Ben Cohen

I am constantly insulted on this platform.

Growing up in the uk I never understood sim city, until I visited America as an adult.

How does the debugger know exactly which Swift module your code came from? The upcoming Swift 6.4 release makes it more precise than ever, tracking the module path in debug info instead of looking it up by name, for faster and more reliable debugging. www.swift.org/blog/module-...

But enough about Europe's approach to the Trump administration, what are we going to do about Iran?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every week for half a year, we live in a post-shame society. apnews.com/article/iran...

Just laser focused on pinpointing every last thing that made America the most successful economy in the history of the world, and then getting rid of it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Whenever someone says we should make some changes while the strategic rewrite is still pending.

Not only is this incredible, it is a great source of learning materials for those of us transitioning from our bad C habits into safe and fast idioms:

same, it's "where are you I'm outside!" right?

Why is everyone making us putting our party leader's face and name on everything so political!

The Swift Mentorship Program is starting! 🙌 Dates to know– 🌟 Jun 1: Mentor surveys closes– essentials.applesurveys.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🌟 June 8th: Mentee surveys open 🌟 June 29th: Mentorship pairings announced 🌟 July 6th: 10-week cohort begins Details on the program here: www.swift.org/mentorship/

I like how they grouped the /savann?ah?/s together

I assume it's one specific consultant, who needs to be cast into the pit of fire, who is going to all these dem candidates and telling them how to use Unicode to bold stuff.

My neighbor told me ai models keep creating deepfakes so I asked what he’s doing and he said he just goes to the researchers and gets a paper on spotting deepfakes so I said it sounds like he's just feeding research papers to the ai companies and then his daughter started crying.

It is 2034. Every 108 minutes, President Vance must go to the situation room and type the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 into a terminal to extend the Iran ceasefire.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Is Iran in the room with us right now?

The way this omnishambles ties together different threads of badness is impressive.

ElementaryUI 0.2 is out! Now entering "blazing fast" territory 🚀 - BridgeJS for JS interop - Swift 6.3, Spans, Lifetimes… - fewer allocations with move-only containers ⚠️ Swift 6.2 support dropped github.com/elementary-s... #Swift #WebAssembly #ElementaryUI

Just got a call from the school counselor, because the kids were reading a short story in English class by Roald Dahl about a murderer using cyanide and apparently looking up "how long does cyanide take to kill you" on the school wifi sets off ALL THE FIREWALL ALARMS.

God bless those print news reading teenagers.

In fairness, he's probably baffled by Velcro.

I feel seen (and don’t like it, will avoid being seen again)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

A nonbinding resolution condemning blotting out the sun failed along mostly party lines, with Jared Golden voting with republicans. The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case, as the petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the president to usher in eternal darkness lack standing.

I wrote about @telemetrydeck.com on the official Swift blog swift.org/blog/buildin...

Controling your Philips Lighting Hue lights with Swift on AWS Lambda. The whole infra runs serverless for less than $0.20 / month! www.ryantoken.com/bl... Thank you Ryan Token for having written this. cc @swiftlang

despite their owners best efforts

This demo of ElementaryUI from the pre-fosdem #swift meetup was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing where it can go. youtu.be/OmQ881sOTIc

Swift for #Wasm January 2026 Updates is out, lots of great stuff done by the community this month! forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-...

Jamie Dimon and @postopinions.bsky.social should check their facts. Right now, federal law prevents states from doing this—and it's the big banks who want to keep it that way. If you want to get on board to let states cap credit card rates and lower costs, I’m ready to pass the bill.

Computer games be like, this corporate employee has 5 emails in their inbox.

tracks…

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER IS IDEAL FOR ISSUING APOLOGIES

The #swiftlang toolchain is now available on Amazon Linux 2023. Two years after my first commit allowing Swift to compile on Amazon Linux 2023, it took a while team effort to make this happen. Get started and deploy your Swift apps in the cloud today!

Checkout the new blog post about the Temporal SDK we released at the @serversideswift.info conference. This is a great addition to our amazing Swift ecosystem 🚀

Swift on aws lambda moves into the official @awscloud.bsky.social org 😊 many years in the making! #swiftlang