Swift Regrets

10 September 2021

For the past few weeks I’ve been writing Twitter threads on “Swift regrets”, things I wish we’d done differently early on in Swift’s development. I’ve been doing them on Twitter rather than as blog posts because of my RSI—short-form on my phone is easier than long-form at a keyboard when I spend so much time on a keyboard for work. But I’m mirroring them here, lightly edited, so they don’t get lost in the eternal history of Twitter. You can find them under the Swift regrets tag.

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Keyboard Pants

05 July 2021

A year and a half ago, I left Apple, which among other things gave me a lot more time for personal projects. In particular, last March I put a tremendous amount of effort into getting Swift running on Mac OS 9. Which made me happy and proud, but which also had an extremely deleterious effect on my body. And I didn’t really get the message, but continued stressing myself into April and May, and as a consequence, I now have chronic RSI: repetitive strain injury.

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Negotiate Your Offers!

15 November 2020

As you probably know, I joined Signal after nearly a year between jobs. Signal’s a nonprofit whose goal is to make communication secure and private for everyone, mainly through their open-source messaging app. I feel good about being there.

One of the things I kept in mind, though, was that the interview process isn’t a one-sided thing for us software developers. In particular, if you get an offer, you have some say over the terms of the offer.

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