@benpious.bsky.social
iOS engineer at Uber. Swift language Crime enthusiast.
Big crypto vibes from the recent narrative that if you don’t “keep up with AI tools” you’ll be “left behind.”
May 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Big crypto vibes from the recent narrative that if you don’t “keep up with AI tools” you’ll be “left behind.”
If you make an ABI, but don’t document it, do you actually have an ABI?
Asking for a friend who is a multi billion dollar company
Asking for a friend who is a multi billion dollar company
May 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you make an ABI, but don’t document it, do you actually have an ABI?
Asking for a friend who is a multi billion dollar company
Asking for a friend who is a multi billion dollar company
My favorite swift language bug: stored properties whose storage takes up zero bytes have the same hash and are equal to other adjacent properties
March 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My favorite swift language bug: stored properties whose storage takes up zero bytes have the same hash and are equal to other adjacent properties
Apropos of nothing, the swift forums really needs a policy requiring that any use of AI to generate pitches be disclosed
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Apropos of nothing, the swift forums really needs a policy requiring that any use of AI to generate pitches be disclosed
Seems like @ MainActor in Swift does different stuff at runtime than using an `isolated` parameter for a function called on MainActor. On a related note, testing unstructured concurrency is really hard
March 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Seems like @ MainActor in Swift does different stuff at runtime than using an `isolated` parameter for a function called on MainActor. On a related note, testing unstructured concurrency is really hard
If Atlassian can afford an F1 title sponsorship they can afford to make updating a jira ticket faster than an F1 pitstop (2-3 seconds)
March 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
If Atlassian can afford an F1 title sponsorship they can afford to make updating a jira ticket faster than an F1 pitstop (2-3 seconds)
Until the last homeless person in San Francisco is either housed or institutionalized, as appropriate, I don’t want to hear about a single California public servant’s podcast. I especially don’t want to hear their opinions about sports
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Until the last homeless person in San Francisco is either housed or institutionalized, as appropriate, I don’t want to hear about a single California public servant’s podcast. I especially don’t want to hear their opinions about sports
Body macros 🤝 typed throws
crashing the compiler
crashing the compiler
March 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Body macros 🤝 typed throws
crashing the compiler
crashing the compiler
The funniest thing about the Zelensky half zip scandal is how shabbily Trump and a lot of the other conservative figures who are upset dress. Yet another of these “every accusation is a confession” things; clearly none of them enjoy the performance of wearing off the rack brioni suits or whatever
March 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The funniest thing about the Zelensky half zip scandal is how shabbily Trump and a lot of the other conservative figures who are upset dress. Yet another of these “every accusation is a confession” things; clearly none of them enjoy the performance of wearing off the rack brioni suits or whatever
Imo ukraine has given America the best deal since the Louisiana purchase: we spent trillions of dollars on defense specifically to counter Russia over the past fifty or so years, and they’re grinding the Russian army into powder for a measly hundred billion or so.
February 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Imo ukraine has given America the best deal since the Louisiana purchase: we spent trillions of dollars on defense specifically to counter Russia over the past fifty or so years, and they’re grinding the Russian army into powder for a measly hundred billion or so.
list of things that have SEs approved, have not shipped, that i really need:
- static member key paths
- accessor macro on lets
- body macro on computed vars
- abi annotation (for crimes)
- static member key paths
- accessor macro on lets
- body macro on computed vars
- abi annotation (for crimes)
February 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
list of things that have SEs approved, have not shipped, that i really need:
- static member key paths
- accessor macro on lets
- body macro on computed vars
- abi annotation (for crimes)
- static member key paths
- accessor macro on lets
- body macro on computed vars
- abi annotation (for crimes)
Tired: update xcode, your UI snapshots have all failed
Wired: update swift syntax, your macro unit tests have all failed
Wired: update swift syntax, your macro unit tests have all failed
February 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Tired: update xcode, your UI snapshots have all failed
Wired: update swift syntax, your macro unit tests have all failed
Wired: update swift syntax, your macro unit tests have all failed
some people make Type Systems, i make Type Sins
December 7, 2024 at 10:28 PM
some people make Type Systems, i make Type Sins
Imagine being Microsoft, spending billions on AI, and not bringing back clippy
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Imagine being Microsoft, spending billions on AI, and not bringing back clippy
do we really need ethics experts for this though
come on
we’ve seen this movie before and it ends with the entire country cutting up curtains to make masks while the dipshit capers on tv asking if drinking bleach will help
come on
we’ve seen this movie before and it ends with the entire country cutting up curtains to make masks while the dipshit capers on tv asking if drinking bleach will help
November 28, 2024 at 1:44 AM
do we really need ethics experts for this though
come on
we’ve seen this movie before and it ends with the entire country cutting up curtains to make masks while the dipshit capers on tv asking if drinking bleach will help
come on
we’ve seen this movie before and it ends with the entire country cutting up curtains to make masks while the dipshit capers on tv asking if drinking bleach will help
My WWDC prediction: apple will announce a core data replacement which leverages the new macro system to rewrite predicates as SQL queries, and the type wrapper annotation to duplicate existing core data behaviors.
June 2, 2023 at 9:41 PM
My WWDC prediction: apple will announce a core data replacement which leverages the new macro system to rewrite predicates as SQL queries, and the type wrapper annotation to duplicate existing core data behaviors.