Mike Dillingham

@fireside_swift UM, so, back for Season 3?

Hey everyone 👋 here at Fireside Swift we’ve decided to take a summer break from recording new episodes so we can all recharge. We’re aiming to be back sometime in September. #SwiftLang #iOSDev

@fireside_swift Well there goes my plan for the weekend.

Sorry to anyone planning to join our live spaces this evening, unfortunately we’ve had to cancel last minute, but we’ll be back in two weeks time 🙌

@fireside_swift @firesidezack @SWBerard Umm, I don't want to get my hopes up, but, well, I started my car and was surprised and confused to hear the dulcet tones of my favoritest Swiftcasters. Is this a one-cast-stand, or are you back, like back back?

I couldn't resolve the planets with an inexpensive telescope, but my wife's cellphone camera not only stacked the images for me automatically, but magnified them enough to see the colors and relative positions.

Jupiter is almost on top of Saturn in the early evening sky tonight. I took this photo with an iPhone.

@fireside_swift @SWBerard @ZFalgout1 @MrMcSwiftface @twostraws @swiftovercoffee I think the Fireside theme song needs alternate versions for special occasions. The open questions are: which occasions, what style(s), and who to trash talk?

@SWBerard @ZFalgout1 I miss you guys. It has been so long that I had to try to remember your twitter handles, which seems especially bad considering I repeat them every episode by recorded proxy. I‘ll be back in the audience next week.

⁦@TheTileApp⁩ happy packaging. I haven’t lost my keys in years, so, smiles all around.

I read this as “Tell us what you like and we’ll send pieces of that suit to you.” Like half of a shirt and one leg of some green pants with some shoes. ⁦⁦@stitchfixmen⁩ #pieceofshirt

⁦@ZFalgout1⁩ ⁦@fireside_swift⁩ has anyone gone through the exercises and projects in this guide? It looks good, and #BIGNERDRANCH has never let me down. But I’m old, and time don’t spread out fur me like she used to do.

If you ever need to regain perspective, or a right-sized view of something that is irritating you, this tool can help: quantumtocosmos.ca/scale?value=1.… Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in our out from the Planck length to the size of observable universe.

I have been listening to this music for 40 years now, and still play Track 1 at least twice every time. There is something unique about the recording; it's like 3 guys jostling to tell an exciting story. (Warning: it's classical violin music) youtube.com/watch?v=m2cspM…

@ZFalgout1 @fireside_swift Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell is a peach.

@twostraws You dig?

@twostraws And lo! I could read, As like ye old books of yore, Code illegible a’fore func dig( ) -> Bool { if ( lang == "Swift" ) { return true } else { return false } }

Swift folks: who can write a Swift-related haiku? Tweet me your best effort and my favorite will get a big pile of books. Bonus points for funnies 😛

@twostraws No asterisks! Anywhere! What does it mean? Safe code, fast and clean.

@SWBerard @_SwiftCoders @fireside_swift @seanallen_dev @garricn @MrMcSwiftface @learnswift_fm @ZFalgout1 I have now. Thanks man.

@_SwiftCoders @fireside_swift @seanallen_dev @garricn @MrMcSwiftface @learnswift_fm @SWBerard @ZFalgout1 How should I look for a swift coder meetup in Marin County/San Francisco?

@twostraws @fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @seanallen_dev I know that’s true. I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that an example that goes into some technical detail on one application can open up a lot of creative thought re other applications. And you are all smart cookies; I bet your off the cuff examples are pretty good.

@twostraws @fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @seanallen_dev I am not complaining at anyone, so there is no specific topic I have in mind. I find that having digested all of y'alls' wonderful instructionals, I know a lot about how to write a struct or protocol, for ex., but almost no idea why or when to use them.

@fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @twostraws @seanallen_dev Dear Swiftys Who Publish: please wade more than ankle-deep into the "why." Why should we use a ___ instead of a ___, and how did you solve a thorny problem using a ___ recently? XOXO, us.

@twostraws @fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @seanallen_dev Thanks. Every one of you has helped me a dozen times already through posts and tutorials. I guess I just want more.

@MPDillingham @fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @seanallen_dev If there’s something specific, it would be helpful to say – we all want to do better 👍

@twostraws @fireside_swift @_SwiftCoders @MrMcSwiftface @seanallen_dev And apple's documentation often assumes you already know why and just want to know how, like so: "Topic: File Opening. If you want to open a file, use the file menu and click open. Next Topic . . . "