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mobile platform @ Cash App, author, University of Virginia alum. https://nitter.gq/t.co/U287IxEcT1

Richmond, VA
Joined January 2009
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Today we released Lottie 4.0 for iOS! The new Core Animation rendering engine is now enabled by default, significantly improving performance for supported animations medium.com/airbnb-engineerin…
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Meta released Buck2 yesterday, their new generation build system written in Rust with Remote Execution to be first class supported. github.com/facebookincubator…
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[ cs_assault.bsp ] Game: Counter-Strike
I wanna say this before everything burns down, we built something special. Everyone I know who worked @Twitter cared so much about the users of this platform, about using it to make the world better, and it wasn’t perfect but we tried our fucking hardest and it was good.
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No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.
This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley.
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i think - what Twitter built is amazing; - they didn’t get enough credit for it; I’m amazed at ppl who’ve never built a product that are convinced they’d PM twitter better. Ppl add twitter handles to their business cards && bylines. World denting is hard, and they did.
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Check out Enclaver, the first open source project from @EdgebitIO. Securing data "in-use" is now essential for cloud services. Enclaver enables easy adoption of secure enclaves with a familiar UX – like running a container, but it’s actually running within an AWS Nitro Enclave.
Introducing Enclaver: an open-source tool for building, testing and running code within secure enclaves, starting with AWS Nitro Enclaves. Read the blog to learn how it works: edgebit.io/blog/enclaver/
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“hacked messages are also believed to have included highly sensitive discussions with senior international foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine.” Obvious question is why was she using personal phone for top-secret conversations? dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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are you an iOS engineer leaving a large social media app? Chrome for iOS is hiring in (and near) DC, Paris, and Montreal. we're a close-knit team with good work-life balance and a steady focus on performance, polish, and user needs. DMs open
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One of the best ASO experiments I had was to increase the font size on screenshots to make them readable in app store search results. 10.83% -> 14.78% from impression to install. #buildinpublic #aso #indiedev
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We just launched a mobile ecosystem survey, and we’d love for you to participate! We will share out the analysis publicly via mobilenativefoundation.org. Make sure you’re building for the future by taking a few minutes to fill it out now! 🎉 surveymonkey.com/r/87QMTDL
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Jerry’s apartment hallway can’t exist. My entire childhood was a lie. – at Queens, NY
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We’re a few years into technological decision-making for our mobile codebases so I wrote a little bit on how my thinking has shifted from primarily technical to how people will interface with new technologies. scottberrevoets.com/2022/09/…
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At @SpotifyEng we’ve been experimenting with @bazelbuild macOS remote execution over the last year. A few weeks ago we enabled it for our main iOS CI build and decreased our p95 by almost 5x with a cluster of 60 M1 machines. Very impressive stuff!
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Oof. macOS state restoration data was serialised without secure coding, so injecting malicious code into windows.plist and tricking system apps to load it would escape the sandbox & grant root privileges. sector7.computest.nl/post/20…
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My favorite bug among the vulnerabilities I presented today! 😆 The original intent was to compare the password. However, the developer copy-and-pasted the code but forgot to replace the variable name. That leads to the Authentication Bypass on IIS.
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