LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

A social network is as strong as the edges in its graph. Boost posts, especially from newer faces, and boost often. Liking doesn’t lead to discovery on this platform! 🚀

@jwz in fairness, you all were a bunch of children, but that was the best part.

The petition to remove #LGBT content from the uk curriculum now has 190,671 signatures, sigh. It only needed 100k to force a debate in parliament, so that will be scheduled by #Uk Gov.

The counter petition is rapidly gaining ground, being newer. It now has 33,030 signatures, but we need more!

Pls sign if uk, boost otherwise! 👇

Link to official petition to UK Gov & Parliament: Do not remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum
https://t.co/IIHgvhpB2O

#LGBTQ #TransRights

But then when the fascists come for women's reproductive rights, these people will beg the very same Black people that their system has miseducated to "stay in line!" And "vote like our lives depend on it!" because "democracy is on the ballot!"

This one-way solidarity is getting old.

"Policies that made cities more walkable and public transit better and more accessible could lower lithium demand between 18% and 66%, while simply limiting the size of EV batteries could cut demand by up to 42%."

https://gizmodo.com/how-to-reduce-lithium-demand-electric-vehicles-1850030800

“an e-bike subsidy is 2.9 times more effective per dollar at displacing gasoline miles than a zero-emission vehicle subsidy.”

@lorihc Seems like there is background task support for #watchOS 🤩

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/BackgroundTask

Found this #WWDC talk for anyone interested in background tasks

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10142/

#swiftUI

@oliverhaslam Why stop at two 🤪

I typically wear multiple Watches all summer to test betas…funny thing is no body every notices…

Once upon a time this would have seemed like a strange question to me, but ....

Who here wears more than one watch at the same time?

If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them:

— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings

— More guns don't make us safer

— The vast majority of Americans want gun control

Inaction is a policy choice.

The Swift code to do the formatting is really clean, see https://github.com/apple/swift-syntax/blob/main/Sources/SwiftDiagnostics/DiagnosticsFormatter.swift . I’d love for an option to colorize the output, if anyone’s looking for a quick little Swift task that’ll make its way into the compiler.

Another significant set of updates to the Apple Design Resources went live today. Lots of improvements and additions to the main platform kits for Sketch and XD: Fixed layout issues, corrected colors, fixed resizing bugs, etc. A lot of the work was addressing feedback we've received through Feedback Assistant (thanks!)

We also updated the Technology kits to iOS 16 and iPhone 14 Pro dimensions and added a new kit for App Clips.

https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/#technologies

girls only want one thing

and it's walkable mixed use medium-density urbanism

I've said it before, but wow is SwiftUI good. I just finished migrating a massive, super complicated UIKit view hierarchy. I had estimated that the rebuild would take around 2 weeks to finish...it took 1.5 days.

🤯

And the best part is that the result has way better support for Dynamic Type and VoiceOver...and is like 20% of the lines of code.

https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/Caucus/View/DFL/36176

Minn. House Passes PRO Act, Protecting Minnesotans’ Reproductive Rights

Yay Minnesota!! Now on to the Senate!!!

There’s nothing I enjoy more than muting “good white folx”, on here, who insist on pushing for Kumbayah moments in my TL with all manner of “can’t we just all get along” comments

No!

No! the fuck we can’t!

One thing that “good white folx” don’t practice enough is just shutting the fuck up and scrolling passed content shared from marginalized and vulnerable about their LIVED EXPERIENCES WITHOUT centering yourselves

Chad/Karen…heads up…believe it or not…no one gives a fuck what you think 🤷🏾‍♀️

@ayanonagon it’s already intimidating to have to establish your technical competence in a meeting, and trying to do that as a minority leaves you with so much to overcome. In my experience, there are people who make that easier for you, and people who make that harder.

For people in the replies asking for advice: As a hiring manger, you’re not going be able to change people in the second category: so only hire people in the first. Screen people for helpfulness and kindness, elevated to more importance than technical ability. Which is also easier if you forego the notion that it takes special abilities to be good at programming - anyone can learn to code, but unlearning bias is orders of magnitude more difficult.