• This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew!

    I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. 🐥

    Screenshot showing prompt in Terminal with current path and git branch — with path in blue and branch in red.

  • I get that “stop doing Combine!” sounds like an old guy thing to say — but I’m in on Swift structured concurrency and SwiftUI.

    My argument is the opposite of curmudgeonly — Combine is not the future, and we want to use future things.

    But I get that Combine tastes like honey and sparkles.

  • I keep telling the younger developers “stop doing Combine!” and… they keep doing Combine.

    To be fair, though — and I mean this sincerely — they’re all smarter than me. :)

  • It’s Seattle Xcoders night! Standard place and time — 7 pm at Bale Breaker in Ballard. We’re usually outside by the fire things.

  • Pretty stoked about the Seahawks hiring Mike Macdonald. SAVIOR OF BOOM!

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