Jose Vazquez

I have been reading up on Rust as I have lost faith in mobile development as a career. That being said, I keep learning of little details in Rust that make me want to run back to Swift (and no, the borrow checker is not a problem)

Apple is building up for AI. First they sell scanning all your data better “to improve search” and now they are waxing poetic on security and privacy. Finally they will talk about AI which will need all your data but kept private

I’ve been debugging this issue for longer than I care to admit. I had to make some changes to our authentication code, and why I test it with our dummy auth sample app, I just get a blank screen. I put breakpoints everywhere I can think of and everything seems to work fine. After it occurred to me to hit the home button on the simulator. Still, nothing but black screen. Kill simulator, launch again, everything works! Lovely way to spend !

My sister passed away last August 15. Allegedly, she was on the Asperger spectrum. She lived with my parents her whole life, all 45 years, mostly in Honduras, but the last 3 in Costa Rica.

She died from complications of what initially seemed like a routine surgical procedure while they were visiting in Honduras. The sheer outpouring of love for her was staggering.

When initially diagnosed, my parents were told she would never amount to anything, she probably would never walk, let alone talk. She did all that and so much more. Her high school classmates cried publicly during her wake.my parents heard from a previous teacher how interacting with Ana Maria opened her eyes and changed her calling and the course of her career. Her church community, with whom she walked in faith for decades accompanied us in humbling numbers.

All that, was in Honduras. There, she was cremated and brought back to Costa Rica. There, her new found church community mourned her as well. And then came family…

I’ve always known that we have a big united family in Costa Rica, in sharp contrast to our much smaller family in Honduras, where the few youth migrated and all the elders passed away. In Costa Rica my family was visibly shaken. We received so much love it is hard to describe.

My whole life, I was worried about how I would care for Ana María once my parents passed. Now that feels so foolish. I have since discovered more than one cousin had seriously considered taking care of her when my parents were gone. Now I wish had worried more about spending time with her while I could than worrying about the future.

I have been blessed to have a job that has given me the space to grieve her loss. I have been able to spend some quality time with my parents. We need each other so much, we feel her absence so deeply. We are at peace, we know God had a perfect plan all along and we realize how blessed we were to have her all those years. But while we have peace and love in our hearts, we get constant reminders that she’s gone.

Today I took a long hot shower, as I got out I saw her fingers smearing the foggy mirror. 😭

I always thought she was the one who had social challenges. Now I realize what a fool I have. I was the limited one all along.

♥️

Los hermanitos

@mpospese@mountains.social sorry to hear about your loss

Just heard The Talk Show ep 452 with Quinn Nelson @snazzyq@mas.to as guest. As a native Spanish speaker, I found it hilarious to hear @gruber@mastodon.social quibbling about Siri’s pronunciation of the word “turnpike”. He complains that Siri pronounced it as t-OH-rnpike. Native english speakers swear they pronounce the “u” as a “u”, ut as dar as I’m concerned y’all say t-EH-rnpike. I love English, and I consider it my primary language, but its handling of vowels could only be properly described by a Monty Python skit that sadly doesn’t exist