So it started with SwiftBySundells macro to make non optional URL's, but was frustrated that (quite reasonably) you can't escape the sandbox in a macro to check if the supplier url string is actually a working web site. Then I saw Stewart Lynch's post where he claimed URL validation .

@useyourloaf.com Helper for Text from an optional value that is not String: 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍: 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 { 𝚏𝚞𝚗𝚌 𝚒𝚏𝚗𝚒𝚕(_ 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐: 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐) –> 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 { 𝚒𝚏 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 { 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐(𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏) } 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 { 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 }}} var c: 𝙸𝚗𝚝? 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚝(“c 𝚒𝚜 \(𝚒.𝚒𝚏𝚗𝚒𝚕("𝚗ot set“))”)

How the fuck is Bill Gates' blog this cool? 🤯www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

Since moving back to UK keyboards I’ve really missed the ease of hitting the # key, esp. in Xcode. I bought a keychron K3 max (ISO) keyboard, but that didn’t work until... I changed the Keyboard Input type to “British PC” and it’s like magic. Bonus: working on the MacBook Air

Random walks through Swift documentation occasionally surprise you. Today it was attributes (link below). “@dynamicCallable” is new to me.. and allows you to call an instance of a type as if it was a function. #filedForFutureReference docs.swift.org/swift-book/d...

Since joining BlueSky, mostly with the intent of following escapees from X land, I have been bombarded with political, US centric posts. Is there a way to remove them? (I keep clicking “suggest less”, but clearly the algorithm isn’t listening.. :(