Tom Harrington @atomicbird@mastodon.social

Whoever decided to sell moon pies at the register at the liquor store is an evil genius.

“The wine is gluten free and vegan”. I.. uh... what? There’s another kind?

Looking forward to seeing many of you fine people next week at WWDC! #wwdc #wwdc2019

I won the Customer’s Choice award in my company’s annual hack week! http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-05-24-15-47-9aBCRIyzYsjP9Bsj6uOC.JPG

Sheesh, May 20 and we’ve had enough snow that trees are losing branches. I nearly got hit by one while driving.

Siri, come on, there’s only one airport on this city. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-05-19-11-20-WQWyDLyvXLTtgB1L8JFo.JPG

Just watched “See You Yesterday”. Forget superhero movies, I’ll take the inner city time travelers any day. Best SF I’ve seen in a while.

I was searching for a WWDC related message in Mail and found this. Got kind of misty eyed over it. This was when I was still trying to figure out what Cocoa was.

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I'm the new admin of the unofficial WWDC 2019 Slack team. If you want to join in, DM me an address to use. No WWDC ticket required.

iOS devs, is there any way to stop a phone from asking me for sandbox passwords? I’ve already logged out in Settings. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-05-05-17-09-vN5vavBchlolx1LPQtqG.jpg

I’m thinking I could take iOS’s speech recognition framework, recognize text from a video, feed the results into the speech synthesis framework and replace the original audio track. Don’t ask why, if it isn’t obvious then you’ll never understand.

How things have changed for WWDC. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-04-30-15-24-Lce26G6vBKKGKNEPfCJa.JPG

I didn’t watch the big thing last weekend, or the other one, but the chatter has me wondering: What’s the statute of limitations for spoilers?

Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. And popcorn. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-04-26-15-55-5ovbcZlPIrqLGP22Wso9.JPG

I feel like this is the documentation team’s way of saying “fuck off”. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-04-26-10-02-RTT6LOY7nH9Ay8eJV86v.JPG

Normally I like Swift. But you don’t get this BS with Objective-C. http://www.atomicbird.com/share/Photo-2019-04-24-14-55-3VEhlmLBTehuJMk2Fv3Z.JPG

The nice thing about old tech like radio is that, unlike my HomePod, it doesn’t randomly need 30 minutes of debugging before it starts playing music.

“The naming of things is a difficult matter / It isn’t just one of your holiday games / At first you may think I am mad as a hatter / when I tell you a channel must have three different names”. - T. S. Eliot using Slack

Unpopular Swift opinion: I miss “++”

Apple’s News app includes Apple’s news digest, and unsubscribing is not an option. I’ll stick with apps where I’m in control.