You'd think so, but Allison is firmly in the girls camp today, at least in the US (Liverpool FC's male goalkeeper Alisson Becker is Brazilian). Madison is also more associated with girls.
I thought the benchmark for pricey induction cooktops was Impulse (I love mine but even at the preorder + tax credit price it was a splurge).
But then I realized there’s probably a kitchen equivalent of audiophile gear, where you pay through the nose for something lesser nerds wouldn’t even notice (maybe every nerdy niche has an equivalent of audiophile gear?).
I've spent the last eleven years building ApptentiveKit, an iOS SDK for in-app customer feedback (surveys, message center, prompts) that ships inside other companies' apps. SDK work means caring about things app developers often get to skip: a small binary footprint, long deployment-target support, a public API you can't easily change, and bugs that only appear in someone else's app. I also maintained our React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, and Cordova plugins, so I'm comfortable on either side of a bridge.
The piece I'm proudest of is the on-device targeting engine, which decides which customers see which interactions based on server-defined criteria. I've implemented it four times: NSPredicate, then raw Objective-C for observability, then JavaScript (which became the core of our Web SDK), and finally Swift. I've also worked closely with product and design on ground-up redesigns of major features.
Before iOS I did web backends for about a decade, and before that embedded software for EV battery management and fast charging at AeroVironment. I still tinker with hardware: motor controllers, VESC/LispBM, and a power-assist wheelbarrow prototype. I'd especially enjoy a role where an app talks to a physical device.
I'm looking for a full-time senior iOS role, remote (Pacific time), or hybrid in Seattle or Vancouver, BC. I'm also happy to talk about SDK, developer-tools, or mobile platform/infrastructure work.
PV also (usually) lets you export generation in excess of what you're using, is ~immune to freezing, and can be pretty darned efficient if the PV is driving a heat pump.
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: maybe for an exceptional opportunity
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, limited Kotlin, backend, and embedded experience
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fschmi/
Email: [email protected]
I have about 10 years of experience of owning the iOS component of a customer-feedback SDK (https://github.com/apptentive/apptentive-kit-ios). I did a Swift rewrite of the Objective-C SDK around 2020 and recently converted to structured concurrency/Swift 6 language mode. For the 5 years before that I was primarily working on iOS apps, with some web experience in the distant past.
The most straightforward fit for me would be helping with another SaaS client-side SDK project on iOS, but I'm happy to consider app work. I also have experience with Flutter, React Native, Capacitor, .NET MAUI, etc. but prefer to work on native code when I can.
Authorized to work in US and EU.
Another way of looking at this is that--while it doesn't have to be edible--you have to grow plant matter inside your house at a rate equivalent to what everyone in there consumes as food.
Even if you found like an algae or something that converted CO2, light, and water into fat, 2400 kCal would be ~300g per person, per day, or not too short of a normal package of butter.
Honestly this seems like a super long-shot but at least semi-plausible avenue for putting DAC on the sort of learning curve that took lithium batteries from "high-end camcorder" to utility-scale storage.
What does DAC stand for in this context? My brain is stuck on Digital-Analog Converter and I'm pretty sure we aren't talking about using those, but if so I'm even more fascinated by this discussion
That said, it seems intrinsically wrong-headed to me, a kind of trojan-horse technology for getting everyone else to spend money cleaning up the mess the polluter keeps spilling out into the commons.
Every dollar spent trying to extract low-concentration CO2 from ambient atmosphere is probably better-spent trying to grab it from a high-concentration source (e.g. exhaust, smokestacks) before it gets diluted.
The list of things that require an app rather than a web page was pretty long circa 2010, but it's quite a bit shorter now: it's mostly hardware access (Bluetooth/NFC), background activities (like background app refresh), persisting location permission, reliable offline storage, and system/OS integration (widgets/live activities, Siri shortcuts).
If done for the right reasons, a native app could theoretically be a bit more power- and bandwidth-efficient for a given level of polish.
But usually what you're getting is some cross-platform mystery meat UI, a boatload of tracking, and no real system/OS integration (because it isn't trivial to do from whatever cross-platform environment they chose).
If you're in the US, Costco has certain models at the old price through Saturday (or while supplies last). Just pulled the trigger on a 24GB/1TB 13" MbA for $250 off the new price.
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