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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Posted in Technical.

The Swift Runtime: Enums

20 October 2020

Welcome to the seventh in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. We’ve talked about structs and classes, so the obvious next choice is enums, the last of Swift’s three “concrete” user-definable types.

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Posted in Technical. Tags: Swift, Swift runtime

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