Robin Phillips | On the lookout for silver linings | iOS developer | recovering architect (of the building variety). mastodon: https://xitter.gq/t.co/fWH7QQEAsZ
London, England
Joined October 2020
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IMPORTANT: This ranks a bunch of ways we get around cities, using average carbon emissions by transport type in grams per pkm. It breaks emissions down by operation, manufacture etc.
Feet & bikes win. Lots of ways beat electric cars, & everything beats gas cars.
HT @copenhenken
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Today is #InternationalWomensDay! If you’re a woman who teaches coding workshops for women or girls, email me at [email protected] and I’ll send you a free bundle of books about iOS app development 🙌
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ANNOUNCEMENT 🤩
We're super excited to be launching SwiftLeeds Live at this year's conference.
If you're unable to attend in person this year, you can livestream our entire conference from the comfort of your own home in any country around the world 🌍
You can purchase your e-ticket right now:
swiftleeds.co.uk
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Startling polling from @Unherd, on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of Brexit. In all 650 UK constituencies apart from three (all in Lincolnshire), more people now agree than disagree that Brexit was a mistake. Biggest movement in left leaning areas.
britain.unherd.com/?mc_cid=a…
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When we see streets as primarily space to move cars, we miss out on the wonderful places for people that streets can be. And our cities are less successful for it. Rotenturmstraße’s before-&-after transformation in #Vienna via former Deputy Mayor @BirgitHebein. #StreetsForPeople
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Updates from @alexeheath on the Twitter staff that's all quit: multiple teams that run core services are all gone theverge.com/2022/11/17/2346…
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Let me summon the ghost of Parler here as well: they were booted off of AWS for *not having an effective abuse management process.*
Irrevocably break Twitter's content moderation, and the cloud providers will reduce your bill to $0 for you.
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Following current trends, the next PM will be in office for approximately minus 200 days
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From the bottom of my heart. Thank you, just thank you! The support means a lot, I hope we delivered. See you in 2023? 🙇🏽♂️🎉
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WATCH: The most amazing thing about this remarkable car commercial, is that it didn’t seem to realize, or didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn cars. HT @javiermalagon
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Here’s a video showing the new the safeAreaAspectFitLayoutGuide API in use ✨
@smileyborg has a great thread about it’s use cases: xitter.gq/smileyborg/status/1567…
📖 Documentation: developer.apple.com/document…
🆕 Does your app display full-screen media content?
There's a specialized new UIKit API in iOS 16 that will help you display content as large as possible within the safe area of any device, including iPhone 14 Pro:
UIWindow.safeAreaAspectFitLayoutGuide
developer.apple.com/document…
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My guess is that Apple flipped on some stuff related to iPhone 14 in iOS 16 beta 6 that's hard to extricate for a simulator runtime release, which is why they have left iOS 16 beta 5 (and its wallpaper-related performance issue) as the sim runtime in the external Xcode beta.
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I'm pleased to announce I'm putting the finishing touches to a new book that has been three years in the making: Pro SwiftUI! Not only does it cover a wide range of advanced SwiftUI techniques, but it will also include videos for every chapter so you can learn however you prefer!
ALT Pro SwiftUI: Unleash SwiftUI's potential and build smarter, faster apps.
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Makers are awesome.
GDS are awesome.
Our mobile team are awesome.
YOU can join us, learn to code and build awesome stuff too! 🚀🧑💻
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Help shape the future & join the team developing groundbreaking products in identity technology with @DeloitteDigital & the @GDSTeam
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Apply today 👆
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And just like that, Meta have lost at least one developer ever working for them (the developer is me)
If you're a dev / tech talent and considering employment options, I would urge you to include "Am I actively supporting a fascist regime" on your list of variables.
And it begins.
'Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion', @Forbes
forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-…
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🔥🔥🔥 UK government 🔥🔥🔥 #ByeByeBoris
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We can get URLs for system folders in iOS 16 directly from static properties on URL type: URL.documentsDirectory, URL.cachesDirectory etc. No need to call FileManager.default.url(for:) method any more for common use cases.
nilcoalescing.com/blog/GetUR…
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The original iPhone didn’t have cut/copy/paste. Infamous! The quickest explanation is that I didn’t have time to do it right. I had too much keyboard, autocorrection, and text system work to do. The design team didn’t have time either. So we passed on the feature for 1.0.
