Jim Dovey

Veteran Mac & iOS infrastructure engineer. Member of the team that built watchOS, now working on tvOS.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

Been having some fun evaluating Claude Code by making it build some of the pet projects I never had time for. One of them is actually already in a pretty good state: a Swift implementation of the Infocom game engine & compiler: https://t.co/v5lL2yTNNQ

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

⁦@Two_Thin_Coats⁩ I’ve been seeing this error on every page on the DRPA site except the homepage for almost a week now. I’ve not heard of the site being down; is this something you’ve heard from anyone else? Visiting from US west coast, if that helps.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@Cinemark your website has a problem with its email validation. It seems to think periods and/or underscores are illegal in usernames, which breaks iCloud Hide My Email.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

Literally introduced the kids to this one just yesterday.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Trying to see something.

If you’re a man, and you can understand why a woman would be upset about deepfake porn being sold of her non-consensually, can you RT?

Restore my faith in humanity 🙏🏻

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@sonicblue83 If it’s affected all models that support 4K then I would expect someone is tracking it. The best way to ensure that though is to file a report at https://t.co/DGX0FuL5IJ with the details. Attach a video if you can, and diagnostics (hold PLAYPAUSE & VOL- for 6 seconds)

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@ShadowTodd In Bloom is the first one that springs to mind for me, though I’d suspect Come As You Are is probably more well known overall.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

Espresso Bar 6, folks. The one with the gelato.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

Any of my Apple followers at Apple Park today & want to say hi? I’m going to kill some time at an espresso bar there for a bit.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@MarcoEidinger I’d definitely like to see this become a thing. Have you filed a radar/feedback report asking for it? If so, let me know the number & I’ll push from the inside too.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@NovallSwift When someone asks what’s coming next, there can be only one answer.

“Sharks with frickin’ laser beams.”

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@lindadong Yep. I’m one of those folks who can’t afford the prices in the Bay Area. I’m pushing 50 years old and the pandemic let me move to where I could finally buy property, and my kids are now in a fantastic school. I’ll just have a three-hour commute, I guess…

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@sulgi Yep, they came to us too. We wound up using them though, they did a good job.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@natpanferova Back in the early days inside watchOS I’d have happily joined up to do text layout—I love me some CoreText—but there was too much on my plate to consider the move at the time. Ah well.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@natpanferova I was really happy to see the new AttributedString stuff. I’d been mulling over something that would render an NSAttributedString somehow using `Text.+` but I couldn’t see a good way to do all the paragraph-level attributes, alas.

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@natpanferova It’s a fun feature to work on. Was it your first one on the SwiftUI team, or did you work on other things before?

[J'aime Ohm @jaimeohm]

Psst. You wanna learn/try ___ at WWDC?

Psst. I’m hosting daily pairing sessions. I’ve kinda paired with the best in the world at pairing. A lot.

Join us to level up. A lot. Or your money back (lol it’s free).

7:30am or 7:30pm this week only https://t.co/UW4SfI4qUL #WWDC21

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@richardpenner We can’t be that old already…? 😮

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

I made that 😊

[Jim Dovey @alanQuatermain]

@richardpenner It’s been a fun & frenetic few weeks 😄