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The challenge of making my VPN app, Passepartout, from Apple-centric to multi-platform: porting Swift on Windows, to start with. davidederosa.com/2025/04/cross-…

Oopsie.

@antoniosarosi Which also highlights how the issue is not about the programming language.

@EU_Commission Patiently waiting for the ratio.

We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton. Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K

@sekrit_ Next week.

@keeshux Any idea when this will be pushed to iOS version or will it be strictly macOS versions.

@keeshux is it possible to export profiles imported/saved into passepartout

If "Driving IQ" existed, Italian drivers would rank the lowest. By far.

A weird upside of doing sports, but being average at them, is that aging won’t beat you as if you used to be a high performer. You can’t miss those times when you were strong if you never were.

@bauch_sebastian @thealepalombo It is not just difficult, it’s abismal, especially in the South. You need a car everywhere in Italia. Spain is centuries beyond in quality of life, costs, and infrastructures. Not even close.

@thealepalombo What’s your view on infrastructure, flight connections, etc.? I always find this a bit difficult compared to Spain, for example.

Italy is back. For years, I dismissed my own country as a sinking ship. But I’ve discovered recently that Southern Italy is one of the best arbitrage opportunities in Europe. And arguably in the world. Here's everything you need to know to take advantage of this opportunity:

@Jonathan_Blow Uhm, I smell ragebait?

This is legitimately what a lot of people think. It's very sad. x.com/antoniosarosi/…

@starter_story @thepatwalls Intermodal since 2015.

Shoutout to all the people sitting in a coffee shop right now building their apps with the dream of being featured on STARTER STORY! who else is out there? (reply with a photo of your setup)

@WalterBright As a self-taught with a CS degree, I find your POV anecdotal at best ("a co-worker"). Curiosity is the main drive. Your point is legit, but the broken assumption is that the only way to that knowledge is through the academy. It's been the case a while ago, just not in 2025.

Degree vs Self-Taught: In my experience, people who are self-taught or who learned by experience tend to have odd gaps in their knowledge. For example, the Shazam app. I knew right away it must be using Fourier analysis. But if one was self-taught, one might have never understood what the point of FA was, or even have been aware of its existence, and instead used kludgy, inept methods. For a personal example, I was once given the job of taking the graphic display on a CRT and mapping it onto a printer page. The addressing was different, the axes were different, the pixels/per inch were different. I knew what the tool was - a transformation matrix. Had it ginned up in an hour and it worked first try. A co-worker was completely baffled at this. He didn't know what a transformation matrix was, and likely would have otherwise spent a couple weeks on the problem and done a crappy job. I.e. one doesn't know what one doesn't know. The advantage of an accredited degree program is the curriculum is selected by people who know what you need to know, and the order in which information is best presented.

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser The world is also proud of you guys!

Hooray! @ladybirdbrowser has passed the 90% threshold on web-platform-tests! 📈🎉 This is the arbitrary limit Apple says we must reach to be considered an eligible alternative browser engine on iOS. (+ other requirements) So proud of the team for getting us this far 💜

@awesomekling I believe that @telegram has been the state of the art of cross-platform native apps for a looong time.

What's a piece of software you use regularly that you can't think of a single complaint about?

@catalinmpit Easy: release. Releasing is your only way to get what you initially need the most from the external world: feedback. Your fault is probably that you’re both asking yourself questions and answering them. Overcome that, listen to the people out there. Spoiler: your ego will hurt.

I get an app idea. I start building it because I find it useful. I see other alternatives on the internet. I get demotivated and stop working on it. Never release it. Repeat with other app ideas. How can I overcome this crap?

@thealepalombo La Montecarlo! I think I had a Margherita for 4€ about 10 years ago.

In NYC, you can earn $200k/year and feel poor: $71 for two pizzas to take away. These pics are from one of the most famous pizzerias in Rome: a Margherita for dining in costs €8.

@jorgemanru Still, for Apple-oriented development, macOS has been the only option for 15+ years. Xcode is and will probably always be the ultimate limiter.

@Jonathan_Blow That unsettling vibe of a LinkedIn influencer cross-posting verbatim on Twitter.

If you don't even know what "non-deterministic" means, please stop trying to position yourself as some kind of Software Thought Leader. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. x.com/svpino/status/…

@LundukeJournal @dhh How off-putting to even mention MINASWAN.

The organizer of the effort to kick out the founder of Ruby on Rails is sad because people have overwhelmingly responded in support of the targeted founder (@dhh). The protest organizer, James Smith, stated: “So far though, my experience has been that there are many more negative responses than positive.” “That makes me sad. 😢” James Smith also stated that the petition is getting angry comments. “Looks like it’s pissing off the right people,” he stated. A sample of those “angry comments” is in the screenshots.

"If you can't intimidate people into silence and compliance with the woke orthodoxies by threatening their job or their social circle, you might be able to threaten them with actual violence. That's what the "nazi" accusation is there to convey." world.hey.com/dhh/calling-so…

@Jonathan_Blow The guy is a rage baiter, I’d rather not fall for his comments. I’m more concerned about people granting him authority.

There's a constant rain of this stuff, popular because it tells people their bad decisions are actually good; what they are doing is great actually, so that evil bad criticism that might cause bad feelings is for others, not us! Peak performance!!! x.com/svpino/status/…