LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

Being set up to test like this can help you fix bugs much more quickly.

When you find a bug, you can set up a test case to reproduce that exact bug.

This is much easier than trying to reproduce the bug manually by using your app.

As always, @Dahlialith connects the dots between systems failures and sounds alarms we need to hear: "In many ways, the events of this week should be as frightening to us as the events of two years past, if not more so. This, too is an insurrection. That it’s coming—quite literally—from inside the House in 2023 should no more be grounds for popcorn and selfies from Democrats than the Capitol insurrection was in 2021."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/mccarthy-speaker-vote-jan-sixth-again.html

When someone gets hit by a car, we should stop saying they were in an accident.

Instead, we should say they were a victim of decades of intentional decisions aimed at making streets less safe for pedestrians. #noxp

@kcase @cdf1982 @OmniFocus 1Password 8 for iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Watch are 90% SwiftUI. It’s definitely not a toy framework. And it made building and iterating on complex views and animations like our Watchtower screen a joy.

The review of the #SwiftLang proposal for expression macros has been extended by another two weeks. Please take a look, this is a powerful feature and we want to make sure we get it right! https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0382-expression-macros/62090

The biggest barrier to biking is fear of cars, a new study confirms. And it’s by a large margin.

3 of the top 4 reasons people gave for not riding bikes were directly related to riding near cars or being injured or harassed by them.

#Cycling #BikeTooter #Study #BikeLanes #BikeSafety #TrafficSafety #CarCulture

https://www.treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-biggest-biking-barrier-study-6979522

Did you know? Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Indigenous names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order under this post.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BIPoc #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #mena #history #native #Hispanic #NativeMastodon

Starting on January 1st, 2023, the price of insulin will be capped at $35 a month for senior citizens on Medicare.

Happy New Year!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
And may the new year suck much less
Than the last three years combined

My new substack post is up.
“2023: The Work We Must Do.” READ and share.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/2023-the-work-we-must-do?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@dfed From The Press Democrat:

"For nearly a decade, California motorists have been required to maintain a distance of 3 feet when passing bicyclists. A new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will require drivers to change lanes, when possible, to provide more space to bicyclists as they pass."

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/new-california-law-requires-drivers-to-change-lanes-for-bicyclists-creates/

Eating Bertha’s mussels one last time before they close.

What will happen if we’ll RETHINK our street corners?

We'll realize that until now, we've made them too car-centric. Street corners are designed for fast driving, which means pedestrians have to risk their safety just to cross the street.

But if we’ll rethink our street corners we’ll get

■ More space for pedestrians
■ Shorter crossing distance and time
■ Greener spaces
■ Safer Streets
■ Beautiful street corners

A great example from PGAA Creative Design in Manila

Second question

Having a brand account for a piece of software that regularly posts updates for things like feature releases, community events, etc is:

Quick poll to see how people want mastodon to be used

Talking about new features we just released at the company I work for is:

I’m in a doctors office waiting room with a kiosk. When you enter it says go to kiosk to get a ticket with a number. You touch the kiosk just to get a number printed. When it’s your turn, a voice says “serving X at window Y” just like the DMV (except the sloth is on intercom duty because holy crap is that voice slow).

This is an office that sits empty most of the week. There’s no one else here, and when you press a button for the ticket the voice starts calling it before the printer even finishes.

I’m explaining this because this is a system very clearly designed for the worst case scenario that almost completely discards the most common scenario. And a lot of systems do that, please make sure yours doesn’t. Could the kiosk screen simply say “go to window” when there’s no queue and it knows it’s going to call the number immediately? Well yes, but no one cared enough about the common case.

As always, step 1: care. Without that, step 2 doesn’t matter.

The craft of SwiftUI API design: Progressive disclosure

#Swift #SwiftUI #Programming #WWDC #iOS #macOS
https://www.wwdcnotes.com/notes/wwdc22/10059/