Important Things Are Never Just Done

The paradoxes of activism: Individual action seems pointless, yet individuals is all we are. You alone cannot change the world, but if you don’t try to, it certainly won’t. Defending against very rational and even well-meaning criticism.

Leverage (to Influence Apple)

Following Matt Massicotte’s example, the real leverage to influence Apple’s political course of action at all is through organized protest, and boycott.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font Next and Mono

The Atkinson Hyperlegible free font has been updated, and now comes with more weights and a monospace variant!

Guilt-Free for the First Time. Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals”

Burkeman’s book “Meditations for Mortals” is 0% new-age and 100% productivity tips. It is just structured in a way that encoes taking it in slowly, and at least a couple of months into it, it changed my life for the better.

Staring In My Face, But I Ain’t Looking: Simplifying RxSwift Subscriptions

The ultimate manifestation of a simplification is replacing N>1 things with 1 thing. If each of these things in turn are non-trivial, you can really feel how much complexity of behavior you cut away.

Sins of Carthage: RxSwift Re-Entrancy, Undetected

Where I realize that building dependencies in DEBUG mode can offer insights.

Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb

Xcode 16 doesn’t support working on a Package and a Demo app at the same time. But other editors do.