Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Objective-C is just, like, a leaky abstraction over C

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Recently I came across this 10 year old post by Robert Atkins: Objective C is like Jimi Hendrix . It is about reconciling admiration for Obj...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

DAPLs: Domain Agnostic Programming Languages

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Every once in a while, you get an insight that hits you like a truck. Or maybe a ton of bricks. Or a truck carrying a ton of bricks. Devel...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Mojo is a much better "Objective-C without the C" than Swift ever was

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One of the primary things that people don't understand about Objective-C is that it is a solution of the two language problem , or more ...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Setting up Hetzner ARM instances with and for Objective-S

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The recent introduction of reasonably-priced ARM64 VPS instances by Hetzner was accompanied by a big smile and sigh of relief on my part,...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple

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The other day I was fighting once again with Apple Music. Not the service, the app. What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Native-GUI distributed system in a tweet

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If I've been a bit quiet recently it's not due to lack of progress, but rather the very opposite: so much progress in Objective-S ...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Blackbird: A reference architecture for local-first connected mobile apps

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Wow, what a mouthful! Although this architecture has featured in a number of my other writings, I haven't really described it in detail...