Allison Mcentire

software engineer at URBN, book nerd, once and future novelist, all things #miata

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

Excited to meet everyone at https://t.co/o2cahymoDV in September 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Malin Sundberg @malinsundberg]

Another @DeepDishSwift podcast episode is out! 🍕

This time, @airkai and I chat with @allisonmcentire about her path from teaching academic writing, through developing websites, to working as an iOS engineer 👩‍💻

https://t.co/PeCfQnUrBM

#DeepDishSwift

[Deep Dish Swift 🍕 2027 @DeepDishSwift]

🍕 Here we go again…

Deep Dish Swift 2024 is ready to be served!

📅 May 5th to May 7th in Chicago, IL

- 2 days of Swift and iOS talks
- 1/2 of indie dev talks
- Live recording of @LaunchedFM

👇 All we needs is you...

https://t.co/Tc0Myh2qLe

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

@NoContextHumans That’s a statement of fact, not a riddle

[Peter Friese @peterfriese]

If you'd like to learn how to build SwiftUI components, check out this hands-on interactive tutorial I built for you!

You will learn:
- Different techniques for composing views
- How to make your views customisable
- Making your views interactive
- And how to style your views

[Deep Dish Swift 🍕 2027 @DeepDishSwift]

A new Chicago conference is on the menu…

https://t.co/24wI7acKmL

[Ibrahima Ciss @bionik6]

@RobRWAPP @natpanferova @thea_lena_36 @AlexKudelka Allison talked about how to build iOS apps that allow users to manipulate and enhance images with Stable Diffusion and CoreML. Yes another awesome topic 👏

[Peter Friese @peterfriese]

@IOSDEVUK @thea_lena_36 After the lunch break, it’s @allisonmcentire with “Stable Diffusion, CoreML, and the future of AI for iOS” - including an interactive demo!

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

Thanks @bionik6 for opening my eyes to the value of practicing my SwiftUI by building for MacOS! @IOSDEVUK

[Stacy @stacy_siz]

How to code efficiently with ChatGPT?
Pro edition 🤌🏻

1. Best practices
I use phrase like:
“Apply best practices to this code, make it maintainable and increase readability”. + paste my code

🧐Why: easy way to learn about improving code and clean up initial gpt response.

2. Specify tools
I give common info in the 1st message:
eg: “I am building nextjs app using tailwind
I want to add support for A”.

🧐Why: to save msg limit with gpt4, as no need to guess language/project structure later.

3. Break down long code
If code is too long, I would say that I will send it in 2 chunks
eg: “I will first say to you first half, don’t reply, I will send the rest in the next message”
🧐Why: there is a text limit for message, this way you can upload long code

Anything else? 😎

[andrew arruda @andrewarruda]

what's the answer?

[Pedro Cuenca @pcuenq]

📢 Announcing Swift Transformers 📢

A package to run language models in native apps, on-device.

It's part of a growing set of tools to help Swift developers work with Core ML models. Read on for details, or check our post: https://t.co/W5qp33klZE

4 new tools released today!

[Ann Gehan @anngehan]

Ok if the Williamsburg UPS is any indicator Rent the Runway is absolutely getting killed by Nuuly

[Pedro Cuenca @pcuenq]

Stable Diffusion XL running on Mac using Core ML and advanced quantization techniques!

Open-sourced today:
- SDXL support in Apple's conversion & inference package.
- SDXL support in our demo app.
- New mixed-bit quantization for Core ML.
- Core ML models ready for use.

Phew 😅

[Pedro Cuenca @pcuenq]

Stable Diffusion on iPhone is much faster now!

Same model, same phone (iPhone 13 Pro), same settings 🤯

The trick?
* 6-bit quantization in Core ML. Announced last week in WWDC
* Additional optimizations to the attention blocks

Check our post for details https://t.co/87Pvlrocrb

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

@ios_dev_alb We won’t know until next week

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

@Jas_codes I frequently remind myself that I didn’t let the last insurmountable challenge stop me, so I can’t give up now

[Adeline Leng 凌素恵子 @AdelineLengUX]

@kvlly Straight hire for me. The next question I would ask them is to explain the code line by line using diagrams and drawings to test comprehension. If they understood it themselves, that’s great.

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

And to make this a broader subject (which will surely get lost because everyone will just see the first tweet) if you’re evaluating a candidate on a single problem that can be solved by AI in 5 minutes you’re capturing only a tiny subset of the candidate.

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

@PauleneTurner Remember the days of leaving things out because you were worried about what the people you know might think?

[Allison Mcentire @allisonmcentire]

@ios_dev_alb Signing certificate revoked!