💻 macOS @ Apple | #Accessibility always 🎪 Aerial rope artist 📵 Not posting much here! See https://nitter.cf/t.co/ALFEUnoJDx & https://nitter.cf/t.co/OkI9JPx5uD
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📢 Big news! I'm shifting from my role at Apple as an Eng Manager (EM) for SwiftUI to a new role as an EM for macOS. My time on SwiftUI was some of the most fun in my career; however, CA never quite felt like home.
This new role offers an amazing opportunity: remote work! [1/2]
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Excited to tell you about what’s new in SwiftUI at 2pm! #WWDC developer.apple.com/videos/p…
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Super proud to have worked on this! It's one of those things that will hopefully be invisible now that it's fixed, but anyone who has hit this before knows just how meaningful this work is.
Swift 6.4 will ensure SwiftUI view bodies show "the compiler could not typecheck this in reasonable time" less often for large views 😍
#wwdc
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People have been really excited about .reorderable() at #WWDC and rightfully so! Watch Jack’s great code-along to see more about how it works: developer.apple.com/videos/p…
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I have to miss #WWDC this year. The timing of my landlord selling my apartment and, thus, my unexpected move just didn't work out for me to make the trip across the ocean. 😭
My time on the Accessibility team at Apple was a great highlight in my career! These folks are doing amazing work 🤩Don't miss this opportunity to join them!
[Note: I am not the hiring manager and cannot answer questions about the specific role.]
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Last night, I went to say goodbye to my OG rope teacher by taking his class. I brought my heart so much joy to train with him again, and I'm so grateful to have learned for such an amazing coach and human. 💖 Here's the stuff we worked on—all new material for me and SO much fun!
The vocabulary PDF -> Anki Cloze-style flashcards pipeline via GPT for my Norwegian course has been a godsend of a time saver. Manually entering 100s of flashcards was wearing me down, but this means I can focus on the learning and not the data entry!
Almost done sorting, packing, offloading. Some stuff stored w/ a friend, some stuff ready for Norway, the rest given away via buy-nothing-new. Turns out a spreadsheet of my entire life’s possessions is the best endorsement for anti-consumerism I've seen yet.
ALT A large storage unit full of a whole studio-sized home worth of belongings, some wrapped in plastic.
Just overheard a coworker say: "People only hide specifics when they don't know them or they're not good." ... and I'm not sure if they're taking about work or dating but either way: TRUE.
Past me booked herself to teach a rope class laaate tonight and a doctor's appointment very eaaarly tomorrow. 😭
There’s a certain betrayal in realizing the architect of your exhaustion was none other than…yourself.
I booked the one-way ticket! Going to fly to central Europe on Oct 26 and do a little traveling before settling up north in Oslo. It still doesn’t feel real. I’ll be posting Reels like this about the experience on my IG, so feel free to follow along! instagram.com/share/_4aHW0lK…
Reminders.app out here holding my entire life together like digital duct tape, with whole lists called things like "Can I get X in Norway" and "The immigration state machine."
1. Remote role ✅
2. Norway 🇳🇴 visa application ✅
3. ...who knows!?
2 years ago I decided I wanted to move to Norway, not knowing when or how. Today I applied for my visa. Things are in storage, shippers are lined up, & it finally feels real. So excited for the next chapter!
My takeaways from today's #AppleEvent :
- I still cry at those damned Watch ads 🤦🏻♀️
- Apple Watch getting blood pressure is epic! ⚕️
- New orange Pro unibody is gorgeous 🧡
- Miami is a place I need to visit. 🌴
I’ve found that in this in-between space (waiting to move, learning a new rhythm/role at work), I’ve been returning to small practices that steady me: cooking, writing, running, routine. Trying to control what I can and to let go of what I can’t.
I’d never used Standby mode on my iPhone b/c I don’t charge it in my bedroom. But recently I started using it on my desk to display my calendar at work, and WOW is that useful! So nice to not have to switch apps or look at my desktop widgets to see my next meeting!
It’s a 5-hours-straight-meetings-thru-lunch-eat-nut-butter-out-of-a-jar-and-do-squats-and-pushups-off-camera kinda day.