Michael Enger

YouTube is an amazing place. Where else can you watch someone replace the batteries in an electric mower, go in-depth on a decades-old adventure game, or just experience a low-poly rat spinning forever? YouTube is also the absolutely worst place for watching these videos. The apps have gotten more and more aggressive about pushing its users towards a kind of passive consumption that revolves around its algorithms, to the detriment of anybody wanting to curate their experience. And I absolutely…

For a project I’m working on I had a need for a Codable object which could be represented as a basic text string, and specifically not a JSON string. I was eventually able to find a solution so I thought I’d document it, partially to help anyone who has the same need but also invite anyone to correct me if there is a simpler way to accomplish this. Let’s say you have this struct: struct MyData { let text: String let number: Int } And you want to encode the data as a string in the following…

In a recent discussion on the Aftermath Podcast about the ill effects of the current AI hype cycle, one of the editors said something that really resonated with me: I love the computer. — Chris Person This was in the middle of a rant about how these snake oil salesmen are ruining the space he loves with their insatiable avarice and, as much as I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of technologists who are legitimately angry at this social crime being committed, I’m going focus on that specific…