaiian Electric did not have a plan — such as those in California — to power down its electric lines in advance of high winds.
Hawaii utility faces scrutiny for not cutting power to reduce fire risks — The Washington Post - ↪︎ ‘It’s just really frustrating and heartbreaking to see that some things could have been done,’ says author of 2014 report
Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk — The Wall Street Journal - ↪︎ The world doesn’t need more reminders that climate change is accelerating. But we’re going to keep getting them.
Hawaii Is a Warning
Links for August 3, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Aug 3, 2023 8:57 PM
- ↪︎ Detecting Scroll Positions in ScrollView with SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Three ways to create a pivot table in plain SQL.
Building a pivot table in SQLite - ↪︎ Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products - ↪︎ System settings that aren’t in System Settings
Links for August 2, 2023
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Links for August 1, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023 11:32 PM
- ↪︎ Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA today announced the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote the standardization of Universal Scene Description.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA form Alliance for OpenUSD
Links for July 21, 2023
Posted on Friday, Jul 21, 2023 9:25 PM
- ↪︎ My new favorite coding music.
Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. - ↪︎ Watch Footage of Claude Monet Painting in His Famous Garden at Giverny (1915)
- ↪︎ What is software engineering? | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
Links for July 20, 2023
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Links for July 19, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 19, 2023 10:01 PM
- ↪︎ Building a framework for how AI Companies navigate the dark forest of foundation models while deploying large sums of R&D capital
The Dark Forest of R&D and Capital Deployment in AI - ↪︎ Unraveling Int16, Int32, and Int64 in Swift: Key Differences, Code Examples, and Optimization Strategies
- ↪︎ Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.
chrislgarry/Apollo-11: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.
Links for July 16, 2023
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Links for July 15, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Jul 15, 2023 12:37 AM
- ↪︎ This is a really nice design for this.
SwiftUI: Trailing label TextField - ↪︎ Impressive recreation of the vents on an old Datsun. The $600 Creality scanner did a surprisingly good job compared to the $14k scanner.
3D scanning + 3D printing to complete a classic car restoration
Links for July 14, 2023
Posted on Friday, Jul 14, 2023 11:55 PM
- ↪︎ Adding reverse masks to a view to cut out those pixels.
Blendmode trick: SwiftUI reverse mask - ↪︎ Home to many art treasures, Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana has preserved an extraordinary collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings—now showcased in an American exhibition.
The Greatest Museum You’ve Never Heard Of — The Atlantic
Links for July 10, 2023
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Links for July 9, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Jul 9, 2023 8:49 PM
- ↪︎ How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views – Ole Begemann
- ↪︎ Oh… So That's How Hash Tables Work
- ↪︎ 5 Simple Steps to Find Slow Code Using Xcode Time Profiler
- ↪︎ Dynamic member lookup in Swift
- ↪︎ How to initialize @Binding in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Wrapping functions in structs
- ↪︎ The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is Experienced Differently
- ↪︎ Using Swift Reflection
- ↪︎ Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout – Ole Begemann
- ↪︎ Animate SF Symbols with symbolEffect
- ↪︎ Fan creates new USB-Newton cable, no adapters required
- ↪︎ Exploring a new iOS codebase
- ↪︎ I disagree with the idea that sequence diagrams were the only good part of UML, but they are the one part I still use.
Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development - ↪︎ ZSH Cheatsheet
- ↪︎ Improving multiplatform SwiftUI code
- ↪︎ USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube - ISPW board - 0110.be
Links for July 7, 2023
Posted on Friday, Jul 7, 2023 6:54 PM
- ↪︎ A 1920 Berkeley home, shaped by talented female designers across two centuries, is vibrantly updated for modern living
In Berkeley, a 103-year-old home by a pioneering female architect, updated for modern life by interior designer Lauren Geremia — Architectural Digest - ↪︎ Fiber artist Marques Hanalei Marzan carries on the artistic customs of his ancestors
This Hawaiian Artist Weaves Contemporary Style With Ancient Tradition — Smithsonian Magazine
Links for July 5, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023 8:24 PM
- ↪︎ I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn’t go well | Games | The Guardian
I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn’t go well | Dominik Diamond
Links for June 30, 2023
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Links for June 29, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 9:05 PM
- ↪︎ Spanning 25 blocks, 30 sustainable mass timber buildings will add 7,000 new offices and 2,000 new homes.
The largest ‘wooden city’ in the world is going up in Stockholm
Links for June 26, 2023
Posted on Monday, Jun 26, 2023 6:26 PM
- ↪︎ Here’s a big ol list of entertaining rabbit holes to fall down into.
Tangerine Tree - ↪︎ Completed in 2019 in Teg, Sweden. Images by Pavel Sliwka, Larsson Fredrik. The footbridge, which is situated in the city’s recreation area, connects the river’s left bank with the island of Bölesholmarna and links up to a...
Lundabron Bridge / Strasky, Husty a partneri (SHP) - ↪︎ Birdsong is an animated short by CalArts animation student Michelle Cheng. The evocative conservation story was inspired by the experiences of the late
Birdsong, an animation about Hawaii's Kaua'i 'ō'ō - ↪︎ Easy multipart file upload for Swift
Links for June 25, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Jun 25, 2023 1:54 AM
- ↪︎ How to use the @available attribute in Swift
- ↪︎ Using URLSession with async/await in Swift
- ↪︎ Completed in 2019 in San Francisco, United States. Images by Tim Griffith, Matthew Millman, Cesar Rubio. Moscone Center is an expansive collection of light-filled spaces that accommodates a variety of convention-related activities while making strong...
Moscone Center Expansion / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + Mark Cavagnero Associates - ↪︎ These Homes Prove that Prefabrication Doesn't Have to Be Modular or Monotonous
- ↪︎ Exerting Influence Without Authority
- ↪︎ New exhibition celebrates first independent woman architect in U.S., Minerva Parker Nichols
- ↪︎ Global oil production averaged 89.8 million barrels of oil per day in 2021. Here are the world's largest oil producers.
Visualizing the World’s Largest Oil Producers - ↪︎ This map juxtaposes nations and Indian states to provide a new perspective on the world's soon-to-be most populous country
Mapped: The Population of India’s States Compared with Countries - ↪︎ Learn what progress view is and how to use it.
SwiftUI ProgressView - ↪︎ Introduction to antipatterns for retrospectives, and how to refactor your situation for the better
Retrospectives Antipatterns - ↪︎ Musée Mécanique is a “Creepy and Delightful Vintage Arcade in San Francisco.” The arcade is an interactive gallery of old-fashioned penny arcade games and artifacts. You can find it at the Fisherma…
Short documentary about antique arcade Musée Mécanique in San Francisco - ↪︎ Swift In-Out (inout) Parameters
- ↪︎ Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
- ↪︎ From qubits to quantum superposition: How quantum computers work
- ↪︎ MS-DOS game programmers had do deal with several limitations, In this article, we'll go over some of these obstacles and learn how we used the DOS/4GW extender & protected mode to unleash the power of 32-bit DOS.
DOS/4GW and Protected Mode - ↪︎ Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski - ↪︎ Prince’s Legendary Concert at First Avenue in 1983
- ↪︎ A Guided Tour of the NES
- ↪︎ A study finds that certain types of microbes in the gut can be an early warning for Alzheimer's
When Gut Bacteria May Be an Early Sign of Disease - ↪︎ Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep — WIRED
- ↪︎ Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s
- ↪︎ The First Gui? Volscan Controls The Air
- ↪︎ Ancient Sumerian Star Map Reveals Cataclysmic Asteroid Impact
- ↪︎ Are You Confusing Leadership and Control?
- ↪︎ When working on large iOS apps, all the tasks you need to perform before you even get started writing code can begin to consume a lot of time. I’m talking ab...
Make your terminal tell you when it's done - ↪︎ When debugging a large project in Xcode that a large team works on, the console can get quite busy. Logs are everywhere! It can be difficult to sift through ...
Xcode Tip: filtering debugger output - ↪︎ This is neat - Feedbase turns RSS feeds into NNTP posts.
Feedbase - ↪︎ A beginner-friendly tutorial on bitwise operations in C
Demystifying bitwise operations, a gentle C tutorial - ↪︎ Black Soldiers and their Families' Activism during the Antebellum Era
- ↪︎ Chengdu Tianfu City Planning Hall / AND Studio
- ↪︎ Completed in 2022 in Mykonos, Greece. Images by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis , George Fakaros. In a plot with a significant slope and south orientation, located in Choulakia, Mykonos, and overlooking Delos and Rineia islands, we decided to...
Latypi Residence / A31 Architecture - ↪︎ Swift DocC: How to Host Document Archive on Web Server and GitHub Pages
- ↪︎ Use Xcode to develop a multiplatform app
- ↪︎ Merge Sort In Swift
- ↪︎ Visualise the Matthew Effect with Swift Charts
- ↪︎ Three Ways to Refactor Massive SwiftUI Views
- ↪︎ How to use custom names for Swift properties when decoding JSON data
- ↪︎ Developer guide on passkeys for iOS
- ↪︎ Using RSS to ‘Rewild’ What You See
- ↪︎ Mastering charts in SwiftUI: Legends.
Links for June 24, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Jun 24, 2023 11:53 PM
- ↪︎ How to send Remote Push Notifications to an iOS Simulator with Xcode 14
- ↪︎ How to Create an iOS Lock Screen Widget?
- ↪︎ Modern SwiftUI: Testing
- ↪︎ How to Get Started with FMDB using Swift
- ↪︎ How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
- ↪︎ How to Hide Navigation Bar on Scroll in UIKit
- ↪︎ Swift fileprivate vs private
- ↪︎ Resistor Color Band Calculator: Your Go-To App for Effortless Resistor Calculations
Links for June 11, 2023
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Links for May 31, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 5:55 PM
- ↪︎ Interactive US Maps of Noise Exposure
https://sph-umich.shinyapps.io/ahs-inad-2023/
Links for May 3, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10:32 PM
- ↪︎ Economic woes and Fed tightening have taken their toll on the world's most valuable companies. Here's who is still part of the $1T club, and who's not.
The Shrinking Trillion Dollar Market Cap Club
Links for May 1, 2023
Posted on Monday, May 1, 2023 10:40 PM
- ↪︎ Understanding Swift Concurrency’s AsyncStream
- ↪︎ A new study published in the journal Nature Communications Biology suggests that whale songs may actually just be nature’s emo croon. Using an 18-year dataset of humpback whale behavior, the …
Less whaling means less whale wailing - ↪︎ In 2019 an extraordinary team of web development and design celebrities gathered in the offices of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to build an emulator of the original web browser created by Tim Berne…
Steve Jobs - ↪︎ How to Fetch and Show Remote Data on a Widget?
- ↪︎ How to Update or Refresh a Widget?
- ↪︎ Stranger Things - Season 4: Breaking Down The Breakdown - Demomonsters - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ Stranger Things - Season 4: Breaking Down The Breakdown - Vecna & The Demogorgon - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ Adapters in Swift
- ↪︎ SwiftUI custom layout with Simple Layout Engine
- ↪︎ This animation highlights the benefits of investing early on in life by showing how much of your total earnings come from your early years.
Animated Chart: The Benefits of Investing Early in Life - ↪︎ Where do the world's major earthquakes happen? This map highlights the epicenters of earthquakes on record between 1956 and 2022.
Mapped: The World’s Major Earthquakes from 1956‒2022 - ↪︎ A 1933 novel tracks the Nazis’ rise to power in real time.
What It Feels Like When Fascism Starts - ↪︎ How People With Dementia Make Sense of the World
- ↪︎ The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.
Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million - ↪︎ Learn how to re-include an ignored file in .gitignore.
How to whitelist files in .gitignore - ↪︎ Super old, but still very applicable post.
Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change. - ↪︎ OpenRCT2 is the open-source adaption of the classic hit RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. Including online multiplayer, fast-forwarding and numerous bug fixes.
OpenRCT2 OpenRCT2 project - ↪︎ Treasure Trove of Over 1700 Mechanical Animations
- ↪︎ Sharing data with UIActivityViewController - tips & tricks
- ↪︎ Iterating over web socket messages with async / await in Swift
- ↪︎ The 23 Most Anticipated Projects of 2023
- ↪︎ I would live in a pyramid house in the woods. If it has WiFi.
The Pyramid Cabin / Wiki World + Advanced Architecture Lab[AaL]
Links for April 26, 2023
Posted on Wednesday, Apr 26, 2023 6:22 PM
Links for April 25, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 25, 2023 3:38 AM
- ↪︎ Creating an XCFramework
- ↪︎ How to add Launch Screen in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ The sand dunes were imaged as part of a program to see how frost melts on the Red Planet in late winter.
Strange circular dunes on Mars spotted in these NASA photos - ↪︎ SwiftUI views versus modifiers
- ↪︎ Using a UIKit or AppKIt View in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Basics.
- ↪︎ Embrace Swift generics
- ↪︎ Xcode multi-cursor editing (Control-Shift-Click).
Xcode Multi-Cursor Editing - ↪︎ Learn about Swift on the server by creating a simple application using the brand new HTTP server library called: Hummingbird.
Beginner's guide to server-side Swift using the Hummingbird framework - ↪︎ How to Deprecate old API in Swift
- ↪︎ At New York State’s only sea turtle rehabilitation center, workers are nursing a record number of sick patients back to health.
Where New York’s Sick Sea Turtles Go for Rehab and Squid Snacks - ↪︎ How to Turn On Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
- ↪︎ This is fascinating! A ton of mechanics involved.
Reverse-engineering an electromechanical Central Air Data Computer - ↪︎ NCSA Mosaic Turns 20
- ↪︎ Copy on Write in Swift explained with examples
- ↪︎ How to Create a Checkbox in SwiftUI Using ToggleStyle
Links for March 18, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 6:41 PM
- ↪︎ View Composition using ViewModifiers in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Tables Quick Guide
- ↪︎ Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit.
Stop saying “technical debt” - ↪︎ How to create a Popover in iOS using Swift
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Tip: Always correct corner radius for subviews
- ↪︎ How to: Implementing “Shared with You” APIs
- ↪︎ Semantic Colors and Styles
- ↪︎ Building a Scrollable Custom Tab Bar in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Pete Docter on Pixar's Future, Where Lightyear Went Wrong
- ↪︎ PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future | Ars Technica
Links for March 4, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 11:15 PM
- ↪︎ Five Sleep Habits That Could Be the Key to a Longer Life
- ↪︎ This is awesome
"The Office" but Pam is everyone [deepfake] - ↪︎ Six Principles for Focus and Simplicity
- ↪︎ Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice James DeLong, the Termini Residence is seeking $2.1M.
A Historic L.A. Home Just Hit the Market for the First Time in 70 Years - ↪︎ What Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch
- ↪︎ California’s last remaining nuclear power plant will definitely remain open at least a couple more years, and the state wants it running until 2023, but PG&E wants it running another 20 years.
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Gets Reprieve to Stay Open Past 2025, Could Be Running Another 20 Years - ↪︎ That’s too bad — the lights were so pretty.
Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge Scheduled To Be Shut Off Sunday Night - ↪︎ Keyframe animations in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Those polygons got out of hand.
Butterfly Studio, 2008 | Valerie Schweitzer Architects | Archinect - ↪︎ Stunning archways.
Adjaye Associates completes Abrahamic Family House, a collection of religious spaces that ‘dissolves the notion of hierarchal difference’ - ↪︎ Recreating The iOS Timer App In SwiftUI
- ↪︎ This really nails it.
Things to know before becoming an Engineering Manager - ↪︎ I’m a bit too excited about this.
The classic Apple Books page turn animation is back in iOS 16.4, here’s how it works
Links for March 2, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Mar 2, 2023 4:20 AM
- ↪︎ The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
Links for February 26, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Feb 26, 2023 3:58 AM
- ↪︎ You don't need protocols
- ↪︎ A pirate's ride for me!
