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QuietMisdreavus

@QuietMisdreavus@squad.town

she/her // 34 // from texas with love // "strong sleepy GF energy" // squad.town admin

autistic, trans, plural (DID), lesbian, polyamorous, stop me if you've heard this one before

unreasonably invested in Markdown and developer documentation

currently employed at Apple supporting Swift-DocC and documentation tooling

see also @echo

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QuietMisdreavus, to random
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my laughter is too powerful

if i’m wearing AirPods in transparency mode, my laughter messes up the transparency mode and amplifies the background noise, usually just in one ear

and today i laughed so loud my watch warned me about 90 decibel noises

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proposal to replace "pull request" with "fan fiction"

QuietMisdreavus,
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@vyr

“upstream" is now "canon"
"merge" is now "canonize” (@akjcv beat me to it lol)
"fork" and "branch” are now "headcanon”
"rebase" is now "retcon”
"BDFLs exercising control to do dumb shit" are now "George Lucas releasing another special edition”

QuietMisdreavus, to swift
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okay so i'm legit proud of this work

so i've been working on combining overloaded methods into a single “overload group" in curation and navigation. the work is currently landed on main and release/6.0, but right now it will just list all the overloaded symbol declarations on the page without showing you what's actually distinct between them

until now https://github.com/apple/swift-docc/pull/928

#SwiftDocC #Swift

symbol documentation page for

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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i will never stop stressing the importance of a “culture of documentation”, where you make it as seamless as possible to write and consume documentation, provide top-tier examples of excellent documentation, and build the incentives for people to write and show off their own documentation in a virtuous cycle where everybody benefits

rust has this with cargo doc and docs.rs. swift almost has this with Swift-DocC and the Swift Package Index, but generating documentation at-desk still requires modifying your package spec to enable the CLI tooling.

plus, while “official” libraries like the standard library and the Apple SDKs have professional documentation, we still need to extend this quality to foundational libraries like Swift NIO and other server-side packages. (i haven’t used NIO personally, but we just talked about it in the Documentation Workgroup meeting.)

if everyone has trivial access to high-quality documentation and an easy means to host their own, everybody benefits.

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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today i defend my honor in mortal combat^W^W a presentation to the head of the department

QuietMisdreavus,
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if i pull this off, i will have implemented a feature i thought would take three months over a weekend >_>

QuietMisdreavus,
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i am hella proud of it tho, and i will definitely be showing it off when i get a PR ready

QuietMisdreavus,
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great success, people liked it

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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my org at Apple is hiring a Software Engineering Manager in San Diego! https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200503226/software-engineering-manager-backend-and-infrastructure?team=SFTWR

this will be for the docs backend team, which oversees our web backend infrastructure for hosting the docs at developer.apple.com (and way more)! it’s a sister team to mine, full of wonderful people, in an org (Developer Publications) that's honestly a joy to work with.

just to head off the question: this is specifically looking to hire in-person in San Diego, California 💚

invalidname, to random
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There’s fragile, and then there’s rabid Twitter dead-enders.

QuietMisdreavus,
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@invalidname nobody tell him that Truth Social uses the same backend tech as mastodon 👀

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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i'm going to become one of those people who writes a user agent CSS file to force a minimum font size, aren’t i

QuietMisdreavus,
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@icanzilb i’m already increasing the display scaling on my laptop! 🫠 i feel like most of the time my current setup is fine, but i just found a site that had all its text set to 12px for some reason

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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image isn't 100% relevant to the link, but i have a personal blanket rule to never boost anything without alt text, so i'll supply it:

screenshot of macOS Activity Monitor, showing a search for "logi" including a process called "Logi AI Prompt Builder”

anyway this is shitty and i wondered where that fucking home dir folder came from
https://eworld.social/@ismh/112320590656353986

christianselig, to random
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Nova Scotia lately: the sunniest days you've ever seen and… 5°C (40° in Freedom units)

QuietMisdreavus,
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@christianselig could be Denver - last week we had a couple days of 0-5C and snow, and now we're back at 20+C and sunny, lol

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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love too spend my lunch break calling pharmacies to find stock of my ADHD meds

i swear if i wasn't worried about having feds knock on my door i'd make a fucking dashboard of which pharmacies have which stimulants in stock, like VaccinateCA did back when covid vaccines were hard to find

christianselig, to random
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Random question not related to anything, I've never played Pokemon Black nor Platinum, which should I play first?

QuietMisdreavus,
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@christianselig Black is more known for its story, Platinum is more known for, uh, using a lot of old gen pokémon and being weirdly slow

that said, black/white is the only gen of pokémon i haven’t actually played through, so i dunno how qualified i am to answer this question lol

QuietMisdreavus,
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@christianselig the original Gold/Silver have it in Mt Silver, at the very end of the postgame, which i feel is a cool locale

i need to double/check but IIRC it also shows in Sun/Moon in an abandoned shop with a bunch of other ghost pokémon? i don’t remember

but tbh misdreavus is kinda mediocre in the games lol

QuietMisdreavus,
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@christianselig by a similar token, Scarlet has a weird mutated misdreavus (that has consistently dominated the competitive scene) at the bottom of a massive crater that you explore in the final story segment, which is a similarly grand location to find a pokémon

QuietMisdreavus,
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@christianselig ah yeah, in that case you can get such wonders as Robot Delibird

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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OH: prospective employers requiring a portfolio of FOSS contributions is basically the same as requiring an unpaid internship

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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plural robot girl who audibly shifts gears when a new headmate starts fronting, call that a mechanical switch

Qyriad, to random
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OH: holy shit you're bad at being a lesbian

QuietMisdreavus,
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@Qyriad listen, talking to women is even harder if you’re a lesbian, okay

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/07/protesters-close-chicago-apple-store-over-palestinian-employee-firing

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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oh yeah i forgot to post this for but if you use Rust or Swift your docs are trans, i don't make the rules

QuietMisdreavus, to random
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half my team has a long weekend because they live in countries that have Good Friday and Easter Monday as public holidays, and i'm just like "damn, what do i even do with myself if i'm not rushing to get something done before all the europeans sign off?”

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