> If you're already happy you should think carefully about having kids though.
I feel like it should (but doesn't) go without saying that people should think carefully about having kids no matter who they are or how satisfied, but especially so if they're unhappy.
I think a big part of this in recent years is SwiftUI just not being fully-cooked and Apple trying to shove it into a bunch of areas without enough attention to performance. Not sure how it is on iOS, but for example, the Settings app feels chuuuunky if you navigate through the panes with up and down arrow keys. I wasn't able to make a selectable list view that worked consistently and didn't feel like a regression compared to an equivalent AppKit view
> I think a big part of this in recent years is SwiftUI just not being fully-cooked and Apple trying to shove it into a bunch of areas without enough attention to performance.
FWIW, SwiftUI got a huge performance boost for iOS/macOS 26+, and Instruments 26 has been nice for finding performance bottlenecks. You may find the SwiftUI performance auditor in a free/FOSS project of mine (https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/commands/ui-design/au...) helpful as well.
Why it took 4 years to get to near-UIKit levels of performance I couldnt say, but I've had a great experience working with it on an app that's 97% SwiftUI.
Hmm, I guess I couldn't have known about that since I don't have iOS and haven't upgraded to macOS 26 yet, but performance auditing did seem a bit opaque last I tried.
Any specific improvements you've seen on the mac side?
That's why I'm quite happy to live in Vancouver BC as well. No kids (and I'll never own a home), but if I did, I can't think of a better place to raise them compared to other car-dependent hellscapes where nobody trusts each other.
I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability
It's interesting how hostile the top-level comments are toward the writer, and that everyone assumes they're a man, even though they don't specify. Is that telling? Who's to say.
People are characterizing them as though they're completely unaware of their surroundings, manipulating a system in their favor based on a petty and imagined grievance, even imagining their own depression. Empathy does not seem to abound here.
I read it as an account of contending with the system they're in, embroiled with at least a passive aggressive irritant of a co-worker after attempting a date. Communication degraded to the point where the writer seemed to feel alienated and was seemingly pressured into a situation that made it worse for them, until such a point where they were fired without just cause and rightfully took them to court in order to get the minimum they should have.
Sounds like an awful situation, and entirely plausible given the ways that big corporations tend to try and protect themselves. It's deeply unfortunate that this likely happens to many people, leaving them with no recourse, as well as potentially emotionally and financially vulnerable.
> At the beginning of the year, a coworker on my team asked me out on a date. I was hesitant, as I knew better than to mix my professional and romantic life, but in an effort to not step on any toes inadvertently, I accepted the invitation. The date went fine: a bit awkward, mainly just small talk, but nothing notable. Afterwards, she texted me saying that she had decided that she wasn’t comfortable seeing me outside of work, which I said was fine.
Agreeing to a date that you're hesitant about in order not to step on any toes strikes me as incredibly female-coded behavior. Learning that the writer went on a date with a woman updates me more in the direction that they're a lesbian than that they're a man.
Anyway, the rest of the story does seem like a pretty standard account of an unscrupulous woman manipulating white-collar workplace HR anti-sexual-harassment procedures in order to get the system to harm someone they dislike. I've certainly heard plenty of accounts of this kind of weaponization of HR happening to men, and of course the ideological basis behind HR anti-sexual-harassment-policies is feminist advocacy intended to protect women from predatory (or perceived-as-predatory) men. But American civil rights law is generally worded in a gender-neutral way and there's nothing preventing a woman from bringing malicious sexual harassment accusations against a woman they went on a date with.
On the other hand, the fact that at the end of their account they mention "credible legal theories on retaliation, gender-based disparate treatment, and disability retaliation" but not some kind of queer-related disparate treatment, updates me back toward thinking they might be male rather than a lesbian. I'm willing to be agnostic about the OP's gender, and it's not morally relevant anyway.
(And of course, I'm aware that we're only seeing one side of the story; I honestly do find this account to be a plausible instance of a malicious sexual harassment accusation, and a lot of American sexual harassment law as applied to corporate environments really does encourage kafkaesque treatments of the accused. Still, if I were actually passing judgement about this rather than just commenting on a forum thread, I'd want to hear what the other person had to say.)
I feel like this needs a big asterisk. Can you ship a a non-trivial iOS or Mac app that uses SwiftUI or other first-party APIs without Xcode? Is it practical? Those are real questions, some cursory searching did not turn up a concrete answer.
It is possible and practical in lots of cases. And it's necessary to use the CLI tools directly in some situations, such as when deploying from CI servers rather than building by hand.
Is it possible for 100% of situations? I don't know, because I haven't tried 100% of the situations. And in one case I haven't figured out yet (AUv3).
I guess I'm often a little surprised at how quickly people jump into things without trying them first; the method is somewhat incidental, except for the fact we have tax funded institution for borrowing books. I'll buy a book with little more than a recommendation, but I'm not inclined to buy a full series, or every book by a certain author up-front even if I had read the first one.
Kind of like how some people will buy a full ski kit before ever having tried it.
I think people ITT are being weirdly bootlicking about the whole thing, and you're in the right entirely. I guess if I were in the same situation, I'd request footage from anyone else in the neighbourhood, or see if the neighbours can make the same call you did to track down exactly who visited them.
People don't seem to appreciate that regardless of how reasonable your bandwidth usage is, a company does not have the right to physically disconnect your house from the internet on your property without warning. In theory, they can legally disconnect your house from their service remotely, but without warning (or maybe they do, but that would have to be in the fine print) and that would also be a major problem. They'd have to assume liability for any consequences occurred by intentionally disrupting your connection.
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