- ↪︎ 15 People We Could See As The Next Black President
- ↪︎ Storing a Swift Enum in Core Data
- ↪︎ Iconic Santa Cruz landmark to be destroyed
- ↪︎ Windows on ARM comes to the Mac… officially
- ↪︎ Teller Reveals His Secrets
- ↪︎ Rewriting a Git repo to remove secrets from the history
- ↪︎ sips: Scriptable image processing system
- ↪︎ How Silicon Valley Moguls Save Millions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
- ↪︎ State E-bike Incentive Program Is Still a Ways Off
- ↪︎ How To Speed Up Swift By Ordering Conformances
- ↪︎ How Ancient Humans Came to Cope With the Cold
- ↪︎ An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches
- ↪︎ How to Create Configurable Widgets With Static Options?
- ↪︎ Using User Defaults to store preferences in Swift
- ↪︎ Mastering charts in SwiftUI Customizations
- ↪︎ The Evolution of Barack Obama
- ↪︎ Great Black Autobiographies You Must Add to Your Reading List
- ↪︎ Year in review: top 10 houses of 2022
- ↪︎ The Fendi factory in Tuscany disappears into the landscape
- ↪︎ EnumArray in Swift
- ↪︎ Compose custom layouts with SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Build a Live Barcode and Text Scanner iOS App with SwiftUI & VisionKit iOS 16 API
- ↪︎ Mastering the Art of Letting Go
Links for February 23, 2023
Posted on Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 4:06 AM
Links for February 13, 2023
Posted on Monday, Feb 13, 2023 6:10 AM
Links for February 11, 2023
Posted on Saturday, Feb 11, 2023 4:55 PM
- ↪︎ Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView
- ↪︎ Constant Springs Residence
- ↪︎ Reminds me of buildings in the movie Toys.
Miwo Hotel / AT DESIGN - ↪︎ Computer archaeology with a modern language (and a bit more runtime work)
Rescuing Files From Classic Mac OS...with Swift!
Links for February 3, 2023
Posted on Friday, Feb 3, 2023 4:46 PM
Links for January 20, 2023
Posted on Friday, Jan 20, 2023 12:47 AM
- ↪︎ The Apple Lisa Source code has been released!!
The Lisa: Apple's Most Influential Failure - CHM
Links for January 17, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023 3:16 PM
Links for January 15, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Jan 15, 2023 11:59 PM
- ↪︎ Building custom layout in SwiftUI. LayoutValueKey.
- ↪︎ OptionSet in Swift explained with code examples
- ↪︎ Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas? - Our World in Data
- ↪︎ Meet distributed actors in Swift
- ↪︎ Thre staircases in this house are everything.
GD House | ESQUISSOS | Archinect - ↪︎ In-Browser emulation of a *ton* of different platforms! IBM-PC era, TI-57 Calculators, PDP-11/70, this is nuts.
PCjs Machines - ↪︎ Presenting Sheets Of Various Heights In SwiftUI
- ↪︎ OpenSFHistory Top Ten: The Bridges of Golden Gate Park
- ↪︎ Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts - Our World in Data
- ↪︎ How to allow landscape for single screen in your UIKit app
- ↪︎ Visualized: The Biggest Donors of the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
- ↪︎ The Best Black Movies of 2022
- ↪︎ Mastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. NavigationPath.
- ↪︎ How to use FormatStyle to restrict TextField input in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to remove the Last row separator in SwiftUI List
- ↪︎ me likey.
Abrigo Alto / gru.a | ArchDaily
Links for January 8, 2023
Posted on Sunday, Jan 8, 2023 3:54 PM
- ↪︎ Why America Doesn’t Build What It Invents
- ↪︎ Mastering Dynamic Island in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Labeled Content
- ↪︎ How do transistors work, anyway?
- ↪︎ Sheets in SwiftUI explained with code examples
- ↪︎ How to check if an Element is in an Array in Swift
- ↪︎ The supply chain is key for the renewable energy revolution, and this chart visualizes where the world's solar panels are manufactured.
Visualizing China’s Dominance in the Solar Panel Supply Chain - ↪︎ Enum explained in-depth with code examples in Swift
- ↪︎ The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz
Links for January 3, 2023
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023 3:32 AM
- ↪︎ The history of the packaging of Agnostura bitters is quite amusing.
When Life Gives You Angostura, Make A Cocktail … - ↪︎ SwiftUI Scrollable View Backgrounds
- ↪︎ AIA Brooklyn celebrates nine winning projects for its 2022 BKDA Design Awards
- ↪︎ This Octagonal Spiderweb-Shaped Structure Is A Home For A Family In Japan
Links for January 2, 2023
Posted on Monday, Jan 2, 2023 1:28 AM
- ↪︎ Sloping Rooflines Overhang The Separate Wings Of This Home
- ↪︎ Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen’
- ↪︎ Visualizing the Water Accessibility Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ↪︎ What's new in Nearby Interaction
- ↪︎ That’s one huge skate ramp.
Science and Innovation Center VIZIUM / Audrius Ambrasas Architects - ↪︎ Cute. It looks like a 50’s camper.
World's first 100% bio-based 3D printed home unveiled at the University of Maine - ↪︎ Very organic and gorgeous.
Elegant Cathedral-Like Wood Columns Support A Canopy Over This New Supermarket - ↪︎ SwiftUI Multi-line Text Fields
- ↪︎ A powerful UINavigationController API that you might not know about
- ↪︎ Did you know that Soy sauce and Shoyu are 2 different things?
What is Shoyu and why calling soy sauce "SHOYU" is wrong - ↪︎ 90 different elements form the building blocks for everything on Earth. Some are being used up, and soon could be endangered.
The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements - ↪︎ A History of Alternative Currencies Before Cryptocurrency
Links for December 20, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 20, 2022 11:18 PM
- ↪︎ There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge (there is one)
There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge. - ↪︎ Understanding Crash Reports on iPhone OS
- ↪︎ Using Core Data With CloudKit
- ↪︎ The craft of SwiftUI API design: Progressive disclosure
- ↪︎ Sprites mods - A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
- ↪︎ What is Swift Computed Property
- ↪︎ What is the difference between #available and @available
- ↪︎ Corbin makes some really gorgeous wood bowls and other carpentry. He setup a shop on Etsy, check it out!
Corbin’s Workshop Store on Etsy - ↪︎ The evolution of whales from land to sea
- ↪︎ The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops
- ↪︎ Providing a default value for a SwiftUI Binding
- ↪︎ Applying complex gestures to a SwiftUI view
- ↪︎ What is the difference between List and ForEach in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Showing a Swift Enum’s Values in a SwiftUI Picker
- ↪︎ The Two Faces of Codable/Serde
- ↪︎ How to resolve merge conflicts for long-lived branches
- ↪︎ The Morning After: Black Women and the March on Washington
- ↪︎ Searchable vs. Textfield in a sheet deployed with presentationDetents
Searchable vs. Textfield in a sheet deployed with presentationDetents - ↪︎ Testing async/await exceptions
- ↪︎ Understanding SwiftUI view lifecycles
- ↪︎ clipped() doesn’t affect hit testing
- ↪︎ Where View.task gets its main-actor isolation from
- ↪︎ The Apple II Yellowstone Floppy Interface
- ↪︎ Add name for debugging
- ↪︎ I/O is no longer the bottleneck
- ↪︎ Shortcuts: Automating the Mac
- ↪︎ SortComparator and SortDescriptor
- ↪︎ The Complete Angler in paintings 1
- ↪︎ ARC in Swift: Basics and beyond
- ↪︎ Colour Notes 12: Monochrome paintings
- ↪︎ This castles a keep-er
- ↪︎ Explainer: Machine learning
- ↪︎ COVID-19 Pandemic Fuels Worst Decline in Childhood Vaccinations in 30 Years
- ↪︎ Paintings of the Vienna Secession 1: Gustav Klimt
- ↪︎ Meet Background Assets
- ↪︎ Use Xcode for server-side development
- ↪︎ Hello Swift Charts
- ↪︎ Mapped: The World’s Countries Compared by 20 Key Metrics
- ↪︎ Old post from July:
Happy Birthday, Dada, 106 today
Happy Birthday, Dada, 106 today
Links for December 12, 2022
Posted on Monday, Dec 12, 2022 12:32 AM
- ↪︎ If the Defense Department can't get its books straight, how can it be trusted with a budget of more than $800 billion per year?
The Pentagon fails its fifth audit in a row
Links for December 11, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Dec 11, 2022 5:52 PM
- ↪︎ UHMMM I might need to go to Kansas City.
Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks Live in Kansas City, MO August 19, 2023
Links for December 10, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Dec 10, 2022 10:15 PM
- ↪︎ When to “address” “technical debt”? | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
- ↪︎ This is going to become more important…
Mapped: Countries With the Highest Flood Risk - ↪︎ This interactive graphic shows a breakdown of how average Americans spend their money, and how expenses vary across generations.
How Do Americans Spend Their Money, By Generation? - ↪︎ Add color gradients and drop shadows to your SwiftUI views.
SwiftUI gradients and shadow styles - ↪︎ Xcode 14 can finally automatically generate all of the app icon sizes for you.
Xcode 14 Single Size App Icon - ↪︎ This is awesome.
Weird Old Book Finder - ↪︎ Ever wonder what's most active on Wikipedia?
Wikiscan
Links for December 9, 2022
Posted on Friday, Dec 9, 2022 11:04 PM
Links for December 8, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Dec 8, 2022 5:48 AM
Links for December 7, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022 5:50 PM
- ↪︎ The James Webb observatory has sparked a new era in astronomy
How JWST Is Changing Our View of the Universe - ↪︎ Transamerica Pyramid at 50: San Francisco Icon Enters a New Era With $400M Redevelopment
Links for December 6, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 6, 2022 4:00 PM
Links for December 3, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Dec 3, 2022 5:24 AM
- ↪︎ Collectively, worldwide billionaire wealth is nearly $12 trillion. This map breaks down where these 3,311 billionaires live around the globe.
Mapped: The World’s Billionaire Population, by Country - ↪︎ SwiftUI ViewThatFits makes it easier to build adaptive layouts.
SwiftUI View That Fits - ↪︎ Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 5 Hypervisors and virtualisation
- ↪︎ Painting the fruitfulness of Autumn/Fall 2
- ↪︎ Why Ventura’s Stage Manager is so important
- ↪︎ The Bridge House / Vallely Architecture
Links for December 1, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Dec 1, 2022 9:50 PM
- ↪︎ The Computer History Museum and Adobe have released the original source code to PostScript.
PostScript: A Digital Printing Press - CHM
Links for November 28, 2022
Posted on Monday, Nov 28, 2022 4:48 PM
Links for November 27, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Nov 27, 2022 5:46 AM
- ↪︎ Xcode Multiplatform App Targets
- ↪︎ Saving Images in Core Data
- ↪︎ Combining opaque return types with primary associated types
- ↪︎ Simple Universal Modem Helps Save And Load Data From Tape
- ↪︎ Growing a mango tree from a seed, a year-long time-lapse
- ↪︎ SwiftUI zIndex: Everything you need to know
- ↪︎ 10 Drawings That Changed Architecture
- ↪︎ How to create Rounded Corners Button in UIKit
- ↪︎ SortComparator and SortDescriptor
- ↪︎ What's New in Xcode 14 Previews
- ↪︎ Still Life History: Fish
- ↪︎ Impressionist painting in Britain: 5 Elizabeth Forbes
- ↪︎ Can particles really be in two places at the same time?
- ↪︎ How to get index and value from for loop in Swift
- ↪︎ For loop in SwiftUI using ForEach
- ↪︎ Growth of renewables puts them on par with nuclear in US
- ↪︎ The cost of war damage to Ukraine's buildings and infrastructure has reached $127 billion
- ↪︎ 10 architectural facades that stood out this week
- ↪︎ On the disappearance of American starter homes
Links for November 25, 2022
Posted on Friday, Nov 25, 2022 6:43 PM
Links for November 23, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 23, 2022 2:46 AM
- ↪︎ How to make SwiftUI button with buttonStyle expand to full width
- ↪︎ Touch ID on a Mac desktop, deconstructed
- ↪︎ Disk encryption, FileVault and hardware encryption
- ↪︎ Blur in paintings: 2 depth and movement
- ↪︎ This 16mm film is a wonderful trip thru 1969 Disneyland
- ↪︎ The Lexicon Origins of People of Color
- ↪︎ Spirited - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ How To Create Custom UICollectionViewListCell Using SwiftUI
- ↪︎ SwiftUI AnyLayout - smooth transitions between layout types
- ↪︎ Custom Layout in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ The Visions of Octavia Butler
- ↪︎ "Brutalism was the Greatest Architectural Movement in History. Change My Mind."
- ↪︎ Innovation in Sustainability is Driving Green Building Trends in the Construction Industry
- ↪︎ Suspension House / Fougeron Architecture
Links for November 22, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Nov 22, 2022 3:57 PM
- ↪︎ Alternate App Icon Configuration in Xcode
- ↪︎ @ViewBuilder usage explained with code examples
- ↪︎ How to save enum in UserDefaults using Swift
- ↪︎ Two atomic clocks have been quantum entangled for the first time
- ↪︎ How Einstein Arrived at His Theory of General Relativity
- ↪︎ Movable Type: The Buddhists Were First
- ↪︎ Koichi Takada Architects’ Latest Tower Is Creating Major Waves on Australia’s Golden Coast
Links for November 20, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 1:00 AM
Links for November 15, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Nov 15, 2022 3:51 PM
Links for November 14, 2022
Posted on Monday, Nov 14, 2022 3:38 PM
- ↪︎ Buddha's approach to making friends
- ↪︎ Teaching Black Perspectives
- ↪︎ Researchers show off iPhone and iPad brain-control tech in accessibility breakthrough
- ↪︎ How to launch iPhone simulator with arguments
- ↪︎ Embracing Core Data in SwiftUI
Embracing Core Data In Swiftui - ↪︎ Using The Proxy Pattern In Swift 5
- ↪︎ SwiftUI AnyLayout: Changing Layout with HStack and VStack
- ↪︎ Debirdify - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
Debirdify - ↪︎ Ocean Beach
Links for November 13, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Nov 13, 2022 4:23 PM
- ↪︎ Sharing cross-platform code in SwiftUI apps
- ↪︎ Automatically assign milestones with GitHub Actions
- ↪︎ Supporting universal links in a SwiftUI application
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Progress View
- ↪︎ How to change a navigation bar color in SwiftUI on iOS 16
- ↪︎ Loop n times in Swift
- ↪︎ The world has recently become less democratic
- ↪︎ I need a house in the woods.
Analog House / Olson Kundig + Faulkner Architects - ↪︎ Holy gorgeous kitchens, Batman.
15 Open Kitchens That Connect the Inside With the Outside - ↪︎ The power of Compositional Layout
- ↪︎ How to Use SwiftUI Gauge and Create Custom Gauge Styles
- ↪︎ Pitfall of Nested ObservableObject
Links for November 10, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Nov 10, 2022 6:28 PM
Links for November 9, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022 5:07 AM
Links for November 6, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Nov 6, 2022 4:32 PM
- ↪︎ Stranger Things – Season 4
- ↪︎ Server Guides Now on Swift.org
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Gauge
- ↪︎ In photos: Journey to the center of a quantum computer
- ↪︎ Async Composable Architecture
- ↪︎ Host and Automate your DocC documentation
- ↪︎ Fascinating new time lapse of Kilauea Volcano from Big Island of Hawaii
- ↪︎ Perforated Metal Panels Cover The Exterior Of This Apartment Building In Brazil
- ↪︎ The 17-minute video describes the bizarre Cicada 3301 mystery
- ↪︎ Mariposa Garden House / Renée del Gaudio
- ↪︎ Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs talk Steve Jobs's legacy, Tesla design, and much more
- ↪︎ Replacing if let in Swift 5.7
- ↪︎ Memory management in Combine
- ↪︎ The Many Capabilities of Proxy Icons
- ↪︎ IMAP is such a pain to implement. Glad someone did this 😊
Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP - ↪︎ The Hunt For A Rare Version Of IBM’s OS/2
Links for November 3, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Nov 3, 2022 11:50 PM
- ↪︎ Maui Beach Erosion
- ↪︎ Conditional layouts in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Mastering grid layout in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to get notification userInfo at launch
- ↪︎ Well that’s innovative!
