Jake Foster

I like coding.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

This thread is gold.

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

Me when someone who moved here in 2021 does an unironic Twitter thread on what makes Austin good/bad...

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@drwave I think this every week. I’m so lucky I get to write code. It is such a joy.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@drwave @cocoaphony True. I find myself returning to my code later to read it and appreciate its elegance and beauty. It feels like art to me, even if I’m the only one that ever sees or appreciates it. I think of coding like painting or sculpting. The code is the artwork. The app is the side effect.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@SeanMcTex Are you barely working or working bare? 😉

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

Me: I want to delete this app.
iPhone: Ok, but do you want to delete it? Or just remove it?
Me: I want to delete it.
iPhone: Ok, but deleting it will delete it…
Me: Good, that’s what I want.
iPhone: FINE.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

But right after they finish the bug fix they get a feature request that will be difficult to implement if they fixed the bug with a hack.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

Yes, I want this.

[Jessie Frazelle @jessfraz]

How come there’s no reality TV show starring multiple programmers that get dropped into an unknown repo and have to fix a bug, the fastest one wins.

I’d watch that.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@nicklockwood @icanzilb And then you get there and discover that they’re still writing way too much Objective-C.

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

2022 Austin Weather...

April 13th: 😎
May 13th: 😥
June 13th: 🥵
July 13th: 😵
August 13: ☠️
September 13: 🪦

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@wattmaller1 I first read this as “make tweets edible…” Mmmmmm, tweets.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

This was the best thing I’ve read on Twitter in a long time.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@DBryte @_Zeets I wonder if he ever went self-contained oonderwater breathing apparatus diving.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@nicklockwood I got one of these yesterday from a company I turned them down months ago.

“We currently have other candidates with experience that align more closely with our needs at this time.”

I guess turning them down did not align with their needs.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

Imagine working at @NPR and thinking “Yeah, let’s run that ‘news’ story about the new episode of Law & Order on the day Russia executes the largest EU war since WWII.” 😳

[Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel]

Finally finished this one! I'm playing with a different rendering style with all hand drawn shadows / lighting and I think I like how it turned out?

(Sculpted in @NomadSculpt and painted in @Procreate again, AR stuff is coded in Swift Playgrounds)

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

To be clear, I’m not bothered that the workers aren’t wearing masks. It’s just that the messaging doesn’t match. Like, are these just old signs that no one took down?

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

I’m out and about every day in Austin. The random signs about masks are a mess and I’ve learned to ignore them unless they say “required.” Oftentimes it’ll say MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED or WEAR A MASK and then I walk in and the workers aren’t wearing them.

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@stephentyrone @lukevanin @phillipcaudell My handlebars popped off once when I was a kid. Fortunately I was going slow on a trail. It was a shocking moment and there wasn’t time to do anything about it (except think “uh oh” and let gravity play out).

[Jake Foster @jakefost]

@stephentyrone @phillipcaudell You have died. Continue from your last saved game? (GameFAQs suggests you consider the UIKit option this time).