douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

I discovered that Swift projects on GitHub can be opened directly with Xcode.

Wow, who would have guessed that the language of food cultural essentialism beloved in some online spaces just converts into flat out open racism with minimal adjustment! Impossible to see that one coming

[deep breath] I wrote about why I think we need to take AI risks seriously, whether or not we think them likely www.economist.com/briefing/202...

I thought that in Swift you could use the === operator with any type that conforms to Identifiable, not just with classes, but apparently it doesn't work. Did I just imagine it?

This took me by surprise. The code generated by the @Observable macro in Xcode 26 beta 3 is noticeably different from what Xcode 16 produced.

I don't know who made this but 10/10.

I've just published a new video! It covers two ways to use matchedGeometryEffect() in SwiftUI: transitioning between views when one is removed and another added, and moving a selection marker by matching the geometry of a non-source view to a source. ▶️ youtu.be/i87zOQubYoI #SwiftUI #iOSDev

Honest question for the historians of empires: is the end always this stupid or are we breaking new ground here?

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

i think the last decade is a clear evidence that hypocrisy is preferable to honest displays of cruelty and depravity

I was watching an AI presentation yesterday where they were talking about Human-In-The-Loop, and all I could think about was how HITL sounds like an abbreviation of Hitler

Acronyms can mean two different things at most. Want to abbreviate a third thing that uses the same letters? Respectfully: no PDA means a weird little computer with a stylus or, like, kissing at the park. That’s it! Those letters are at capacity now. Find some other letters! Be creative!

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Is the prebuilt SwiftSyntax binary in Xcode 26 available for general use in Swift projects, or only for macros?

Explore more SwiftUI elements and the latest additions visually for free exploreswiftui.com

Something was born today

I actually wrote a blog — my first in over 3 years, and it’s not about accessibility! It’s about how I plan and deliver tech talks and came from a chat at @swiftcraft.bsky.social If you’re speaking soon (or thinking about it), I hope it helps. www.rwapp.co.uk/blog/speaking

The AppleTV adaptation of Murderbot was suuuuper disappointing. Almost offensively bad. I didn't mind them making it into a comedy, except it's not funny. Most of the "jokes" are just making fun of neurodivergence, empathy, androgynism, polyamory, pacifism… the exact opposite of the books

I'm an experienced Art Director / Game Artist open to a new role. I'm best brought in early on during production. Fluent in any 2D pipeline, and I've shipped 7 games Let’s make something beautiful and fun. #GameDev #IndieDev

"Check important info for mistakes"

The transgender “issue” is not a distraction for Democrats. It’s an opportunity to speak clearly about human rights and morality, and the path is simple: Follow the facts and the Golden Rule. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/transgende...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

Rude

Looks like Kotlin might have some competition for the multiplatform crown forums.swift.org/t/announcing... :)

Literally the only reason why I’m still on iOS is the fact that in the duopoly it’s the one that is slightly more bashful about treating its users as gaping money funnels for ads to be shoved down techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/i...

That’s the ballgame, copyright is effectively done for. I have no doubt that Mickey Mouse will continue to be protected by incredibly high-priced attorneys, but the works of small artists and independent writers will become fair game for AI training data. 🌐 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION UK pre-order links: www.penguin.co.uk/books/469498...

I know you shouldn't punish the behavior you want to see, but jeeeez am I the only one who thinks it's not normal that a trillion dollar company requires a public beta to discover that people can't actually see the controls on their new OS?

Is it weird that I don't give a shit? Like, what difference will it make to me at that point?

Oh, dead. Definitely dead.

Seriously, I was sure that libxml2 was maintained by someone at Redhat or something. Apparently it's used and deployed everywhere (from Apple to Microsoft, Google even) and they're not contributing and of course not even donating money. socket.dev/blog/libxml2...

I've been experimenting with AI-proof assignments for a long time. Last semester, that meant Soviet video games and sci-fi short stories --and it worked pretty well. My latest Substack essay below. "Teaching in the Age of AI: How I avoided a shitty semester" hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...

A new one to add to my collection.

New in Xcode 26: projects that use Macros should no longer suffer longer build times because of the swift-syntax package!

When developers meet for lunch

Haha! When adding a ScrollView to the snippet presented from an App Intent, Apple will add a yellow background and a prohibited sign to the view 🟨🚫🤣 #WWDC25

The polarized tribalism of our society originates from Babbage's difference engine. If he had instead designed an engine that unites rather than divides, imagine the course of development humanity could have taken

Imagine if Cuban took the perspective that it would be weird to pivot your entire politics to persecute 10 people in the entire country just trying to do sports. Instead of whatever the fuck this is.

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision. The mission of UX is being changed: from making shit work, into branding

The following article introduces using the Observation framework in UIKit and AppKit apps: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/automatic-observation-tracking-uikit-appkit/ #iosdev #macdev

This is incredible

Swift SDKs for WebAssembly are now available on swift.org for 6.2 and `main` development snapshots! Huge announcement for me personally, this is something I could only dream of when almost 7 years ago I joined a few volunteers maintaining a patchset for Wasm support forums.swift.org/t/swift-sdks...

ExtensionKit for iOS is here and I think it is a big deal. Normally, I could never pull off such a post so quickly. But thankfully I already wrote this stuff 3 years ago! Here's my updated my introduction to the system. www.massicotte.org/extensionkit...

I'm coming to realize that Apple's strategy for merging macOS and iOS is not to gradually uplift iOS to the point where it becomes a worthy macOS replacement, but rather to gradually downgrade macOS to the point where it no longer offers any tangible benefits over iOS

I've just learned (or relearned) that non-max iPhone models treat landscape mode as "compact" horizontal size class and not regular (which is absurd but w/e) Is there a way to switch layout in landscape mode in SwiftUI that's as elegant as observing the horizontalSizeClass environment property?

Literally what is the purpose of macOS and iPadOS still being separate OSes at this point?

A story in three parts

I will be speaking about the Model Context Protocol and how to use it to connect your AI apps to the real world at Build with AI @ Bletchley Park gdg.community.dev/events/deta...

Notepad.exe 1.1 - iOS support is live! 🚀 Build SwiftUI, UIKit, whatever - each playground gets its own iOS simulator. No setup, just run. go get it: notepadexe.com WWDC starts tomorrow! Perfect timing to mess around with new APIs. #SwiftDev #iOS #WWDC25