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Chris Thoburn

@runspired.com

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📍Oakland, CA, North Mexico Husband |🦮parent | ⛰️Trail Runner | OSS Software Engineer working on @emberjs.com and @warp-drive.io 👨🏼‍💻Senior Staff Engineer at AuditBoard, Ex @linkedin.com IsleOfCode

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 1d

Ah yes - github status page. They'll text you only after they've resolved an issue but they'll never tell you when one is currently happening.

since ~10:30am github workflows are counting themselves as already-running tasks and self-cancelling 🙈

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 3d

If you shuck your corn while still in the grocery store, we can’t be friends.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 4d

Where were you yesterday

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 10d

But this move by TimCooked has me thinking there are no more Apple devices in my future.

“Hi we would like you to ignore the modern holocaust” has a way of immediately destroying any shred of loyalty.

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 10d

I’ve been an Apple user since the Apple II

I’ve never owned anything but an Apple computer.

I’ve never owed a smartphone other than an iPhone. I manage 9 lines.

CarPlay, AppleTV, HomePod, Airbase (in the past), iPods - so many. iPads - a few. AppleWatch - just one.

Stoked waiting for VisionPro 2

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 11d

Expect borrowing and theft to occur

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 11d

Feels like react is shipping features to cover for where it makes simple things hard, but in the process has landed on nice ideas that transcend just fixing the constraints.

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 11d

Won’t lie - a little feature envy in react on this round.

Not in the “oh React is the rizz” sense - reactive frameworks could all implement this easier and do it nicer, they just haven’t bothered to care because the rough edges around this stuff are far more rare to encounter.

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Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 11d

React has been trying to fight signals vocally since the spec work began because it’s a threat to meta.

Recently though there’s been a bunch of invalid comparisons of useEffectEvent and untracked

Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · 12d

So iOS has both grown to 50gb and misreports app storage usage by 50gb and suddenly 128gb of storage is woefully short