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Rob Napier

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<p>Swift and Go. Love &#39;em both. They make me mad in completely different ways. Infosec as required. robnapier.net</p>

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  • Post #3942092

    I&#39;m curious if this is a controversial opinion: Claude Opus ~ 4.6 is good enough for just about all coding problems. 4.5 is ok, but I do like 4.6 better. 4.8 is even better (and what I mostly use), but not a lot. If I were forced back to 4.6, it&#39;d be fine. Fable is… slow. I really don&#39;t get why people care about Fable. My point: Maybe we&#39;re kind of done? And if we don&#39;t need to train a new model 3 times a year, and just need inference, maybe we don&#39;t need a gazillion d...

  • Post #1915269

    I&amp;#39;ve been exploring why incremental xcodebuilds take longer than I think they should, and I&amp;#39;ve been seeing this interesting remark from -driver-show-incremental: remark: Incremental compilation: Fingerprint missing for existing interface of top-level name &amp;#39;==&amp;#39; in ...swiftmodule Thousands of these for different symbols. I can&amp;#39;t find anything discussing what this remark means. Does anyone know what this is?

  • Post #1470378

    “We’re lazy, not reckless. The difference is caring.” — Noam Efergan. @ARCticConference

  • Post #1205197

    &amp;quot;Elevate an app with Swift Concurrency&amp;quot; is a great talk. &amp;quot;Approachable concurrency&amp;quot; looks like how I&amp;#39;ve always imagined Swift Concurrency would be. Thanks @simanerush for walking us through it. Moving to structured concurrency has been so hard, but has uncovered so many long-existing bugs, and working in fully structured code really is delightful to me. The transition is still very hard, and there are key tools we still need, but I think we&amp;#39;re...

  • Post #959421

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/116278367466232058 For me, the StM feature that’s worth the whole price. Everything else is just bonus. I hate autoplay videos so much.

  • Post #959404

    RE: https://macaw.social/@mergesort/116324619753423602 I&amp;#39;m also a fan of Transit. It has a delightful design and its what I reach for first when I&amp;#39;m in a city trying to understand the bus system.

  • Post #959403

    I know it&amp;#39;s an old joke, but still one of the most hilarious markings to me. No seriously, just stop. Stop some more. It&amp;#39;s over. Go home.

  • Post #394508

    This recent post from Anthropic, &amp;quot;Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes,&amp;quot; is absolutely worth a read. But if I may make a humble suggestion: Place yourself first in a no-mind state, neither hopeful nor cynical, and just read it. Do not assume you know what it says. There is a great deal of admission in here of the deep, systemic limitations of AI code generation. There are also insights of how we might explore its possibilities. Both are important. https://www...

  • Post #307691

    I really wish we had a Task-aware Swift debugger. So often when something hangs, there&amp;#39;s nothing on any of the thread stacks, because Tasks don&amp;#39;t hold the thread while waiting. Do we have any tools yet that are aware of waiting Tasks rather than just waiting threads?