Top 10 takeaways from #NSSpain2024

Sep 22, 2024

1) Logroño is an excellent place (Luis!)

2) AppleVisionPro accessibility: be prepared to handle “Reduce Motion” and “Avoid head-locked anchors” (Robin Kanatzar)

3) Apple Intelligence leans on AppIntents more than expected (Matthew Cassinelli)

4) SharePlay is not just for Play (Vanessa Furtado)

5) Apple’s Accelerate framework is more competitive with Metal than expected (Francesco Marini)

6) Swift Macros are more involved than expected, but also more powerful (Daniel Steinberg)

7) Vapor is ready for prime time (Adolfo Vera)

8) Avoiding overlapping compositing passes can really improve perf (Tim Oliver)

9) labeled loops allows targeted break statements, ‘case let’ can be useful in more contexts than expected (Nick Lockwood)

10) Seriously, Logroño is an excellent place (So many more great takeaways – Thanks everyone!)

Sep 18, 2024

#nsspain2024 みんなさん、なかまになりましょう！

Aug 1, 2024

For the first time ever, “Facebook Memories” produced something that actually made me laugh. I had forgotten about this post completely (from July 31, 2017):

“Did you know ‘English Breakfast’ means sausage, bacon, fried egg and beans. No wonder English Breakfast Tea is so disgusting – Those flavors don’t belong in tea!”

Jul 7, 2024

Iceland has the best libraries