The reason unions are badass is if a billionaire walks into your office and starts demanding you work 12 hours a day 7 days a week to prove to him you deserve your job, you and your coworkers can legally make that one of the worst days of his life.

I had a quick spelunk and there’s a user defaults key that looks promising for turning off these adverts Apple has put into Xcode 🤞 defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false

We're still looking for a SwiftUI Frameworks Engineer for watchOS. This role is working on SwiftUI itself: proposing (and helping others refine proposals for) API, implementing API, supporting adoption of API, working on performance, etc. jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.

I mean you really have to admire the speed at which he has gone from “all legal speech” to “here are some speech regulations I made up”

Phase 1: Buy Twitter. Phase 2: Yell about activists wanting to destroy freedom. (‘Freedom’ = ‘your profit plan’) Phase 3: Fire your entire Human Rights team. Phase 4: The actual United Nations now issues you with a human rights warning. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

★★★★★☆☆ – pretty good x.com/ashzingh/statu…

Let's speak it plainly: We are watching a wealthy man haphazardly strip-mine an app built and popularized by people of color and activists and relied on in the Global South as the last public social app that can still deliver news and information in 2G. garbageday.email/p/one-giant-sl…

The cruel reality is this: To the boss, tech workers are just as disposable as any worker. That's why all workers need a union.

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Twitter employees listen to me: imagine how fucking funny it would be if none of you clicked "yes."

Just got home from #DragonsteelCon and I’m wiped out in the very best way. Pics and stuff to come later once I peel myself off the floor.

Workplaces in the US are authoritarian regimes - unless the workers have a union. Most of the moves that Musk has made in the past few weeks that have resulted in a mass reduction of Twitter’s workforce would have been impossible if Twitter staff had a union contract.

a few of my favorite memories

While we’re all here: my team at Apple is hiring. If diving head first into the Swift type system and language design amongst a talented and inclusive group of folks sounds fun, please apply! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

On this, the blackest of Fridays, allow me to deepen the void in your soul by reminding you: Today is March 1000th, 2020.

TFW Eric Wastl’s #AdventOfCode leads you to find a bug in the Swift Language standard library: davedelong.com/blog/2022/12/0… (Don’t worry, Karoy Lorentey already fixed it!)

I volunteer with Queer Community Allies, a 501(c)3 in #UtahCounty that serves the LGBTQ+ teenagers in the area. We provide resources, supplies, and support for these at-risk kids. We’re running our yearly donation drive, and we’d love your support: queercommunityallies.org/donate