It's not a warning. It's a threat. "A nice economy you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it." And all we have to do is keep pretending that the amount of money invested in AI is proportional to the value we're getting from it. Easy enough, just don't anger the mobsters

If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it I don’t think I’d buy that robot

⚙️ Swift progress on embedded Swift, for memory-safe, fast code in resource-constrained environments. The latest updates are coming to Swift 6.3, and you can read more here: www.swift.org/blog/embedde... #IoT

vibe physics

🇨🇿 The Velvet Revolution forms the core of my political views. It showed that it's possible to speak truth to power, never turn a blind eye to injustice, but also avoid violence while still fighting for a better society. Proud of this heritage and all those brave people who came before us. 🙏

Ugh, this AI bubble will really take down the Western economy, won't it. Why do we keep putting the dumbest people in charge of both companies and governments. It's a herd. (Or a cartel.) They're personally getting rich and when it crashes, they'll retire, while regular people suffer. Again.

I'd pay for a search engine that allows me to only search human-written content and filters out AI slop. Same for social media. Messaging. GitHub. Slack. Web browsers. We need a "no AI slop" toggle everywhere. I'd even invest in such human-friendly tools that protect human time and attention.

Chris is doing great work rebuilding all of ATProto (the protocol behind Bluesky) components in Swift. Consider giving it a star or even a sponsorship. In these times of harmful tech centralization, supporting democratization of social media is itself an act of rebellion 🫡 We can just do things.

In 2020 I was skeptical of legal uses for crypto and called out that it's just another tool of rich fascists. Unrealistic promises of "next year", every year. Financial games. Gov't corruption. Trump. Musk. Thiel. Winklevi. And *the same people* are now all-in on AI? That's cool, no concerns.

Any great managers following me and looking to switch gigs? :-) work with compilers and tools with my team. London based! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/...

1️⃣ Swift comes to FreeBSD Swift is now available in preview for FreeBSD 14.3 and later. We want your feedback, bug reports, and contributions to make Swift great on FreeBSD! 🧑‍💻Read the announcement here: forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-f... #FreeBSD

🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...

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!

Swift belongs on servers #swiftlang

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 🚀

Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. www.swift.org/blog/swift-t... @temporal.io

Using or trialling OPA? Whether you're new to OPA or have been on the Rego train for years, we want to hear from you in our 2025 Community Survey. www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCBSDZN We're going to be at KubeCon tomorrow in the project pavilion. Come and say hi! #Rego #OPA #KubeCon

3️⃣ AWS officially adopts Swift Lambda Runtime Amazon is now officially hosting the Swift AWS Lambda Runtime. This is a game-changer for building fast, efficient, and scalable serverless applications with Swift: now backed by AWS. github.com/awslabs/swif... #AWS

📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵

The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime has officially moved under AWS on GitHub, great work @sebsto.bsky.social aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...

We're featuring results of the summer GSoC projects over the next few days. Here's the first from Priyambada Roul, who worked on integrating Swiftly with the Swift VS Code extension: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...

Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to Skip. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. skip.tools/blog/skip-fu... #Android

Observability is the key to understanding how your system performs and where problems are occurring. Moritz Lang and Si Beaumont gives us the run down on how it works in Swift! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxI...

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"United Europe is one of the strongest entities in the world" 🇪🇺🌍

At the conference the Swift team announced a new SDK for Temporal! Watch the talk here www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KW7...

Company A announces they're investing $200b into Company B. Company B announces they're buying $200b worth of products from Company A. The stock market and politicians see and act on "$400b of new investment". Yet... there's no new revenue. There's no new value. Is it a bubble? Fraud? Normal?

Building any data centers that aren't 100% powered by renewable energy should be illegal. Don't let AI destroy the environment.

Funny how the vibe of SF freeway billboard ads slightly starts to shift. AIs to detect deep fakes and for reviewing AI generated code. They sold the disease, now they're attempting to sell the cure.

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

It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

any 👏 unsolicited 👏 AI 👏 interaction 👏 is 👏 spam 👏 Doesn't matter if it's autonomous, or a human copy-pasted it. If you send me AI output without me explicitly asking for AI output, I'll treat it as spam. Let's normalize this, folks - make sending AI slop socially unacceptable.

🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️ Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...

Huge respect for living your values. 👏 Too many in the US abandoned their values just to get a little extra cash/favors this year. They showed their values were an empty marketing tool rather than a moral bond. 🫢 I wish more organizations followed your example 🙏

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Swift SDK for Android (preview)! * Blog post: www.swift.org/blog/nightly... * Getting Started guide: www.swift.org/documentatio... * Example repository: github.com/swiftlang/sw... * Forums post: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

📣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

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...

Happy Friday youtu.be/YyyFZxiJPHw

Swift Configuration proposal season has officially begun, first one up is making it easier for folks to just add formats without reimplementing all the file provider boilerplate code, what do you think? forums.swift.org/t/proposal-s... #swiftlang

At the conference keynote, Ben Cohen discusses writing fast, safe and easy to use code in Swift with new features. youtu.be/jz3hCRSPrdo

Free idea: internet search engine that filters out content written by LLMs Second free idea: Bluesky labeler that does the same for URLs in posts and labels LLM articles, allowing you to filter them out Slop, slop everywhere.

If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.

I can't wait for the AI bubble to pop, the amount of slop everywhere around us is already too damn high

TelemetryDeck has been running Vapor to power its backend since its inception. In this video, Daniel Jilg is going to give us some lessons learnt! youtu.be/Uvnp7bq6Hf0

One of my favorite talks from @serversideswift.info 👏 A must-watch!

Sunday is the perfect day to catch up on all the best Bluesky posts in the world of #swiftlang - for those who can't keep up with the chronological feed, here's a "Top Weekly" feed - based on likes + reposts bsky.app/profile/did:...

🙏 I'm especially looking for help identifying off-topic folks - those that aren't about the Swift language, but about other uses of the word, like the singer, the financial system, etc. If you see an off-topic post in the swiftlang feed, please click the three dots -> "Show less like this". Thanks!

If you're using my swiftlang feeds, you can now provide feedback right through Bluesky! Tap the three dots next to the post and select "Show more like this" or "Show less like this". Your feedback will help me improve the automatic filtering. Thanks! 🙏 #swiftlang