Will Pierce

If you use a #SwampCooler or #EvaporativeCooler check out the app I just released for helping forecast your *indoor* conditions, showing when or if your cooler will work, based on your local weather forecast (and much math!) Free w/ limited ads. swampcooler.app (US only first, more countries soon)

It's a 3 language week already! C++ (and C), Python and Dart. LLMs sure do help with the learning and re-learning of programming language techniques and the open source ecosystems available. 🤓

"Hands Off"... "No Kings"... spells HONK!

I'm attending the #NoKings #protest: “NO KINGS - Stop the Circus, Palm Springs” from 6 PM - 8 PM this Saturday downtown at the art park! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Dear YouTube, Thank you for teaching me how to pronounce certain technical acronyms that I've only never heard, only read in print. Today I learned #MADIS is pronounced (May-Diss), not mah-diss. ... and #ECMWF is *not* pronounced (Eck-Mwoof)... but Eck-Mwoof has a nice ring to it, I think.

Apple's loss of their exclusivity for in-app-payments is now rippling out into the mobile code ecosystem. Borrowing a quote from someone I respect: "This is a big f---ing deal" github.com/flutter-stri...

NVMe bubble gum is the worst.

Math is hard for journalists. I can't count the number of articles which say the 145% tariff on China will make goods 1.45x more expensive. No. It's actually 2.45x. By example: Original price: $100 Tariff imposed: $145 (because 145% of $100 is $145) Total: ($100+$145) = $245. That's 2.45x ! 🧐

Chrome's "Memory Saver" feature didn't know who it was up against! 😜 Upgrading my RAM later today.

Gemini AI generated some ice cream flavors to describe Trump. Runner up: > Meltdown: A bitter orange swirl with a wall of questionable sprinkles. My favorite: > "Covfefe Crunch": An unsettling blend of orange sherbet, questionable nuts, and a lingering aftertaste of chaos. 😆

TIL: as a mobile app developer with ~8 phones on-hand for testing... I got EIGHT #earthquake alerts for a 6.6 simultaneously. After the shock of the cacophony of alerts, I didn't notice any shaking here in Palm Springs. Glad it was only 5.2 in Julian/SD, not 6.6. Thankful for #USGS! 👍

Adding support for in-app-purchases to my first #Flutter app. About 10x more complex than I expected. Crunching through the Google Play integration first. Apple's recently went through a major deprecation/API-replacement to StoreKit2. I sure hope the dust has settled on the client libraries. 🤞

Latitude's sign bit Indicates the hemisphere, A boolean test.

#Flutter #Dart Today I wrote my first extension method for an auto-generated data class- a PODO for de/serialization, to give it a useful behavior. Is this enough new XP to level up?

Trump revoked their Mar a Lago bathroom privileges? time.com/7270771/trum...

Fresh hell. www.vice.com/en/article/r...

Something just made an unfamiliar "ding, bloop!" sound... I'm sure it's important, but can't figure out where it came from.

Today I realized my app can show an error message popup (the kind that auto-dismisses, aka snackbar), for a *variable* duration... based on the length of the string of the error message (plus a constant)... so humans can read them before they disappear... TL;DR: Using constants is unfriendly?

TIL: mobile apps on Apple/iOS don't have a Quit button. On purpose. TIL, Part II: ...and they cannot self-exit, or risk violating Apple's rules for apps.... The company line is that the Home button is the only valid way to "exit" an app. I think Apple needs to loosen up a bit.

today's todo: convert more screens in my app to have working layouts for tablet-landscape mode... 2 screens down, 3 to go.

Unix epochtime crossed 1.74 billion!! # date +%s 1740008723

I love when moving a single line of code solves all¹ my problems. It doesn't happen often for me, but when it does, it's a rare kind of magic. Footnotes: 1. obviously not ALL my problems, but the difficult ones at hand.

Trump is not forever. One day, we will be free of him. Four years isn't forever.

26,001 LoC... momentum, don't leave me now

Happy Birthday, Carmen Miranda!

Ugh, I feel like it won't be long before we get some new reality-TV competition show with an awkward name like "America's Most Patriot!!" where contestants try to out-dumb each other.

I hope this takes off. AI generated slop is destructive. www.theverge.com/news/602918/...

It's 1,461 days until Jan 20, 2029. Today is the first day of Project 1461. The goal: resist, survive and thrive -- even though the US now suffers under a corrupt and corrupting dictator. Remember that one day, change will come. In 1,461 days, under our constitution, it will. Long live democracy.

Software updates are so much fun. I love how much newer the new bugs are than the old bugs.

Trump isn't a Ferengi... He's a Pakled.

Time zones are complicated. data.iana.org/time-zones/t...

Elon bought what Trump lusts after.

Is your productivity correlated to the number of open browser tabs, too? I finally squashed a bug that's tied me up in knots for 2+ days. It feels great to fix a problem, but also deflating when the ratio of time spent troubleshooting to fixing is on the order of 1000:1. openssl_scars += 1; #devops

I just noticed #Flutter 3.27 is out, and the list of highlights is pretty neat! What's New: medium.com/flutter/what... And the full changelog since 3.24 is crazy long: docs.flutter.dev/release/rele... I'm excited to see so much progress. Flutter is surprisingly fun to use.

Music for focus mode.

I missed people being able to discuss in a more depth than what Twitter or Bluesky allows. Even Reddit or Hackernews comments don't offer this kind of flexibility. This is why I enjoy classic-style #Flutter forum so much. Just one example here forum.itsallwidgets.com/t/i-just-rea...

Public Service Announcement: Backup your important data onto a separate drive or device (or service), and make sure you update your backups, and spot check that the backup is working by trying to locate the backup of a recent file you deem important.