Dan Lyke 23:04:51+0000 (2025-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)

Oh cool, when you get a nullability specifier wrong in an Objective-C header file that's getting converted to Swift, XCode gives you an error message that takes like 5 clicks to find the actual error message, and doesn't remotely reference the header file until you get to the raw text. Neat.

Dan Lyke 19:51:09+0000 (2025-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...

Dan Lyke 18:44:37+0000 (2025-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2366,-122.643)

Someone mentioned the "Ms AWs outage", and when I noted that Microsoft's product was Azure, said "Xerox was copiers, AWS is cloud". Which is an interesting bit of semantic/trademark creep, and I wonder if it's good, or bad, for Amazon.

Dan Lyke 17:18:44+0000 (2025-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

I talk a lot about how my blog software is two and a half decades old, but in cleaning some stuff up recently I found remnants of a system I wrote to provide web support for an iOS app that was circa iPhone 3, and bit rot is also a thing. From paths that may not be HTTPS compatible, to depending on external mapping services...