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Not sure if it’s worth spending almost $1000… I mean, I could get like three burgers at Five Guys for the same price

It’s very curious. Unlike the original Pulsar which blanked the display until the button is pressed, the new one uses a reflective LCD display that’s daylight visible, but pressing the button lights up the LED digits like the original. Also it’s heavy af

(Does anyone else just get really creeped out by Walmart in general? I have no problems in any other big stores, but something about Walmart just makes me want to leave as quickly as possible)

(Fred Meyer is like Walmart but without the deeply unsettling emotional aura)

I haven’t done functional programming in a while (Standard ML and a tiny bit of Haskell) but I do really like it. Pattern matching, sum types, type inference… all fascinating stuff

Mentioning “keyPathsForValuesAffectingValueForKey” will send me into a full-on panic attack

I’ve got war stories for days

I guess I like the language for it for the same reasons I like Captain Beefheart’s music… It’s weird, but completely inaccessible to beginners. And AppKit undeniably sucks

A lot of the work I did was in the days before automatic reference counting (manual alloc/retain/release/autorelease) and THAT was awful

I worked in the era of “let’s make Mac apps look/animate like iOS apps” and it was hell on earth trying to get AppKit to things it was not designed for

lol that was my life for 8 years

The language and the runtime are pretty cool (introspection/reflection, self-documenting message names, observer/notifier/delegate patterns) but a lot of the Cocoa APIs are horrible, and bindings are inscrutable black magic fuckery

I am so happy that this video is still online after sixteen years youtu.be/9Yrt9qkBQ2Q?...

forbidden licorice chewing gum

(correction: Latin has no gender-neutral third person, so “graduate” might be more appropriate?)