Jonathan Penn

Thoughtful. Cautious. Bold. Stubborn. Good looking.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

My 12yo told me he will write an epic adventure story. He then told me to come up with the ideas, write them down, and to make sure it reads well.

So proud of him. He must have developed the concept of work-for-hire from first principles.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@YauhenSlizh Can you file a feedback with the previews diagnostics from the failure? I'd like to dig into this. Let me know what the feedback number is.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@alpennec I work on the Previews team. The feedback is really helpful to route issues to the right place.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@alpennec 👍

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@RedQueenCoder @jamesdempsey 👋

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

“Becoming a programmer is explaining to a computer in excruciating detail how to do something like this.” https://t.co/nOqra6Rdkr

[Holly Borla @hollyborla]

Community building is really hard. The work is often slow and thankless, and it takes time away from the work I find truly interesting.

But it’s so worth it.

https://t.co/zCCRlNjahY

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

I, too, have stared into the bagel.

[Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @[email protected] @heyjulesfern]

Interviewer: can you explain this gap on your resume

Me: yeah it’s a sparse array, so I’m trading off worst-case spatial efficiency for faster results. I am doing this because the text of the problem suggests a real-time application with a modestly-sized dataset

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

“Go ahead, just try to funge this.”

https://t.co/8TMLPRxvia

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@drewmccormack @cocoaphony One of the more optimistic takes is that indie artists could construct NFTs that require paying them a portion of second-hand sales. It would be enforced by the system. But as we’ve seen with recent rug-pulls, this mechanism has no limits. Solve for the equilibrium. :)

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

@drewmccormack @cocoaphony One difference is that NFTs can be coded to have arbitrary restrictions on how (or if even possible) to sell them enforced by the machine. A right like this wouldn’t be guaranteed.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

“It’s Amway, but everywhere you look people are wearing ugly-ass ape cartoons.”

https://t.co/wMKo6oYl1S

[Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @[email protected] @heyjulesfern]

One of the hardest things to teach in software engineering: it's literally all made up, functions are just GOTOs, the computer doesn't care what anything is called, almost all the "structure" in our code is only there to make something convenient for another human to comprehend

[Kevin Cathey @kbcathey]

The SwiftUI Previews team is hiring! We get to provide the preview experience for Xcode and Swift Playgrounds. We love sitting at the intersection of tools, languages, frameworks, and the system.

If this sounds interesting, please apply or DM! https://t.co/W2KstSot5O

[padraig @Padraig]

85% of computer work is humiliating paint-by-numbers easy stuff and the other 15% requires you to piece together a functional understanding of the entire history of every programming language and build system.

[Jonathan Penn @jonathanpenn]

This was fun. Multiple takes. 32 musicians. Recorded remotely. Miss playing in person. Can’t keep us apart. Thanks James!

[James Dempsey @[email protected] @jamesdempsey]

To honor the memory of Steve Jobs on the tenth anniversary of his passing, I was joined by thirty-two members of the Apple tech community to record a song that has special meaning to us—and hope it will for you too.

If you enjoy the song, please share.

https://t.co/QfPQaVpVQ3