alex pretzlav
@pretz.bsky.social
Cooking, kids, bikes, video games. Oakland, CA iOS @ Patreon, prev Twitter, Periscope, Yelp. he/him https://pretzlav.com/ https://mastodon.social/@pretz
Very jealous of my four-year-old’s new shoes. He picked them.
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
It is done. I have tasted TWENTY-NINE fish sauces in multiple stages across two days, and I have some thoughts. Here are my favorites, but for the curious, read on. Three Crabs, Squid and Megachef devotees, hold your fire. All 3 were near misses, and we may not agree, but I will explain... (1/33)
I wrote a blog post about KVO and #SwiftLang: "The Curious Case of NSObject.observe" https://pretzlav.com/blog/2025/02/16/nsobject-observe/ #iOSDev
The Curious Case of NSObject.observe
A deep dive into the NSObject `observe` method for key value observation in swift.
pretzlav.com
Honestly, liberalism fucks so hard. I should not feel this much fire and steel in me for such such abstruse concepts of equality and justice for people I've never even met. And yet I do. Humanity is my brother, and I will defend my brother.
The federal shut down feels eerily familiar to when Elon & co took over Twitter. They came in, asked no questions, had no idea who did what and it was absolute chaos. That was a social media platform. This is the country. People are going to die because these are incompetent cruel bullies.
My extremely niche hot take today is Meow Wolf's Omega Mart is super cool and impressive and it's fucking awesome to see how #Nonchalance and the #Jejune Institute's influence has continued to reverberate for years. Big big elsewhere public works agency vibes.
incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
More adventures in #iOSDev #SwiftLang AttributedStrings: It can often be convenient to add custom attributes to NSAttributedStrings, to pass along additional metadata for whatever reason associated with a specific part of a string. This is straightforward […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
![Screenshot of code:
extension NSAttributedString.Key {
static let userID = NSAttributedString.Key("UserID")
}
let nsAttributedString = NSAttributedString(
string: "Good morning!",
attributes: [.userID: "12345",
.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange,
.link: "http://mastodon.social"])
print(nsAttributedString)
/* Prints
Good morning!{
NSColor = "UIExtendedSRGBColorSpace 1 0.5 0 1";
NSLink = "http://mastodon.social";
UserID = 12345;
}
*/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:embq4tqrxolu2yx5fzwyrcw5/bafkreianr4zj442unbkxjklzr7p3sonfycobs5wxuwttgbaj7lmei7tcsu)
if you want a religion, go get yourself a religion that demands good works and isn’t venture-backed
how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon!
Like many other transit agencies, Caltrain ridership was stuck at a lower level post-2020. However, with electrification complete, allowing faster and more frequent trips, ridership has soared and is now approaching 2020 levels 🚋🚋🚋
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2y agoThe FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
Ok I think I’m going to try to fix this as an educational exercise. It should be possible??? It will at least teach me more Swift 6.
Alex Pretzlav 🥨@pretz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2y agoOh cool Apple's "AVCam" sample project has been updated to require iOS 18 and Xcode 16, but doesn't compile in #Swift 6. In fact, it has some pretty substantial concurrency violations that I'm not sure how to fix! #iOSDev […]
Oh cool Apple's "AVCam" sample project has been updated to require iOS 18 and Xcode 16, but doesn't compile in #Swift 6. In fact, it has some pretty substantial concurrency violations that I'm not sure how to fix! #iOSDev […]
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I ordered a 2TB ssd for my steam deck for $109. That’s over 7 times cheaper than what Apple charges. For the cost of that much storage from Apple I could buy a second top of the line Steam Deck.
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at least three of these acts have fanbases who, when they see that I, through the naked power of my immaculate posting, have served them all their lunch, will end my reign. I accept this. but today? today, I gaze down from my bejeweled skeet throne and my laughter resounds throughout the kingdom
Andreas Blohm PRM@andreasblohm.bsky.social · 2y agoNovember comes to an end - and here comes a new Top Ten of the biggest official Bluesky accounts of bands or musicians (which I know of). Places 1 and 2 are as they were in October. But the rest is new :-) #BlueskyMusic Reposts are welcome! 1/3
Btw, when you try to pinpoint the moment of "when did the internet go sideways" it's hard to not point a finger at the rise of "time spent in app" as a leading metric and individual/team OKRs being tied to such bullshit.
Check your carrots. The CDC warns of a bad E. coli outbreak across at least 18 states with one death identified so far.
E. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Carrots
Page describes an outbreak of E. coli linked to organic carrots.
cdc.gov
Gender-affirming care for trans kids is good health care www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” is not a thing www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid... And the first trans clinic was destroyed by Nazis www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... (5/n)
What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows
Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health
scientificamerican.com
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
Wow, lotta people showing up here! I’ve tried cross posting but it feels kinda messy, so if you want to follow me here you can also follow @pretz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy to get mastodon poasts. I might repost myself?