Nick Lockwood

@nicklockwood.com

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iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.

A white appliance with blue text that reads MRXBOX95 and "Manufactured in the UK to the highest quality"
The "if a dog wore pants" meme
Once Apple offered iPhone owners a single button that they could click to block surveillance, 96 percent of iPhone owners clicked it. Presumably, surveillance, the other 4 percent were drunk, or Facebook employees, or drunk Facebook employees. - Excerpt from Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow
Sigourney Weaver saying "it's the only way to be sure"
A quiz for Swift programming experts (by @twostraws). I scored 24 out of 25
Per Wikipedia: Non-binary[b] and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary
Screenshot of an Xcode crash. The crash was due to an unhandled NSInvalidArgumentException in +[NSTask run] (task already launched), which in Swift is presented as a throwing API on Process
class Foo { static func foo(bar: Int) -> Int { bar + 5 } class Bar { static func foo(baz: Int) -> Int { baz } static func bar() { print(foo(bar:)(5)) // prints 10 print(foo(bar: 5)) // Error: Incorrect argument label in call (have 'bar:', expected 'baz:') } } }
static func foo() -> Int { 5 } class Bar { static func foo(bar: Int) -> String { "Hello" } static func bar() { print(foo()) // Error: missing argument for parameter 'bar' in call } } }
Frame from The Simpsons showing a newspaper clipping of Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud