One of our favorite series is “Back to basics: Equatable and Hashable.” We explain the mathematical foundations of these protocols, and show that deviating from their semantics will introduce subtle bugs in our apps. Unlock this series (and more!): www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

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This is just a lovely api, turning swift strongly typed APIs into safe SQL queries: swiftpackageindex.com/pointfreeco/...

The best part of our SQLite + CloudKit synchronization tools is that they work seamlessly behind the scenes without you having to think about it. But, we don't hide the CloudKit metadata from you. It is possible to query for your CKRecords and CKShares directly from SQL!

Now that our SQLite + CloudKit public beta is out we can explain why we spent 4 weeks diving deep into SQL triggers. They are the primary tool we use to implement synchronization. They allow us to listen to everything happening in your database so that we can replay those changes to CloudKit.

It may seem too good to be true, but with just these few lines of code you will be able to generate an iCloud link that can be shared with others for collaboration on a record (and its associations). So, sharing a reminders list also shares all of its associated reminders. 🤯

This is wild. How is it able to do it in real time when flagship LLMs take several seconds to generate text? I assume not LLMs (world generation isn’t really language), but then why are LLMs so (relatively) slow?

Progress on multiple consumers of AsyncSequence! forums.swift.org/t/kickoff-of...

Why did the React Native developer cross the road? To prove they could run on both sides!

Have you heard about the new Observations tool coming to Swift 6.2? Did you know that it is unfortunately limited to iOS 26+? Well, luckily we've just back ported it to our Perception library so that you can use it in iOS 13+ and Xcode 16+: www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Next week we will push things even *further* by calling Swift code *from* SQLite! We will use these database callbacks to improve the ergonomics of our rewrite of Apple’s Reminders app. See you then!

More progress around Erlang/Swift interoperability forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡 ... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool

✨ New Senior Product Engineer role at @revenuecat.com I’m hiring TWO on the Monetization team ✅ 5+ years full stack experience ✅ Restful APIs and SQL ✅ Loves shipping good products Bonus points 👉 Python, Postgres, mobile dev, used RevenueCat jobs.ashbyhq.com/revenuecat/1...

This week we finished our popular “modern persistence” series. This gives you a deep understanding how to model your domains, migrate SQL databases, run complex queries, insert/update/delete data, and write tests! And this sets up for more advanced topics we have coming soon 👀

iPad got some _serious_ love this year!

Tabs in the Photos app are back. This might be the greatest thing Apple have ever done. Up there with giving us a physical escape key back.

Happy WWDC keynote day to all who celebrate! Wasn’t sure how I’d feel on the day, but so far it’s mainly been excitement 🤩

Redesigned Swift.org is now live! www.swift.org/blog/redesig... Thank you to the website workgroup and community members for contributing to these improvements.

We've had a major breakthrough in the most requested feature of our SwiftData alternative: SharingGRDB. More details coming soon... 👀

Did you know that the BBC serves almost all of its web traffic using @elixirlang.bsky.social ? #elixirlang

Let’s recap: BBC uses custom Elixir DSLs to serve 📈 600m+ monthly unique views 💻 12 servers (down from 100 🧑‍💻 7 #elixirlang engineers! Mind blowing! 🤯

Another fun bug! rambo.codes/posts/2025-0...

How to correctly initialize a view model in SwiftUI: chris.eidhof.nl/post/swiftui... (for when the view needs ownership of the view model).

Do yoga and lift heavy weights. Most of the pain in your body will come from the sheer length of inactivity you have accrued. When you were 18 you simply didn’t have time to sit in an office chair for 15 years, but now you have done so.

Our team at RevenueCat is hiring a Senior iOS SDK Engineer to join the Monetization & Paywalls team! Fully remote in the Americas or EMEA regions. RevenueCat powers $7B+ in in-app purchases annually for apps like ChatGPT, Notion, and VSCO. jobs.ashbyhq.com/revenuecat/1...

I’ve run it into the phase “don’t fight the framework” a number of times and I’m sorry but have you ever met a framework?

Announcing a toolkit that provides a SwiftData-like experience to SQLite: SharingGRDB with StructuredQueries. www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Don't mind this, just connecting from Swift acting as an Erlang node to an Elixir node, encoding a closure, and running that closure from Swift in Elixir. #ElixirLang

to people happy that trailing comma's in swift are going to reduce the work for reordering function parameters, I am sorry to present to you: "for", "and", and "with".

Yes! We put an emphasis on understanding SQL first and foremost, and then only after that do we try to create a nice Swift API to build SQL queries. In our opinion it's the best way to learn SQL! Here's the full series so far: www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Using Swift enums in iOS apps: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Using Swift enums in versioned SDKs: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

loving the swift community rally around #swiftlang as the main hashtag for the language itself. it is so hard sifting through taylor swift and the financial network to engage with yall 😂 i think #swiftlang and platform would be cool to see too like #swiftlang #linux spread the word :)

Vibe coding: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Vibe debugging: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Year in Monzo. One of the highlights of everyone’s year. Nothing unites the nation more than everyone getting annoyed at us for revealing how much they spent on Deliveroo. So we had a thought; imagine if we did this more often. Move over, Year in Monzo. Say hi to Months in Monzo. Coming soon.

“Last” update to my app Huck. Parking this for a while as I move onto other projects. It’s still available on the App Store though - give it a try! bit.ly/gethuck

The most impactful Swift content I’ve ever consumed is authored by @alexozun.com Please visit his site, swiftology.io and read/watch everything. It has completely changed the way I approach writing Swift. You too will be better off after learning from Alex!

We're hiring our first Support Engineer at Superwall! 🤑 $120,000/yr 🌎 Global Remote or In-Person (NYC) ✨ Side projects WELCOME & ENCOURAGED 👩‍⚕️ Comprehensive top-tier benefits 😱 We PAY YOU to interview ($58/hr) Please email your resume to [email protected]

This is an awesome post about how Things (the todo list that I love) moved their entire backend to #swiftlang and never looked back :-) Talk on that from serverside conference last year: https://www.serversideswift.info https://www.swift.org/blog/how-swifts-server-support-powers-things-cloud/

This is an incredibly powerful library that simply would not have been possible to build in Swift from a year ago. We are very excited to dive deep into this in our next series of episodes!

The vision for improving approachability of #SwiftLang data-race safety is coming to life! Async functions run on the caller’s actor by default: forums.swift.org/t/se-0461-ru... A mode to infer MainActor by default: forums.swift.org/t/pitch-cont...

Save the date: We are hosting a live stream 1 week from today. We’ll cover a lot of interesting topics and be answering your questions, which you can immediately submit today by joining chat and clicking "Ask": www.pointfree.co/live

7 years ago today we launched Point-Free! What have been some of your favorite episodes, open source libraries, or moments since we launched? www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

SQL is a powerful language and it's a bummer to put any abstraction over it that prevents access to all of its features. We are building tools that allow you to embrace a bit of abstraction where needed, but you always have access to all of SQL.

Turns out that for people with thick weegie accents, like me, saying “Hey Theory” has a pretty much 100% success rate at waking Siri vs like 50% when I try to butcher “Hey Siri”. Nice.

Some say that trying to use Swift Data outside of a view (such as an @Observable model) is "fighting the framework". But the fact that @Query does not work outside of views is only a limitation of Swift Data, and an unneeded one. We build a tool similar to @Query, but it can be used anywhere!