LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if you set aside six hours to work on a really complicated project, you’ll have your only good insight in the last five minutes, or maybe the next day in the shower.

A conference attendee was trying to explain to my colleague how to do accessibility on iOS. I was like, buddy she literally wrote the software you are taking about.

But that struggle also outlines an important fact about car-free urban areas—that once cities make the decision to reduce or remove cars, they rarely go back. No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect.
https://www.wired.com/story/car-free-cities-opposition/

I wrote about why you shouldn't expect polls now to predict the vote margin in November — and why you shouldn't expect the polls in November to do it either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/12/presidential-election-polling-trump-biden/

And here we go. TestFlight ready.

Got a log archive you want to analyze? Try this:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/erT44PiT

If you don't know how to get a .logarchive file. Type this in Terminal:

sudo log collect

If you’ve ever struggled with #SwiftLang task ordering due to tasks always starting on the global concurrent executor, this pitch from @rjmccall is for you: https://forums.swift.org/t/isolated-any-function-types/70562

This changes the task creation APIs to synchronously enqueue directly on the isolated actor so that explicitly isolated tasks with the same priority are guaranteed to start in the order you create them.

Hey my team (makers of Xcode's CreateML app) is hiring!

If you want to make Machine Learning easier to use and understand, if you love to help App Store developers make cool apps with ML, and if you are a whiz at swift and #swiftui (or can learn it quick) apply here:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200539667

To find out more about our products search for videos mentioning "create ml" in the Apple developer app.

iOS and iPadOS 17.4 are out!

iOS 17.4 is a significant release, bringing *major* platform changes to iOS in Europe as part of Apple's response to the EU's DMA — as well as a handful of new features, including transcripts in Apple's Podcasts app, new emoji, multilingual updates to Siri, and more

Here's my overview of all the changes on @macstories: https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-releases-ios-and-ipados-17-4-with-major-safari-and-app-store-changes-in-the-eu-transcripts-for-podcasts-new-emoji-and-more/

If you're in San Francisco (or really anywhere in one of the Super Tuesday states) *please* vote.

No, your nomination vote for president (probably) doesn't matter this time. But there's tons of other important stuff on the ballot.

#PWHL selling out the Leafs arena for Montréal @ Toronto, you love to see it. @hnom https://www.youtube.com/live/pqXKjMwNvxQ

I need to remind to everyone that Trump would try to ban the most common and safest form of abortion immediately in all 50 states by executive order -- in addition to trying to ban abortion nationally through the Supreme Court. And everyone needs to know that. https://thecause.substack.com/p/donald-trump-is-a-walking-abortion