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Alphabet issues first ever dividend, $70 billion buyback
  • That’s really a lame dividend. I have no idea why the stock would shoot up 15% to $160 on the news that shareholders will receive $0.20 per share. Even with the buyback program it won’t be that big of a boost. The better asset allocation would’ve been to keep innovating but I guess they’re out of ideas?

  • Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch
  • It was originally meant as a better JavaScript and it was. It failed when none of the other browsers expressed interest in supporting it. It languished for a while and then was taken up by the Flutter team. At the time Flutter took it up it was somewhere around the level of Java 8 in features but not quite on par. Since then it’s seen some massive improvements to the type system and language. It’s completely null sound, not just null safe like Kotlin. It recently got records/tuples and one of the more capable pattern matching syntaxes I’ve ever seen in a functional imperative hybrid language. The next stable version of dart will introduce a compiler macro system that is very promising. The syntax isn’t always the prettiest due to it trying to not totally break old code. I do think that it offers a wide range of modern language features that competes heavily with Swift and Kotlin in the mobile space.

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?
  • The only things JSON has over xml is that it’s easier to write a parser for it and the format is less verbose and less complicated. There are extensions to JSON that can add features that xml has and the JSON spec doesn’t have. Overall the xml spec is bigger and has more features but that also makes it overkill for many of the cases that it would be used in.

  • WWDC24 Announced

    It’s another virtual conference year with an optional and free in person opening day. https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/

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    Should I iOS…
  • I’m going to sound very negative here and it isn’t because I don’t like open source software. I use it and contribute to it. The problem with OSS apps is that they get cloned by people who don’t care about the license and repackaged with predatory subscriptions or with malware. In the case of malware these lowlifes go out on sites like Fiver and offer to pay unsuspecting developers to distribute the app. If the app is downloaded even once, that developer now faces a lifetime ban from distributing Android apps. I suspect similar things happen on the App Store. It’s just more visible in the Android forums I follow than it is in the iOS ones.

    I have seen stories of oss apps being cloned and then Apple mistakenly not letting the original dev upload updates because the app has been flagged in their system as being a spam app or built from a template. This is usually correctable with enough email to support.

    My recommendation is to keep your app closed source on both platforms. If you want to contribute to the communities, release a library or contribute to one. If you want to show How to write an app, make something minimal and trivial like a todo list. You can also create a blog.

  • The GOP Is Too Scared to Let South Dakota Vote on Abortion
  • They tried like hell to keep it off of the ballot in Ohio because they were afraid of what did happen. I can’t say if all of the dirty politics influenced people who were unsure how to vote in the opposite direction the GOP intended. Statistically speaking the final vote wasn’t even close. That is what they fear.

  • Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86
  • Or it is just corporate greed. Samsung would love to position something that is just okay into a premium price tier and not have to pay Intel. Sure they’re going to pay Qualcomm instead but you can bet that Qualcomm is giving some great introductory prices to their early partners.

  • Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86
  • Any program written for the .net clr ought to just run out of the box. There’s also an x64 to ARM translation layer that works much like Apple’s Rosetta. It will run the binary through a translation and execute that. I have one of the windows arm dev units. It works relatively well except on some games from my limited experience.

  • The NYPD Spent $150 Million to Catch Farebeaters Who Cost the MTA $104,000
  • Have you ever driven through a small town and seen a police car sitting right where the speed limit drops? Those tickets and the kangaroo mayor’s courts are the only reason some of those towns are still alive.

  • Windows 11 to Drop Android App Support in March 2025
  • Recently I made an app using Flutter that I tried to distribute over the Windows Store. I was unable to get past the company verification process despite having whatever I needed. Their backend management site is pretty bad. Eventually I got stuck in some loop where the page would just keep refreshing endlessly. The tax form site which is separate wraps another site in an iframe. I decided to set it aside for a while because the app is also in the Amazon store. If I can conjure up the energy I’ll fight that beast again.

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    Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books
  • True. I’m not an expert here but I always thought that fan fiction could only co-exist with copyrighted material if the author wasn’t benefiting financially from the derivative work. Someone else taking it and selling it seems like more a target for the rights holders of the original work.

  • Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3
  • I have one of the Voltera dev kits. It’s not bad. It probably runs at almost the same speed as the m1 mini or maybe closer to the dev kit. The x86 emulation is decent. It doesn’t do well when running old games like Age of Empires 2 HD. For doing light development it is okay. The nice thing is that it is far more efficient than anything Intel puts out. Whether Qualcomm can keep the performance per watt to levels like the M series chips remains to be seen.

