Bart Smaga

Bart Smaga

@bartsmg.bsky.social

always: husband, father; sometimes: Software Engineer → iOS | watchOS | macOS | Swift | SwiftUI https://prosoche.co | https://smagabakery.com | https://father-bart.medium.com

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Bart Smaga
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A bit of self-reflection. My second experiment with X has come to an end. The stimuli this platform served me are not what I’m looking for in life. On the other hand, the dirty part of humanity can be attractive... 😱

Bart Smaga
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I caught myself checking in just to read how people throw insults at each other - I don’t know where these atavistic instincts come from. So f*** it. The best way of self-control is complete elimination of the object which requires this control. 🕊️

Bart Smaga
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Morning press review and a moment later I regret I did it - why the hell, on Sunday morning, at my own request, crash into such hopelessness. It is fascinating and terrifying at the same time - people who rule don’t elect themselves…

Bart Smaga
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How is it possible that such huge masses of people so easily fall for manipulation, so easily let a narrative be imposed on them, so easily let themselves be steered… Trump in the US, Nawrocki in Poland - all these are disgusting.

Bart Smaga
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Fools elect fools? All that’s left is to wait for the next cycle of history and the return of reason - another renaissance, another Enlightenment... But it will take a while yet.

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Bart Bonte
@bartbonte.bsky.social

If you're emailing me about the puzzle game you vibe coded I'm pretty sure my gameblog readers won't be interested in it. If you can't be bothered to take the time to make the thing, why should anyone bother to take the time to play the thing.

Bart Smaga
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And this presentation by Kent is refreshing, wise, calm and is a kind of counterweight to e.g. the latest hysterical presentation by DHH (question is, which one wasn't hysterical).

Bart Smaga
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Evening thought: One of the questions I can't find a clear answer to is: are the creator and his work one whole, or can they be judged as separate beings. Just like I like Uncle Bob's books, from his past, I don't know what to do with Him himself ;-) Just a reflection...

Bart Smaga
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After 2 years I had a look at X last week. It reminded me why I disappeared from there. The fight between bizarre factions, over views and more often over the lack of them, and all of it garnished with aggression, in a way that mocks even the most basic rules of decency, is staggering.

Bart Smaga
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It could be a coincidence that exactly this kind of content was served to me but... Bluesky is, despite everything, still, a haven of calm. ;-)

Bart Smaga
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So, the weekend is over - and it was a special one. I dropped my "little boy", who stopped being one a long time ago, off at Uni. My coming home and his empty room - somehow it feels sad. My son has gone out into the world!

Bart Smaga
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My short holiday this year is coming to an end. Cornwall is beautiful, and surprisingly - given it was the end of August - the weather was almost perfect. Poor mobile network coverage is also a blessing - sometimes it’s good to simply be forced into a digital detox. #cornwall #contemplation

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Bart Smaga
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Because let's be honest, you don't need anything beyond yourself, the right mindset and attitude. But I wanted something a bit different - so slowly I started adding elements of Stoicism to Buddhist practices. Yes, the project is very personal, but it's also one of the apps I use all the time.

Bart Smaga
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Okay, I’m tired today, so my judgment might be distorted. But… is anything else actually happening on LinkedIn besides AI? It’s just one big bubble and everyone’s talking about the same thing… God, it’s so boring! I’m going to bed!

Bart Smaga
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Last night, a glass of wine, and by complete accident I reached for 'Widow's Bay'. The first episode brought back memories of Carpenter's brilliant 'The Fog'. Episode 2 - Scooby Doo... 😀 Yes, it was good entertainment for an evening 🍿. Only one digression came to mind...🤔 #appletv

Bart Smaga
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...though it may sound like a boomer's remark. Is it just me, or is the amount of swearing and vulgarity in films really hitting some kind of apogee? I felt the same watching 'Shrinking'. I don't know myself, maybe I'm oversensitive, or maybe it's modern sensitivity that's dying out.⁉️

Bart Smaga
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More and more often I catch myself on how hard it is to just stay alone with a book. Letting yourself slowly savour the content, absorbing it sentence by sentence, word by word. That damned learned impatience - learned from everything that surrounds Us, really. #book #reflection #evening

Bart Smaga
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All that's left for me is to resurrect in myself, step by step, what has been forgotten - to be with myself and my own thoughts. Shocking how the world "changes" Us, and sad at the same time.

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...which in turn leads to questions about whether such a Creation could ever be conscious, which in turn is practically begging us to ask what we even mean by "consciousness”…

Bart Smaga
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But all of it still comes down, at least for me, to one fundamental question - what are we actually doing to ourselves… And that one doesn't depend on the answers to any of the others. Sad, really.

Bart Smaga
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Personally, I found in it echoes of what my intuition and my innate scepticism have been telling me for a few years now... Though maybe with one small reservation - my scepticism keeps prompting additional questions, like whether AGI is even possible at all....

Bart Smaga
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Ah, that feeling... 9 a.m. and the only thing I dream of is lying down and falling asleep... Oh well, SOMEBODY was up before 4 to drive his son to the airport - his first solo trip - destination -> Italy... #parenting

Bart Smaga
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Still exploring the whole business of losing the extra weight - reshaping my relationship with food and my eating habits. And another update just got approved by Apple. #IndieDev #iOSApp #MindfulEating #Mindfulness

Bart Smaga
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A new Emotional Checker, a new meal flow... A longer article for anyone interested coming soon. On a personal note, yes - I've had my own small win: I started at 107kg in January, and yesterday the scale showed 100.5... I'm aiming to get down to 84 - it'll take me a little while yet. 😜

Bart Smaga
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I absolutely have no idea what's going on, absolutely. Something came over me - being a father myself - to treat me and my nearest and dearest, for Father's Day, to a screening of `Project Hail Mary`. And what on earth was this even supposed to be, I ask?

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Bart Smaga
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Low quality, threadbare gags mixed with mawkish moments, and that they're meant to be SUBLIME we learn purely from the overblown music (a bit like in sitcoms - where the "studio laughter" informs you that right now, at this very moment, it's funny - in case you somehow missed it).

Bart Smaga
@bartsmg.bsky.social

I absolutely have no idea what's going on, absolutely. Something came over me - being a father myself - to treat me and my nearest and dearest, for Father's Day, to a screening of `Project Hail Mary`. And what on earth was this even supposed to be, I ask?

Bart Smaga
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Is it family cinema, or maybe a deep/existential film; I didn't see either one... Both elements were supposedly meant to be there, but neither one convinced me - and the mix of the two made this whole thing into something grotesque.

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Michael Kamm
@michaelkamm.games

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.