Rescuing Files From Classic Mac OS...with Swift!

22 January 2023

My winter break project was getting the files off an old PowerBook from the 90s (my dad’s old work computer) that I’ve had lying around for a while. (There’s probably not anything of interest there to anyone but our family, but who knows?) I’ve looked at this before, but it’s hard to get a 25-year-old computer to talk to a modern OS.

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Posted in Technical. Tags: Mac OS Classic, Swift

Re: Twitter

03 December 2022

Twitter was

  • a place where my shitposts started conversations (or at least joke threads), and where I could participate in conversations (or at least joke threads) on other people’s shitposts

  • a comments section for my blog that wasn’t on my blog, and a comments section for others’ blogs even if they don’t have one on their blog

  • a place to learn about other cool people and projects through the people I already know, and a place for other people to learn about me and my projects through the people they already know

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Posted in Personal. Tags: Tech industry, Running a website

The Two Faces of Codable/Serde

28 November 2022

Swift has a pair of protocols, Encodable and Decodable, which represent generic encoding of a tree structure. These protocols are special in that the compiler can provide a default implementation for them under many circumstances. Similarly, Rust has a project called Serde which likewise is used for roughly the same purpose; Serde’s traits are even more complicated than Codable’s, but have even more powerful code synthesis via Rust’s proc-macros. Both tools are very useful but occasionally frustrating, and I think some of the frustrating areas come from a tension between two competing use cases.

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Posted in Technical. Tags: Swift, Rust

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