Matt Massicotte

Happy Morning Gang!
Just thought I'd share that I remain very not into Apple actively supporting the destruction of democracy worldwide in exchange for a favorable regulatory environment.

2025-09-25 16:24:52 UTC

“So under 'hobbies' you have listed ‘programming'?”
“Yes!”
“But I also see it listed here under 'things you despise with all your being'”
“Yes that’s correct”

2025-07-09 07:51:08 UTC

I care if you, personally or as a corporation, are funding this https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3lti3l56jf22o

2025-05-21 16:19:15 UTC

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

2025-05-16 11:39:38 UTC

There are patient people. There are saints. And then there are watchOS developers.

2025-03-29 17:05:33 UTC

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There must be an option for you out there!

2025-03-29 16:56:07 UTC

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I don’t think so … I’m not using a cross platform system 😞

2025-03-29 14:37:32 UTC

Anyways maybe you can guess what I was working on. This weird thing can now like posts here and on Bluesky.
https://github.com/mattmassicotte/Multipass

2025-02-17 12:54:37 UTC

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond.
https://www.massicotte.org/leverage

2025-02-02 20:25:36 UTC

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Perhaps I’m thinking of something else, but wasn’t it initially opt-out?

2025-01-24 02:34:20 UTC

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I’m unaware of this interaction. And I think we definitely should all be super careful with how we react and interpret others actions. But I will admit that I do still think about this post:
https://www.manton.org/2024/04/25/im-a-progressive.html

2024-11-23 22:44:00 UTC

Did you know urchins like to pick up and carry around loose stuff?
Mine has found an empty shell.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/534/686/964/780/403/original/2ae80ffe103233b2.jpeg

2024-11-20 22:03:46 UTC

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But I also feel it’s important to note that this comment was intended to hurt me personally and it did.

2024-11-20 20:50:54 UTC

I guess I could do way worse than “Swift concurrency life coach”

2024-11-20 10:25:22 UTC

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Been a long time now…

2024-10-26 13:05:19 UTC

I’m working on a post about Swift concurrency patterns/techniques that tend to not work out well. What have you run into?

2024-09-23 13:32:51 UTC

Just in case you didn't catch it, there's been a very significant proposal made on the Swift forms. I had thoughts.
If you have thoughts, now is the time!
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-inherit-isolation-by-default-for-async-functions/74862/28

2024-08-30 12:12:21 UTC

I’ve been working on my talk and I think it’s going to be a good one.
“Swift Concurrency is new and different and hard and you can do it”
Hope to meet lots of new people here! https://iosdev.space/@SwiftLeeds/113050473359415893

2024-08-14 12:46:23 UTC

I've had a hard time writing things that help people get started with concurrency. I want to fix that!
Here's a step-by-step discussion of how to make a network request with SwiftUI. It starts with GCD and moves to async/await. Includes some common techniques you might want to avoid too.
You do have to understand *a little*, but I tried my best to make it approachable.
https://www.massicotte.org/step-by-step-network-request