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When people ask me about my job: You know how sometimes you get irrationally furious with inanimate objects. Like when a cable gets tangled and you’re in a hurry. But the cable doesn’t have free will, it was you that tangled it. But still, you’re furious with the cable. It’s like that.

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I feel like this is better if you read the image alt text first.

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Swift SDKs for WebAssembly are now available on swift.org for 6.2 and `main` development snapshots! Huge announcement for me personally, this is something I could only dream of when almost 7 years ago I joined a few volunteers maintaining a patchset for Wasm support forums.swift.org/t/swift-sdks...

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Open source #swift code for Containerization, a way to run Linux containers on macOS, is now live at github.com/apple/contai...

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“Containerization Framework The Containerization framework enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac. It’s built on an open-source framework optimized for Apple silicon and provides secure isolation between container images.” 🤯🤤 #wwdc25 […]

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Lots of great Swift content coming soon, starting with What's New in Swift with @hborla.bsky.social and @tshortli.bsky.social developer.apple.com/videos/play/... #swift #swiftlang #wwdc

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The Swift.org redesign we've been working on just landed! alexandersandberg.com/notes/#10

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The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...

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The first rule of grey area club is it isn't clear if you're allowed to talk about grey area club.

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misunderstanding the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote to mean "wait until you're done before thinking about performance” is a huge problem for the programming profession

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WHY IS BESSENT DOING CLOSED-DOOR MEETINGS WITH INVESTORS?

submitted 67 days ago • 17 comments

What if playgrounds, but on the command line… an idea for a "swift play" command from @[email protected] forums.swift.org/t/playground...

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I am once again begging pasta manufacturers to dedicate half the surface of their packaging to the cooking time.

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What is this talk of "China could threaten the US with dumping Treasuries"? Sure, it would cause problems, as would any method of balancing trade—bigger problems if it were done precipitously. But there is no third option: either the US runs a trade deficit or it stops running a capital surplus.

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Find the bar the aws sales rep who pulled this off is at they’re buying.

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Look, all I want is to bring manufacturing jobs back so that American robots can earn a middle class wage and support their American robot families. Is that so controversial?

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So, America is 36% of consumption but we have been treated very unfairly so we must introduce tariffs to reduce consumption and other countries have to do what we say because we’re such a big consumer, or else we’ll consume less, which is the goal? Got it. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/0...

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Schumer will be 84 at the end of this term. They have learned NOTHING. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Things are so bad they had to break out @markhamillofficial.bsky.social’s evil twin.

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The US exports high margin goods and imports low margin goods. To fund this fantastic deal, we allow countries to lend us money at a low interest rate that we get to set in a currency we can make more of if we feel like it. Apparently this was unacceptable.

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How do you install Swift swiftly? With Swiftly, of course! Swiftly is the new default installer and version manager for downloading and updating the standalone Swift toolchain -- on macOS and Linux. ⏩🏁 www.swift.org/blog/introdu...

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finally, jokes about pointer authentication entering the mainstream discourse

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That whole group chat has major “not actually working on the project but getting cc'd on the status updates so confusedly thinking they're the ones making it happen" vibes.

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A reminder that if you put a portrait of yourself as your GitHub avatar then when people link to your PRs in various places everyone is confronted by YOUR MASSIVE FACE as the thumbnail preview.

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I've been experimenting with posting to both here and mastodon. Almost always, I get more engagement with mastodon, at about a 2:1 ratio, though this is partly cos I have more followers there. But I figure I'd give both a try for a while.

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Students -- how would you like to spend the summer contributing to Swift while working with mentors from the Swift team? Lots of great projects to work on, from improving VSCode integration to compiler development. More at: forums.swift.org/t/gsoc-2025-... #GSOC

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