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You can get any Uber driver to do it for you if you offer to buy them food too and do it off the books.

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You just do a ride with two stops, one at the restaurant, and ask them to wait. It's not remotely clandestine or complicated.

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I didn't say I doubted it was possible lol, just that I had never heard of anyone doing it.

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He is, but he's also describing reality.

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That's depressing

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I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)


I vaguely remember running into that too a few times, strangely not on every doc. Also one particular part of the Chase mortgage website.


>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.


Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.


No, you really don't. Apple would like you to use it (god knows why), but it's not necessary.


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.


Define "without Xcode", but if you mean "without using the IDE", yes, absolutely.

You obviously still need to use signing pipeline etc, but that can all be done via CLI.

As for "non-trivial", here are Chrome's build instructions for macOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/m...

Which contains the words "While using Xcode is unsupported" :)


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).


Hopefully not!

So far I’ve been shipping internal apps without it! Even notarizing works :)

Apparently Audio Units v3 is only available with Xcode, which is why I’m only doing v2.


It does.


By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.


Interesting, did not know that. The writing feels undoubtedly LLM generated to me regardless, which is a trend in their other blogs too. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-pu... is the worst offender.


Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.


ARC is GC, Swift definitely uses GC.

It isn't a _tracing_ GC


This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.


Mac and Dennis: Manhunters

(It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)


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