bretto @bretto@mastodon.cloud

Millennials today, you’d never see any of them dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of my Dragula.

I’ve been on a journey.
A journey of reverse engineering some gnarly C code and reimplementing it in Swift.
I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve learned LLDB debugging commands.
I’m glad I’m done.

“A pretty nice consequence is that you can use mutating func to change a reference type property inside a value type, and have references to the value type still know that it has changed”
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/11/mutating-struct-and-state-observers/

It’s one of those weekends for writing where I’m on rewrite three of this post and questioning every choice that’s gotten me to this point.

Apple gives us a modern replacement for the magical format strings we pass to DateFormatters, let's talk about the Verbatim Format Style.

https://ampersandsoftworks.com/posts/you-can-stop-writing-yyyy-mmm-dd-as-of-ios-15/

It is proven! I am bretto on Keybase: https://keybase.io/bretto/sigchain#8b63facab32574e45383390725204011904763e895d299688dce270e987bb0420f

Not only did Hollywood change the plot, but they also whitewashed it. But good on them for getting Scorsese…

Shit. I can’t believe I’ve already hit peak whiteness at 8am on a Monday: I’m sitting in a Starbucks, drinking a “skinny” hot chocolate while Death Cab For Cutie sings about a sad breakup…

OH: I’m not saying turning on the ugly light and flippin’ up her skirt.

TFW you discover a circular retain cycle in your code that's so complicated it makes a really beautiful circle.

M echanized
O rganism
D esigned
O nly for
K inkshaming

New lore from the 5 y/o: If you’re poisoned, the only antidote is meatballs. If you eat 6 meatballs you’re cured, if you eat 1,000 your skeleton will glow forever after you die.

When your party’s cleric finds a ranged weapon.

Or:

#revengejesus

TFW your app that that is specifically meant for couples communicating starts giving you some horny, adultery vibes. https://mastodon.cloud/media/3WUpVNoYPwW8UcHdoZ4

This Florida Airbnb features the latest in beach game technology. https://mastodon.cloud/media/ghV_KGaEea-7d-a1yMw

Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote.
I’m a non-resident alien is the U.S. so I can’t. But if you can… vote.

Truly the most magical goddamn place on earth. https://mastodon.cloud/media/KDQsSNWhkdB-LOkPHD0

Truly the best meta game to play at Disney World is to try and guess which of these adult humans are tripping balls and trying to act the opposite.