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It's summer in NYC, which means lines — and line discourse. Earlier this month, the Friday right before the long July 4 weekend, I went for a run and thought I'd grab some pastries from nearby Radio Bakery on the way, guessing that the usual line
Oh boy, now we're getting to the fun stuff: codesigning! maybe you don't even need to codesign If you're building a macOS app, you can maybe run your app for development without codesigning. You only really need to codesign if you're using
what is an app, really? In the previous post, we managed to build a macOS app binary using only Swift! But... it's not quite an app in the way we think of apps. It doesn't have an icon, for starters, and we needed the AppDelegate and
I don't like using Xcode and I wanted to see if I could start building a native MacOS app without it. Turns out it's really easy with Swift! what you need Swift, via Xcode: I installed Xcode from the App Store; you do need it installed
This is a dev note , a new type of post I'm trying out. In these posts I'll share interesting dev things I've learned, or small projects I've built. To kick off this first edition of dev notes, here's toast , a
The Verge has some of the best personal reporting on Minneapolis: here's a beautiful eulogy by someone who grew up with Alex Pretti , and this piece about making whistles is so much more than just whistles. Here in NYC it's snowed so much that we'
Filing house burping under things I did before it was cool on TikTok (although I do like that it has a silly name now). Also known as Lüften , it's the sometimes landlord-mandated German habit of airing your house daily, even in the depths of winter.
In tree news: one family's long tradition of saving pieces of their Christmas trees , and burning a little piece of each every Christmas, while telling a story about the year the piece was. I love the idea of making your own family rituals, all the more so when
I have a spicy git alias that allows me to "archive" old git branches by converting them to tags, making them less visible across git tooling. # ~/.gitconfig [alias] archive-branch = "!f() { \ : git switch; \ local git_branch=${1:-$(git branch --show-current)}; \ git co main && \ git
I'm learning to be suspicious of things in the grocery store that are almost but not entirely what I'm expecting: recently, Mexican Oregano and Gold non-Yukon potatoes . (via me accidentally buying Mexican Oregano and metafilter) Things happen in San Francisco: Francisco San funding shenanigans , Fran
In many, if not all, of the projects I work on, CSS colors tend to devolve into a mess of hard coded color values. Palettes have improved the situation, mostly by replacing those hardcoded values with a smaller set of green[400] or red[200] values. It still inherently lacks
Adding “ what if I had a small invitation-only restaurant ” to my burn-out bucket list, it’s the logical next step from hosting dinner parties: “Hori is possibly the only restaurant in New York that operates with the Japanese system of ichigensan okotowari — which
Just draw a fish . Behind the scenes: fish tinder for moderating the drawings . Long discussion on HN and metafilter (via) and a post mortem on the Slur Fish Incident ( HN ). Dicing an onion the mathematically optimal way . Math does not account for your tears. or hacking the slider to go
Scotland, long walks, and someone else to plan it all for you - what's not to love? What do you see when you look at clouds ? { via } An extremely punny dino bodega pops up, I lost it at the STEG YUN poster { via } I still haven't tried
git diff is near and dear to my heart , so when a post on better diffs showed up on Hacker News last week, it immediately caught my attention. It's given me a few ideas on how to improve delta , particularly its command-line output. But then in the