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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 24/03/2026

It's a 3 language week already! C++ (and C), Python and Dart. LLMs sure do help with the learning and re-learning of programming language techniques and the open source ecosystems available. 🤓

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/06/2025

"Hands Off"... "No Kings"... spells HONK!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 05/06/2025

Dear YouTube, Thank you for teaching me how to pronounce certain technical acronyms that I've only never heard, only read in print. Today I learned #MADIS is pronounced (May-Diss), not mah-diss. ... and #ECMWF is *not* pronounced (Eck-Mwoof)... but Eck-Mwoof has a nice ring to it, I think.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 23/05/2025

If you use a #SwampCooler or #EvaporativeCooler check out the app I just released for helping forecast your *indoor* conditions, showing when or if your cooler will work, based on your local weather forecast (and much math!) Free w/ limited ads. swampcooler.app (US only first, more countries soon)

a screenshot showing the current outdoor weather conditions: 89 degrees F out, and the indoor projected temperature from an evaporative cooler: 68 degrees F, and the indoor humidity as well at 70% relative humidity. At the bottom is a list of times for mode changes between "Cool" mode, "Fan" mode, and "Off". The title of the screenshot reads: "Evaporative Cooler Forecaster"

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 15/05/2025

... just submitted my first mobile app to Apple for review before public release. #Dart / #Flutter made it easy to develop for both iOS and Android. As soon as I finish the monetization code for Android, I'll send it to Google for public release review, too.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 13/05/2025

Apple's loss of their exclusivity for in-app-payments is now rippling out into the mobile code ecosystem. Borrowing a quote from someone I respect: "This is a big f---ing deal" github.com/flutter-stri...

github.com

change readme about inapp purchases (#2151) · flutter-stripe/flutter_stripe@a73a460

Co-authored-by: Remon <remonhelmond+dev@gmail.com>

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 02/05/2025

NVMe bubble gum is the worst.

A single stick of chewing gum. But it's actually thermal tape for a computer's NVMe SSD.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 02/05/2025

Math is hard for journalists. I can't count the number of articles which say the 145% tariff on China will make goods 1.45x more expensive. No. It's actually 2.45x. By example: Original price: $100 Tariff imposed: $145 (because 145% of $100 is $145) Total: ($100+$145) = $245. That's 2.45x ! 🧐

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 15/04/2025

Chrome's "Memory Saver" feature didn't know who it was up against! 😜 Upgrading my RAM later today.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/04/2025

Gemini AI generated some ice cream flavors to describe Trump. Runner up: > Meltdown: A bitter orange swirl with a wall of questionable sprinkles. My favorite: > "Covfefe Crunch": An unsettling blend of orange sherbet, questionable nuts, and a lingering aftertaste of chaos. 😆

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/04/2025

TIL: as a mobile app developer with ~8 phones on-hand for testing... I got EIGHT #earthquake alerts for a 6.6 simultaneously. After the shock of the cacophony of alerts, I didn't notice any shaking here in Palm Springs. Glad it was only 5.2 in Julian/SD, not 6.6. Thankful for #USGS! 👍

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 10/04/2025

Adding support for in-app-purchases to my first #Flutter app. About 10x more complex than I expected. Crunching through the Google Play integration first. Apple's recently went through a major deprecation/API-replacement to StoreKit2. I sure hope the dust has settled on the client libraries. 🤞

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 01/04/2025

Latitude's sign bit Indicates the hemisphere, A boolean test.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 26/03/2025

#Flutter #Dart Today I wrote my first extension method for an auto-generated data class- a PODO for de/serialization, to give it a useful behavior. Is this enough new XP to level up?

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 03/03/2025

I haven't needed to use git LFS (large file support) before now, and wow, it works so seamlessly and easily, even with a non-github self-hosted repo. Guilt-free git commits for large-ish video assets!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 26/02/2025

Something just made an unfamiliar "ding, bloop!" sound... I'm sure it's important, but can't figure out where it came from.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 25/02/2025

Today I realized my app can show an error message popup (the kind that auto-dismisses, aka snackbar), for a *variable* duration... based on the length of the string of the error message (plus a constant)... so humans can read them before they disappear... TL;DR: Using constants is unfriendly?

