Joseph Heck

Swift Package Index now supports Swift 6.4 and uses it to generate documentation 📦 Package authors, check that your packages work with the move to Swift Build: swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-6...

Nice call out to ElementaryUI at sindresorhus.com/blog/swift-w... (@sindresorhus.com) @elementary.codes showing some great use of #swiftlang

Developing cloud services in Swift (#swiftlang) just got a major boost, with extensive (I mean, really an absurdly large number of APIs) Google SDK support - cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... Lean on swiftly to install a toolchain, and then lean on the Google Cloud SDKs they've just made available!

Been a great summer planning expansion of Swift packages to better support Swift language interoperability and building something fun. forums.swift.org/t/expanding-...

The Gospel of Awni teaches that you can give someone $15,299 in Claude credits and they can vibe code recipe apps for a month, or give them a 512 GB M5 Ultra and they can maintain their own Linux distro for life.

Very happy to have the combined docs site public and building with a pipeline of PR to publication. if you’re interested in the details and where it’s going, swing by the Swift Forums: forums.swift.org/t/swifts-new...

Adopting strict concurrency across my codebases was painful in some places, but can’t argue with crash reports going down.

When you use agentic development, leaning into software fundamentals matters more than ever before.

Looking for #ttrpg gaming groups in #Paris, #France. My son is attending uni there. He’s a big old nerd (no idea where he got that from 🤓) and not super outgoing. He has tried to find gaming groups/stores/etc. but no luck so far. So I figured I’d ask the for help here. Please RT. Thanks!

Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Apple published a plugin for Godot that lets your Godot games get rendered by RealityKit: github.com/apple/plugin...

So happy to see the details (github.com/apple/truety...) behind the #swift rewrite of the interpreter; performance doesn't just match, it exceeds — and gets Swift's safety features. Not that I need a interpreter myself, but seeing how the code goes together — what's been used — is really cool!

Vapor 5, alpha - release cut live by @0xtim.bsky.social! 🎉 #swift #vapor

📣 ATTN Bay Area — we’re bringing the Container Install Meetup to you! Bring your laptop for hands-on activities & learn about the latest updates. WHO: Apple Container maintainers + YOU 🫵 WHAT: meetup + lunch 🥙 WHEN: Wed Jun 10 @ 12-2 PM 🕛 WHERE: CommunityKit @ Cupertino 🍎 luma.com/rh1k2tpy

If you’re coming by #communitykit or WWDC in San Jose and want to say hi, or get a little hands out with Apple Container and the amazing crew that assembled that technology, stop by luma.com/rh1k2tpy?tk=... - we’d love to see you!

🏗️What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: www.swift.org/blog/buildin...

I also uploaded a template to make it trivial for anyone to deploy a CRUD server in Swift, for obvious reason - it was always supposed to be this easy. railway.com/new/template...

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

My thoughts (and 9 tips) from my journey so far in learning how to use agentic coding tools.

🚀 Swift Rockies tickets are LIVE. This is the conference where Swift meets the physical world. I'm showing you how to take Swift beyond iOS: servers, Android, embedded devices. Your Swift skills can power anything. Don't miss it: swiftrockies.com/joannis-work...

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

The most challenging aspect of software development has been the lack of documentation.

The best thing I ever made

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The talk is from a number of months back, but I really like the insights and viewpoints into the design principles, where it's worked, where it hasn't, and future challenges with building Swift - www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqK... (it's ~1 hour long)

My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.

Friend looking for work - newish developer, good with C++, Python, Lua, and Javascript/HTML. He's getting started and looking for something to help pay the bills while in school. Any suggestions on where to help him look for work, either in #seattle or remote, contract gigs, or paid internships?

Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour? I have the perfect job for you: Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.

📢 #Swiftlang is headed to FOSDEM with a Swift pre-FOSDEM Community Event on Fri 30 Jan (12-6PM) in Brussels AND we have talks at various devrooms ! 🤗 Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ Things to know – 📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6 📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan

My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container: container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \ -v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \ swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build" (runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)

🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-... #AdventOfCode

Curious about Apple's #Containerization Framework & Tooling projects? Catch us in ATL next week! 🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a... 🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling

The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang

My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android

The Swift and OpenTelemetry updates keep rolling in! The latest release of Swift Async HTTP Client github.com/swift-server... now includes automatic tracing support. Including a core path for web requests from Vapor or Hummingbird really steps up the observability for these services! #swiftlang

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

It's been an incredible year for the conference. We had attendees from 6(!) continents come together for an amazing 3 days of workshops, talks and meeting each other face to face. Thank you to all the volunteers and speakers, it's been truly special

Kind of exhausted and excited at the same time, winding down for the flight home from @serversideswift.info conference. A stellar #swiftlang community sharing & new voices adding into the mix this year. @0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!

Very sweet config library that'll change how we configure libraries across the ecosystem. No more hardcoded values; easy reloading and overriding etc. @czechboy0 #swiftlang

It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111... free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583

The expanding ecosystem for Swift Server #swiftlang #serversides.swift

This team is central to the Swift OSS experience. And it's in Canada!

Exciting stuff coming out of the Swift ecosystem! 👇 Catch @czechboy0.dev at @serversideswift.info next Friday @ 16:15 if you want to learn more! www.serversideswift.info/schedule/