Solipsism Gradient

I was the first developer in Brazil to sign up for Apple’s official developer program.

After a year and a half, it’s time to update my loyal followers (all two of you!).

When I began programming many years ago (now 55 and counting!)

In case you’re wondering, I’m still here and — after 4 years of balancing acts — now consider my situation stable.

Two years have passed since my last post on the subject, and the few readers left may want to know what happened since then with my eye troubles.

WWDC 2020 opens next June 22nd and all indications are that the highest-impact announcement will be the Mac’s migration from Intel to the ARM architecture.

A lot happened since my last update, but the outcomes were too uncertain to write about; and I did not want to bore you with Too Much Information.

An interesting phenomenon happened before my regular eye checkup in late February: the visual distortion in the right eye didn’t regress much, but subjectively my vision was almost normal.

Yes, things are getting better.

I know you’ve all been waiting for an update on my eye surgery… …not really?

Warning: long, technical post; no TL;DR.

As I’ve said yesterday: My software development activities are (now, officially and indefinitely) on hiatus.

Today I have removed my remaining apps from the Mac App Store and posted official “Legacy” status notices on the product pages.

[Note for English-language readers: I describe a transient DNS poisoning attack against Banco do Brasil.]

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