Sean Heber

Ex-galactic president. I'm just this guy, you know?

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Work: https://iconfactory.com
GitHub: https://github.com/bigzaphod
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2025-10-07 14:24:21 UTC

A few days ago we found out by accident that there's a primary election happening today in my city!
We had noticed campaign signs appearing a few weeks ago, but just figured it was the whole, "people are campaigning way too early" thing.
This is the danger of being hyper-online but not really hooked into anything local!
Neither of us spend any time on Facebook, we don't have a newspaper sub, and things like Mastodon/Reddit/YouTube/etc are all global.
It's way too easy to miss local stuff.

2025-09-14 03:07:51 UTC

That finale of Foundation was bonkers.

2025-09-12 02:14:16 UTC

This season of Foundation is awesome.

2025-09-07 23:12:35 UTC

Tonight’s movie night move will be, “Superman (2025).” After being surrounded by comics and action figures all day it seemed somehow fitting.

2025-08-02 15:53:24 UTC

Everyone in my family except me is super into D&D. The kids spend hours talking about D&D things, designing characters, etc. They live for the campaign - which only happens for a few hours maybe once a week.
Sometimes I come up with a rough idea/outline for a campaign and my wife DMs it, so I'm not totally disengaged from it, but for whatever reason I just don't have the patience to actually participate.
While they played last weekend, I played Legend of Zelda on NES instead. 😛

2025-06-25 21:32:51 UTC

Spent the day fighting macCatalyst with very little success. Sigh. I don't know why Apple has such a tendency to release ~85% of what I need for a given set of APIs, but I swear this happens constantly. There'll be a great set of things and then ONE function missing.

2025-05-30 23:51:13 UTC

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only good cop show.

2025-05-25 23:18:38 UTC

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "A Minecraft Movie (2025)." I mostly just expect to see Jack Black being Jack Black and that's about it, tbh. Oh and something about a chicken jockey.

2025-03-31 14:21:09 UTC

It's never good when you gotta start the week out by calling a plumber.

2024-12-26 05:06:46 UTC

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Made it to the final boss in Balatro and lost by $10k. Dammit! Closest I’ve gotten.

2024-12-25 23:53:17 UTC

No YOU just spent like 5 hours playing Balatro.
(btw it's on Apple Arcade if you have that and plays wonderfully on both iOS and macOS)

2024-12-01 20:07:35 UTC

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Take SwiftUI, for example. It's built entirely on "advanced" Swift features like result builders and property wrappers. It straight up abuses Swift all over the place. New devs are thrown right into the deep end *immediately*.
Almost no one is starting from `print("hello, world")` anymore.

2024-12-01 20:07:31 UTC

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For example, there's the idea that programmers should start single threaded and slowly move to concurrency - but you can't actually do that in real life, IMO. Libraries/frameworks constantly impose concurrency on you - either they have async functions or they're using callbacks where stuff happens "later" and often on a different thread/actor or the function is marked nonisolated (for good reason), etc.
You can't ease into it.

2024-12-01 20:07:21 UTC

I appreciate that the Swift folks are thinking about how difficult and confusing the concurrency story has become (https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-improving-the-approachability-of-data-race-safety/76183) but I feel like even with all of this, some of the most painful points are being missed.

2024-11-26 02:04:00 UTC

OMG my ISP emailed me about a scheduled outage tonight but they publicly CCed it to EVERYONE. I’m now getting reply alls about stuff like paying bills. looooooool 🤡

2024-11-19 19:30:13 UTC

Every time there's a popular new social network, advocates will say things like, "it's so fun over there!" or, "the vibes are so good!"
Unfortunately the advocates rarely acknowledge that it's fun and the vibes are good because practically everyone on the new network are only posting about how it's fun and that the vibes are good.
Enjoy the feeling while it lasts! I wish it didn't have to fade, but the novelty always seems to wear off eventually.

2024-11-12 02:05:33 UTC

We finished Slow Horses. Now we have to wait almost a year for the next season.?! That’s a crime. It’s criminal. There should be a continuous stream of nothing but new Slow Horses episodes from now until the end of time. I want a live stream of Slow Horses. Come on Apple! Get on it! Make it happen!

2024-11-11 19:49:17 UTC

Clicking external web links in Slack is now opening Safari *behind* the Slack window on my mac. This is absolutely not what I want. Restarting Slack didn't fix it. Is there some new setting for this? I noticed this a week or so ago and then I think it fixed itself.. and now it's doing it again.
Maybe I need to reboot? (sigh...)

2024-11-02 17:11:52 UTC

According to my kids, "Apple computers are great for work but suck for fun stuff."
This opinion is entirely because of things like the available games selections on Steam.

2024-09-14 18:40:05 UTC

I used to hack on all sorts of programming projects on weekends, but it's been a long time since I've done it.
Been trying to think about why.
Part of it is that I feel like I know too much. I can imagine how I'd implement a thing almost immediately and therefore the challenge is over and the rest is just typing.
Part of it is that I like to work on stuff that is going to be used but I know from long experience that weekend side projects never get finished and are virtually never revisited.

2024-09-11 01:47:39 UTC

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The living embodiment of ChatGPT.

2024-09-11 01:32:54 UTC

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Beast mode: activated.

2024-09-11 01:29:26 UTC

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I think he just rebooted.

2024-09-11 01:17:33 UTC

Getting dumber watching this.

2024-09-04 18:27:38 UTC

Every time I come across https://dynamicland.org I'm fascinated by the concept, but when I look into if there's a way for a person to play with it on their own at home or something I find there appears to be no way?
A lot of the answers on the FAQ (https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/) read like they're trying to start a religion.
Especially things like, "additional spaces will be started by people who have contributed significantly to an existing space and have internalized the culture and its values"

2024-08-23 14:22:12 UTC

If you're on mastodon.social and use the web UI, I just realized you can enable grouped notifications in the settings now! Much nicer.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/011/777/086/534/362/original/805d62be5a4495ea.png

2024-08-05 15:28:24 UTC

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Keep it graded. Keep it level.

2024-08-05 15:26:30 UTC

The guys I called to fix up my driveway like 2 months ago appeared suddenly this morning. Excavators are never late. Nor are they early. They arrive precisely when they mean to.

2024-06-25 01:06:02 UTC

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agreed.

2024-06-25 00:38:30 UTC

Badda-Bing Badda-Bang #ds9

2024-06-24 16:25:03 UTC

The perfect GIF doesn't exi....
#boop
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/672/522/440/014/368/original/cebfde6233122575.mp4

2024-06-21 02:19:16 UTC

“Personal log. Star date.. uhh.. the past.”

2024-06-19 21:21:03 UTC

I've had two weird YouTube comments on the video so far and both of them are about my Apple Watch.
One says that wearing a watch with a CPU and radio is bad for my heart or something.
And one says that my watch is too tight.
lol wut?