Nick Lockwood
@nicklockwood.com
iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.
"Check important info for mistakes"
July 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Check important info for mistakes"
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel
June 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel
When developers meet for lunch
June 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When developers meet for lunch
A story in three parts
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A story in three parts
![Per Wikipedia: Non-binary[b] and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikf644m65v5ysma4j3exlq5q/bafkreidm2umhavcyfisvxso5lmupsclhr6pf6dcuuwxffigulqy4yjn4ji@jpeg)
My book's so nice, they stole it twice
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My book's so nice, they stole it twice
Apple: *Provides Swift-friendly wrapper for an NSException-throwing API*
Also Apple: *Forgets to actually catch the exception and convert it to an Error*
Also Apple: *Forgets to actually catch the exception and convert it to an Error*
![Screenshot of an Xcode crash. The crash was due to an unhandled NSInvalidArgumentException in +[NSTask run] (task already launched), which in Swift is presented as a throwing API on Process](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikf644m65v5ysma4j3exlq5q/bafkreib4d2aolue6rydvwwi75w4p2mwbd7du6i7jyjqlqwbszfj534xw4u@jpeg)
March 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Apple: *Provides Swift-friendly wrapper for an NSException-throwing API*
Also Apple: *Forgets to actually catch the exception and convert it to an Error*
Also Apple: *Forgets to actually catch the exception and convert it to an Error*
We live in the dumbest future imaginable
February 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We live in the dumbest future imaginable
Thanks, Apple AI, for drawing my attention to this high priority scam email 🙄
February 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Thanks, Apple AI, for drawing my attention to this high priority scam email 🙄
Typo of the day: "Elevenshtein distance"
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Typo of the day: "Elevenshtein distance"
Apple Lawyers: "are we sure it's OK to train our LLM on this code? The license says 'attribution required'…"
Apple Engineers: "no problem:"
Apple Engineers: "no problem:"
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Apple Lawyers: "are we sure it's OK to train our LLM on this code? The license says 'attribution required'…"
Apple Engineers: "no problem:"
Apple Engineers: "no problem:"
I've been writing code in Swift daily for 10 years and I still keep finding out that my mental model of how basic things work is completely wrong.
Take this example - I would have sworn that Swift would find and call the outer, Int-returning version of foo() here - but nope!
Take this example - I would have sworn that Swift would find and call the outer, Int-returning version of foo() here - but nope!
January 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've been writing code in Swift daily for 10 years and I still keep finding out that my mental model of how basic things work is completely wrong.
Take this example - I would have sworn that Swift would find and call the outer, Int-returning version of foo() here - but nope!
Take this example - I would have sworn that Swift would find and call the outer, Int-returning version of foo() here - but nope!
My social media persona seems to slowly have devolved into Abe Simpson
December 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
My social media persona seems to slowly have devolved into Abe Simpson
So the first issue seems to be that this client isn't even smart enough to dedupe my own posts in my own timeline - that bodes well 😅
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
So the first issue seems to be that this client isn't even smart enough to dedupe my own posts in my own timeline - that bodes well 😅