Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · 20d

Worst case, they do a bunch of deeply incredibly unpopular things with their base

4

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · 20d

and obviously why not call their bluff?

1 7

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Sep 15

the swift forum today has me saying "swift 7" like a Gen Alpha kid

7

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Sep 15

pallet/palette/palate has gotta be the most insidious homophone group

3

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Aug 11

I would maybe loosen that guidance to primarily just avoid escaping values out of a GeometryReader update closure

1 2

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Aug 9

Try adding a .geometryGroup() around the whole body of the card so it all slides together in one layer

1 3

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Aug 8

if your p(doom) is predicated on The Singularity happening, we don’t need to take you seriously. the doom comes from what humans do to each other

6

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jul 18

I’m quite excited today. Why? Because I got to delete 3500 lines of custom navigation (like 5 different navigation bars) and replace them all with system navigation. Good riddance!

19

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jul 8

My friend and I used to make a YouTube video series that gained a cult following back in ~2008-2012 and has a TV Tropes page. I used the money from YouTube partner revenue to buy my first Mac, which started my career.

Young Deuces 🦅 of WatchMojo @youngdeuces.bsky.social · Jul 7

Share a piece of lore about yourself

Yes I stole this from musky folks site…I feel like we’ll get better answers here lol

9

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jul 6

I guess I find vibe coding difficult because the fun part about making stuff is the making, not the stuff.

1 12

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jul 2

why does Linear have like 8 different ways to look at a subset of bugs, where each of them have different views and requirements and structure

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jun 27

owning a cat means strategically leaving soft blankets in sunspots every day

2 10

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jun 23

Currently on a plane post update, seems to be okay!

1 3

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jun 22

starting a cover band called creedence graywater revival

4

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jun 11

I love that my Deep Dish talk got sherlocked by my former team in visionOS 26 developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

18

Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · Jun 4

For sure if I intended for this to be a proper service with many accounts and such, and I felt like I was going to need to run many migrations over time without just blowing out the database and creating a new one, I would have picked Vapor and Fluent and probably used Postgres instead