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pharaohgeek commented on The Anatomy of a macOS App   eclecticlight.co/2025/12/... · Posted by u/elashri
mvkel · 14 days ago
That first os screenshot made my heart sink; a reminder of how far we've fallen.

How I wish our operating systems still looked like this. Utilitarian, useful. No rounded corners and bubbly icons, reducing the useful space more and more each year.

The incredible quality of Mac hardware is the only thing keeping me from jumping to a thinkpad / omarchy setup.

pharaohgeek · 12 days ago
I love macOS, but definitely do miss the days of a more utilitarian look. The old Unix GUIs like CDE hold a special place in my heart.
pharaohgeek commented on Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it   nytimes.com/2025/12/08/he... · Posted by u/brandonb
makestuff · 13 days ago
The rise in the preventative screening centers (such as prenuvo) that offer whole body MRIs will be interesting.

The research seems split on if it is worth it or just causes unneeded worry. Obviously if you catch something early then that is great, but there are a lot of people who have a ton of followup testing only to find out there is no issue.

There are also limitations with the level of detail a full body MRI can capture.

I could see it becoming similar to a colonoscopy where you get it like when you turn 30 or something and then every 5-10 years after that.

pharaohgeek · 12 days ago
As part of my post-cancer screening, I have received a full-body MRI every year since 2017. In 2024, it discovered pancreatic cancer. Grateful for those years where it found nothing, but even MORE grateful when it did catch something!
pharaohgeek commented on The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018)   cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.ht... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
pharaohgeek · 2 months ago
I remember the first time I found this list and playing around with it using Microsoft QuickBASIC. I couldn't believe how much more functionality it opened up to me. Mouse support. Graphics support. Fun memories!
pharaohgeek commented on Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used   holdtherobot.com/blog/xco... · Posted by u/chmaynard
RedNifre · 3 months ago
Could some Xcode uers explain to me why AppCode (IntelliJ IDE) did not take off as an Xcode replacement? I recently had to do some iOS work, knew that Xcode sucks, wanted to try AppCode, only to learn that it was discontinued because of lack of interest.
pharaohgeek · 3 months ago
App code was a really great IDE, Especially if you were developing server-side Swift. I wish JetBrains would've open sourced the plugins so it could carry on
pharaohgeek commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful   florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
pharaohgeek · 5 months ago
ElasticSearch and OpenSearch are certainly egregiously guilty of this. Their API is an absolute nightmare to work with if you don't have a supported native client. Why such a popular project doesn't have an easy-to-use OpenAPI spec document in this day and age is beyond me.
pharaohgeek commented on Redesigned Swift.org is now live   swift.org/... · Posted by u/lawgimenez
pier25 · 7 months ago
Anyone using Swift for web backend?

I looked into Vapor but it seems much slower than it should be for a compiled language.

pharaohgeek · 6 months ago
I'm using it on my most recent projects and have had a great experience. It doesn't have the ecosystem of a language like Java, which can be frustrating, but it certainly handles 90% of my needs out of the box. I've never had a performance issue with Vapor. Compile times can be a bit slow if you have a lot of dependencies, but runtime performance has been great.
pharaohgeek commented on Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java   swift.org/blog/swift-at-a... · Posted by u/fidotron
mring33621 · 7 months ago
I understand there may be some bias in this article, but the resource usage improvements are hard to ignore for a company that pays for cloud compute/memory usage.

I'm gonna look into server-side Swift.

Looks like it'll take some fiddling to find the right non-xcode tools approach for developing on linux.

I prefer Jetbrains tools over VSCode, if anyone has any hints in that direction.

pharaohgeek · 7 months ago
Sadly, Jetbrains no longer sells AppCode or supports their Swift plugins for CLion. I WISH they would open source the plugins, as CLion is far superior to Xcode. For now, though, we're really stuck with either Xcode (Mac) or VSCode (wherever). That said, I am really starting to love server-side Swift using Vapor. Swift, as a language, is great to develop in.
pharaohgeek commented on XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement   github.com/xtool-org/xtoo... · Posted by u/TheWiggles
mdaniel · 7 months ago
It likely doesn't help the ObjC part of that story, but they moved the Swift part out into a CLion plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8240-swift

Regrettably I didn't see that they did anything with the ObjC part, choosing to /dev/null it

pharaohgeek · 7 months ago
Unfortunately, even that isn't supported any longer. I do a lot of server-side Swift development and would LOVE to be able to ditch Xcode for CLion and the Swift plugin.
pharaohgeek commented on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy
pharaohgeek · 10 months ago
Aspiring pancreatic cancer survivor here. This is excellent news. Part of the reason this is such a deadly form of cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it's far too late. I know that there is a blood marker - CA19 - can indicate issues with the pancreas. I don't know if this blood test is related to that or anything, but any advancements on this disease are great and sorely needed.
pharaohgeek commented on MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX   docs.maxxinteractive.com/... · Posted by u/gjvc
kristopolous · a year ago
Used to be called 5DWM.

Also CDE is now open source, being actively maintained, and is still the CDE you remember. Even on a vintage hosting platform https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/

pharaohgeek · a year ago
I've often said I would LOVE a modernized version of CDE. Smooth out some of the edges, GREATLY improve the font rendering, etc. but keep the feel that this is a system designed for work. I love the polish of macOS, but there's something about the feel of old-school Solaris 8 that I really miss. It felt like it wasn't a toy. It was meant for something more important than that.

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