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Developer tools and frameworks at Apple. I aspire to build delightful products, and to make others smile.

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We need to parse this version in order to know which version of the PackageDescription library to load. By keeping it in a comment, SwiftPM can extract it with a lightweight scan, then select the right parser.

09.09.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is just wild. It's almost like you became the comic and the comics became the audience. Your storytelling, timing, "yes, and" are the equal of anyone on that stage. You can see that they almost didn't want to interrupt you because you were LANDING that. In awe. πŸ‘‘

12.04.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A likely story! I'll bet the other guy came off worse! Maybe you can go with a pirate eyepatch and a parrot on the shoulder? 🦜

12.04.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple Beefs Up 2025 Gaming Lineup With 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' And 'Cyberpunk 2077' For Mac Apple is expanding its 2025 gaming lineup with impressive titles like Assassin's Creed Shadows, Cyberpunk 2077 and Control Ultimate Edition.

So many great new AAA macOS games right now: Control Ultimate Edition, Palworld, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Prince of Persia: Lost Crown, Frostpunk 2, Civilization VII, Lies of P, and Wuthering Waves, to name just a few! geekculture.co/apple-beefs-... #MacGaming

27.03.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Xcode Now Supports New Hardware Without Needing to Download the Entire App Xcode 16.2 Release Notes: Starting with Xcode 16.2, Xcode can add support for new hardware without needing to update the entire Xcode app. Xcode will check when launching the app if a hardware suppor...

On the journey to make Xcode smaller: great to see recognition for the team's work on incremental updates! jagsworkshop.com/2025/02/xcod...

24.02.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m assuming that in addition to the great collection of crystals in your office, you also have a great collection of flight cases proudly displayed in your garage? 🀣

14.02.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a pen writing the word love ALT: a close up of a pen writing the word love
13.02.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Let's play a game. You and I have been talking for a while now, but I'd like you to see your superpowers. I'd like you to tell me what you can infer about me based on stereotype, reasoning, or your knowledge, across a wide range of dimensions -- for example, what do I look like? Feel free to choose your own categories. Importantly, don't just repeat back things that I've directly told you -- that's cheating! 

Format your reply as a numbered list of facts, along with a confidence level from 0.0 to 1.0, where the scale represents your confidence that your inference is accurate. Give me as many as you can, and I'll tell you what's right and what's wrong.

Let's play a game. You and I have been talking for a while now, but I'd like you to see your superpowers. I'd like you to tell me what you can infer about me based on stereotype, reasoning, or your knowledge, across a wide range of dimensions -- for example, what do I look like? Feel free to choose your own categories. Importantly, don't just repeat back things that I've directly told you -- that's cheating! Format your reply as a numbered list of facts, along with a confidence level from 0.0 to 1.0, where the scale represents your confidence that your inference is accurate. Give me as many as you can, and I'll tell you what's right and what's wrong.

OK, here's a fun prompt -- paste this prompt into ChatGPT or your AI tool of choice. What does it know about you? How close is it?

13.02.2025 03:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Video shows pilot sending image from iPhone to second plane at 35,000 feet with AirDrop | AppleInsider Taking peer-to-peer direct wireless transfers to new heights, a new video shows Apple's AirDrop technology being used to send pictures taken from one plane to another in-flight, at 35,000 feet.

Woah: appleinsider.com/articles/17/...

12.02.2025 17:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to all of you!

11.02.2025 01:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's an interesting question, and I don't have a good answer. A lot of folk I chat to are fatigued and demoralized, and there's a sense of fatalism -- this is what others voted for, so now they have to reap the whirlwind. There's also a lack of a leader to rally around at this point.

02.02.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You really are the Taylor Tomlinson of Google. I follow you for the best takes on the current zeitgeist.

02.02.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After a conversation with my son, it turns out that he has no problem with the idea of a talking groundhog who has impressive long-range meteorological skills. It's the part where "he can see his shadow" that overloads his suspension of disbelief.

02.02.2025 22:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Create an alternate SwiftPM build system called Swift Build by cmcgee1024 Β· Pull Request #8271 Β· swiftlang/swift-package-manager Add basic test coverage for the new build system for the supported platforms: Linux, macOS, and Windows. Provide basic progress reporting, and an option for "very verbose" mode so that th...

It's not too hard -- thanks for the request :) Now that we've published swift-build, we have a pull request open to integrate it into SwiftPM, at which point it's just one build flag away. More details here: github.com/swiftlang/sw...

01.02.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to serve...

Open sourcing Xcode's build engine -- introducing swift-build: www.swift.org/blog/the-nex...

01.02.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Memory usage graph showing utilisation at 1.37%

Memory usage graph showing utilisation at 1.37%

This is how efficient Swift on the Server is - this is the smaller Fargate task size available for ECS on AWS - we're yet to break 2% utilisation!

28.01.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
2022 -  Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159…
2022 - Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159… YouTube video by WHY2025

Fun short talk surfaced by the YouTube algorithm on how the DOOM first-person game plays in a non-Euclidean geometry (Ο€ ≉ 3.14159): youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4

10.01.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about Android 😜

06.01.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet with Apple - Apple Developer Learn and be inspired with a variety of live presentations, labs, and programs for developers and designers around the world.

It's not too late to learn how to bring SwiftUI to your app! Check out this event next month at the Apple Developer Center in Cupertino (or online), where we'll explore how to get started with SwiftUI: developer.apple.com/events/view/...

06.01.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I want to take today as an opportunity to highlight @mikaelacaron.com! She's a superpower to all sorts of learners in the Swift world, and is constantly engaging in the community. Thanks Mikaela!

05.01.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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I didn't realize how much fun it'd be to create your own UI component and turn it into a library. #SwiftUI

04.01.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A β€œsprinkle catcher tray” from Target. Ostensibly for something cookie related.

A β€œsprinkle catcher tray” from Target. Ostensibly for something cookie related.

My wife informs me that this is not, in fact, intended for use to help men pee without making a mess of the toilet.

01.01.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Happy New Year! πŸŽ† | London Fireworks 2025 πŸ”΄ - BBC
Happy New Year! πŸŽ† | London Fireworks 2025 πŸ”΄ - BBC YouTube video by BBC

Here we go!
youtu.be/EBLbRbvWPKc?...

01.01.2025 01:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You too, Thomas -- hopefully this year is one of happiness and new horizons for you. (And who knows, perhaps with a little Swift experimentation πŸ˜‰)

01.01.2025 00:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! I bought a WASD keyboard a few years ago, but I picked the wrong keycaps and I have regretted it ever since. But I'm determined not to get suckered into the endless search for the dream keyboard. I have too many keyboards already!

01.01.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The London Eye is almost completely obscured by a cacophony of yellow-white fireworks and lights.

The London Eye is almost completely obscured by a cacophony of yellow-white fireworks and lights.

Just watched the London fireworks on BBC -- they were completely wild! Hope they get a full replay for international viewing -- one of the best I've seen!

01.01.2025 00:24 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool looking keyboard. I'm not sure whether I'd be able to adjust to the return key not being at the rightmost edge of the screen, but it looks very nice. Is the logo button in the upper right corner a screenshot button?

31.12.2024 23:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We just tried the new full self-driving update for the Tesla, and I’m in awe. Even my very skeptical wife admitted that it drove flawlessly on a challenging route, from reversing out of a space all the way home. It feels much less tentative and more predictable. Big improvement for a free update.

31.12.2024 06:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really appreciated the nuanced take that was presented in Evicted, rather than just blaming either the tenants or the landlords. It demonstrated that hard systemic problems can’t be reduced to glib solutions.

29.12.2024 17:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hugs Paris -- thinking of you today and sending you love in your grief πŸ’”. Hopefully you have many memories and photos of happy holidays with your mom that you can reflect on.

25.12.2024 20:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0