Solving mazes with spring kinematics - ↪︎ Getting started with the SwiftUI NavigationSplitView
- ↪︎ Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.
- ↪︎ Where restaurant chains dominate
- ↪︎ A Beginner's Guide to NavigationSplitView in SwiftUI for iOS 16
- ↪︎ How to Encode Null Using JSONEncoder?
- ↪︎ Holy wow.
Incredible artist simultaneously draws six portraits, upside down, with her hands and feet - ↪︎ LOL. I love this.
Pregnant woman once again ticketed for driving in a Texas HOV lane - ↪︎ Now this is a GREAT use case for AR.
AR Glasses Allow Deaf People to “See” Conversations
Links for November 2, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 2, 2022 11:12 PM
- ↪︎ Good documentary about the impact tourism has on local communities.
The Last Tourist - ↪︎ Make your SwiftUI view modifiers safer
- ↪︎ Please compost me.
Human remains can legally now be used as compost in California - ↪︎ Type Safety with Enums
Links for October 31, 2022
Posted on Monday, Oct 31, 2022 2:17 AM
- ↪︎ When implementing App Shortcuts with App Intents, it can be a bit daunting to localize everything.
Below is a small inventory of each String, and how to translate them. But first…
The big picture
After wandering the net without finding anything that worked, I reached out to Andrea Gottardo who
Localizing App Shortcuts with App Intents - ↪︎ Well, that’s just clean and gorgeous. I love the surf board look of the roof.
Edgewater Beach House | Bialosky | Archinect - ↪︎ @AppStorage is a property wrapper for UserDefaults, provided by SwiftUI framework. It is very simple to use, but in practice, some simple things are not obvious.
AppStorage, and observing a Binding - ↪︎ Someone complained that putting Swift in the OS has only made things worse for developers. That's valid, but misses the point.
Swift was always going to be part of the OS
Links for September 12, 2022
Posted on Monday, Sep 12, 2022 2:16 AM
Links for September 9, 2022
Posted on Friday, Sep 9, 2022 5:23 AM
Links for August 27, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Aug 27, 2022 4:16 PM
- ↪︎ Do Spiders Dream of Electric Webs?
Spiders show signs of REM-like activity, raising the question: Do they dream? - ↪︎ E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper, RIP
- ↪︎ Behind the glassy façade of Apple’s newest London store lies an AR art wonderland
- ↪︎ Apple Brompton Road arrives at Knightsbridge Estate
- ↪︎ Comparing Gun Laws and Gun-Related Deaths Across America
- ↪︎ Timeline: The Domestication of Animals
- ↪︎ Grand 1910 Bay Area Residence, Once Home to CA Supreme Court Justice, Listed For Sale
- ↪︎ How to use popover in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to select in List in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to Use the SwiftUI PhotosPicker
- ↪︎ Eager Grids with SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Bottom sheet API in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Some keyword in Swift: Opaque types explained with code examples
- ↪︎ Saving Passwords in the Keychain in Swift
Links for August 23, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022 3:04 AM
Links for August 20, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Aug 20, 2022 1:33 AM
Links for August 17, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022 5:39 AM
Links for August 10, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 10, 2022 4:58 AM
- ↪︎ Simulating A Moving Location In iOS
- ↪︎ How to add a Diagnostic Mode using Settings.bundle and SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Thunderbolt 3 vs. USB 3: Which One Fits Your Needs
- ↪︎ Simple and clean. I always love the combination of wood and concrete.
House in Cacia / BAU.UAU Arquitectura - ↪︎ The Building That Moved: How Did They Move an 11,000-Ton Telephone Exchange Without Suspending Its Operations?
- ↪︎ Hide keyboard when scrolling in SwiftUI with scrollDismissesKeyboard
- ↪︎ Airbnb Swift style guide on iOS Dev Tools
Links for August 9, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 9, 2022 4:24 AM
- ↪︎ Using .allSatisfy in Swift
- ↪︎ Everyone loves grass covered houses, or is it just me?
SHIROIYA Hotel / Sou Fujimoto Architects
Links for August 7, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Aug 7, 2022 11:44 PM
- ↪︎ Is this rare Apple computer up for auction a Woz-built original? We asked Woz himself
- ↪︎ Macintosh System 6 Simulator for @playdate!
System 6 Pocket - A Classic Macintosh "Simulator"
Links for August 5, 2022
Posted on Friday, Aug 5, 2022 10:17 PM
Links for August 1, 2022
Posted on Monday, Aug 1, 2022 2:33 AM
- ↪︎ Backblaze’s yearly hard drive life expectancy report
- ↪︎ Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle.
- ↪︎ Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Canvas, Path, Shape, and View
- ↪︎ Foster + Partners-designed Brompton Road Apple store debuts the tech giant's new focus on AR
- ↪︎ BIG and Barcode complete cantilevering residential building on Amsterdam waterfront
- ↪︎ Apple Brompton Road store opening: A 360-degree video tour
- ↪︎ Play procedurally generated ambient music while you work
- ↪︎ Nuclear energy is clean
- ↪︎ Atari 2600 Field Service Manual
Links for July 30, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Jul 30, 2022 12:20 AM
Links for July 29, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jul 29, 2022 11:55 PM
- ↪︎ Neat use of a material in a non-traditional place.
Clay Roof Tiles Were Used For The Interior Design Of This Coffee Shop In Mexico - ↪︎ Pizza Exchange Rate
- ↪︎ Uncompressing Folders in Swift
- ↪︎ It’s perfect.
Insanely detailed VR simulation of a Kmart - ↪︎ Building an Accessible Custom Tab Bar
- ↪︎ Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5
- ↪︎ I love the exterior of this building (and the interior is pretty sweet too)
Orange Village / Koffi & Diabaté Architectes - ↪︎ Using ImageRenderer to Convert SwiftUI Views into Images
Links for July 23, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Jul 23, 2022 4:50 AM
- ↪︎ The Overthrow of Hawaii
- ↪︎ SwiftUI ImageRenderer: How to Create PDF Documents
- ↪︎ A Boy And His Atom is the world's smallest movie
- ↪︎ Active shooter endings
- ↪︎ Generics in Swift explained with code examples
- ↪︎ Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works. Beautiful.
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Links for July 22, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jul 22, 2022 7:35 PM
Links for July 21, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Jul 21, 2022 1:09 AM
Links for July 19, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2022 6:06 PM
- ↪︎ Bring your driver to iPad with DriverKit
- ↪︎ No surprise.
Americans’ Confidence In Media Falls To Record Lows, Poll Finds - ↪︎ I have no complaints, but I guess I’m the target market.
How ‘Stranger Things’ is fueling an obsession with the 1980s—and why this nostalgia is unique - ↪︎ Chris Brenchley, a meteorologist in Honolulu, said wave height was "the largest it’s been in several decades”
Big Waves in Hawaii Partly Attributed to Rising Sea Levels - ↪︎ Light & Magic - The Art of VFX
- ↪︎ Shrinking middle-class
- ↪︎ How iOS 16 makes your app launch faster
- ↪︎ California high-speed rail project secures critical $4.2B for Central Valley line
- ↪︎ You must be kidding me.
A billion pounds of California almonds are stranded at facilities - ↪︎ No.
Can We Eat Buildings? Thoughts About Edible Buildings Made of Earth - ↪︎ Vantem is Building Cost-Effective Net Zero Housing
- ↪︎ 170th Anniversary of Antoni Gaudí, an Icon of Modernist Architecture in Barcelona
Links for July 18, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jul 18, 2022 4:25 AM
- ↪︎ The Slave Port of Bimbia
- ↪︎ CP/M is really open-source now
- ↪︎ How virtualization is important to the future of macOS – The Eclectic Light Company
- ↪︎ Turns out quicksand is a real thing we should be worried about. 😜
Once again, the Millennium Tower is sinking and tilting faster than before | Boing Boing
Links for July 17, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Jul 17, 2022 11:31 PM
- ↪︎ I'm ready. Bring it.
New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t. - The Atlantic - ↪︎ How to add swipe actions to Collection View
- ↪︎ How to create a list with Compositional Layout
- ↪︎ Cool book of old school car renderings
- ↪︎ Impressionist painting in Britain: 4 Philip Wilson Steer
- ↪︎ Impressionist painting in Britain: 3 The New English Art Club
- ↪︎ If you want to try out the beta of macOS Ventura, but don't have a spare disk, use the free UTM to create a virtual machine.
Install macOS Ventura Beta in a Virtual Machine on an M1 or M2 Mac with UTM - The Mac Security Blog - ↪︎ The Facade Design Pattern In Swift
- ↪︎ Background tasks in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son Invented Lincoln Logs, “America’s National Toy” (1916)
- ↪︎ How Pixar’s Movement Animation Became So Realistic: The Technological Breakthroughs Behind the Animation
- ↪︎ SNES Manual Archive
- ↪︎ A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1
- ↪︎ The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak
- ↪︎ “Columbo” shows the benefits of asking just one more thing
Links for July 15, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jul 15, 2022 5:41 AM
Links for July 8, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jul 8, 2022 4:56 AM
- ↪︎ Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C
- ↪︎ New if let shorthand for optional binding
- ↪︎ How to change status bar color in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Upscaling The Sierras
- ↪︎ How Does NTP Work?
- ↪︎ Christine McVie Releases Orchestral 'Songbird' and discusses Fleetwood Mac's Future
- ↪︎ A Jumble Of Unique Balcony Shapes Cover This Building's Exterior
- ↪︎ Formatting in UI
- ↪︎ Electricity Use Would Surge under California’s New Climate Plan
- ↪︎ Santa Clara among 16 Cities Announced as Hosts for 2026 World Cup
- ↪︎ An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
- ↪︎ Explainer: WindowServer
- ↪︎ Shipwrecks in paintings 2
- ↪︎ Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 1 How well does it work?
- ↪︎ Francisco Goya: 7 Gathering darkness
- ↪︎ 5 Essential Qualities Of A Mindful Leader
- ↪︎ Good overview of SwiftUI changes for macOS
SwiftUI for Mac 2022 - ↪︎ How to use NSPersistentCloudKitContainer
- ↪︎ The Unloved Freeway: A Closer Look
- ↪︎ Stranger Things - Season 4: Behind the Running Up That Hill Scene
- ↪︎ Stranger Things - Season 4: The Duffer Brothers Break Down the Demogorgon Fight
Links for July 5, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 5, 2022 10:51 PM
- ↪︎ Explore how architects are incorporating surrounding water landscapes in their interior designs.
Tide Side: 6 Coastal Designs That Use Water as an Architectural Element - ↪︎ SwiftUI Renderers and Their Tricks
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Stack Custom Center Alignment
- ↪︎ Xcode 13 adds column breakpoints which work like a more granular version of line breakpoints.
Xcode Column Breakpoints - ↪︎ Juneteenth Is a Federal Holiday, but in Most States It’s Still Not a Day Off
- ↪︎ Can you back up iCloud documents?
- ↪︎ Paintings of Paul Signac 11: The Twenties
- ↪︎ How to create multiline TextField in SwiftUI
Links for July 4, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jul 4, 2022 6:04 AM
Links for June 29, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 29, 2022 1:32 AM
Links for June 20, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jun 20, 2022 4:23 PM
- ↪︎ Big headed Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!
- ↪︎ Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo
- ↪︎ How to use UICalendarView in iOS
- ↪︎ Create a mac menu bar app in SwiftUI with MenuBarExtra
- ↪︎ ‘Minority Report’ Tried to Warn Us About Technology
- ↪︎ Mastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. Navigator Pattern.
- ↪︎ Announcing the Language Workgroup
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Grid - The complete Guide
- ↪︎ White Christian Nationalism ‘Is a Fundamental Threat to Democracy’
- ↪︎ Swift Charts
Michael Tsai - Blog - Swift Charts - ↪︎ Smaller Static Sites with New Formats
- ↪︎ Timber Tutorial: How to Build Taller with Wood
Links for June 13, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2022 1:49 AM
- ↪︎ The “well regulated” part is very important. We seem to have ignored it.
Don’t Forget the First Half of the Second Amendment — The Atlantic
Links for June 12, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Jun 12, 2022 6:34 PM
Links for June 11, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Jun 11, 2022 4:40 AM
- ↪︎ Gorgeous work.
A Side table not to be sidelined - ↪︎ OMG LEGO ROLLERCOASTERS
LEGO reveals 10303 Loop Coaster as next Fairground Collection set - ↪︎ Faux Dependency Injection for Storyboards
- ↪︎ iOS Crash Logs On iCloud Synced Devices
- ↪︎ What is new in SwiftUI after WWDC22
- ↪︎ WorldWideWeb, Part II • The Breakroom
- ↪︎ A Brief History of Ibiza’s Instant City
- ↪︎ How to code sign on CI along with Xcode auto sign
- ↪︎ How to communicate between SwiftUI and UIKit?
- ↪︎ Catching Bugs with Unit Tests
- ↪︎ Investigation of Nazi uranium could help stop modern nuclear smuggling
- ↪︎ This is what makes the quantum world so strange and confusing
- ↪︎ Wheel Mouse Support Under IRIX
- ↪︎ Francisco Goya: 8 Lives of Saints
- ↪︎ SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- ↪︎ Understanding Foundation
- ↪︎ Explore advanced project configuration in Xcode
Links for June 10, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jun 10, 2022 7:32 PM
- ↪︎ Collection of syntax websites
Syntax - ↪︎ Advanced Debugging with Xcode and LLDB
- ↪︎ Sharing code between iOS and OS X
- ↪︎ Histomap: Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power
- ↪︎ Amazon is working on a live-action Blade Runner 2099 TV show from Ridley Scott
- ↪︎ How to allow multiple selection in List in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Reject: John Brett’s breathtaking view of Florence
Links for June 1, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 1, 2022 2:15 AM
- ↪︎ Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas
- ↪︎ Writing Unit Tests for Edge Cases
- ↪︎ Why it might be impossible to build a practical quantum computer
- ↪︎ Bleached coral can suffer long-lasting reproductive effects.
Rumors of This Coral’s Survival Were Greatly Exaggerated - ↪︎ Explainer: File systems
- ↪︎ Francisco Goya: 5 Four seasons
- ↪︎ From Past to Future: The Urgency of "Green" in Architecture
- ↪︎ Managing multiple github SSH keys on mac
Links for May 31, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 2:03 AM
Links for May 30, 2022
Posted on Monday, May 30, 2022 6:18 PM
Links for May 21, 2022
Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2022 10:28 PM
- ↪︎ By 2050, about 37% of all the world’s plastic waste is expected to end up in our lan
Here’s Where the World’s Plastic Waste Will End Up, by 2050 - ↪︎ @paulhetheringtonartist pays tribute to the inimitable Prince and the Revolution and we're all ticked pink. Or purple.
This is what it sounds like when doves cry - The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ This pipe is occupied by a pernicious piranha plant - The Brothers Brick
This pipe is occupied by a pernicious piranha plant - ↪︎ Still Life History: 4 Rays, copper, and scythes in the 18th century
- ↪︎ Painting Within Tent: Albert Bierstadt in the Rockies 2
- ↪︎ The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
- ↪︎ Your yearly reminder to prepare for wildfires.
Emergency Supply Kit
Links for May 20, 2022
Posted on Friday, May 20, 2022 4:49 AM
Links for May 19, 2022
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2022 9:38 PM
- ↪︎ Scale of atoms
- ↪︎ The Mayan Revivalâstyle residence is clad in ornamental concrete textile blocks cast in sand from the nearby Chevy Chase Canyon.
Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.’s Landmark 1926 Derby House Seeks $3.3M in Glendale, CA
Links for May 16, 2022
Posted on Monday, May 16, 2022 6:25 PM
Links for May 8, 2022
Posted on Sunday, May 8, 2022 4:06 PM
- ↪︎ Sour candies, shave ice, seasoned popcorn: These crunchy treats record the island chain’s many cultural influences.
