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LeetCode Grind: Reverse Linked List Oh look! It's a thing I don't know how to do, so I had trouble with it. Whoop-de-doo. I knew there was some bullsh*tty solution around re-arranging node-dot-next but I couldn’t get the code to fit together right I ended up giving up on the

Journey to the centre of the 🐮 (yes we’re really going through all these to discover copy-on-write internals) * What is 🐮? * Value and reference semantics * 🐮 In the Swift Standard Library * Implementing 🐮 * The Swift Standard Library * Builtins * (Interlude) The

Indie creator log day 55/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$2 🥹 More system design practice. Spent a long train journey watching a bunch of YouTube videos, and it was, surprisingly, extremely helpful. I should copy my wife’s approach more often. I am

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There is a global function in Swift that, when you fully understand it, will teach you everything you need to know about Swift internals. You’ll never guess what it is, because I guarantee you’ve used it less than 3 times in the real world, if you’ve even heard of it.

Tbh I don’t take Swift 6 Strict Concurrency™ seriously because I literally never see crashes in production from “unsafely passing mutable state across concurrency domains” It’s a paradigm designed to satisfy computer scientists with OCD rather than help on real projects.

LeetCode Grind: Longest Palindrome This one was clean. I sort of just brute-forced it with my thinking and then ended up coming up with a solution that worked. It felt janky. It did not feel clean, but I got there in the end. This is like the third or fourth question I've done

Nobody ever got fired for choosing MVVM.

So the Avatar movies are… going through all the elements

I built my PC in 2019, I think I'm in the market for an upgrade. Is an H100 decent for 3D gaming, programming, and the occasional globally distributed inference workload?

LeetCode Grind: Climbing Stairs Dynamic programming! F*ck! My one weakness. I was really happy to have smashed out a nice, simple solution in about two and a half minutes that used recursion. But they used a high end and the stack overflowed. I managed to get there in the

LeetCode Grind: Ransom Note Surprisingly, I'm actually quite good at the ones that involve moving around through an array of stuff and popping them in a dictionary. This one was quite, dare I say it, fun. You basically just do the trick where you count the number of characters

Chad coming to CLEAN UP at the princess party

I do love my son, but frankly, he's a shit investor.

Sorry chat, I might have to phone it in with the blog for a couple weeks, because I sprained my ankle stepping down into this pothole and falling over.

Indie creator log day 52/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$0. The revenue chart has been flat for almost 2 weeks, so I am suffering. I spent the start of the day working out how RevenueCat’s SDK works because I'm pretty sure they're going to ask me

LeetCode Grind: First Bad Version Well, giving myself 10m to solve each one is really paying off here. I managed to nail it with 3 seconds to spare. This one was quite a good one, it kind of hurt me a bit but then I was like, "Hold on, this is a binary search, maybe I'll be

objc_msgSend and Message Dispatch If you search the ObjC source code for the definition of objc_msgSend, you won’t be disappointed, because it’s defined 7 times: Once per CPU architecture that ObjC runs on. Since it’s the fundamental mechanism by which all methods on all ObjC

I finally got ‘round to checking my SEO stats - it turns out I rank great for “jacob’s tech tavern”!

WTF are Protocol Witness Tables in Swift?  Protocols allow developers to add polymorphism to types through composition, even to value types like structs or enums. Protocol methods are dispatched via Protocol Witness Tables. The mechanism for these is the same as virtual