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My talk from ServerSide is up!

🚀 New blog post! AsyncCombine: Because Async Code Shouldn’t Be Ugly I brought back Combine’s sink, assign, and CombineLatest - but built powered by Swift Concurrency. Observing @Observable from another ViewModel shouldn’t be painful. Here’s how I fixed it 👉 lumley.io/blogs/async-...

so i wrote a thing about stubbing URLSession based on a 'trick' i discovered the other day jellystyle.com/2025/09/stub...

iOS Dev Tip 💡 Easily monitor the device’s thermal state to optimize performance during overheating. → learnandcodewithenid.com

Making this argument and then hanging the entire load on TRY is fucking hilarious:

💡Starting with iOS 18.0, you can create mesh gradients in SwiftUI using MeshGradient. → learnandcodewithenid.com

FaviconFinder by @will-lumley.bsky.social is awesome! github.com/will-lumley/...

There is a convenient brightness(_:) modifier in #SwiftUI that can be used to adjust the intensity of colors in our views. We can lighten the colors by passing it values from 0 to 1 or darken them using negative values: nilcoalescing.com/blog/AdjustT...

1517, Martin Luther

it’s forbidden in their culture but a vacuum cleaner wants nothing more than to eat it’s own cord

Why I 💛 the web. #macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time. 🛰️🚽 Yurnining to check this out. github.com/Jaennaet/pIS... #Swift

*click* React Native. *click* Flutter. *click* .....SwiftUI. *click* GTK. Easy. *click* ......Qt6.

CMD+Space doesn't bring up Spotlight anymore and this has ruined my opinion on macOS and life.

Completion > perfection

With #swiftlang It's easy to forget that the diff between a point-free and pointed styles of function argument passing is not just syntactic but semantic. It's normal to consider these to be equivalent: 1. [1, 2].map(String.init) 2. [1, 2].map { String($0) } But we shouldn't forget that: 1/4

Do you know about the take function for the Optional type? It takes the value if it is not nil and toggles the variable to nil. https://buff.ly/3Zin2Wv

A problematic little #swiftlang pattern I often see is "unwrap-then-nullify" for optional values that hold some temp state. This oft comes up when dealing with local caches or scrollOffsets or in-flight tasks, etc. Forgetting to nullify a value to "reset" state is a common mistake. Use take method.

If “the boy who cried wolf” was a notification

Hypothetically, imagine not knowing Swift Testing doesn't have a built-in timeout function, and then writing a bad unit test and pushing it, going to sleep, and then waking up and finding out you've used all your Github Action minutes for the month. On this second day of the month. Hypothetically.

Currently working on a Swift project that uses Combine, and because it the year of our lord 2024 I'm using Swift Testing to write my unit tests. But I was struggling with covering my Combine code with Swift Testing. Here's how I managed to solve the problem! lumley.io/blogs/swift-... #iOS #swift

Hello, old friend fuckingblocksyntax.com

VSCode UI is so ugly it takes the joy out of programming

UIKit is a craftsperson’s tool. React Native is a business decision.

GRDB > Core Data > Swift Data #iOS #swift

Great to see how much Apple has improved in documentation. Migrating from Observable Object to Observable macro has a really easy to follow guide for example. developer.apple.com/documentatio... #swiftui #ios #apple

Thinking of dipping my toes and learning Jetpack Compose. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with SwiftUI. Does anybody here know what the main similarities and differences between the two?

Macros, type safety, type inference, strict concurrency, memory safety, the ability to be used in embedded systems, a strong community - Swift is so GOATed. #swift #swiftlang #ios

Converted my garage door into a smart garage door by integrating an ESP32 into the circuitry, writing my own firmware for said ESP32 - and exposing it to the HomeKit environment. Will be posting a tutorial later on this month or next on how to do this! Managed to do it all for less than $30. #ios

Hot take: SwiftUI turned Swift into its playground, shoehorning in features like @ResultBuilder, @State, some, and implicit returns. Great for declarative syntax, but at what cost? Swift feels less like a coherent language and more like a DSL factory tailored to Apple’s new shiny toy.

TIL; if you need to run same logic when swiftui view appears or it's state value changes, you can use "initial: true" to combine these conditions into one modifier 🧪

Sometimes I forget this app is React Native, sometimes I *really* feel it.

it is the year of our lord 2024 and installing xcode tools is still a nightmare

Struggling to marry a clean MVVM architecture and SwiftUI's NavigationStack? So was I! And then I wrote a blog post on it. Check it out! medium.com/gitconnected... #iOS #swiftui #mvvm

Me working on a project with legacy code with Swift 6 concurrency 😭 #swiftlang #ios

Want to save money on your AWS bill when all you have is a statically hosted site? Well gosh darn you've found the right blog post. levelup.gitconnected.com/how-i-saved-...

Blob loading animation made with #swiftui #swiftlang #dev #coding #ios #programming

lord, i know these ppl need to make money but i am enjoying that we don’t have any ads.

Apple hasn't updated Combine since 2021 because it's perfect right? Right? Surely they haven't abandoned it 😭

Using the new “Swift Testing” framework is a pain in the ass, because whenever you Google “Swift Testing describe-problem-here” you get nothing but XCTest related results. Gosh Darn. #ios #xcode #swift-testing

Honestly kinda impressed by python here

Nice to be here instead of the alt-right hell hole that is Twitter.