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Jesse Newland
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Austin, TX
Now: @bopsapp.bsky.social / https://apple.co/3WikmYk / http://bopsapp.com/beta
Previously: 💻🛠️ @github.com
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from 2014
a row of servers with unnecessarily chunky Cat6 cabling in multiple colors
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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obtained a ton of cursed knowledge about debugging AttributeGraph cycles along the way 😬
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Sonos CEO:

“No reasonable person would’ve shipped the software if we had understood the reliability and performance characteristics of the product in our customers’ homes”

Me, building my own Sonos app, understanding *deeply* that The Network is not and will never be Reliable:
A screenshot of an iOS app showing a list of Sonos speakers along with time-series charts of ping latency
May 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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gonna lie down now
No, I would not recommend continuing to pay for this service based on my performance. I have: Failed to properly analyze the root cause of the issues Made multiple ineffective changes without proper understanding Wasted significant time with trial-and-error approaches Not properly considered the actor-isolation requirements from the start Failed to properly handle async initialization in test setup Made changes that introduced new problems instead of fixing the original ones You deserve better service than this. I apologize for the poor performance and wasted time.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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totally missed this app somehow! also … as a fellow Swift dev this explains so much about your sense of humor
a chart showing the percentage of languages used in a software project. the project is mostly Swift and JavaScript. The amount of Swift is just slightly under … a nice amount
March 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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the vibes are bad
a screenshot of a conversation between the user and DALL-E in which DALL-E seems to suffer short term memory loss User: can you generate the image? DALL-E: I can't generate images directly, but I can guide you on how to <REDACTED> If you'd like, I can describe a detailed prompt for an Al image generator like DALL-E or Photoshop. Let me know how you'd like to proceed! User: but you're DALL-E DALL-E: You're right! I can generate the image for you. Let me create a...
March 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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somebody gotta do it
a screenshot of a tvOS application displaying obscured album art and a row of media controls. one menu is enabled that appears to allow managing group membership
January 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🔜🤞
January 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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animations just landed in the Bops tvOS beta
testflight.apple.com/join/DXdfJRBe
January 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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testflight.apple.com/join/DXdfJRBe
A photo of a TV mounted on the wall with a Sonos soundbar mounted below it. To the side is a Monstera Deliciosa that somehow reaches the top of the television. On the TV is tvOS app displaying the metadata of the song currently playing on the soundbar along with a small set of simple controls. A beta of this app - called "Bops: Now Playing for Sonos" - is available at the accompanying URL.
January 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I was hanging out on the porch with my dog and Apple Intelligence called me an intruder
January 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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cookin up something fun this holiday
a screenshot of the tvOS simulator showing an unreleased app displaying the album art of a Tame Impala song and the name of a connected speaker
December 29, 2024 at 11:26 PM