What’s ‘crack seed,’ one of Hawai‘i’s favorite snacks? - ↪︎ Christo’s final work revealed in Paris: L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped
Links for May 5, 2022
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2022 1:47 AM
- ↪︎ Fediverse visualization
fediverse.space
Links for May 4, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:44 PM
- ↪︎ Default Arguments and Label-based Overloading
- ↪︎ How Insulated Glass Changed Architecture
- ↪︎ Every Bridge For Every Situation
- ↪︎ Can mirrors and ceramic sand solve our energy problem?
- ↪︎ Assigning an expression to a variable with the same name
- ↪︎ Avoiding having to recompute values within SwiftUI views
- ↪︎ Tips On Prioritizing Tech Debt In A Healthy Way
- ↪︎ Someone’s been playing SimCity 2000.
MAD Architects proposes a tree-filled 'office of the future' in the heart of Hollywood - ↪︎ There are many reasons I want to go back to NYC, and this is one of them.
Heatherwick's $260 million elevated river park 'Little Island' opens in NYC - ↪︎ I would love an outdoor space like this.
KoningEizenberg, Leers Weinzapfel, and Wittman Estes among 2021 AIA Housing Award recipients
Links for May 1, 2022
Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2022 7:25 PM
Links for April 30, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Apr 30, 2022 6:37 AM
- ↪︎ Environment Objects and SwiftUI Styles
- ↪︎ A Vim Guide For Experts
- ↪︎ “Foil” UserDefaults Property Wrapper
- ↪︎ The Prime: Proposed Shenzhen Development Would Bring Home, Work, and Shopping All Under One Roof
- ↪︎ Tetrahedron Treehouse Peeks Out of the Trees Like the Prow of a Ship
- ↪︎ The Pixar Story: The Letter of a lifetime That Started Everything With Alvy Ray Smith
- ↪︎ DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often.
- ↪︎ Code in ARM Assembly: Registers explained
- ↪︎ Rebirth: Changing to oils
- ↪︎ The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
- ↪︎ You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet
- ↪︎ How to make simple async URLSession in Swift
- ↪︎ Unit testing Swift code that uses async/await
- ↪︎ The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies
- ↪︎ The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings
The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment. - ↪︎ Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions
- ↪︎ Basic cryptography - the Vigenere cipher
- ↪︎ The Story of Maxis Software
Links for April 28, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Apr 28, 2022 8:02 PM
- ↪︎ New atomic clock loses only one second every 300 billion years
- ↪︎ The Life of MS-DOS
- ↪︎ This article attempts to resolve some of the most common misconceptions around IPv6.
IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ - ↪︎ Deleting your app from the iOS simulator during UI tests
- ↪︎ 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond
- ↪︎ This review of the Mac Studio is astounding. It really is a desktop supercomputer.
2022 Mac Studio (20-core M1 Ultra) Review - ↪︎ Frames in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Swift actors tutorial - a beginner's guide to thread safe concurrency
- ↪︎ Parkinson's is the world's fastest-growing neurological disorder.
Links for April 22, 2022
Posted on Friday, Apr 22, 2022 3:26 PM
Links for April 19, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 19, 2022 2:49 AM
Links for April 18, 2022
Posted on Monday, Apr 18, 2022 3:45 AM
- ↪︎ Using the ViewBuilder Attribute to Implement SwiftUI Views in Methods
- ↪︎ When Atari shipped UNIX: 1992's Atari System V
- ↪︎ Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That?
- ↪︎ How Do Algorithms Become Biased?
- ↪︎ 28 different potato dishes from around the world
- ↪︎ Hold up! We want to talk to you about your wagon's extended warranty!
- ↪︎ Introducing Plot Components: A new way to build HTML pages using Swift
- ↪︎ Creating Enums with Custom Raw Type in Swift
- ↪︎ How Does a Quantum Computer Work?
- ↪︎ Virtual Reality History
- ↪︎ How to use subscript in Swift
- ↪︎ How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements
- ↪︎ The Big Dipper
- ↪︎ Australia Declares Koalas an Endangered Species
- ↪︎ Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Introspect
Links for April 15, 2022
Posted on Friday, Apr 15, 2022 5:49 PM
Links for April 14, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Apr 14, 2022 5:51 PM
- ↪︎ Making the Macintosh
- ↪︎ Wie sähe der Macintosh im Jahr 2015 aus? CURVED/labs begibt sich auf Zeitreise und präsentiert eine Hommage an die iKone.
CURVED/labs: Mac to the Future - ein Macintosh-Facelif
Links for April 10, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Apr 10, 2022 9:28 PM
Links for April 8, 2022
Posted on Friday, Apr 8, 2022 11:07 PM
- ↪︎ New approach to formatters in iOS 15
- ↪︎ Plastic is killing our planet. Will the consumer packaged goods industry step up?
- ↪︎ La Brea Tar Pits overhaul: Los Angeles County begins environmental review ahead of Weiss/Manfredi's redesign
- ↪︎ A Collection Of Bamboo Treehouses Was Designed For This Holiday Resort
- ↪︎ Queen Liliʻuokalani and the overthrow of Hawaii
- ↪︎ How to short-circuit short-term thinking
- ↪︎ How does the brain interpret computer languages?
- ↪︎ Da Vinci’s 530-Year-Old Helicopter Design Adapted for a Working Drone
- ↪︎ Quickly displaying the Swift version that ships with Xcode
- ↪︎ Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained
- ↪︎ How to effectively refactor MVC code and add unit tests
- ↪︎ Inside California's inaccurate water forecasts
- ↪︎ Utopian Control: Company Towns
- ↪︎ High Brick House / studiomiti
High Brick House / studiomiti - ↪︎ Combining protocols in Swift
- ↪︎ How to use Label in SwiftUI custom view
- ↪︎ Mastering List in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ How to parse large JSON Dictionary in Swift
- ↪︎ Writing testable code when using SwiftUI
- ↪︎ With Swift 5.5 new concurrency syntax, many frameworks have been updated. This post cover the basic URLSession operations.
URLSession with new async/await
Links for February 14, 2022
Posted on Monday, Feb 14, 2022 4:21 AM
- ↪︎ Apple IIC new hardware
For everyone who still loves and uses old computers.
Links for February 13, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Feb 13, 2022 10:49 PM
Links for February 11, 2022
Posted on Friday, Feb 11, 2022 2:30 AM
Links for February 10, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Feb 10, 2022 3:38 AM
- ↪︎ Underused and Overused GCD Patterns
- ↪︎ This looks like a fun project!
Mini Hygrometer Packs E-Paper Display - ↪︎ Profiling binary size on iOS using Bloaty
- ↪︎ Good thoughts on cars, and how they affect urban design.
When 5% of the United States is Covered By Parking Lots, How Do We Redesign our Cities? - ↪︎ Structured Concurrency in Swift 5.5
Links for February 7, 2022
Posted on Monday, Feb 7, 2022 4:05 PM
Links for February 6, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Feb 6, 2022 7:12 PM
- ↪︎ Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
- ↪︎ Core allocation in M1 chips
- ↪︎ How to pop multiple level with NavigationView and NavigationLink in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Memory management when using async/await in Swift
- ↪︎ Neo Geo Genesis 1 1/2: The Alpha 68K-V
- ↪︎ 12 Black Architects Making History Today
Links for February 1, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022 8:46 PM
Links for January 31, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jan 31, 2022 1:42 AM
- ↪︎ Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve?
- ↪︎ Good knights in paintings 2
- ↪︎ Central Park Will Become a Hub for Climate Research
- ↪︎ Swift Foundation Formatter Improvements
- ↪︎ Russia Has Been Warning About Ukraine for Decades. The West Should Have Listened
- ↪︎ The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)
- ↪︎ Good port about remote working. My biggest concern is when a group is in a room together and some people are remote - putting everyone on equal footing is tough.
Treat everyone as remote - ↪︎ Nice review of Rush’s 2112 from a high school student (who would apparently be in their 30s now)
Rush 2112 - The Last Star In The Sky
Links for January 29, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Jan 29, 2022 7:06 PM
- ↪︎ Automatically retrying an asynchronous Swift Task
- ↪︎ Excellent article with a ton of chip-making history.
The Intel Split - ↪︎ This musician plays an electric bass guitar with a bow and it's wonderful
- ↪︎ I have a thing for floating parks.
Heatherwick Studio designs floating parkland pier for Seoul
Links for January 27, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 1:17 AM
Links for January 26, 2022
Posted on Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022 4:12 PM
- ↪︎ Hawaii volunteer program lets you give back on vacation (and offers free hotel nights)
- ↪︎ I’m sure other people have said this, but this would be horrible for law enforcement.
BMW’s Color-Changing Electric Car Goes from Black to White Using E Ink - ↪︎ I told my wife I should hang onto all of mine! 😜
New Study Suggests LEGO Bricks May Be More Valuable Than Gold - ↪︎ Watch a bonobo and Peter Gabriel make music together
- ↪︎ Swift Package Collections
- ↪︎ The computer graphics pioneer goes deep on RGBA.
VFX Artifacts: The alpha channel and Alvy Ray Smith
Links for January 24, 2022
Posted on Monday, Jan 24, 2022 5:53 PM
- ↪︎ I don’t even know what to say about this house
Amacueca House / CoA arquitectura + Departamento de Arquitectura | ArchDaily
Links for January 14, 2022
Posted on Friday, Jan 14, 2022 11:17 PM
- ↪︎ The F-14 “Tomcat” First Microprocessor
World's First Microprocessor - ↪︎ The Epic of Collier Heights
- ↪︎ The Swift Runtime: Enums
Links for January 11, 2022
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 11, 2022 2:27 AM
- ↪︎ Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort Among First to Offer Room Keys in Apple Wallet
- ↪︎ “Dramatic increases in space collisions" are expected in a few years, a former NASA administrator told U.S. lawmakers
Space Junk Could Be Creating No-Go Zones for Satellites - ↪︎ San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers
Fire In The Dome: A Closer Look
Links for January 6, 2022
Posted on Thursday, Jan 6, 2022 4:49 PM
Links for January 2, 2022
Posted on Sunday, Jan 2, 2022 7:06 AM
- ↪︎ Technical Details: An Architect's Guide to Brick Bonds and Patterns
- ↪︎ Using Combine’s share operator to avoid duplicate work
- ↪︎ Underwater video of flamingos eating looks like a Pixar movie
- ↪︎ The Loss of an Icon: A Closer Look
- ↪︎ Synchronization is always one of the hardest problems.
Michael Tsai - Blog - iCloudCoreDataStarter and Temporary IDs Bug
Links for January 1, 2022
Posted on Saturday, Jan 1, 2022 6:15 AM
- ↪︎ If you were wondering, this is what a school looks like in the richest place in the US.
Menlo-Atherton High School STEM Building / LPA | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Building async and concurrent versions of forEach and map
- ↪︎ What Collective Narcissism Does to Society
- ↪︎ Magnesium: Where It Comes From And Why We’re Running Out
- ↪︎ Every default Mac wallpaper all condensed in a simple little website.
Mac Wallpapers - ↪︎ Another Frank Lloyd Wright home hits the market in Michigan
- ↪︎ A Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Found & Translated
- ↪︎ Homer’s Odyssey in paintings: 3 Return to Ithaca
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Environment When Presenting Views
- ↪︎ Using count vs isEmpty to check whether a collection contains any elements
Links for December 29, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 29, 2021 8:19 PM
- ↪︎ What is Art Deco Architecture?
- ↪︎ Old, but very good: Big Ball of Mud
Big Ball of Mud - ↪︎ What role do Tasks play within Swift’s concurrency system?
- ↪︎ Accessibility Smart Invert
- ↪︎ Comparing performance of M1 chips: 3 P and E
- ↪︎ Smaller Is Sometimes Better: Why Electronic Components Are So Tiny
- ↪︎ The Remodel Of A Mid-Century Modern House From 1962
Before + After – The Remodel Of A Mid-Century Modern House From 1962 - ↪︎ Old news: Scientists create 'super enzyme' that eats plastic bottles six times faster
Scientists create 'super enzyme' that eats plastic bottles six times faster
Links for December 27, 2021
Posted on Monday, Dec 27, 2021 12:09 AM
- ↪︎ Apple ][ F.A.Q.
About Apple ][ F.A.Q. - Apple II FAQ
Links for December 25, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Dec 25, 2021 2:34 AM
- ↪︎ GNUStep Workspace Manager 1.0! Years and years in the making!
GNUstep Workspace Manager: GWorkspace
Links for December 22, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 22, 2021 4:31 PM
- ↪︎ Characters in Painted Stories: 8 Tragedy, Orestes 2
- ↪︎ Write better code with Swift Algorithms
- ↪︎ Straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
Brooks + Scarpa Reveals Proposal for Miami’s Aquatic Center and Park - ↪︎ String Quartet Performs Billie Eilish’s bad guy
Links for December 17, 2021
Posted on Friday, Dec 17, 2021 6:36 AM
Links for December 15, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 15, 2021 7:14 PM
Links for November 2, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 1:21 AM
- ↪︎ These A+Award-winning studios are spearheaded by bold women who are taking the design world by the storm.
10 Female-Led Firms at the Forefront of Architecture - ↪︎ There’s no reason for white people to feel bad. Those of us alive now didn’t do it. We CAN however make sure that the wrongs that our ancestors did are rectified. Because it was horrific.
Maybe White People Should Feel Bad
Links for October 25, 2021
Posted on Monday, Oct 25, 2021 12:04 AM
- ↪︎ Impressionist painting in Britain: 12 George Clausen
- ↪︎ New York City and State are elevating offshore wind farm investments
- ↪︎ Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian and His 68000 Emulator
- ↪︎ I need about 1000 more hours everyday for things like this.
Raspberry Pi Officialy Announced Build HAT For Raspberry Pi
Links for October 24, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Oct 24, 2021 11:59 PM
- ↪︎ His early landscapes followed van Mander. He also expressed his love of Claude’s work, before composition dissolved into light and colour.
Landscape Composition: 7 Turner’s revolution
Links for October 21, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 12:30 AM
- ↪︎ New brain maps could help the search for Alzheimer's treatments
- ↪︎ ASU's Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is announced as President Biden's selection for NEA chair
- ↪︎ OOOH A literal Regex in Swift would be great.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Swift Declarative String Processing Pitch - ↪︎ Reminds me of a city made in Townscaper
Majestic LEGO castle a true king needs and deserves - The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right Timezone
- ↪︎ Impressionist painting in Britain: 9 Edward Stott
- ↪︎ Painting the surreal before Surrealism 2
- ↪︎ How to recover a Mac from a kernel panic
Links for October 20, 2021
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Links for October 16, 2021
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Links for October 15, 2021
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Links for October 14, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 5:41 AM
- ↪︎ HEHE
Google says Fortnite’s in-app purchase swap was a breach of contract, sues Epic - ↪︎ A bridge over bloodied waters
- ↪︎ Retro Computers From Paper
- ↪︎ U.S. Military Spending vs Other Top Countries
- ↪︎ Bay Ridge Gingerbread House
- ↪︎ This is so cool, I want things like this everywhere.
Vektor Kollektor Inspector - ↪︎ Landscape Composition: 2 Beginnings
- ↪︎ Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Artist
- ↪︎ Vedanta Society's Old Temple
Links for October 12, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Oct 12, 2021 3:56 AM
- ↪︎ HAHAHAHA I love it.
Mysterious Rock Formation Off the Coast of France Suddenly Takes Off Like a Speedboat - ↪︎ This workplace is amazing.
Exotic Workplace Garden / Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Advanced Environment propagation
- ↪︎ Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions
- ↪︎ Wow I learned a lot in this post.
How to evenly distribute points on a sphere more effectively than the canonical Fibonacci Lattice | Extreme Learning - ↪︎ This works surprisingly well.
I unclogged my sinuses using this technique
Links for October 11, 2021
Posted on Monday, Oct 11, 2021 1:32 AM
- ↪︎ I love tiny builds
Titanic ship on a tiny budget - The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick
Links for October 9, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Oct 9, 2021 4:02 PM
- ↪︎ The Official Ted Lasso biscuit recipe
We tried the official 'Ted Lasso' biscuit recipe and it's a buttery delight — TODAY - ↪︎ Ted Lasso Biscuits Get an Upgrade from Milk Bar’s Christina Tosi
Links for October 8, 2021
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Links for October 5, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Oct 5, 2021 2:43 PM
- ↪︎ “I loved how he saw the world. The way he thought was profoundly beautiful.”
Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs — The Wall Street Journal
Links for September 30, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 3:03 AM
- ↪︎ /me starts tearing into his walls
Rare gold coins dug out of walls of French mansion sold for $1.2m — The Guardian (US/CA)
Links for September 25, 2021
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Links for September 23, 2021
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Links for September 18, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Sep 18, 2021 10:27 PM
- ↪︎ In iOS 15 you can set limits on the minimum and maximum sizes of dynamic type.
Restricting Dynamic Type Sizes - ↪︎ I have the Nintendo LEGO set (haven’t built it yet), but I might have to build this game boy afterwards
My Little Game Boy | The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ These should be more of a thing everywhere.
Banff Wildlife Crossings - ↪︎ View masking in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ Boy it would be hard to judge this. I’d be like “Everyone wins!!”
View images of the best shortlisted timber projects from the 2021 World Architecture Festival - ↪︎ I love the Little Free Libraries - I had planned to make one when we bought a house, but there’s one in the neighborhood we moved into. Free movies is great too!
"Free Blockbuster" boxes let you drop off, or take, a VHS movie - ↪︎ This fifth part of the Advanced SwiftUI Animations series will explore the Canvas view. Technically, it is not an animated view, but when combined with TimelineView from Part 4, it brings a lot of interesting possibilities, as shown in this digital rain example: I had to delay this article several weeks because the Canvas view ... Read more
Advanced SwiftUI Animations - Part 5: Canvas - The SwiftUI Lab - ↪︎ Gorgeous drawings.
Mark Cuban just donated a trove of World Trade Center drawings to the Cooper Hewitt - ↪︎ It is our responsibility. Period.
Afghanistan is Our Generation's MS St. Louis Moment | Time - ↪︎ Beautiful wood and white walls combo
The Urban Courtyard Home / Sudaiva Studio | ArchDaily
Links for September 17, 2021
Posted on Friday, Sep 17, 2021 11:13 PM
Links for September 12, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Sep 12, 2021 10:05 PM
- ↪︎ Birth of BASIC
- ↪︎ RenderWare: The Engine that Powered an Era | Retrohistories - YouTube
- ↪︎ PalmOS on Raspberry Pi
- ↪︎ Yes please.
Are We Overdue for an Art Deco Revival? | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Glad I left that state. Geez.
Kentucky Lawmakers Scrap Statewide Mask Mandate In Schools - ↪︎ Holy crap
1 in every 75 Tennesseans has COVID-19 - ↪︎ Anyone wishing to dine inside a Maui County restaurant must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination starting September 15, 2021.
Hawaii travel news: Maui to require vaccine proof to dine in restaurants
Links for September 11, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Sep 11, 2021 11:20 PM
Links for September 5, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Sep 5, 2021 10:21 PM
- ↪︎ I have no idea what I would do with this, but man I want it.
DevTerm Kit A04 series - ↪︎ Someone hung some huge draperies on this place.
The Rossmore | Archillusion Design | Archinect - ↪︎ Tax-to-GDP Ratio: Comparing Tax Systems Around the World
- ↪︎ @tobiarts.and.design gives us a peak at medieval skyscrapers
Medieval skyscrapers are the way to go - ↪︎ The O’Scope Restoration
Links for September 4, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Sep 4, 2021 3:05 PM
- ↪︎ I can’t wait to see this
Foundation - the Art of VFX
Links for August 30, 2021
Posted on Monday, Aug 30, 2021 10:43 PM
- ↪︎ This is totally amazing! I really need one of those “build an 8bit computer”kits
Commander X16: A Dreamy 8 Bit Computer Comes Closer To Reality - ↪︎ Fantastic
Gaudí’s Historic Casa Vicens Willl Host Two Lucky Airbnb Guests This Fall - ↪︎ Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained
- ↪︎ Pretty sure the whole background must represent “Webex calls”
Cycle of Many, a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans - ↪︎ I love the internet
There's a Wikipedia page for "I've got your nose" - ↪︎ Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds
- ↪︎ What We Know About Climate Change and Hurricanes
Links for August 29, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Aug 29, 2021 2:05 AM
- ↪︎ Apple introduces the News Partner Program
- ↪︎ I love the idea of the play date and can’t wait to get mine! This is a great read.
The Story of Playdate - ↪︎ This Black-Owned Business Is Bringing Plant-Based 'Soul Food' to Black Communities
- ↪︎ Foster + Partners master plan for Atlanta’s Centennial Yards revealed
Links for August 28, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Aug 28, 2021 4:48 AM
- ↪︎ An early drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge showcases a radically different design
- ↪︎ The world's first fossil-free steel
- ↪︎ How about a house in a hill?
Locality, Legality, and Limiting Landscapes: The Story Behind Switzerland’s Villa Vals | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries
- ↪︎ Fantastic.
The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already reversed it. - ↪︎ Why are hyperlinks blue?
- ↪︎ Cute.
Guilin Lebei Homestay Hotel / aoe | ArchDaily
Links for August 26, 2021
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Links for August 25, 2021
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Links for August 22, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Aug 22, 2021 5:20 PM
- ↪︎ Multiracial people counted in the census
- ↪︎ Tons of details about the System 1!
Holding out for My Hero: The Sega System 1 - ↪︎ Video Killed the Radio Star.
Watch the First Two Hours of MTV's Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) | Open Culture - ↪︎ Making SwiftUI Views Searchable
- ↪︎ Backporting new features with @_alwaysEmitIntoClient
- ↪︎ I dunno, makes me want to eat some pie.
Weathered Steel Appears To Be Woven On The Exterior Of This New Office Building - ↪︎ Robert Johnson House
- ↪︎ Lighting and Visual Comfort Solutions in Residential Projects
- ↪︎ COVID cases surging in Hawaii
Links for August 21, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Aug 21, 2021 3:41 PM
Links for August 19, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Aug 19, 2021 1:59 PM
- ↪︎ How do you programmatically scroll a SwiftUI list to a specific item?
Scrolling With ScrollViewReader - ↪︎ OOOOOH PRETTY
Vertical Wood Slats Cover This New Tourist Info Center In Portugal - ↪︎ I may have already shared this but check it out anyway!
Little Island Park / Heatherwick Studio | ArchDaily
Links for August 16, 2021
Posted on Monday, Aug 16, 2021 6:40 PM
- ↪︎ My wife got me the "Sugar Rush 2112" Cereal box for my birthday. They have lots of other cool stuff too
Rush - Fantoons - ↪︎ Defining dynamic colors in Swift
- ↪︎ I really wish I could justify the cost of a Vestaboard.
The Departure Board Edition - ↪︎ This tower is literally just stairs. It’s neat.
A New Spiraling Lookout Tower Opens In Denmark - ↪︎ Visualizing GitHub repos
- ↪︎ Testing Core Data In A Swift Package
- ↪︎ SwiftUI patterns evolution: view builders
- ↪︎ Sometimes I see buildings on here and I’m like “Surely that’s not real”. This is one of them
AL_A Reveals Design of World's First Magnetized Fusion Power Station | ArchDaily
Links for August 15, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Aug 15, 2021 11:59 PM
Links for August 13, 2021
Posted on Friday, Aug 13, 2021 2:51 AM
- ↪︎ Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree - over 800!
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree - ↪︎ I was led to believe there would be dragonflies.
Dragonfly House / Olson Kundig | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Simple and gorgeous
Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences / Diamond Schmitt Architects | ArchDaily - ↪︎ I’m not a big fan of supercar styling generally, but this is WOW. And that color 👀
Aston Martin Valhalla is a next generation supercar - ↪︎ Are there flaws in some ARM64 instructions?
- ↪︎ OOOOH I need to find something to use this on
Configuring SwiftUI Fetch Requests - ↪︎ Cities Within Cities: Chinatown Around The World
- ↪︎ Elephant House Zoo Zurich
Elephant House Zoo Zürich / Markus Schietsch Architekten | ArchDaily
Links for August 11, 2021
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Links for August 8, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Aug 8, 2021 12:19 AM
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Swipe Actions
- ↪︎ Bandstand… BAND STAND
How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show
Links for August 7, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Aug 7, 2021 11:55 PM
- ↪︎ World's first 3D-printed steel bridge opens in Amsterdam
- ↪︎ This is too cool.
New Detail Library Platform Allows You to Access 200+ Fully-Resolved Construction Details - ↪︎ Nice list of changes in Shortcuts
The Changes to Shortcuts that Makes me Excited - ↪︎ I had no idea holding down the globe key brings up an overlay with possible shortcuts in it.
The Globe Key and iPadOS 15
Links for August 6, 2021
Posted on Friday, Aug 6, 2021 1:15 AM
- ↪︎ Looks like the lighter version of an H.R. Geiger design
Maggie’s Leeds Centre / Heatherwick Studio | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Getting Started with the SPM Manifest file
Package.swift - Getting Started with the SPM Manifest file - Learning Swift - ↪︎ I had no idea this was a thing!
Attaching property wrappers to function arguments - ↪︎ How Swift runs an async executable – Ole Begemann
- ↪︎ We’re in another drought, and I have a feeling it’s not really going to end.
Map of drying reservoirs in the west - ↪︎ Mac App Store: Embedding a Command Line tool using paths as arguments
- ↪︎ Throwing and asynchronous Swift properties
- ↪︎ I’m a bit behind on posting this. Such an influential and moving song.
Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Turns 50 - ↪︎ How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 1
- ↪︎ New Button styling in SwiftUI and iOS15
Meet the new Button styling - ↪︎ *mops drool off the floor*
The Combination Of Stone And Wood Gives This Home A Rustic Modern Look
Links for August 1, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Aug 1, 2021 7:26 PM
- ↪︎ Made the year I was born.
Untitled, Computer Assisted Drawing | Brown, Paul | V&A Explore The Collections - ↪︎ Deep Dive into Swift 5.5 Async/await Concurrency Model
- ↪︎ How to Share SwiftUI Code Using Swift Packages
- ↪︎ Stroking and filling a SwiftUI shape at the same time
Links for July 31, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jul 31, 2021 11:21 PM
- ↪︎ Gorgeous and serene
COVID-Induced Anxiety Gets a New Face in This Series of Wooden Waves Crashing in a Forest
Links for July 25, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jul 25, 2021 3:03 AM
- ↪︎ New York’s “Little Island” Uses Cutting-Edge Designs to Create a Natural Retreat
“Little Island” Uses Cutting-Edge Designs to Create a Natural Retreat
Links for July 22, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jul 22, 2021 2:34 AM
- ↪︎ Anti-History is simply control - if they can change what your believe they can control what you think.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Republican Anti-history - The Atlantic - ↪︎ This is exactly what I want my workplace to look like.
Perch 2.0: Oak Shelter in the Woods / Mike Stone Architect | ArchDaily
Links for July 11, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jul 11, 2021 1:52 AM
- ↪︎ Open 3D Engine
O3DE - ↪︎ My wife said no, she can look at the pictures.
Carroll Alsop House by Frank Lloyd Wright - ↪︎ UNESCO World Heritage Site Cloister Lorsch
- ↪︎ In Swift 5.5, the Swift Package Manager adds support for package collections
Package Collections - ↪︎ I *LOVE* this house, and look at it every time I drive up 280
Settlement reached in the strange case of California's famous Flintstone House - ↪︎ From just a bit back to looks real.
Take your seat on this enormous LEGO Emirates Airbus A380 that took more than ten months to design | The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ Lovecraft Country: Breaking Down the Breakdown of Chicago & Tulsa
- ↪︎ What is structured concurrency?
- ↪︎ Ridiculous.
Opioid-pushing Sackler family pays to get off the hook and gets to keep billions - ↪︎ A little more about that tower in Greece
Foster + Partners unveils designs for Greece's tallest tower - ↪︎ Wow. Have to drive down and see that in person.
Surf House Modern Home in Santa Cruz, California by Feldman… on Dwell - ↪︎ A remembrance was held last week after the passing of Mickey Muennig, the architect who imbued California’s mystic coastline with organic, flowing architecture.
Big Sur Architect Mickey Muennig - ↪︎ Coral Cells Grown in a Dish for the First Time
All Coral Cells Grown in a Dish for the First Time - ↪︎ Our education system is in desperate need of reform.
Why We Need To Start Teaching History In Kindergarten - ↪︎ $2,000 A Month Stimulus Checks Petitions Reach 3 Million Signatures
- ↪︎ The close up of this building is gorgeous.
foster and partners reveals the first green high-rise building in greece - ↪︎ Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
Links for July 9, 2021
Posted on Friday, Jul 9, 2021 6:51 AM
Links for July 4, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jul 4, 2021 5:08 AM
- ↪︎ A man carves out an incredible home from the side of a mountain
Watch: A man carves out an incredible home from the side of a mountain - ↪︎ Dismissing a SwiftUI modal or detail view
- ↪︎ Foundation
- ↪︎ People don’t know who LeVar Burton is?!
Who Is LeVar Burton? He's the Jeopardy! Host Frontrunner and So Much More - ↪︎ Xcode DocC - Getting Started
- ↪︎ Code in ARM Assembly: Conditional loops
- ↪︎ Wow, this is striking.
Anansi the trickster and god of all knowledge comes to life in an astounding LEGO sculpture | The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ A Guide to Understanding Gender Identity and Pronouns : NPR
Links for July 3, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021 9:55 PM
- ↪︎ This church, obviously inspired by the aliens on The Muppet Show, is really cool.
St George Orthodox Church / Wallmakers | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Architecture in Mexico: Projects that Highlight the Sonora Territory | ArchDaily
- ↪︎ British landscape painting before Turner: 1800-1820
- ↪︎ TWENTY FIVE YEARS
25 Years of CSS - ↪︎ This keeps me up at night.
Islands of Data - ↪︎ Using AsyncImage in SwiftUI for Asynchronous Image Download
- ↪︎ Are World's Fairs a Thing of the Past?
- ↪︎ Making SwiftUI views refreshable
- ↪︎ Hawaii to eliminate pre-travel testing/quarantine for vaccinated
- ↪︎ In Memoriam John Crome: Revolt in the provinces 2
- ↪︎ Rebirth: The rise of narrative painting
- ↪︎ Well that’s fascinating.
Building a City from Scratch: The Story of Songdo, Korea | ArchDaily
Links for June 27, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jun 27, 2021 6:58 AM
- ↪︎ Someone forgot to antialias this
Edificio Riesco Leguia / ValdesHagemann | ArchDaily - ↪︎ In iOS 15, Apple introduced a new modifier called searchable for SwiftUI. This allows developers to easily add a search bar in any list views.
Working with Searchable in SwiftUI for iOS 15
Links for June 26, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jun 26, 2021 4:15 PM
- ↪︎ Illegal Fishing Is Devastating Kenya’s Sea Turtles
- ↪︎ It’s perfect.
Living atop the wave-worn coastal rocks | The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ Racism, duh
Segregation Is Increasing In America | Time - ↪︎ I had a MiniDisc player, and it was excellent, especially for the time.
The Story of the MiniDisc, Sony's 1990s Audio Format That's Gone But Not Forgotten | Open Culture - ↪︎ I’d never leave
Architectural Details: Henning Larsen’s Landscape Bridge in the Faroe Islands - Architizer Journal - ↪︎ Apple's restored Tower Theatre opens in Downtown LA thanks to Foster + Partners
- ↪︎ The world needs more pedways
Safdie Architects' design for the ORCA mega-development in downtown Toronto finally clears a major hurdle
Links for June 24, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jun 24, 2021 6:07 AM
- ↪︎ Stunning.
Mirador House / RAMA estudio - ↪︎ OMG
Watch: Firefighter catches child thrown from building - ↪︎ Behold the Astronomicum Caesareum, "Perhaps the Most Beautiful Scientific Book Ever Printed” (1540)
- ↪︎ Still Life History: 5 The rise of Impressionism
- ↪︎ Corn has many uses that make modern life possible. This infographic breaks down U.S. corn usage in 2020.
The Uses of Corn: Industries Affected by High Corn Prices - ↪︎ I firmly believe the world needs more Gondolas.
LA's proposed Dodger Stadium-Union Station gondola route revealed - ↪︎ If we ever redo our downstairs floor (which is currently tile) I want this.
Colorful Terrazzo Floors Add A Playful Character To This Home's Interior - ↪︎ This will be great for automated testing.
Xcode 12.5 Simulator: How to Record Videos and Animated GIFs
Links for June 23, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 23, 2021 5:48 AM
- ↪︎ Neat node programming app for audio
Sponsor: Loopback from Rogue Amoeba - ↪︎ MacPaw announces its own Apple Museum with 323 products, includes online exhibit
Links for June 19, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jun 19, 2021 3:23 PM
- ↪︎ Goals.
City Oasis Apartments / K.A Studio | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Rehabilitation is an exciting opportunity to reimagine the shortcomings of Brutalist buildings, giving them a second chance in the public imagination.
Rehabilitating Brutalism: How Colossal Concrete Buildings Made Their Big Comeback - ↪︎ Still Life ++ : paintings of the artist’s studio 1
Links for June 17, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jun 17, 2021 2:44 AM
- ↪︎ What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 15
- ↪︎ Apple Music to Release Juneteenth 2021 Freedom Songs, Featuring New Songs and Covers
- ↪︎ I’ve written only a very small amount of assembly, and it wasn’t very good - maybe this is a good reason to learn!
Code in Assembly for Apple Silicon with the AsmAttic app - ↪︎ uh what
Kadokawa Culture Museum / Kengo Kuma & Associates + KAJIMA DESIGN - ↪︎ Wavy Wavy Wavy
Meltcrete Building / Studio Ardete | ArchDaily - ↪︎ SF Symbols is so handy, and there were a ton of improvements announced this year.
The Complete Guide to SF Symbols - ↪︎ How to control safe area insets in SwiftUI
- ↪︎ What. I had no idea about either of these, and I’ve installed a lot of outlets. These will certainly be handy!
Power outlets have 2 hidden tools - ↪︎ WandaVision, and the effects in the show were really good.
WandaVision: VFX Breakdown by RISE - The Art of VFX - ↪︎ Nice dive into details of the macOS content caching server.
Inside the Content Caching server: performance and troubleshooting - ↪︎ Simple, clean lines and gorgeous.
Tafel House | Stephen Moser Architect | Archinect - ↪︎ I wish I could come up with a good reason to buy one of these 😊
Raspberry Pi Cellular Connection using Sixfab Core
Links for June 16, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 16, 2021 3:22 AM
- ↪︎ Why paint a still life? 1 Warming up
- ↪︎ So much good stuff and refinement this year!
What’s new in Xcode 13? - ↪︎ Want.
Zaha Hadid’s Próspera Island Project Blends Sustainability with Luxury Living
Links for June 14, 2021
Posted on Monday, Jun 14, 2021 3:41 AM
- ↪︎ What types of research are being undertaken to harness bamboo’s strengths and ameliorate its shortcomings?
The Future of Architecture: When Digital Technologies Meet Bamboo Construction - ↪︎ For All Mankind is one of my favorite recent shows - fantastic production quality, great characters, and I love the “what if history was different” genre.
For All Mankind – Season 2: Jay Redd – Overall VFX Supervisor - The Art of VFX - ↪︎ Oh no! I love the parrot fish. if you ever get a chance to snorkel in Hawaii you might see one - they have teeth! like one long one on the bottom and one on the top. And they’re cute.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: Why The Strange and Wonderful Parrot Fish Is In Trouble - ↪︎ Every time I see “The Milkmaid” by Vermeer I’m stunned at how amazing it is. I need to paint more.
Something’s cooking: Paintings of the kitchen - ↪︎ Groovy, I’m In Love.
Groovy, Fully Electric Volkswagen Bus Will Arrive in 2023 - ↪︎ SwiftUI patterns: view closures
- ↪︎ Brutalist houses. Stark.
Inside a Demolished Brutalist House: the Lincoln House | ArchDaily
Links for June 11, 2021
Posted on Friday, Jun 11, 2021 5:39 AM
- ↪︎ This is a great walkthrough! LLVM is really amazing technology.
Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go - ↪︎ Hotter oceans are putting coral reefs in peril worldwide. Scientists are warning that to save them, heat-trapping emissions must fall, and reefs will need more protection and restoration.
Fearing Their Kids Will Inherit Dead Coral Reefs, Scientists Are Urging Bold Action - ↪︎ "I cannot overemphasize how mind-blowing this is for all of us. These trees have lived for thousands of years," said a scientist from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
A Single Fire Killed At Least 10% Of The World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says - ↪︎ To transition towards low-carbon energy systems we need low-cost energy storage. Battery costs have been falling quickly.
The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades - ↪︎ I truly love the idea of taking the waste products from manufacturing processes - baby carrots are just ugly carrots ground down, sawdust becomes MDF, and potato parts become tater tots!
Tater Tots are tasty trash - ↪︎ Google does not yet know the cost of the 10- to 30-year construction project.
Google’s 80-acre megacampus will take over a chunk of San Jose - ↪︎ Wavy and orderly, very nice.
Westerschans 1B Apartments / Zoetmulder + Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur | ArchDaily
Links for June 6, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jun 6, 2021 6:29 AM
- ↪︎ A coalition of conservation groups have partnered with the state to add 30,000 milkweed plants in an attempt to restore the speciesâ population.
California’s Monarch Butterflies Are Down 99%. Can This Plant Help? - ↪︎ i can’t even
Spokane, Wash. Middle School Gives Class Cotton Picking Assignment. Black Kids in the Class Are Like, 'Uh...No.'
Links for June 5, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jun 5, 2021 2:04 AM
- ↪︎ A Swift developer’s WWDC dreams - 2021 edition
- ↪︎ More info about that Google development in San Jose
Google Gets Approval for Downtown West Campus Designed by SITELAB Urban Studio | ArchDaily - ↪︎ A stunning building with a very sad outcome. If you are contemplating suicide, please seek help.
Solo Visitors No Longer Allowed on Heatherwick Studio's Vessel After Reopening | ArchDaily - ↪︎ I have a love hate relationship with CoreData. I love the idea of an object store, love how much it does for me, and also hate it when I mess something up. This is a good article.
Core Data In Memory Store
Links for June 2, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 2, 2021 2:08 AM
- ↪︎ The flexibility of enumerated is Swift is really amazing, and is one of the reasons I love it.
Avoiding problematic cases when using Swift enums - ↪︎ As if I needed more stuff to print… here it is.
3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More | Open Culture - ↪︎ More about the new Apple Store in Rome
Apple's new Pallazo store in Rome is a work of art | Wallpaper* - ↪︎ This campus is massive
Google wins approval for 'Downtown West' mega campus in San Jose - ↪︎ Yet another important thing I didn’t learn in school.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma - ↪︎ So many good ones
Xcode Keyboard Shortcuts - ↪︎ Amazing preservation
Foster+Partners Converts a Palazzo in Rome into a New Apple Store | ArchDaily
Links for May 31, 2021
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2021 5:42 AM
- ↪︎ This song always has and will be relevant.
Revisiting Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On," and the Album That Opened R&B to Resistance: Revisited 50 Years Later | Open Culture - ↪︎ Pretty old radios
Antique Radio & TV Gallery - ↪︎ I have a very strong desire for a sauna in my backyard.
Sauna Construction Details: Examples of Small-Scale Wooden Architecture
Links for May 30, 2021
Posted on Sunday, May 30, 2021 5:32 AM
- ↪︎ There’s something very simple, clean and beautiful about still life painting
Why paint a still life? 3 Therapy – The Eclectic Light Company - ↪︎ There’s a lot of wow in here.
From Aalto to Eames: 7 Projects That Prove the Architectural Beauty of Plywood - ↪︎ This one is nice, but I’m honestly not sure why I saved it.
Garden/House / MAMM DESIGN | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Nice simplicity
Winery in Kutjevo / Dva arhitekta | ArchDaily
Links for May 29, 2021
Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2021 9:01 PM
- ↪︎ OOOOOH
Field Guide To Shipping Containers - ↪︎ Fascinating
The Rules of Dozens of Sports Explained in Short Videos - ↪︎ I love buildings in the shape of non-building things.
World's Largest Natural Marine Observatory Takes the Shape of a Whale | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Gorgeous arial shots.
Colorful Architecture: 7 Cities with Vibrant Colors Seen from Above | ArchDaily - ↪︎ You’ve probably noticed by now that I like wavy roofs (and I can not lie)
Huanglong Waterfront Bamboo Pavilion / Atelier cnS + School of Architecture, South China University of Technology - ↪︎ This is nuts.
Four Cellists Play Ravel’s “Bolero” on One Cello - ↪︎ I don’t know how @howardnoakley manages to produce such detailed history on painting, but I’m sure glad he does.
Painting Within Tent: Marianne North’s plants of the world 2
Links for May 28, 2021
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2021 6:13 AM
- ↪︎ The History of Tattoos Gets Beautifully Documented in a New Book by Legendary Tattoo Artist Henk Schiffmacher (1730-1970)
- ↪︎ In 1955, epidemiologist Thomas Francis Jr. announced the results of a field trial of the polio vaccine that Jonas Salk had develop
‘The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America’ - ↪︎ I’m always a sucker for an A-Frame in the woods.
A Warm Wood Interior Welcomes Guests To This A-Frame Cabin - ↪︎ Looks like something from the movie Oblivion.
Koichi Takada Architects Designs Biophilic Marketplace Inspired by Shanghai's Forests | ArchDaily
Links for May 24, 2021
Posted on Monday, May 24, 2021 6:18 AM
- ↪︎ Global military spending is now at a 32-year high. The US is *up* 6%.
Mapped: The World’s Top Countries for Military Spending - ↪︎ /cc @cathicks
Needle felting a stop-motion puppet bullfrog - ↪︎ I thought we gave up on that weeks ago
It's Time For America's Fixation On Herd Immunity To End, Scientists Say - ↪︎ YUP
The Pain of the Commute - ↪︎ Much better than “will it blend”
Everyday Objects, Sliced - ↪︎ How to profile your zsh startup time
- ↪︎ Scientists found that the fish were gradually domesticated like dog breeds into the beautiful shapes and colors that turn up today in pet stores.
The 1,000-Year Secret That Made Betta Fish Beautiful - ↪︎ Impossible Grids with SwiftUI
- ↪︎ 30 Years of Browsers: A Quick History
- ↪︎ What does a PGP signature on a git commit prove?
- ↪︎ I would have thought “when it is the only statement”, but that’s not quite true.
Q&A: When can Swift’s return keyword be omitted? - ↪︎ Lovecraft Country is a really great show - and the VFX work was good to
Lovecraft Country: VFX Breakdown by RISE - The Art of VFX - ↪︎ Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- ↪︎ Every type of roller coaster, explained by a roller coaster engineer
Links for May 23, 2021
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2021 3:48 PM
- ↪︎ The making of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
How I Spent My Summer of 1982 - ↪︎ These train (and weather) trackers are amazing! All on a circuit board with multi-colored LEDs and updates in (near) realtime!
Train Trackr - ↪︎ Woah, now that’s a bug.
Case Study 4: The $440 Million Software Error at Knight Capital - ↪︎ What a whale of a shot.
One Great Shot: Hungry, Hungry Humpback - ↪︎ Dezeen's top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2020
- ↪︎ By segregating macOS background tasks on Efficiency cores, M1 Macs can run user apps unfettered on their Performance cores. And that feels really fast.
How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
Links for May 15, 2021
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2021 4:01 PM
Links for May 14, 2021
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2021 10:50 PM
- ↪︎ I've been listening to this remix for 15 years or more and it's great.
Tone Loc vs Yes vs Salt 'n Pepa - Wild Thing vs Owner Of.....vs Push It - YouTube
Links for May 12, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:52 AM
- ↪︎ Oh wow. I felt like it was inevitable, but I didn’t think it would be so fast.
Sony is no longer selling DSLRs - ↪︎ Tina Turner Delivers a Blistering Live Performance of "Proud Mary" on Italian TV (1971)
- ↪︎ Deciding what DispatchQueue to run a completion handler on
- ↪︎ “We love atmosphere.” The atmosphere of their office is great. Nice interview.
Anya Moryoussef on Challenging the Traditional Model of Architectural Practice
Links for May 10, 2021
Posted on Monday, May 10, 2021 4:29 AM
- ↪︎ The view is stunning, but the structure is equally awesome.
House in El Torón / IUA Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos | ArchDaily
Links for May 9, 2021
Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021 10:15 PM
- ↪︎ This isn’t looking good.
The global chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences - ↪︎ CloudKit & CoreData tips.
How to Set Up Core Data and CloudKit When You Haven’t the Faintest Clue What You’re Doing - ↪︎ MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes new report reveals
- ↪︎ Superbly detailed history of the techno music genre
Beatport's Definitive History of Techno - ↪︎ Plan 9 from Bell Labs source, with commit changes!
plan9foundation/plan9
Links for May 6, 2021
Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2021 11:14 PM
- ↪︎ Dave Cutler tells the CHM about his fascinating carrer, from working at DuPont, to his time at DEC, to his time at Microsoft.
Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1 - YouTube - ↪︎ I had no idea angry lynx sounded so hilarious.
Watch: A pair of lynxes arguing in Ontario
Links for May 3, 2021
Posted on Monday, May 3, 2021 1:14 AM
- ↪︎ So XKCD is now a NY Times Column. Neat.
Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns? - ↪︎ Controlling the timing of a Combine pipeline
- ↪︎ The representation of women on boards of directors a mixed bag. This graphic looks at the 10-year trend of women on corporate boards.
Visualizing the Rise of Women on Boards of Directors Worldwide - ↪︎ 😐
I.M. Pei & Partners' Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Captured by Nipun Prabhakar | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Wildlife illustartions
Explore a New Archive of 2,200 Historical Wildlife Illustrations (1916-1965): Courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society | Open Culture
Links for May 2, 2021
Posted on Sunday, May 2, 2021 6:09 AM
- ↪︎ beautiful.
Printemps Haussmann, the late 19th to early 20th century Art Nouveau department store and the headquarters of the Printemps department store chain located on Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, France.
Links for April 30, 2021
Posted on Friday, Apr 30, 2021 4:30 AM
- ↪︎ New priorities needed for California’s next drought
- ↪︎ Another perspective on the Apple North Carolina campus.
Apple announces $1 billion North Carolina campus
Links for April 29, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Apr 29, 2021 7:46 PM
- ↪︎ How rendering of the surface texture of fabrics changed during the southern Renaissance, and new techniques were exported to the north.
Rebirth: Fabrics and materials - ↪︎ Need more details when debugging CoreData? Check this out.
Debugging Core Data - ↪︎ The slope on that roof is everything
A Curved Roof Covered In Diamond-Shaped Zinc Shingles Adds A Creative Touch To This Home - ↪︎ *looks around the room to see where he can put these shelves*
Creative Shelving Shapes Were Designed For This Living Room Wall That Also Includes A TV, Fireplace, And A Pair Of Window Seats - ↪︎ What's new in Swift Package Manager in Swift 5.4
- ↪︎ Company's claims hinge on how much water early-1900s rail cars carried.
Nestlé threatened with cease-and-desist over alleged illegal water use
Links for April 27, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021 3:29 PM
- ↪︎ This is so weird, and I love the idea.
The salmon in this sushi didn’t come from the ocean—it was harvested from a bioreactor - ↪︎ ok, so this article says to stop using the term, but then the history about the term that it links to literally says it is gender neutral. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What do you all think?
‘Guys’ is not gender-neutral, let’s stop using it - ↪︎ I’ve been fascinated with the OP-1 since its release, and this isn’t helping
The OP-1
Links for April 26, 2021
Posted on Monday, Apr 26, 2021 11:38 PM
Links for April 25, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Apr 25, 2021 5:14 AM
- ↪︎ Vaccines work. Get vaccinated.
Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 - ↪︎ The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike
- ↪︎ 48 to go.
New Mexico Governor Signs Historic Legislation to End Qualified Immunity
Links for April 24, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Apr 24, 2021 9:43 PM
- ↪︎ If you’re curious about Starlink, satellites, or the internet you should read this - it’s really fascinating. Your phone bill is building Elon's space empire.
Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA’s Artemis launch - ↪︎ This really is such an obvious feature, but I wonder how much advertising revenue they’re losing?
Kindle Lock screen displays book covers - ↪︎ Good!
New entrance fees required at many Hawaii state parks effective April 19, 2021
Links for April 22, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 2:12 AM
- ↪︎ This is the kind of thing that happens when a company doesn’t innovate, gets outsmarted, and has a temper tantrum because of their lack of foresight.
The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
Links for April 21, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021 11:02 PM
Links for April 16, 2021
Posted on Friday, Apr 16, 2021 3:05 PM
- ↪︎ A sneak peek into SwiftUI's graph
- ↪︎ I really want to visit India again to visit Delhi. So much history.
Khari Baoli Rooftop - ↪︎ Using Combine’s futures and subjects
- ↪︎ I’ll call this one Jenga House.
HG - Gerontological Home / R+B Diseño Experimental - ↪︎ Frank Gehry in conversation with NYT culture reporter Robin Pogrebin. Touring the acclaimed architect's Los Angeles studio, passing models of small residential projects as well as enormous urban developments, the exchange touches on several completed and ongoing Gehry projects that have also made...
Frank Gehry: enjoying architecture at 92
Links for April 11, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Apr 11, 2021 1:57 AM
- ↪︎ How long until there is a comic book for every new movie?
Read Your Movies As Automatically Generated Comic Books - ↪︎ Can confirm.
How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints - ↪︎ The Miasma Theory Was Wrong but Led to Smart Sanitation
- ↪︎ Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.
- ↪︎ I have a vermicomposter from @subpod in my yard, and I can attest that they devour things fast!
Worm Bin: 100-day time-lapse | The Kid Should See This - ↪︎ Travis Kalanick's ratfucking of the restaurant industry continues apace.
- ↪︎ Neat dive into how web browsers are built.
Web Browser Engineering
Links for April 10, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Apr 10, 2021 10:56 PM
- ↪︎ Wow, @DelawareNorth made a BAD decision a few years ago.
Yosemite National Park trademarks dispute - ↪︎ I’ve had some Japanese woodworking saws and man they’re so amazing.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese carpentry tools - ↪︎ Using pipes in Swift scripts
- ↪︎ A Technical (But Not Too Technical) Explanation Of Landing Perseverance Rover On Mars
- ↪︎ WWWWOOOOOWWWW
John Lautner’s modernist Garcia House gets landmark makeover - ↪︎ ☹️
Some Elephants in Africa Are Just a Step From Extinction - ↪︎ I don’t even know what to say about this but it’s neat.
RACV Cape Schanck Resort / Wood Marsh - ↪︎ Ken’s chip tear downs are so amazing. Especially for chips that I had no idea existed.
Teardown of a logic chip from a vintage IBM ES/9000 mainframe - ↪︎ Every map company should do this!
Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI - ↪︎ I love Dave’s explain arion of these things. Really great.
Core Data and SwiftUI - ↪︎ I had no idea about most of this.
Black Soldiers and the Civil War - ↪︎ This video is right up my alley.
Every Bridge For Every Situation, Explained By an Engineer
Links for April 7, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 PM
- ↪︎ Free programming ebooks
free-programming-books/free-programming-books.md at master · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
Links for March 31, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021 1:24 AM
- ↪︎ LEGO is absolutely the source of my love of architecture. This is a good video about both.
Architectural Lessons of LEGO | ArchDaily
Links for March 30, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021 3:03 PM
- ↪︎ Not sure I’d want to live here all the time, but I would love to vacation here. Stunning house & views.
Gallery of Hood River Residence / Scott | Edwards Architecture - 14 - ↪︎ The Louvre's Entire Collection Goes Online
- ↪︎ This is a neat twist on calculators - very similar to @soulver
Beautiful calculator for Mac - ↪︎ I still haven’t visited this museum yet!
This drone video of the Pacific Pinball Museum Annex will flip you out - ↪︎ Corporate sponsors and board members alike are retreating from RMS-gate.
Red Hat withdraws from the Free Software Foundation after Stallman’s return - ↪︎ A group of scientists from Boulder, Colo., compared three different atomic clocks. It's a step toward redefining the length of a second.
Scientists Get Closer To Redefining The Length Of A Second
Links for March 27, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Mar 27, 2021 11:24 PM
- ↪︎ Visualized: The Richest Families in America
- ↪︎ Handy tips.
Inspecting SwiftUI views - ↪︎ This new California housing development aims to become the first 3D-printed zero net energy neighborhood
- ↪︎ *drops everything*
SHINY OBJECT
Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki / Jun Aoki & Associates + Peter Marino Architect | ArchDaily - ↪︎ OOOOOOOH
Rarely Seen Van Gogh Painting Debuts for Public Viewing - ↪︎ Turing absolutely deserves this honor. Also, Why is US currency so damn boring?
Turing £50 note revealed - ↪︎ This short-form history is super interesting, and necessary for future generations to consume all the existing knowledge, but I wonder if some of the detail a nuance is lost forever.
Animation explains Martin Luther and the Reformation in under 5 minutes - ↪︎ These really are remarkable courtyards.
Natural Light and Ventilation: 17 Remarkable Courtyards | ArchDaily - ↪︎ The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell
Links for March 26, 2021
Posted on Friday, Mar 26, 2021 3:26 PM
- ↪︎ Quite a juxtaposition of styles.
Farace House / Lillo Giglia Architecture | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Our edit of traditional wooden furniture design boasting delightful joinery from Max Lamb, Christophe Delcourt, Martino Gamper and more
Joint forces: wooden furniture hitting the mark with design details - ↪︎ Acorn my favorite image editor - it’s on sale for 50% off right now
Michael Tsai - Blog - Acorn 7 - ↪︎ A New Path Forward for the School of Architecture Founded by Frank Lloyd Wright
A New Path Forward for the School of Architecture Founded by Frank Lloyd Wright
Links for March 25, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 3:38 PM
- ↪︎ AT&T is angry that it must stop charging HBO Max rivals for data-cap exemptions.
AT&T lies about Calif. net neutrality law, claiming it bans “free data” - ↪︎ The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years
After 100 years, California condor could return to northwest - ↪︎ These look neat!
New PSVR controllers suggest PS5 headset won’t need external sensors - ↪︎ And now you know.
The correct pronunciation of German camera stuff - ↪︎ THis reminds me... I should file my tax return. And then bitch about the fact that we shouldn’t have to do this, except @intuit is a bunch of greedy asshats.
How to file and pay your 2020 taxes online
Links for March 24, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 24, 2021 3:56 PM
- ↪︎ So it sounds like rather than using server compute to auto caption, Google is now distributing the workload to everyone using Chrome.
Chrome now instantly captions audio and video on the web - ↪︎ Please no.
Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70 Million Merchants - ↪︎ Apple silicon app compatibility guides
- ↪︎ I did NOT need to see this
Virgil Abloh reimagines Braun’s iconic Wandanlage stereo - ↪︎ I’ve been saying for years that education would become more distributed, this is a good read.
Virtual Learning Could Make In-Person School Better - The Atlantic - ↪︎ Castles are fascinating.
Germany's famous Aachen Cathedral in LEGO microscale | The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick - ↪︎ Oh wait, is it infrastructure week again? Wonder if anything will happen this time.
Why an Infrastructure Deal Everyone Wants May Fail - The Atlantic
Links for March 23, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021 7:25 AM
- ↪︎ Check out what Firas Abu-Jaber (@firas_legocars) did to the Creator Expert Fiat 500 set!
This car was meant to be built - ↪︎ That’s a lot of sky!
Astro Anarchy: Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky - ↪︎ This is just gorgeous. Very Mid-Century Modern and yet a bit more futuristic. A++ would look at again.
Triangular Accents Inspired By Candles Adorn This Building In London
Links for March 22, 2021
Posted on Monday, Mar 22, 2021 10:34 PM
- ↪︎ An experiment by Japanese researchers revealed how just a few distracted walkers really can throw off the movements of a whole crowd.
If You Look at Your Phone While Walking, You’re an Agent of Chaos - ↪︎ Medical Racism has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries
- ↪︎ These photos are really satisfying.
Perfect Shadows - ↪︎ Good reminder.
How to Remove Wi-Fi Networks from Your Mac and iOS Device - The Mac Security Blog - ↪︎ Brutalism + Plants is really cool.
Uncovering The Hidden Gems Of Brutalism In Madrid | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Prepare for another drought everyone.
As drought alarms sound, is California prepared? - ↪︎ Good read if you’re into studying conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy Theories and the Problem of Disbelief - The Atlantic
Links for March 17, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 17, 2021 3:17 PM
- ↪︎ The Eden Project with its famed geodesic biomes opened twenty years ago on March 17th, 2001 in Cornwall, England.
As the Eden Project turns 20, its creators take a look back
Links for March 16, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 3:35 PM
- ↪︎ Encoding and decoding Swift dictionaries with custom key types
- ↪︎ HAHAHAHHA
Cryptocurrency Explained - ↪︎ I love the reuse of the existing barn walls, and the mix of materials.
Stone Barn Wall Built into New Home - ↪︎ Transparent Aluminum: A Real See-Through Metal
- ↪︎ So much talent, and hilarious.
Watch Elton John create a song on the spot using words from an oven user manual - ↪︎ Outdoorsy, classy and just looking at it relaxes me.
Shoreland Overlook | Murdough Design | Archinect - ↪︎ “I found some sewer pipes, think we can make a house?”
Mario: “It’s-a me, housey!”
Carl Pruscha, an Architect Investigating Overlooked Territories | ArchDaily - ↪︎ With a little help from some tuna, a whale shark finally has its feast.
One Great Shot: The Big Gulp - ↪︎ Hummingbirds’ Iridescent Feathers Are Still a Bit of a Mystery
Links for March 14, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Mar 14, 2021 3:43 PM
- ↪︎ Enhance 224 to 176
Adobe Photoshop's 'Super Resolution' Made My Jaw Hit the Floor - ↪︎ Tuna sustainability may be in danger.
Tuna’s Last Stand - ↪︎ There Should Be No Computer Art (1971)
- ↪︎ I think this is season three of For All Man Kind, right?
Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base - ↪︎ I really love the off-kilter arches in this building
take a first look at the vaulted interiors of DDG's 180 east 88th street - ↪︎ What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea?
Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea? - ↪︎ “Escaping Criticism” is really exceptional
Comical Canvases: Humour in paintings 1 - ↪︎ Fantastic landscape paintings of Australia
The gold-digger who painted Australia: 1 From Vienna to Victoria - ↪︎ Goddess of the Week: Thetis, Achilles’ mother
- ↪︎ American Institute of Architects 2021 Photography Awards
Winners of the 2021 AIA|LA Architectural Photography Awards - ↪︎ The MagicBand was really revolutionary (I still have some), but having the same thing on my Apple Watch will be great (whenever this whole pandemic is behind us)
Disney’s MagicMobile pass is a contactless alternative to the MagicBand - ↪︎ Can rotting vegetables make electricity?
- ↪︎ That’s a very small start
Minneapolis Settles George Floyd's Family Lawsuit for $27M | Time - ↪︎ This is exactly why we need to #DefundPolice. They’re doing jobs they shouldn’t be doing.
Oakland cops spend little time on violent crime - ↪︎ “When households adopt solar, they’re not paying their fair share”
Pretty rich from a company that returned billions to shareholders instead of properly maintaining infrastructure.
Related: I just ordered solar panels.
Here’s why your electricity prices are high and soaring - ↪︎ Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
- ↪︎ Tina Turner is a powerhouse. I bet this documentary will be good.
Tina Turner Documentary - ↪︎ The Winners of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards
- ↪︎ I dub this style “Ewok Modern”
PokoPoko Club House / Klein Dytham architecture - ↪︎ Another stunning Apple Sto... oh wait, no - A beautiful library in UAE.
House of Wisdom Library and Cultural Center / Foster + Partners | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Tons of playable DOS games!
Dos.Zone - ↪︎ A quick review of some font APIs that work for both UIKit and SwiftUI.
Tweaking The iOS System Fonts - ↪︎ Slow Furniture
- ↪︎ Five African-American inventors who improved the world
- ↪︎ A signed, sealed but not delivered letter from 1697 has finally been read with the help of a high-tech scan that looked inside without breaking its seal.
Reading A Letter That's Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years — Without Opening It - ↪︎ Blade Runner Soundtrack Remastered into a Feature-Length Soundscape
- ↪︎ Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
- ↪︎ I might not design hardware, but it sure is good to understand the foundation I’m building things on.
How CPUs are Designed and Built - ↪︎ How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
- ↪︎ This makes my brain hurt
Did time flow in two directions from the big bang, making two futures? - ↪︎ I heard you like bricks, so I put bricks on your bricks.
A Window on the Langhe House / Studioata - ↪︎ In this tutorial, we will explore the VisionKit framework and show you how to scan documents and perform text recognition in SwiftUI.
How to Scan Images and Perform Text Recognition in SwiftUI - ↪︎ Good article with some interesting thoughts.
The Future of Apple Retail
Links for March 8, 2021
Posted on Monday, Mar 8, 2021 5:49 AM
- ↪︎ Punta Majahua / Zozaya Arquitectos
- ↪︎ Cave. Houses.
Architecture of the Underground: 6 Modern Cave Dwellings Inspired by Ancient History Journal - ↪︎ Native Mac APIs for Go
Michael Tsai - Blog - Native Mac APIs for Go - ↪︎ Beautiful pottery, and functional. There’s so much talent and expertise on display is this video.
Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition - ↪︎ Such an iconic performance. Really neat to hear his thoughts.
Jimi Hendrix Revisits His Searing Performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner”: The Dick Cavett Show (September 9, 1969) - ↪︎ Wow this is amazing. I have to admit though, I didn’t click the link because if I had you might never hear from me again.
Fonts in Use: Enter a Giant Archive of Typography, Featuring 12,618 Typefaces | Open Culture - ↪︎ If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
- ↪︎ Will we ever be able to recycle all our plastic?
- ↪︎ The Famed Painting The Scream Holds a Hidden Message
- ↪︎ 100 Women to Watch in Architecture
- ↪︎ This looks fun. I’ve been wanting to build some sort of dashboard with an e-ink display
Wireless, Low Power E-Ink Weather Gadget
Links for March 7, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Mar 7, 2021 5:37 PM
- ↪︎ Fewer Farmers Are Growing Hawaii's 'Miracle Food' Taro Despite Growing Demand
- ↪︎ Remembering the built environment of segregated America
- ↪︎ This should be in school books.
The Little-Known Female Scientists Who Mapped 400,000 Stars Over a Century Ago: An Introduction to the "Harvard Computers" | Open Culture - ↪︎ TIL: GitHub has a command line tool
Don't forget about the GitHub Command Line - Scott Hanselman's Blog - ↪︎ These Porgs are so adorable
The Art Of Animation, Hollie Mengert - ↪︎ In case you were wondering
Your employer can ask whether you’ve received the coronavirus vaccine — and even require it - ↪︎ Automatic handling of property wrapper default values
Links for March 6, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Mar 6, 2021 5:46 PM
- ↪︎ I learned to program on a ZX81. It was exciting, fun and sometimes frustrating (that keyboard!)
The 40-Year-Old Version: ZX81's sleek plastic case shows no sign of middle-aged spread • The Register - ↪︎ Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 part1: Analyzing AOT files and Rosetta 2 runtime
- ↪︎ Wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka
Keep out Inky and Blinky - ↪︎ Be careful with Obj-C bridging in Swift
- ↪︎ I’m not sure if I’m more impresssed by the buildings or the base it’s on!
