Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

perfectly balanced, as all things should be

fun drinking game: take a shot every time I say “elegant” in a code review

Very excited to see this go into review. It's a minor sugaring, for sure, but it'd be a big quality-of-life improvement and the biggest "missing piece" for optionals, and Cal's proposal solves it in a way that fits neatly into the language.

Now’s your chance to review the proposal to change `if let x = x` syntax in Swift: forums.swift.org/t/se-0345-if-l… Cal Stephens has done us all a great favor.

Twitter’s fixed

Not sure which one I’m recovering from more today: the time change or the epic bike ride

is this anything

SE-0345 was accepted!!!! forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-…

tuning into The Masters just to listen to the bird sounds

Quick ride yesterday with Nate Thompson in Fort Ord after checking out Sea Otter Classic

This is not a defense of the FDA but I’d argue the formula shortage and vaccine approval confusion both highlight an issue I’ve raised before: institutional mismatch

According to officials: - the shooter went in a classroom and locked the door - police on scene left him in there - when border patrol showed up they couldn’t break down the door - after 40-60m they got a member of the school staff to unlock it with a key apnews.com/article/uvalde…

I love passwords

I see we’re arguing about programming languages again… I would think the sheer number of people who prefer Swift would be evidence enough to justify its existence. Obviously not everyone is going to prefer it, but if it actually offered no benefit we’d all still be using Obj-C.

Raphael Warnock: “One thing I have not done — I have never pretended to be a police officer. And I’ve never threatened a shootout with the police.” Herschel Walker: [pulling out a badge prop, in violation of debate rules] “I am work with many police officers.” #GASenDebate

The Warnock Cycle

Cool ride with Nate Thompson yesterday in the Santa Cruz mountains. Some light off-roading, and a great 1000ft drop that was fun to bomb. Were in a bit of a bind when we found out this bridge had been washed out, though.