Posts by monkeydom@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #APDJJc6e6TUsoZ7H28 by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2022-11-02T07:04:38Z
       
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       Reason 999 why I hate music subscription services vs. buying DRM free songs and owning them. Also hate the fact that in an Apple eco system it is nearly impossible to have a owned music library and use it on all devices. *sigh*
       
 (DIR) Post #ARNWGMr84WtxUx8y0W by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-06T16:12:00Z
       
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       Also wondering: is anyone/any tech considering giving #ObjC a clear new home? I really do think it is not done yet and could be evolved nicely into a better suited dynamic future vs the pseudo functional way #Swift gutted it.  The more I still work with it the more I still like it and see no clear alternatives for the stuff I want from a language and environment.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARNWGNmCeKYULxqXy4 by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-06T16:23:35Z
       
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       @_ka_ interesting. Will have a look. Although usually gpl is a show stopper for me. Especially if it is already on the main library.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARR2mjWqkdXhA7DNlw by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-07T16:53:22Z
       
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       @uliwitness @_ka_ agreed. Not my cup of tea either. I do love the idea of exceptions being programmer errors and not runtime things to catch and handle like errors. The observation that nobody checks unit for nil is quite astute. The conclusion seems to me also like a step in the wrong direction. However: the exception situation is quite a mess as some file system interactions are also recoverable exceptions already. :/
       
 (DIR) Post #ARRBin2odasKUjMSDA by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-08T15:37:36Z
       
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       @js @uliwitness @_ka_ well. That predates Apple as far as I know and is still a nextism. I personally did like the approach as the process of catching exceptions wasn't a safe one in terms that everything that needs to be cleaned up would be guaranteed to be cleaned up. So I found the notion to make that always be kind of fatal and good. However, once they introduced exceptions that were okay to recover from things became messy.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARRinUwwdav2JIT44W by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-08T21:33:31Z
       
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       @js @uliwitness @_ka_ Still not too sure about that as I never worked in a language which had exception handling as first class error system. From what I heard things can get complicated and nuanced by that as well.And I do like the simplicity of #ObjC as is. I also really really dislike the Nullability annotation notion. In my experience the accidental nil problem never was big enough to warrant such an prominent placement.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS8gMKsL0Y1C2QYYi0 by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2023-01-29T12:58:02Z
       
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       I was today years old when I realized that multiline piping step by step in iex works as |> just takes the previous expression value to pipe and it is beautiful. #Elixir
       
 (DIR) Post #AvBroWsPj1JQdR9HsW by monkeydom@mastodon.social
       2025-06-16T13:51:23Z
       
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       For some weir reason the programming games by zachtronics are super appealing to me. I don't really know exactly why when there are real microcontrollers with real wiring, purpose and projects next to me, but still I tend to sink some hours into shenzen i/o O_o.