A little light amidst a lot of dark - ↪︎ I love WandaVision, and these are spot-on gorgeous.
Period-Specific Cartoon Homages to Wandavision - ↪︎ Quick tips on embracing @ViewBuilder
Links for March 3, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 3, 2021 5:37 AM
- ↪︎ We should use more grey metal roofing like this: It’s so simple, clean and pretty (and it lasts forever!).
House OS / 1-1 Architects | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Beautiful open office space!
Headquarters of Doctors Without Borders in Barcelona / Battle i Roig Arquitectura | ArchDaily - ↪︎ I always love a wavy roof.
Guangming Public Service Platform / ZHUBO DESIGN | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Unit testing Combine-based Swift code
- ↪︎ Paintings of the Four Elements: 1 to 1600
- ↪︎ How to Work with SwiftUI Maps and Annotations
- ↪︎ The smooth organic look of the terminal makes it somehow futuristic and Midcentury Modern all at once.
Construction begins on Foster + Partners Red Sea International Airport - ↪︎ Ten upcoming supertall skyscrapers from the world's best-known architects
Links for February 25, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Feb 25, 2021 3:52 PM
- ↪︎ Mountains are always gorgeous (just ask Bob Ross), and the ones in this post are no exception
Painting Within Tent: John Auldjo’s ascent of Mont Blanc - ↪︎ Should you switch to Thunderbolt 4 cables?
- ↪︎ You had me at “Secret Message” and “Mars”
The Secret Message Encoded in the Parachute of the Mars Perseverance Rover - ↪︎ orangutans
Rescued orangutans returned to the wild - BBC News - ↪︎ Ignoring invalid JSON elements when using Codable
- ↪︎ Even outside of the pandemic this would be a useful feature for the edge cases where Face ID doesn’t recognize you.
How ‘Unlock With Apple Watch’ While Wearing a Face Mask Works in iOS 14.5
Links for February 24, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021 10:42 PM
- ↪︎ Great mid-level dive into the architecture of the Playstation 2 Architecture
Playstation 2 Architecture | A Practical Analysis
Links for February 21, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Feb 21, 2021 5:27 PM
- ↪︎ Was there art before the Renaissance?
Rebirth: 1 Was there art before the Renaissance? - ↪︎ Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Can we bring it to an end?
Links for February 20, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Feb 20, 2021 4:46 PM
- ↪︎ I love artists working in a different field, creating art from those experiences.
Painting Within Tent: John Turnbull Thomson painted all he surveyed
Links for February 17, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021 6:08 PM
- ↪︎ This is great
PowerOutage.US - ↪︎ The world has lost one-third of its forest, but an end of deforestation is possible
- ↪︎ Just a few weeks ago I was reading through the available info about Thread networking, and wish this piece from Eve had been available. Sounds like a great solution to HomeKit networking issues.
Discover your Thread Network | evehome.com - ↪︎ I didn’t need a reason to visit Toronto again but now have one.
New Renderings Reveal the Tallest Frank Gehry-Designed Building in the World, part of the King Street West Project in Toronto | ArchDaily - ↪︎ All Your Base is 20
- ↪︎ Always good to make sure your networking is configured for your specific use case.
URLSessionConfiguration Quick Guide
Links for February 15, 2021
Posted on Monday, Feb 15, 2021 8:57 PM
- ↪︎ I can't believe that The Cure sounds so amazingly good this many years later. I love this song.
The Cure perform "Just Like Heaven" at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - YouTube - ↪︎ One conversation my wife and I keep having is about the mental & developmental impact that the pandemic will have on kids. This article has some interesting thoughts on it too.
Kids of the Covid generation: The road ahead - ↪︎ Here’s another theory about the origins of Alzheimer’s.
Could the immune system be key to Alzheimer’s disease? - ↪︎ I have to visit next time I’m on O’ahu.
Ali’iolani Hale - ↪︎ Great video!
The Birth of Hip Hop | The Kid Should See This - ↪︎ I love the history of Silicon Valley - there’s a small patch still there in Sunnyvale.
Orchard Heritage Park – Sunnyvale, California - Gastro Obscura
Links for February 14, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Feb 14, 2021 10:34 PM
- ↪︎ SwiftUI Custom View Modifiers
- ↪︎ Using Diffable Data Source with Collection Views
- ↪︎ Good info here. I’ve definitely trapped myself in AnyViews before.
Avoiding SwiftUI’s AnyView - ↪︎ Spectacular undulating skylight roof.
SOM expands new york's penn station with moynihan train hall - ↪︎ Maintenance on this would be a nightmare I’d imagine.
11,520 potted plants clad this observatory tower concept by NUDES - ↪︎ This design is... totally tubular.
James Law Cybertecture Blends Technology with Futuristic Design - ↪︎ Oh man this would be perfect for my car (it has a single DIN stereo, and the air vents above it prevent me from getting single DIN CarPlay stereos). I do wish it had wireless CarPlay though.
Review: Car and Driver Intellidash+ is a painless way to add CarPlay to your vehicle | AppleInsider - ↪︎ Great tips! I didn’t know about the first one
24 Quick Xcode Tips - ↪︎ Automatic keyboard avoidance is a blessing.
SwiftUI keyboard avoidance - ↪︎ Swift is really fantastic at memory management, to the point that you rarely have to think about it, there are some cases like this where you have to give it some thought.
Managing self and cancellable references when using Combine - ↪︎ If you like crossword puzzles, Black Ink is the best Mac app for it - full of features, well maintained, and it’s been around forever.
– Black Ink 2.1.2: New Puzzles and Bug Fixes - ↪︎ Lots of new stuff in Swift 5.4!
What’s new in Swift 5.4? - ↪︎ Passing methods as SwiftUI view actions
- ↪︎ I wasn’t aware of the LabelStyle and ButtonStyle modifiers - nice clean way to provide variances in a design.
Custom SwiftUI view styles - ↪︎ macOS apps that don’t support customizing the toolbar are disappointing.
Customizing your toolbar in Mac apps
Links for February 12, 2021
Posted on Friday, Feb 12, 2021 12:42 AM
- ↪︎ Well, I guess I can take this idea out of my bucket.
Control HomeKit from the keyboard with HomeControl Menu - ↪︎ So many lost this past year. I didn’t realize Cristo passed — I remember reading about many of his art installations and being totally amazed at their scale. RIP.
Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2020
Links for February 11, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 11:58 PM
- ↪︎ Really slick design, futuristic and organic.
The Wave Landscape Installation / Atelier Scale | ArchDaily - ↪︎ LOOK SLOW MO FLYING BUGS
Weevils, katydids, an assassin bug, & other insects fly in slow-mo | The Kid Should See This - ↪︎ SwiftUI patterns: @Bindings
- ↪︎ Really beautiful photos of this Frank Lloyd Wright designed building.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Civic Center Captured on Film by Skyler Dahan - ↪︎ I feel like these might be great temporary housing for our homeless population.
'brette haus' is a tiny prefabricated house that unfolds in only three hours
Links for February 10, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021 3:21 AM
Links for February 8, 2021
Posted on Monday, Feb 8, 2021 3:28 AM
- ↪︎ I didn’t know there was a pneumatic tattoo gun.
History of Tattoos Timeline
Links for February 7, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 5:20 PM
- ↪︎ Hypocrisy and the Filibuster
- ↪︎ It would be fascinating to see this in action
Foxton Locks – Foxton, England - Atlas Obscura - ↪︎ The Most Populous Cities in the World
Ranked: The Most Populous Cities in the World - ↪︎ U.S. Presidential Voting History from 1976-2020 (Animated Map)
- ↪︎ So much talent!
A Magical Look Inside the Painting Process of Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga | Open Culture - ↪︎ Hyperrealist Paintings by Jeff Bartels
- ↪︎ Étretat, cradle of Impressionism 1 Before 1880
- ↪︎ Concrete + Wood = Good. Neat Midcentury modern twist too
The Concrete Exterior Of This Home Is Warmed Up With Wood On The Interior - ↪︎ SwiftUI Unit Testing
Links for February 6, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Feb 6, 2021 8:07 PM
- ↪︎ Hi. Does anyone have a spare $14MM floating around that I can have?
An Expansive Bay Area Aerie Offers Golden Gate Views for a Cool $14M - ↪︎ Simple and pretty
Santiburi The Residences / Architects 49 | ArchDaily - ↪︎ Swoop baby swoop
Jianye Lanhai Zheng Tendency Demo Plot | VVS Architect | Archinect - ↪︎ Interesting take on the flat iron shape. It really is reminicent of aspen or maybe even birch trees.
Studio Gang envisions a tree-inspired mixed-use project to add to Denver's skyline
Links for February 1, 2021
Posted on Monday, Feb 1, 2021 1:59 AM
- ↪︎ Another good rollback
President Biden takes executive steps to undo discriminatory housing policies - ↪︎ With all those windows it’s a good thing they have good tree coverage.
Case Study Architect Whitney R. Smith’s SoCal Residence Lists for $2.35M - ↪︎ Good information about MagSafe charging and Pacemakers. You gotta keep ‘em separated.
About the magnets inside iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and MagSafe accessories - Apple Support - ↪︎ I would like to show you a rabbit hole all about libraries. Have fun.
9 Oldest Libraries in the World
Links for January 31, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jan 31, 2021 1:14 AM
- ↪︎ Good news!
Apple’s (tiny) market share in India doubled last year - ↪︎ Tweetbot 6 is out - it’s $5..99/yr, a total steal if you ask me.
Tweetbot 6 - ↪︎ Pier 39 is certainly a huge tourist attraction, but the kitsch is what makes it entertaining for me.
In defense of Pier 39. May it rise after the pandemic kitschier than ever - San Francisco Chronicle - ↪︎ I didn’t know about a few of these!
Top Ten Ray Harryhausen Creations - Boing Boing
Links for January 30, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jan 30, 2021 4:44 AM
- ↪︎ Hard to believe - the time I visited it was around 100℉ at 10am.
WATCH: Snow falls in California’s Joshua Tree National Park - ↪︎ Oooh this might be handy sometime
How to sync the width or height of two SwiftUI views? - ↪︎ Clears up some confusion for me about property wrappers
Which SwiftUI property wrapper to choose in any situation - ↪︎ The California watch face is one of my favorites.
The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces - ↪︎ Look at that roof. I mean LOOK at it!!
Granja Viana House / Gui Paoliello Arquiteto | ArchDaily - ↪︎ The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download
- ↪︎ Widget Background and Accent Color
Links for January 28, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jan 28, 2021 11:57 PM
- ↪︎ It's a natural occurance, but it still sucks.
Yosemite: 15 giant sequoia trees toppled in storm
Links for January 27, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021 4:08 PM
- ↪︎ I didn’t realize this protest was still going on - it sounds like it’s getting worse.
India’s Republic Day farmer protests turn violent - Vox - ↪︎ oooooooooh preeeetttyyyyy
Sou Fujimoto to design crown of Torch Tower, Japan's future tallest skyscraper
Links for January 26, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021 5:10 PM
Links for January 24, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jan 24, 2021 8:56 PM
- ↪︎ This is really stunning, especially those walls.
workshop architects integrates contemporary elements into colonial mexican house - ↪︎ Reminds me of many Apple Store designs
VDG Van Dijk Groep Office Building / Denkkamer
Links for January 21, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jan 21, 2021 4:06 PM
- ↪︎ I love little history tidbits like this.
What color was “Apple Beige”? (Not Pantone 453) | Medium - ↪︎ This house is huge.
A look at the Vice President’s mansion that rivals the White House - ↪︎ GOOD.
Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement - The New York Times
Links for January 20, 2021
Posted on Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 6:35 AM
- ↪︎ Performing POST and file upload requests using URLSession
- ↪︎ Creating custom query functions using key paths
- ↪︎ This must be the most stunning pizza restaraunt anywhere, by a wide margin. The wood work is spectacular.
Pizza 4P’s Restaurant Landmark 72 / ODDO architects | ArchDaily - ↪︎ I really love his use of color in his painting, especially in “Shipwrecked”. The darkness of the background and lightness of the wave splashes really makes it all pop.
The Painter of the Moment, Eugène Lepoittevin - ↪︎ This is total insanity, and totally brilliant.
TabFS - ↪︎ More interesting details about the M1 Macs, this time about disk structures.
M1 Macs radically change boot and recovery - ↪︎ I had my doubts about Apple’s buyback plan too, but at this point it would be hard to doubt it’s effectiveness.
Above Avalon: Apple Won the Share Buyback Debate - ↪︎ We’ve had a couple packages over the years delivered to us that we definitely didn’t order. Maybe this is what was going on.
Amazon’s “Brushing” Scam - ↪︎ The parallax on the Firewatch (@camposanto) website is gorgeous.
Campo Santo - Firewatch
Links for January 19, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 19, 2021 10:20 PM
- ↪︎ Need to search through all of your PDFs? try this out, it's really simple.
pdfgrep - ↪︎ The futuristic somehow organic look of this museum is attractive.
Museum of SNP. Slovakia. : architecture - ↪︎ Nope
Hey, Do I Really Have to Peel Ginger? - Food Network - ↪︎ Looks like people have reinvented the idea behind BBS's again. I like it.
How to run a small social network site for your friends
Links for January 18, 2021
Posted on Monday, Jan 18, 2021 4:40 PM
- ↪︎ Wikipedia is 20.
The other tech giant - Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher | International | The Economist - ↪︎ ok, I really need a 3D printer now. That ultrawide display is 💯
Modern Retro Computer Terminals - The Works of Oriol Ferrer Mesià - ↪︎ A lot of fascinating things going on in the M1.
Rosenzweig – Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I - ↪︎ This would be really handy for UI automation testing
SwiftUI views to images | Alexito's World - ↪︎ iTunes may have its flaws, but it’s still a powerhouse.
iTunes at 20: How One App Changed Apple's Course - The Mac Security Blog - ↪︎ Goddesses of the Week: The Charites or Graces
- ↪︎ That ceiling is stunning.
The Westin Miyako Kyoto / Chapel Renovation / KATORI archi+design associates | ArchDaily
Links for January 17, 2021
Posted on Sunday, Jan 17, 2021 4:49 PM
Links for January 16, 2021
Posted on Saturday, Jan 16, 2021 2:25 AM
- ↪︎ Care for your puppers pads.
Cracked paw pads: How to care for your dog's cut or dry paw pads - Business Insider - ↪︎ Her lip sync videos are *chefs kiss*
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Sarah Cooper: TikTok to Netflix TikTok Netflix Sarah Cooper woman Donald Trump | The Independent - ↪︎ Just wow. Not even sure what to say about this one.
“You Open Your Dwelling’s Door and You See the Mountains”: In conversation with Li Xinggang of Atelier Li Xinggang | ArchDaily - ↪︎ There’s still no good reason this isn’t fully automated.
2020 taxes will be like no other year - ↪︎ I hope there are already plenty of investigations in progress.
How Biden Should Investigate Trump
Links for January 15, 2021
Posted on Friday, Jan 15, 2021 5:24 AM
- ↪︎ This is great. We need a lot more of this.
Over 46,000 pounds of debris removed from remote beaches on Molokai - ↪︎ Amazing home that hasn’t been on the market for over a century.
Asking $1.4M, This Historic Berkeley Home Lists for the First Time in More Than a Century - ↪︎ Stunning organic residence
Phase one of Jean Nouvel's Ecuadorian residential complex is underway - ↪︎ A++ Lighting
Denis Istomin - https://www.deviantart.com/gydw1n -... - ↪︎ OK, so both Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood sold off their rights? This is weird, right?
Mick Fleetwood Sells Song Catalog To BMG - ↪︎ Is there a reason other than needing cash that a music artist might do this?
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM SELLS HIS SONG CATALOG TO HIPNOSIS - ↪︎ Thats a lot of copper.
Visualizing All the Known Copper in the World
Links for January 14, 2021
Posted on Thursday, Jan 14, 2021 4:37 AM
- ↪︎ COVID-19 VaccineTracker Shortcut!
RoutineHub • COVID-19 VaccineTracker
Links for January 12, 2021
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 12