megalopolis is one of the most effective anti-capitalist pieces of media ever produced because you’ll walk away from thinking “any economic system that would enable francis ford coppola to self-fund this movie must surely be a failed economic system”

It's really elegant how SwiftUI has three versions of CollectionView, and each is broken in a different, infuriating way 😩 #swiftui

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Comic lettering 101...

yeppp. now the only innovation is negative externalities. part of the problem is apple used to lead the pack, but they too lost the ability to innovate. their hardware engineering is still amazing but there's nobody left with a "what people will actually USE" clue

This is basically right. I used to covet new tech and gadgets and … now there is nothing. Consumption barely scratches an itch. My iPhone is better than the iPhone of 10 years ago but … like … not that much

Playing Death Stranding for the first time and I mean, I'd seen all the Kojima memes, but somehow that still didn't prepare me for how bad the writing would be in this game "The president is dying. She wants to meet you" "She?" "Yes. The president is your mother" 😅🤦‍♂️

TIL that https://DispatchQueue.global is a valid domain that redirects to the Swift concurrency docs I guess someone got tired of seeing false-positive links that go nowhere in social posts 🤣

It's probably well past time Apple renamed UIKeyboardTypeTwitter to something more generic 😬 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uikeyboardtype/twitter

Has anyone else noticed that the coding assistant integration in Xcode 26.4 has a tendency to get "stuck" quite frequently when doing things like file searches, network requests or project changes, and needs to be interrupted and told to try again? I don't recall this being a common issue in 26.3

I didn’t know anything about the E-3 Sentry AWACS, so for the benefit of people like me, the executive summary is: 1) we have like thirty of these things total 2) they’re absolutely essential 3) we can’t make more

Swift 6.3 adds a :: operator for module disambiguation: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/ I dislike the syntax (too C++ for my taste) but it's finally possible to do stuff like: extension String { var count: Int { 3 } } print("Hello".count) // 3 print("Hello".Swift::count) // 5

Once you learn about the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, you start seeing it everywhere

(Whenever I talk about memoization, folks very kindly get in touch to tell me I made a typo. I did not, in fact, make a typo.)

all great songs are either about fucking god or about driving

TIL "post-quantum" cryptography is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

cant.stop.laughing

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...