@BobWilliams Agree 🙂At the moment, given where Apple seems to be headed, I'd really like to get out of the Apple eco-system altogether. But unfortunately, I can't do so (at least immediately) because I have a lot of personal software which currently works only on Apple platforms. Guess I need to get re-writing ...

@BobWilliams Sorry to hear about the continuing sleep trouble, Bob. Hope it goes better today .... Sending good thoughts/vibes your way.

An eggcorn is when someone mistakes a word for a different word, often in the context of an idiom. It comes from the surprisingly common mistake of thinking the word "acorn" is actually "eggcorn".

Anyway, my favourite eggcorns are the ones that imply the existence of a powerful and mysterious animal, such as "and their elk" (instead of "and their ilk"), "from the gecko" (instead of "from the get-go"), and, most recently, "locust of control" (instead of "locus of control"). #linguistics

@AngelaPreston If I remember correctly (this was over 40 years ago) we used to turn them around because you could see a greenish part at the bottom of the body where the light would be. But maybe I'm imagining things? Memory fades with time and I seem to sometimes substitute fake memories 😛

@AngelaPreston That looks like the fireflies I used to see in Sri Lanka as a child based on the markings on the wings. But it's been a long time and I can't be 100% sure ...

@davemark They did mention this during WWDC, if I'm not mistaken. Unless you really don't want the code completion functionality, this probably makes the minimum RAM for a dev machine 16GB.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the 16GB RAM requirement becomes necessary for other features too and not just code completion ...

@BobWilliams I'm glad 🙂

Running on little sleep is no fun. I've had issues with sleep for the last 2 - 3 years but apparently it was mostly because I had been sleeping without a pillow most of my life 😛

I guess you can't do it as you get older? Switching to a pillow has helped me somewhat manage it for the last few months. So here's hoping ...

@davemark Yep 🙂You were the main character. The monsters took you to an alternate reality where they want you to teach them how to code for iOS but in their reality, the iPhone is as big as a cart because their technology isn't good enough to miniaturize everything ... Or something along those lines 😛

Good times!

@davemark Those books led to this book 🙂 Don’t know if you remember this one and how you were kidnapped by monsters to teach them iOS 😛

@BobWilliams Sorry to hear about the sleep issues. I sympathize. Hope sleep comes your way!

@BobWilliams I totally get that. Any time I wake up at 2:30am in the morning and can't get back to sleep, I feel like this for most of the morning.

In my case though, things do seem to improve by afternoon. I have no idea why since I would have thought that as the day progresses, I'd get more annoyed due to lack of sleep 🙂

@stroughtonsmith Apple is not a company that anyone can trust ... just like a lot of the other corporations out there. They are all in it for one thing — profit.

Apple just manipulates the media much better and the media lets itself be manipulated. And people buy into this and go on about how great Apple is.

@johnhowesauthor Sometimes it doesn't even have to be arcane but just unfamiliar to other readers and it can create confusion — or a superirority complex 🙂

I used the words "tarred macadam" in one of my novels to describe the road since it is (or used to be) a common term from where I was. But a US reader accused me of "inventing" words after reading. it.

Of course, it's possible that he took my name to mean that I wasn't familiar with English, but that's another story ... 😛

Threat actor claims to have breached Apple, allegedly stealing source code of several internal tools https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/19/threat-actor-claims-to-have-breached-apple-allegedly-stealing-source-code-of-several-internal-tools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If anyone is looking for a remote from Canada iOS developer with 15+ years of experience, I am available.

@mattiem @cdf1982 Totally agree that all games need a very easy mode 🙂 We (my wife and I) play because we enjoy the story in a game and want to find out more. But when combat (even in easy mode) makes it impossible to proceed beyond a certain point, we usually give up on the game.

I too don’t understand why it’s so difficult for most game developers to cater to those of us who just don’t enjoy playing the same level over and over just to get through it …

@ruralgloom I've decided that it's not worth worrying about 🙂I don't know if my fiction is there on piracy sites or not, but I do know that my programming books are.

I just decided that it's not worth wondering what to do since then I'd be investing all my energy into that instead of doing the things I enjoy.

@crcollins I'm mostly a "cards where they land" kind of writer 🙂 Similar to you, when doing the first draft, for me it's all about just getting the story down. Then in the second (or third draft) is when I start thinking about how I might be able to add some more colour/description. Of cousre, that means that some of the tell-no-show stuff from the original just gets by in the later drafts ...

@finestructure Yep! I used to have an extension called Lazarus (I think) installed on Firefox just becuase I'd type a lot of text in a web form and then lose it all. It would remember all your form entries ...

Not sure if that's still around and if it is available on the browser you use though ...

*Revin's Heart* is a steampunky fantasy adventure with pirates and airships and a trans protagonist. Part One, *The Third Time's the Charm*, is now available as a FREE download from most online sources. https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/third-times-the-charm/ #books #bookstodon