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Zev Eisenberg

@ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

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I was raised by clowns, but I ran away to join the circuits.

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Joined August 15, 2018

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Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 17mo ago

Imagine a world where reading Swift JSON decoding errors didn’t require a Ph.D.

I’ve seen newer developers encounter the description of a DecodingError and just assume it could not possibly contain useful information.

Let’s change that. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/80941

GitHub

[SE-0489] Better `debugDescription` for `EncodingError` and `DecodingError` by ZevEisenberg · Pull Request #80941 · swiftlang/swift

Now accepted as SE-0489. To Do confirm which version of Swift to use for the availability annotations. Probably 6.3 at time of writing. Context Re: Swift forum post, where a discussion about fut...

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mattiem @jordanhipwell you’re the first one I’ve seen notice in the wild! You can read more about it here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0489-codable-error-printing.md Now we just need to get the changelog PR merged… https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/85770

GitHub

swift-evolution/proposals/0489-codable-error-printing.md at main · swiftlang/swift-evolution

This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language. - swiftlang/swift-evolution

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@superbetsy@mastodon.social first column of the season

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 24mo ago

That was neat. #aurora in Roslindale, MA. Camera made it look a little brighter than it was, but we got a really nice gentle swell to a deep red over the 10 minutes or so that we could see it clearly.

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@christianselig@mastodon.social this happened to me when I moved from a MacBook Pro hi-res antiglare to a 2012 Retina. The new one was “nice,” but after a month, picking up the old one felt like someone had weighted it for a prank. Impossibly heavy. It also happened when I had a brief dalliance with a 13-inch and then went back to a 15. I couldn’t believe I had put up with all that bulk and weight. But I love pixels, so, r.i.p. me I guess 👀

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 47mo ago

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Image description: photograph of a computer monitor showing “if true {}” in a giant font. (I posted this back in 2019, before I got alt text religion.) (But hey, editing posts is a thing, so I went back and added it!)

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 47mo ago

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@renewiersma@indieweb.social always

Zev Eisenberg @ZevEisenberg@mastodon.social

· 47mo ago

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@mempko@fosstodon.org coming next year: the Apple Studio Apartment Display