  • Recommend me a programming language
  • People shouldn’t be down voting you just because they disagree and hate php. I’ve read that it has come along way in the last 10 years or so. People really like Laravel too. I wouldn’t put it on my list of recommendations personally but I get why someone might.

  • Intermittent MAUI Android issue - "The paging file is too small for this operation to complete (DOS error/errno=1455)"
  • I don’t know the answer but I can say that it is strange to have your paging files use a RAM disk. The whole point of a paging file is to be able to use more extend the amount of ram you have by utilizing a physical disk. What you’re telling the os to do is reserve a bunch of ram for a disk and then if you run low on ram just put some of the data over here in the ram it isn’t allowed to use. Then when it needs the data in the padding file it will have to swap ram pages from memory into the other area of memory and move the needed pages into the non disk memory. It’s very inefficient.

  • Masking Third Party Dependencies
    www.swiftjectivec.com Masking Third Party Dependencies

    It’s not a groundbreaking pattern, but it pays to mask third-party code. Here’s how I do it.

    Masking Third Party Dependencies

    I did something like this for analytics on the company app. It needs to record analytics to multiple providers for which a fan out pattern was a good fit. There's a single entry point to log an event. Any number of loggers then pick up that event and send it out to the provider. It has worked well and is even used for functionality inside of the app that should happen after a certain set of events occur in the app. For instance it prompts the user to rate and review the app after the user has performed a conversion event. A similar set of events will trigger the app to prompt the user to allow push notifications.

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    How (not) to monitor SwiftUI @State
    blog.thomasdurand.fr How (not) to monitor SwiftUI @State

    While I was working on the first version of my latest app SharePal ⚡️, I figured that I’d like to add haptic feedback for distinct action within the app. Something that did not worked well… Since I’m targeting iOS 16 as a base, I…

    How (not) to monitor SwiftUI @State

    It's a nice explanation and exploration of how state in SwiftUI works.

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    Developing Flutter apps for Large screens
    medium.com Developing Flutter apps for Large screens

    How to optimize your Flutter app to meet Android’s large screen requirements

    > Last year, we partnered with the team at gSkinner to develop Wonderous, a reference app to showcase the high-quality experiences possible with Flutter. One of the goals for creating Wonderous was to provide an open-source example that demonstrates best practices. In that same spirit, we audited Wonderous against Android’s large screen guidelines.

    It's a Medium article but shouldn't count against any stupid quotas since it is from the Flutter team.

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    Issue 188 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
    fluttertap.com Issue 188 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter

    Let's dive into this week's content, waiting to supercharge your Flutter projects: Tutorials Streamlining exiting your Flutter desktop app with Shortcut...

    Issue 188 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
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    Xcode 15 issue related to Flutter 3 — Fix
    medium.com Xcode 15 issue related to Flutter 3 — Fix

    Hi everyone you might have updated to the latest version of mac OS Sonoma which forced the updated of Xcode. You are not the only…

    Xcode 15 issue related to Flutter 3 — Fix

    I haven't seen any of the issues mentioned in the article. I suspect it is related to the libraries the author's project is using and I may not be using. These look like good temporary workarounds until fixes in the libraries can be rolled out.

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    What’s new in Android 14 for developers
    proandroiddev.com What’s new in Android 14 for developers

    Review of most important changes in API and new features in Android 14 that developers need to adopt

    What’s new in Android 14 for developers

    >Android 14 is already here, so I took the documentation, experts’ reviews, and other available resources to sort out all the important changes that will affect most application developers. Let’s examine new restrictions on background mode, changes in Foreground Service, new restrictions on the work of Intent and BroadcastReceiver. In this release, we have many restrictions, but we’ve also got new features.

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    Mastering Observation framework in Swift
    swiftwithmajid.com Mastering Observation framework in Swift

    Apple introduced the new Observation framework powered by the macro feature of the Swift language. The new Observation framework, in combination with the Swift Concurrency features, allows us to replace the Combine framework that looks deprecated by Apple. This week, we will learn how to use the Obs...

    Mastering Observation framework in Swift

    > Apple introduced the new Observation framework powered by the macro feature of the Swift language. The new Observation framework, in combination with the Swift Concurrency features, allows us to replace the Combine framework that looks deprecated by Apple. This week, we will learn how to use the Observation framework to handle data flow in our apps.

    I'm not sure that I buy the idea that Combine is deprecated. This does help reduce one use for it where it while increasing performance.

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    Swift Data by Example
    www.hackingwithswift.com SwiftData by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers

    Get hands-on example code to help you learn important Apple frameworks faster.

    SwiftData by Example is the world's largest collection of SwiftData examples, tips, and techniques to help you build apps, solve problems, and understand how SwiftData really works.

