Overjoyed to announce my new iOS app, MaskerAid!
This is the easiest way to add emoji to an image. Plus, thanks to the magic of ✨ machine learning ✨, MaskerAid automatically hides faces in your images.
It’s free to try, and a one-time $3 in-app purchase to unlock all emoji.
I’m overjoyed to announce the release of my second iOS app, Peek‑a‑View!
Ever want to show photos to a toddler or client, but don’t want them to do anything destructive?
✔️ problem solved.
Watch me re-create the basics of Vignette’s main UI in SwiftUI.
I’m clumsy, don’t know what I’m doing, and am taking shortcuts. But I’m having *fun*.
Writing UIs is not something I’ve ever considered fun.
The future is looking bright.
After a lot of time, and a lot of effort, I’ve put something I care about into the world.
I haven’t been this nervous in a very, very long time.
Casey on Cars: 2017 Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio
Happy **40TH** birthday
@marcoarment
!!
You are one of my oldest friends and one of the very few I’d want to call a coworker too. 😏
Here’s hoping you have many tasty beers, sausages, and boom boom sauce today. 😄
Dear Apple,
If you’re going to add a whole bunch of new APIs that you strongly advise us to adopt, please consider adding some 🤬 documentation.
WWDC videos don’t count.
💔,
Me
This 10m video by the far more popular Casey (
@CaseyNeistat
) was, to my eyes, an impossibly good video essay about what it’s like to be rich vs. poor.
Well worth your time.
“So if you’re poor, you’re dead.”
Exactly.
The American healthcare system is fundamentally broken. We need to fix it.
Healthcare should be a human right. Not a privilege of the wealthy.
Everyone doing web development switched to using then-OS X back in the aughts because we could run the entire stack locally, natively. And the keyboards worked.
Seems like soon you’ll be able to do the same on Windows. Where the keyboards work.
🧐
Rather than emulating the Linux kernel, Windows will now ship a full Linux kernel. Makes for a great developer system for those deploying to Linux servers
Teslas are a lot harder to shit on from the driver’s seat.
(I didn’t buy one but a dear friend let me drive his Model 3 today.)
There’s a lot to love about these cars. I had forgotten that.
I’ve been pretty lucky in life, but never moreso than when
@erinliss
said two words, thirteen years ago today:
“I do.”
Thanks for being better than I could ever imagine, my love. 💓
✅ Upgrade to Xcode 10.2
✅ Upgrade app to Swift 5
✅ Rebuild all dependencies in Carthage
⚠️ Notice error in your app
🤔 Assume the error is Swift 5 or RxSwift
🧐 Quadruple-check
🙊 Refrain from sending snarky tweet
❗ Realize it’s your own bug
🎉 Fix without snarking unfairly
🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@SIRACUSA
! 🎂
I’m indescribably lucky to be able to talk to you for a few hours every week. Moreso to be able to share it with the world.
Nearly five years on, I still pinch myself often.
💙
This is the first Thanksgiving I’ve been able to celebrate as an independent worker.
To anyone who has listened to me, read my words, bought merch, and generally supported me: I’m thankful for you.
My cup runneth over, and it’s thanks to all of you.
Thank you. ❤️
AMERICA
The self-proclaimed richest country in the world
...where Donors Choose funds our schools
...and GoFundMe is our national health insurance system.
@SnazzyQ
When you’re ready to co-found the “We Dared to Criticize Tesla on Twitter and Barely Lived to Tell the Tale” club, I’m ready. 🙌🏻
Also, that yoke is preposterously, amazingly, incredibly, hilariously, dangerously dumb.
2013: Put a piece of tape over your laptop’s camera for privacy!!!11!!
2017: I unlock my $1000 cell phone by taking pictures of me in my surroundings 300 times a day.
🙃
📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
If someone says “hey I really like this thing” and you don’t agree, it’s okay to keep that opinion to yourself.
