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the memory palace

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]

iPhone shipments grow while Android tanks | Cult of Android

The global market for Android phones shrank considerably in the first quarter of 2022, even as iPhone shipments rose. Shipments from every major Android maker declined, from Samsung on down. Their combined drops were enough to reduce world smartphone shipments in Q1 by around 10%. iPhone sold well in Q1 2022 Quarterly shipment figures aren’t […]

AttributedString’s Codable format and what it has to do with Unicode

Here’s a simple AttributedString with some formatting: import Foundation let str = try! AttributedString( markdown: “Café **Sol**”, options: .init(interpretedSyntax: .inlineOnly) ) AttributedString is Codable. If your task was to design the encoding format for an attributed string, what would you come up with? Something like this seems reasonable (in JSON with comments): { “text”: “Café […]

Learning Scala at SoundCloud

I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its microservices, so when I joined, it was important to learn it. As I was new to the language, I faced some challenges going from knowing nothing to becoming skilled at writing code in Scala. This […]