Jan 23rd, 2025 So I am working on auto-completion in NSTextView in a package called TextKitAutoCompletion. This is the first new Swift Package project I started with Xcode 16, I believe; the previous one was still Xcode 15. And with … Read more
I used the YOLO object detection library from Ultralytics to scan over 40 million hotel photos and identify images with office chairs. This helped me create a map showing hotels suitable for remote work. Map: https://www.tripoffice.com/maps Yolo: https://www.ultralytics.com/yolo The whole … Read more
Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs? Then this is a blogpost for you, as that’s exactly what this is: … Read more
Pay attention to the UID value This repository describes general status on the topic and a possible solution to allow you to use your device as an access card in UID-based access systems (without cloning, consent on behalf of maintainer … Read more
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted If you don’t have time to read this post, these four graphs give most of the argument: Source. Each bar here represents 1 year of the activity, so … Read more
I transitioned to the role of Engineering Manager approximately 5 years ago, since then I haven’t been programming in my day job but the itch to do so has always been there. So I continue to work on side projects … Read more
In change data capture, consistency is paramount. A single missing or duplicate message can cascade into time-consuming bugs and erode trust in your entire system. The moment you find a record missing in the destination, you have to wonder: is … Read more
Binary Ninja has an AI integration called side kick, it has a free trial but I’m not sure it can be used in the free web version. [1] In my experience, the off the shelf LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) do a … Read more
Emacs is, famously, an editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs Lisp (or Elisp). This year’s edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual “gathering” that has been held online for the past … Read more
As I was working on some revisions to The Rust Programming Language book, I had cause to look at the Vec::drain method, and that led me down a rabbit hole — the rabbit hole we are now going to traverse together. If … Read more