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 23/02/2025

TIL: mobile apps on Apple/iOS don't have a Quit button. On purpose. TIL, Part II: ...and they cannot self-exit, or risk violating Apple's rules for apps.... The company line is that the Home button is the only valid way to "exit" an app. I think Apple needs to loosen up a bit.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 21/02/2025

To store emojis in MariaDB/MySQL for an existing table using the default/bad collation: ALTER TABLE your_table_name CONVERT TO character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci; In Django's settings .py: 'OPTIONS': { 'charset': 'utf8mb4', } NOTE: collation name and charset are slightly different.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 20/02/2025

today's todo: convert more screens in my app to have working layouts for tablet-landscape mode... 2 screens down, 3 to go.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 19/02/2025

Unix epochtime crossed 1.74 billion!! # date +%s 1740008723

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 18/02/2025

I love when moving a single line of code solves all¹ my problems. It doesn't happen often for me, but when it does, it's a rare kind of magic. Footnotes: 1. obviously not ALL my problems, but the difficult ones at hand.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 18/02/2025

Trump is not forever. One day, we will be free of him. Four years isn't forever.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/02/2025

26,001 LoC... momentum, don't leave me now

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 10/02/2025

Happy Birthday, Carmen Miranda!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 10/02/2025

just crossed 25k LoC, writing my first app (including the backend server code)... hopefully launching in a month or so!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 31/01/2025

Ugh, I feel like it won't be long before we get some new reality-TV competition show with an awkward name like "America's Most Patriot!!" where contestants try to out-dumb each other.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 21/01/2025

Today I learned, while coding my first app, that it's spectacularly *easy* to display the different versions of keyboard for inputs, e.g. numeric keyboard vs. the phone number entry keyboard (w/ letters under the digits!), vs. the email address entry keyboard (with a visible @ sign), etc. 😁

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 21/01/2025

It's 1,461 days until Jan 20, 2029. Today is the first day of Project 1461. The goal: resist, survive and thrive -- even though the US now suffers under a corrupt and corrupting dictator. Remember that one day, change will come. In 1,461 days, under our constitution, it will. Long live democracy.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/01/2025

Software updates are so much fun. I love how much newer the new bugs are than the old bugs.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 07/01/2025

Trump isn't a Ferengi... He's a Pakled.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 20/12/2024

Elon bought what Trump lusts after.

Trump kneels before the God-King Musk who is seated on a throne in a cathedral.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 14/12/2024

Is your productivity correlated to the number of open browser tabs, too? I finally squashed a bug that's tied me up in knots for 2+ days. It feels great to fix a problem, but also deflating when the ratio of time spent troubleshooting to fixing is on the order of 1000:1. openssl_scars += 1; #devops

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 13/12/2024

I just noticed #Flutter 3.27 is out, and the list of highlights is pretty neat! What's New: medium.com/flutter/what... And the full changelog since 3.24 is crazy long: docs.flutter.dev/release/rele... I'm excited to see so much progress. Flutter is surprisingly fun to use.

medium.com

What’s new in Flutter 3.27

Elevating App Development with Impeller, Cupertino Updates, and More

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Dominik Roszkowski @roszkowski.dev · 05/12/2024

I missed people being able to discuss in a more depth than what Twitter or Bluesky allows. Even Reddit or Hackernews comments don't offer this kind of flexibility. This is why I enjoy classic-style #Flutter forum so much. Just one example here forum.itsallwidgets.com/t/i-just-rea...

forum.itsallwidgets.com

I just realized: Flutter is fuc*** up! O.o

There’s strength in having a diversity of languages and tools for software ecosystems. Redundancy enables more resiliency. What seems evident about modern, still evolving but production-active progr...

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 03/12/2024

Public Service Announcement: Backup your important data onto a separate drive or device (or service), and make sure you update your backups, and spot check that the backup is working by trying to locate the backup of a recent file you deem important.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 29/11/2024

Project 1461: make it through all four years ahead, and celebrate when the orange one is out.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 29/11/2024

I'm grateful for all the #OpenSource software developers who have been, are and will be. Thanks!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 28/11/2024

"One weird trick" for successful cooking today: turn ON the cooking appliance. Double-check that it's really ON. That's my best advice. We're on our own after that. Good luck!

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 22/11/2024

"Trump Organization" is an anagram for: Traumatizing Porno. It's... on-brand.

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Will Pierce @nuclei.com · 22/11/2024

I love the concept: "Daybreak" a board game simulating being a world leader fighting and adapting to climate change. I think this is a tough game to win. Interesting takeaways by the climate experts who played the game at COP29. apnews.com/article/clim...

apnews.com

Here's what happened when experts at COP29 played a climate change board game

While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming.

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