Rachel Brindle

younata@hachyderm.io

Tech witch. I'm building an electric airplane. I maintain the Quick, Nimble, and Swift Fakes testing libraries for Swift & Objective-C.Avid bike rider. Bicycles are the best form of personal transport.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. Married to the most wonderful woman in the world.

Posts

Post #4347884
I'm reading "Programming for the Newton", for, uh, reasons (I am weirdly obsessed with this ancient failed PDA). On Newton, data is stored in "soups", which are globally-accessible data blobs. This is both really cool, and not something that could possibly fly today. But, like, in a high-trust computing environment? Sure. That's not the case with any modern platform.
Post #4182519
Hello! My YouTube subscribers list is overwhelmingly male and cisgender, and I want to correct that. I’m looking to follow more women and nonbinary makers (electronics, woodworking, metalworking, etc.) and aviation nerds. No generative AI. Bonus points if they’re/you’re also active on fedi. Please boost to help spread this!
Post #3567632
Some (higher end, yes there’s a scale) FBOs (businesses that offer parking & basic service for airplanes) have oral-care products in their restrooms. Really nice for being able to clean up after a long day flying. Long story short, I mistook mouthwash for soap because it was just in an unlabeled hand pump bottle. I’ve rewashed my hands 3 times since making that mistake, and they still smell of mouthwash. My mental process was essentially: “huh, that was some very thin soap. Wait, there are...
Post #3544198
Love the livery in the Korean Airlines… looks like a widebody of some kind. I am far better at recognizing small aircraft than I am at recognizing airliners. Anyway, the blue over silver look of this is very aesthetically pleasing.
Post #1287373
Closed on our new house today! We’re Californians again!
Post #1183474
@b liveatc.net has live feeds of most transmissions. When I’m in an airliner on the ground, I frequently pull up the feed for ground &amp; tower at that airport.
Post #1183472
Submitting an offer on a home today, and, frankly, it’s transphobic if our offer doesn’t get accepted. #tdov
Post #1183471
New #tdov, new #selfie! #TransDayOfVisibility This year marks 14 years living my absolute best life.
Post #1183470
I&#39;ve only been running iocaine for a week, and I&#39;m already at over 4 million markov-chain pages served to bots. Drink up slop bots, drink deeply from my poisoned well.
Post #1183469
Really quickly this morning, I pulled out some swift async helpers I&#39;ve been using in some personal apps into a separate repo, mostly to make it easier to keep them all in sync. I published it at https://forge.younata.com/you/AsyncExtensions Probably the most interesting thing there is AsyncMultiChannel. Which is like https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms/blob/main/Sources/AsyncAlgorithms/AsyncAlgorithms.docc/Guides/Channel.md, but it supports multiple subscribers. I should re...
Post #1183468
Bullied my reps again. Which I really don’t do nearly as often as I should be. At the very least, this should be a weekly thing instead of just sporadically.
Post #1183467
@b literally same.
Post #1183466
Modding disc-based console to let you play games stored on solid state memory: Pros: - Much faster loading times. - Can carry your entire library with you. - Built-in backup of your game library in case of disc rot or something. - Overall much better experience Cons: - There&#39;s a certain... feeling to knowing that the console is actually physically reading a disc to let you play. Like you&#39;re playing the game the way it was &quot;meant&quot; to be played. e.g., on the psp...
Post #1183464
Just had a thought of the most useful thing about gas/electric hybrid aircraft motors: if (for piston aircraft: when) the gas engine dies, you at least have partial power until you run out of battery. Potentially enough to get you to a safe(r) landing spot. That changes the calculus more in favor of hybrid-electric. Probably still not worth the weight, complexity, and financial penalties you’ll be taking on with that. Like, I still wouldn’t do this for my rv-9. #ElectricAviation
Post #974912
SwiftUI still doesn’t have an equivalent for UITableView/CollectionViewDataSourcePrefetching? Really? Not to mention the lack of a flow layout - literally, the default collection view layout. #SwiftUI #UIKit
Post #534740
lol. Starlink is very popular for general aviation. Today, they announced they were lowering the max speeds for their “roam” plans to 100 mph/87 kts/161 km/h, and added a new $250/mo “aviation” plan that caps you at 20gb/mo. (There’s also a second aviation plan meant for those in jets, for $1000/mo). The current “roam” plan is $50/mo for a 100gb/mo limit, or $165/mo for unlimited data. This will affect basically everyone flying anything faster than a piper cub (cruise speed 75 mph/65 kts/121 km...