Merry Christmas 🎄

🚀 SF Symbols Lite 1.0.1 is out. ✨ You can now check for new builds and download updates directly from the app. ⏱️ Search feels calmer with an improved delay, plus refined bottom tag colours. ✨ Built specifically for macOS 26. Feedback is always welcome ❤️

I wanted a simple way to manage SF Symbols updates. Sparkle is great, but for this use case it felt like overkill. I did not need delta updates, signatures, or a full update framework. I just wanted to know when a new version was available.

🚀 I’ve been working on this project just for fun, and I’m happy to share that it’s now open source. ✨ SF Symbols Lite is a lightweight, fast alternative to Apple’s SF Symbols app, focused on better search, custom tags, and a clean macOS experience. ✨ macOS 26. ❤️ ☛ github.com/ruiaureliano...

This works fine, but if I move the extension to another file like “Person+Update.swift”, it stops working. Is there a way to allow this, similar to protected in Java, so members stay accessible to the class and its extensions in other files?

This is beyond annoying. Apparently, Apple Mail skipped basic math class, because it clearly can’t count. Happens all the time, such a reliable app, truly.

SF Symbols is great, but I always felt something was missing. So I started this as a little side project. Of course, you can (and should) keep using Apple’s SF Symbols, it’s fantastic. But there are some symbols I never touch, and others I wish existed… so I’m making my own 🙂

✨ Something small, simple, and kind of magical is coming. Think of it as a lite version of SF Symbols, but with a twist. What features would you love to see in a minimalist, focused SF Symbols companion? Maybe… faster search? Tags? Symbol previews? Something secret? 👀 I can’t say too much yet.

🧠 Swift 6.2 lets you assign a "switch" directly to a variable ✨ let score = Int.random(in: 0..<100) let grade = switch score { case 90...: "A" case 80..<90: "B" default: "C" } print("Your grade: \(grade) (\(score))") Clean, expressive, and beautifully Swift 💫

📱 Got the new "iPhone 17 Pro" and "TechWoven Case with MagSafe"

The SF Symbols app for macOS is a great database, and Apple keeps adding more symbols and features, making it more powerful each year. Still, I miss a few things that would make it more useful in daily work:

✨ Playing with the new glass effects in macOS Sequoia (macOS 26) Using GlassEffectContainer and glassEffect, I created animated “bubbles” that float and overlap while sharing the same glass surface. The result? A smooth, living glass playground powered entirely by SwiftUI. #swiftui #macos #tahoe

iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 728 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 🚀 iosdevweekly.com/issues/728/#... #swiftlang #iosdev

🚀✨ Wow! Lynfo just got featured in iosdevweekly #728! A tool I built to make swift-format configs simple is now out there in front of the iOS dev community 💻🎉 So happy to see it shared — go take a look! 👉 iosdevweekly.com/issues/728/... #xcode #swift #ios #macos

I keep seeing the title “Staff iOS Engineer”, What is a “Staff iOS Engineer”?

🚀 Icns Extractor 1.0.1 is out! ☛ 🎨 App icon generator ☛ 🔍 Search & filter support ☛ 🖥 Access to default macOS system icons Perfect for developers & designers who need to explore and export .icns files with ease. 🌐 github.com/ruiaurelian... #icns #swift #swiftui #macos

I’m looking for my next role as an iOS or macOS engineer. With 10+ years of experience, I’m very experienced in Swift and have worked with Objective-C in the past. I’m only considering fully remote positions. If you know of an opening, I’d love to hear from you. A share would mean a lot 🙏

🚀 I’ve open-sourced a small macOS tool I use to extract .icns files from apps, files, folders, disks, and other locations. Built with SwiftUI + AppKit, it lets you preview icons and export them as .icns github.com/ruiaurelian... #macOS #SwiftUI #AppKit #OpenSource #IndieDev

🚀 Lynfo is out of Beta ☛ We’ve officially graduated. No more “beta” excuses. ☛ Full support for Auto, Light, and Dark Mode. Your setup, your vibe, your rules. 🌐 lynfo.app #xcode #swift #lynfo #macos #release

✨ Updated macOS Tahoe Icons Just refreshed the project with the latest macOS 16 “Tahoe” icons. Both the product and installer icons are now included alongside all previous macOS releases (2001 → 2025). ☛ github.com/ruiaurelian... #macos #apple #icons #design #tahoe

🚨🚨🚨 Lynfo 0.9.0.2 ☛ Search is here — find what you need without endless scrolling. ☛ Dark Mode support — easier on the eyes, sharper in style. ☛ Small polish touches to keep your workflow smooth. 🚀 lynfo.app #xcode #swift #lynfo #macos #beta

🔎 Search comes to Lynfo ☛ Starting today, you can search directly inside Lynfo. ☛ Find exactly what you need, faster. No more scrolling, no more guessing. Just type and go. 🚀 lynfo.app #xcode #swift #lynfo #macos #beta

Change App Shortcuts from the Terminal Did you know you can change the keyboard shortcuts of almost any Mac app? Every app that has a menu (like Safari, Finder, or Xcode) lets you run actions from there, and those actions often have shortcuts.

🚨🚨🚨 Lynfo 0.9.0.1 ☛ Lynfo now supports both .xcodeproj and .xcworkspace. ☛ Configure Xcode formatting shortcuts directly in Lynfo. 🚀 lynfo.app #xcode #swift #lynfo #macos #beta

How Lynfo Works - Step by Step 1) Open your Xcode project in Lynfo so it knows where to apply formatting.

From 0 to hero in SwiftUI 🦸‍♂️ I built an app just for myself… then decided to release it into the wild. Entirely made with SwiftUI, because apparently I enjoy pain. 👉 lynfo.app #xcode #swift #lynfo #macos

Porto Santo 2025 🏖️🏖️🏖️

I’m noticing an odd behavior when using NavigationSplitView on macOS 26.0 Beta (25A5327h). Even with the simplest possible split view code, window resizing feels unusually choppy. #swiftui #macos #tahoe

LinkedIn felt more like an AI playground than a platform for real opportunities. Endless bots, generic AI messages, and in the end, it never actually helped me with anything job-related. So I deleted it. Goodbye, LinkedIn.

If I had to pick one favorite game from my childhood, it would be Ice Climber. What was yours? 🎮❄️ #game #retro #childhood

💫 Gave my site a little refresh 🔗 ruiaureliano.com

Here's something I've been working on for a while. A closer look at one of least-well understood components of Swift's concurrency system: `@isolated(any)`. I tried my best to respect both the medium and topic. nshipster.com/isolated-any/

I’ve been experimenting with building this extension in SwiftUI – still very much a WIP. I’m targeting macOS 26 (Tahoe) for now, so I’m not entirely sure how it will behave on earlier versions, but I’ll figure that part out later. ☛ github.com/ruiaureliano/X-SwiftFormat #macos #swiftui

I wish there was a macOS client app that let me write a post once and publish it everywhere: •X •LinkedIn •Mastodon •Bluesky Most of my posting happens on my Mac, so a native macOS app would be perfect. Does something like this already exist? Or should we build it?

⭐ X‑SwiftFormat just reached 778 stars on GitHub! Huge thanks to everyone who starred, forked, or contributed 🙌 ☛ github.com/ruiaureliano...

🚀 X‑SwiftFormat 2.1 is here! ☛ Build: 250730 ☛ Xcode 16 ☛ Swift 6.2 ☛ github.com/ruiaureliano... #swift #macos #ios

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