There’s enough bad energy in the world; no need for you to contribute.
(I’ve done this before so I need to work on this too)
I just want to remind everyone that Trump is tweeting about the need to liberate Virginia with guns -- and
@NRA
is very giddily RTing it -- just one day after we commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting, which left 32 dead and 23 injured in VA.
Who knew, probably 30ish years ago, hanging out around a little lake in upstate New York, that this kid I saw from time to time over the summer would be such an important and influential part of my life today?
🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@MARCOARMENT
! 🎂
So thankful for you. 💙
Seriously, thank you to anyone who has ever heard even a moment of our show; it means the world to me/us that we’ve been able to do this for nearly **10** years. 😱
💙 × ∞
Accessibility matters.
Vignette has room for much better VoiceOver support, but it’s been at least passable since day one.
Further, Dynamic Type support is great, and has been.
This stuff matters. It helps the blind, but it also helps my parents, with their big fonts.
To anyone that has listened to my podcasts, bought my apps, become an
@_analoguefm
or
@atpfm
member, read my website, watched my YouTube videos, or supported me in any other way:
THANK YOU 💙
Also, since I’m passing everyone off immediately before i pass out for the night...
I’m seeing an alarming number of Bernie fans hinting they will not vote for Biden.
Biden is a TERRIBLE nominee. So very, very bad. But you-know-who must be stopped at all costs.
Be an adult.
🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@marcoarment
! 🎂
I’m exceptionally lucky that we were thrown together as kids, and that we have been able to stay friends for so long. You’ve made one hell of a dent in my universe. 💙
Starting a new iOS project I want to build for myself.
“Hm, this would probably be a great excuse to get better with SwiftUI.”
… five minutes passes …
“Shit, I need UICollectionView. I’ll try SwiftUI next year I guess.”
It’s early January, which means it’s that time of year again: I get to see how much I spent on health insurance for the year.
2021: $16,551.24
That’s just medical. Not 🦷/👓.
Politicians, if you value ~~life~~ small business, then you should value socialized medicine.
I’m finding it harder and harder to be enthusiastic about Tesla.
My fantasy is for their tech to be bought up by an auto manufacturer that… actually knows what it’s doing.
Two years ago today, I walked out of my last jobby-job for the last time, got in my Dad’s Wrangler (which I was borrowing), took the top down, and played these songs.
I am overjoyed and incredibly lucky that this ridiculous experiment has lasted this long.
In this episode of Casey on Cars, I review the 2018 Volkswagen Golf R.
I also answer the question: could this be my next car?
I’d love it if you’d watch the video:
I went to Virginia Tech; the University of Virginia is our biggest rival.
Then I moved to Charlottesville, where I lived for four years.
The woman I married went to UVA.
Charlottesville — and UVA — both dug out special places in my heart.
This image makes me very happy.
Hey, Nazis, remember when you walked around with your stupid tiki torches chanting "you will not replace us"?
Guess what?
We replaced you.
#ShutItDownDC
#UniteTheRight2
I’m extremely proud of the body of work
@marcoarment
,
@siracusa
, and I have amassed.
Thanks so much for keeping us going for 300 episodes, listeners. 💙
🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@siracusa
! 🎂
Why don’t you treat yo’ self tonight and pair a Sprite with your 🥕 🎂!
I’m so lucky to have met you, and honored to work with you. 💙
Breaking News: NFL owners agreed to a new national anthem policy: Teams will be fined if players kneel on the field or sidelines, though players will be allowed to stay in the locker room if they choose.
To all the nerds who are smugly thanking us for chapter markers in order to skip the Accidental Sports Podcast:
You’re missing out on one of my favorite segments, which was mostly about geography & youth.
But don’t let me stand in the way of you smugly hating all things sports.
I seriously don’t know how people use Chrome on a regular basis.
I’m aware of all the common answers. I get it.
It’s just not for me though. This is just one small example.