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NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today. UAPs are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) with less of a little-green-alien connotation about them. And that’s reasonable, because things labeled UFOs may not be flying objects at all, but instead optical illusions, image artifacts, […]
After a decade of reading and reviewing books, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to take a step back from blogging. Running this book blog has been such a huge and wonderful part of my life. I’ve written over 600 book reviews and loved the experience of getting to share my love of reading […]
The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right? Article Continues Below Well, not necessarily. Classic mobile-first CSS development is based on the principle of overwriting style declarations: you […]
Today, we talk about Flexport Founder Ryan Petersen bringing on Amazon’s Dave Clark to be CEO (2:56). Then, we discuss Bird laying off almost a quarter of their team (17:32), and we talk about Twitter working on a bring-your-own algorithm feature (28:24). Our Startup of the Day is Multiverse, a startup building a pipeline of […]
Combining Swift’s flexible generics system with protocol-oriented programming can often lead to some really powerful implementations, all while minimizing code duplication and enabling us to establish clearly defined levels of abstraction across our code bases. However, when writing that sort of code before Swift 5.7, it’s been very common to run into the following compiler […]
Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs Source link
BuzzFeed is tanking- we talk about what it means for its employees and the company (2:07). Next, we discuss Uber Eats coming for GoldBelly (23:51), then we cover the EU mandating that USB-C ports be standard by 2024 (36:17). We close out the show with our Startup of the Day in the sports space (41:21) […]
Swift 5.7 introduces a new, more concise way to unwrap optional values using if let and guard let statements. Before, we always had to explicitly name each unwrapped value, for example like this: class AnimationController { var animation: Animation? func update() { if let animation = animation { … } } } But now, we […]
Ever since its original introduction in 2019, SwiftUI has had really strong interoperability with UIKit. Both UIView and UIViewController instances can be wrapped to become fully SwiftUI-compatible, and UIHostingController lets us render any SwiftUI view within a UIKit-based view controller. However, even though macOS has had an NSHostingView for inlining SwiftUI views directly within any […]
Jason talks with independent candidate for California Governor Michael Shellenberger on what he wants to improve in California (2:57). Then, we cover Apple’s 2022 WWDC (48:40). We cover the $2.35B of illicit funds laundered through Binance from hacks, investment frauds, and drug deals (1:27:25), and we touch on Elon Musk accusing Twitter of withholding bot […]