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    Everything you need to know about Enum with Flutter and Dart
    lyabs.hashnode.dev Everything you need to know about Enum with Flutter and Dart

    Enumerations, often abbreviated by enum, are special class types that allow a limited number of constants to be represented. Why use an enum rather than a class? Enum makes it possible to represent a limited number of constants, allowing better reada...

    Everything you need to know about Enum with Flutter and Dart

    Here's a nice simple article explaining enhanced enums that have been around for a while but may be something overlooked. Between these and sealed classes I think Dart has an excellent story for pattern matching.

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    How async/await works internally in Swift
    swiftrocks.com How async/await works internally in Swift

    You probably know how to use async/await. But have you ever wondered how it works under the hood?

    How async/await works internally in Swift

    > async/await in Swift was introduced with iOS 15, and I would guess that at this point you probably already know how to use it. But have you ever wondered how async/await works internally? Or maybe why it looks and behaves the way it does, or even why was it even introduced in the first place?

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    AsyncSnapshot .when extension using Dart 3 pattern matching

    Randal Schwartz takes the .when from Riverpod's AsyncValue and creates it for an AsyncSnapshot, using Dart 3 pattern matching.

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    @Model for CoreData
    www.alwaysrightinstitute.com @Model for CoreData

    At WWDC 2023 Apple finally released a persistence framework specifically for Swift: SwiftData. My ManagedModels provides a similar API, on top of regular CoreData, and doesn’t require iOS 17+.

    I've never been a big Core Data fan since it has cost me many days of my life debugging odd issues. To be fair, the issues weren't caused by Core Data. It was all of the foot-guns it left around that the junior developers on the team were more than happy to pick up and play with. This does look like an interesting use of macros though and is certainly a good example of how to craft more complex macros.

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    Swift if and switch can now be expressions
    www.avanderlee.com If and switch expressions in Swift

    By using if and switch statements as expressions, you can omit the return keyword and reduce the lines of code while maintaining readability.

    If and switch expressions in Swift

    This is one feature that I missed from some other languages like Kotlin. It isn’t super useful for ifs but a switch with a lot of cases? Bring it on.

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    RaspberryPi 5 Review
    www.tomshardware.com Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers

    The first new flagship Pi in four years was worth the wait.

    Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers

    It looks like a big improvement over the 4 but sadly needs active cooling or it throttles under load quickly. It has a new form factor which requires a new case too. Still there are a lot of great additions that make it a good upgrade.

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    Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples
    www.avanderlee.com Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples

    Value and type parameter packs allow you to write generic functions that accept an arbitrary number of arguments with distinct types

    Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3558087

    > Type parameter packs and value parameter packs allow you to write a generic function that accepts an arbitrary number of arguments with distinct types. As a result of SE-393, SE-398, and SE-399, you can use this new feature from Swift 5.9.

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    Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples
    www.avanderlee.com Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples

    Value and type parameter packs allow you to write generic functions that accept an arbitrary number of arguments with distinct types

    Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples

    Type parameter packs and value parameter packs allow you to write a generic function that accepts an arbitrary number of arguments with distinct types. As a result of SE-393, SE-398, and SE-399, you can use this new feature from Swift 5.9.

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    Implementing Multiplatform Kotlin library
    kt.academy Implementing Multiplatform Kotlin library

    How in Kotlin we can use multiplatform capabilities to distribute the same code to multiple platforms.

    Implementing Multiplatform Kotlin library

    Usually when I read a KMP article it talks about mobile. This one is about JS and the JVM.

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    Making Multiplatform Better
    talkingkotlin.com Making Multiplatform Better

    In this episode, we talk to Rick Clephas, one of the Kotlin Foundation Grants Program winners and the creator of KMP-NativeCoroutines and KMM-ViewModel.

    >In this episode, we talk to Rick Clephas, one of the Kotlin Foundation Grants Program winners and the creator of KMP-NativeCoroutines and KMM-ViewModel.

    When I last used KMP it was before the new memory model so I avoided coroutines as much as possible. A year later and it looks to be so much easier and better now.

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    Thread safety in Swift with actors
    swiftwithmajid.com Thread safety in Swift with actors

    Actors is the new Swift language feature, making your types thread-safe. This week, we will learn how to use actors and their benefits over locks. We will also discuss actor reentrancy, the main confusing point of using actors.

    Thread safety in Swift with actors

    I found this link via SwiftUI Weekly #161 >Actors is the new Swift language feature, making your types thread-safe. This week, we will learn how to use actors and their benefits over locks. We will also discuss actor reentrancy, the main confusing point of using actors. > >In the previous post, we modeled a Store type, allowing us to implement state management predictably.

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