Lead iOS engineer @ ASOS, bike explorer, former audio engineer, amateur photographer

London, UK
Joined March 2009
Stefano Piamonti retweeted
A junior developer is figuring out what code to write A senior developer is figuring out what code not to write
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Yes. All Macs need protection from I.T. departments because nobody in I.T. has a clue how to operate or maintain a Mac.
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Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful
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I've made a little (free) Mac app for downloading videos from the web – it's basically a GUI wrapper around the `youtube-dl` command-line tool, but I've tried to make it not too obvious. – Direct download (no App Store, but notarized for Catalina): omz-software.com/vidl
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I guess we'll see you all at WWDC!
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
Matches my personal experience. One day WFH is great for focus, more than two and the downsides start to overwhelm the upsides. – at Poplar, London
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
So Apple was going to present the new ARM MacBooks, but the keynote was cancelled. Management said there are too many RISCs.
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
Just stumbled across an #oldbook of #infographics The Chromatographic Chronicle access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv… of English History. Really cute :D On page 14 the chart explanation, from page 20 the centuries start. 🤓
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
I’m very excited to have worked on this, and highly encourage any of you who test your Swift/OBj-C code to read this beta’s release notes. This was a bigger release for XCTest than usual. :) – at Cupertino, CA
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
Captcha is getting ridiculous.
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interviewer: tell us about some recent code you wrote me: wrote code? I just edit YAML files now.
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
at the risk of sounding overly woke, i don't like the "male/female" terminology for cables. it was so obviously made by horny nerds and now the rest of us have to pretend it's normal
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
Ready for another AirPods Pro giveaway? Got five pairs this time. Just RT and you're in! Giveaway open worldwide, winners will be picked on Monday. Good luck!
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Paw — The most advanced API tool for Mac (REST & HTTP Client) paw.cloud/ · We're making a crazy Black Friday offer: Retweet to get a free Paw license (worth $49.99) 💰 · Or buy 50% from our website + all profits go to organizations fighting climate change 🌎
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
The "spinning beach ball" in Mac OS/NeXTSTEP was initially based off the reflective surface of magneto-optical disks.
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Here's how we implemented a scalable open-source feature flagging system for iOS 🎉medium.com/just-eat-tech/a-s…
Stefano Piamonti retweeted
Funny reminder that 10 is the max amount of subviews you can have in SwiftUI because as Swift doesn't have variadic generics, 10 methods with different amounts of generic args is the furthest the Apple engineer went before saying "aight fuck this"
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Terra terra eh... terra 😂
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Love the little 🎃 halloween asset in the @ASOS app this year. – at Newport, Melbourne
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Stefano Piamonti retweeted
A big thank you to these amazing people who were willing to sit down in front of the mic with us: @SophieLambrakis @ajmfulche @anikiki00 @_fima346 @steppia @AdibaMaduegbuna @pasqualeanat @marianeum @abdulajet
Inside Facebook Mobile went outside Facebook to talk to the attendees of this year's London Mobile Forum. Listen in to episode 18 and learn how other large and small companies build there apps. pca.st/17zw7vmr open.spotify.com/episode/1YD…
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