Brian Cordan Young
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Brian Cordan Young
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iOS Engineer, Recovering CG Animation Artist, Father, and one who wanders.

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Wait wait. Is that any different than running a human team with varying levels of experience?
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yeah. My understanding is Apple’s not doing that. But there is a ton of image processing.
August 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s a Portland sunrise! 😏
July 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
They haven’t publicly released ProductManagerGPT.

It’s coming after the next funding round.
March 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The problem is who controls the datasource—and that maps are inherently political.

mastodon.social/@carlynorama...
carlyn (@carlynorama@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The problem ISN'T simply what Google maps or Apple maps show... I wish it was that easy. The problem is what the underlying data set they pull from shows... and that's THE GNS. Eve...
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February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The “Your Undivided Attention” podcast is fantastic. This episode dives into the creator of tactics for change.

overcast.fm/+AARs4viA_pE
Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech — Your Undivided Attention
The broken status quo of tech may feel immovable, but Srdja Popovic knows something about challenging power. A leader of the Serbian resistance, he’s spent his life studying how to transform entrenche...
overcast.fm
January 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Exactly. I tend to think what you describe here as a very clear way to show the user they had a network problem and teach them where to expect to find it later.
January 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I agree. This feels like a great experience! And everything else you’ve said makes sense. The app looks great. I’m very interested to try it out.
January 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’d caution again hiding these views.

I don’t know the app well enough right now, but you could consider showing view indicating what would be displayed if their network connection worked.

It can frustrate users to look for something they expect and be unable to find it.
January 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In other words. If you already have cached data, you could skip showing the "Preparing Informed..." progress screen, and instead let the user use the app with the previous cache of data.

Then the important UI problems become:
- Is it clear the existing data is stale?
- Is it clear how to retry?
January 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
When there are failures, instead of showing the alert, how about showing the message in your home view and include the retry button with it? That way users are displayed the failure, can act on it, but are still able to proceed immediately after launch if they choose to ignore it.
January 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
If I understand what I am seeing, you already have an on-device cache of the previously fetched data?

In this case, could you immediately present the main UI with this cached data and then show some activity indication that the app is also trying to update?
January 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Oh goodness. Yeah, 160 is what they told our parents to cook it too. That’s back when our food safely wasn’t as good as now. You get shoe leather at that temp.

I cook it to 145 and love it. So yummy. I haven’t gotten sick in the 10+ years of doing this.

www.pork.org/pork-cooking...
Pork Temperature
Finding the correct pork temperature is the final step in plating a perfectly juicy, tender cut of meat.
www.pork.org
January 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM