{"id":1639,"date":"2007-12-18T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/transitions-and-epiphanies\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T15:50:46","slug":"transitions-and-epiphanies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/transitions-and-epiphanies\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions and Epiphanies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilshipley.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/transitions-and-epiphanies.html\">Wil Shipley<\/a>&rsquo;s engineers get hired away by Apple, and he fights Core Data&rsquo;s undo architecture. I&rsquo;ve long been skeptical of these &ldquo;magic&rdquo; features and have wished that Apple would concentrate more on providing solid and flexible lower-level services. The high-level magic is great for demos and for applications that work the way Apple predicted, but it&rsquo;s more likely to have what Shipley calls an architecture mismatch. And, often times, the drudgery that the magic was saving you from was not especially time-consuming.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Shipley&rsquo;s engineers get hired away by Apple, and he fights Core Data&rsquo;s undo architecture. I&rsquo;ve long been skeptical of these &ldquo;magic&rdquo; features and have wished that Apple would concentrate more on providing solid and flexible lower-level services. The high-level magic is great for demos and for applications that work the way Apple predicted, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}