Build Infra @Facebook, previously Tech Lead on Spark AR Studio, creator of @Monodraw, co-creator and engineer of @UseClear, Imperial alumnus. I'm not afraid.

Sevenoaks, England
Joined December 2007
I can finally reveal what I've been working on: AR Studio! developers.facebook.com/docs…
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"Premature optimization" has been universally misunderstood to mean "don't think about performance at the beginning of a project". It was never meant to be interpreted that way → milen.me/writings/premature-…
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I felt nostalgic, so decided to install Windows XP on my M1 Mac, taking screenshots along the way 📸 Guide and gallery at milen.me/writings/exploring-…
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AppKit vs SwiftUI: Stable vs Shiny milen.me/writings/appkit-vs-…
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An absolutely breathtaking account of the origins and evolution of Objective-C from the 1980s until the early 2010s😲dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/…
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Did you know that Apple’s linker supports magic symbols which change its behaviour? The Swift runtime leverages those magic symbols. I wrote a post about it milen.me/writings/apple-link…
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I'm so happy that we've finally launched AR Studio publicly! Go download it now :) facebook.com/fbcameraeffects…
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I've also stopped the never-ending accumulation of things to catch up on.
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One valuable lesson I've learned is to stop buying stuff which demands my attention. It usually ends up owning me instead.
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For those interested, Swift is one of the major languages we use in AR Studio. /cc @modocache xitter.cf/milend/status/85439141…
I can finally reveal what I've been working on: AR Studio! developers.facebook.com/docs…
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Did you know that certain macOS frameworks like CoreGraphics have Haswell x86_64 slices?
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The "16GB enough for everybody" talk needs to STOP. Yes, it's enough for vast majority but others have valid NEEDS that exceed those limits.
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I'm super happy to announce that I will join @FacebookLondon in February 🍾🍻😱 Huge thanks to @milend who made that possible 👏
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Milen Dzhumerov retweeted
Hard to believe that in just a decade, Apple pretty much wrecked the indie software scene and decimated software's perceived monetary value.
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Funny now that we have wide colour displays on desktop + laptop Macs, design is going in the opposite direction by bleaching out all colour.
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Uncharted 4 is the first game in the series that I’ve played and I have to say I’m totally blown away. Better than the Tomb Raider reboot.
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Interesting: JSON license is not a valid FSF/OSI license due to “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” lists.apache.org/thread.html…
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Sunday is nostalgia day. RedHat Linux 7.3 from 2002. Notable: spelling of “MacOS” in the prefs.
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