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One of the biggest losses we suffered in the recent Supreme Court term might have been standing. Also, progress in hot dog eating, another mathematician plays slide-advance keyboard, a paragraph dropped from the declaration, Maggie's link to the history of Itchy and Scratchy, and Wizard Zines.

In part one of this series on macros, we provide an example of repetitive boilerplate code that could be replaced by a macro and begin filling in the Xcode Swift Macro template for Xcode.

Finding the role you're meant to play. We do so much more than our job title.

July 11, 2023

Stories are driven by the lies the character believes. Also, a bit of the "Everything Everywhere" script, Northern lights, Conan and Harrison, Dark side of the Rainbow, and Ancient Pizza. Maggie's link to Mr. Burns checkup and Simon Phipps on Open Source.

We continue our macro experiments by implementing a member macro and learning to walk an Async Syntax Tree and extract the elements we want to use..

A look back at staying social while leaving social media giant Facebook.

Creating things to worry about. Also, two cats jamming, Joe Walsh on AI, the risk of high vis vests, ode to an eBike, process vs product, Maggie's link to McCheapest, and Brad Larson on good bug reports.

We refine the macro we implemented last time to be more robust by introducing a custom error type. We also improve the extraction of the elements by using more idiomatic Swift.

On giving good notes to creative people.

When the brand fights with the reality. Also, Ohio Republicans in your bedroom, supporting your team, Obama and Biden in pink, more cats jamming, Maggie's Barbenheimer links, and retro computing's HP 1973.

Xcode 15's Console displays the output grouped by subsystem and category. We can use OSLog and Logger instead of print() to get much nicer console output that is more informative and useful.

Focusing on the verb not the noun.


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