Francisco Serrano

📱Software Engineer at Apple 🎙️ Voice Actor 🐦 Swift Developer 📚 Sci-Fi, Mythology, and Non-Fiction 🕹️ Casual gamer 🧙🏼‍♂️ Game Master Extraordinaire

[Yaron (Ron) Minsky @yminsky]

My daughter's door.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

The Education Connection commercial was way ahead of its time.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

@Jakob_Wahlberg It’s okay to be different. It’s not for you. That’s fine. Glad you liked Hollow Knight though. It also took me 3-4 tries before I got into it.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

So I watched Firefly. Then Serenity was playing in theaters here in San Diego this past Monday and … man what a series. I understand why it’s so beloved.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

The double tap feature on Apple Watch, which is clearly inspired by the Assistive Touch feature, is another example of how accessible design benefits everyone.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

I went to open Calendar using Spotlight and accidentally typed “cal” into terminal. That’s how I found out you have a calendar built into terminal! 🤯

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

On my iOS wishlist: Clock widget with Find My support showing your friends’ local time.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Twitter had activated the special animation for when you hit the like button on an #AppleEvent tweet, like this one

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

@punkzillaa I hope it gets better!

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

Good morning! Big day today!

https://t.co/phLZxSonAQ

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

The folks at Procreate didn’t have to go this hard!

https://t.co/dEfNPAyjkd

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

Does anyone have any examples of Swift programs written in a functional way? Every time I look up “functional programming in Swift” I just get filter, map, and reduce examples. I want to see apps or tools written using this paradigm, not methods on collections.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

Would it be weird to use Git to track changes on your DnD character sheet. That way you have a history of your character as they’ve changed during the game. AND you could use Git branches for parallel adventures? Git tags for level ups?

Is this too much?

#dnd #git #dev

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

Yahoo finance came in hard this morning.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retire. Seriously.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

My goal in life is to code my way to a place where I can afford a home, retire, and let my inner Jeff Goldblum finally be free.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

We really need to get away from the idea that higher education is supposed to be job training.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

With the knowledge that this year has been the hottest on record. There’s a very real chance that El Niño will make 2024 hot enough to start destroying global crops. It’s not just sriracha that will have a shortage next year.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

@sdw Man I’m sorry that happened. The car theft is out of control. A small but not insignificant reason I don’t want to replace my old, beat up, paint chipped, Prius is because it’s not a targetable car.

I hope you somehow get your stuff back.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

@Javi Hahahaha! Probably someone’s Bluetooth mechanical keyboard going to sleep so they mash it to wake it up before committing the change.

[Francisco Serrano @ciscoserrano]

When coding in Swift try starting with a protocol rather than starting with a class. Protocol-oriented programming is a very cool way of thinking about functionality.