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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Sep 13

If LAX had replaced the entire auto loop with a basic ground-based tram system that went to hotels, drop-offs and parking it would be so much better and have saved the airport years of construction on an overly elaborate elevated rail. But we love our cars in America!

Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 10

Finished Day 38 & iExpense Challenges of #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/38.

I figured out Challenges 1 & 2, but got stumped on #3. Fortunately, HWS+ helps.

Day 38 – 100 Days of SwiftUI

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 9

And the code looks like this. Don't try to reproduce this, as it's intentionally meant to show how confused SwiftUI can get if you don't properly use Identifiable for dynamic rows.

Code that attempts to confuse the List views with dynamic rows.

Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎉 I just finished Day 37 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/37. To understand Identifiable better, I goofed around a bit and looked at a List where SwiftUI won't be able to properly track each row.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 8

Why is this a feature?

Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's enough of a pain that some folks created Helm for App Store Connect.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎉 I just finished Day 36 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/36.

Day 36 – 100 Days of SwiftUI

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 6

#100DaysOfSwiftUI Day 35 Challenge complete! www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/35 I finally managed to built the Edutainment app, and feel somewhat good about the functionality. The UI will need an overhaul once I get a little further in the course.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 6

Broke the streak. I took a month off, attended WWDC25, OneMoreThing, CommunityKit, Students, Swift & Stars, and heard @twostraws.bsky.social inspire folks at all 3 events! Built a workspace for #100DaysOfSwiftUI and reviewed the animation sections, Day 34 done www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/34

Day 34 – 100 Days of SwiftUI

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jul 6

I spoke with someone from Apple, and the .leading alignment is apparently something they're trying to default to as standard in iOS 26. (I do need someone to confirm that, however.)

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Flightradar24 feed now suggests that the aircraft did back-taxi, and it was essentially a data gap. Hopefully we'll find out more during the preliminary accident report.

Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 13

Saudi ATC having some busy days.

Screenshot from Flightradar24 showing the middle east, and with no aircraft flying over Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Jordan, most of the traffic is diverting over Saudi Arabia.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 13

I haven't used SceneKit or RealityKit, but I noticed this deprecation notice today. #WWDC25

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 13

There are some NOTAMs regarding work in progress on both sides of runway, but it's unclear if that's runway construction. Since VAAH does not appear to have a parallel taxiway, back-taxiing is the only way to use the full runway. None of the last 5 departures seem to have done that.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ahmedabad's runway 23 is 11,499' long. That's a sizable runway for any international airport. It appears Air India 171 routinely back-taxied. On its last flight (on left) FR24 did not observe any back-taxiing, which is also the case with the flight on June 7th. Note: FR24 data could be incomplete.

Screenshots from Flightradar24, showing the last five flights of Air India AI171. The accident flight's track on the runway shows now back-taxiing.

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 12

James Dempsey introducing the new Apple Release calendar to address the issue of 26 coming out in 2025. #WWDC

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Hans @hanscath.bsky.social · Jun 11

Hacking with Swift IRL @ #WWDC25 #CommunityKit