WWDC keynote thoughts: Loved: - Improving (undoing) a lot of the bizarre Liquid Glass choices - The focus on performance & stability - Core AI and Foundation Models Framework improvements Liked: - A competent Siri - The Safari tab upgrades Meh: - The Siri chat demo - Most of the AI demos

Meet YouHQ - a reference guide for life's important details. For years my "system" for tracking life admin was a single, increasingly unhinged Apple Note. YouHQ solves that. Keep track of info about your home, vehicles, finances, media, and career, all in one place. www.youhq.app

It took 10 days, but app review finally reviewed & approved YouHQ for Mac! Release day tomorrow 😤

One week til #WWDC! One last time to #LetTimCook

4+ days later, the YouHQ macOS app has still not even entered review! The iOS and visionOS apps were both reviewed and approved days ago. I did not think macOS would be the one holding me back 😭

After 3 months of painstaking polish & bug fixes*, YouHQ has officially been submitted to App Review 👀 * I mostly just got very busy and was dreading doing the App Store screenshots

With #WWDC26 coming up soon, I'm clearing the decks for the apps I work on in my spare time. Lots of under-the-hood, structural updates for CatchUp, Hot Local Food, and Outrank. Modern SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, SwiftData/Core Data, and more Feels great! Check em out.

The new Atreyu album goes extremely hard. I'm hooked

This Xcode dialog always makes me chuckle

OpenClaw: Possibly useless. Still extremely fun. Why? A fun question to think through, so I wrote up my thoughts on it 👇

Computers have always been cool. I wrote about why they might be cooler than ever: www.ryantoken.com/blog/talk-to...

Just have to say I am SO glad the Stacktrace pod is back. Loving the new episodes cc: @johnsundell.bsky.social & @inside.bsky.social you guys rock.

I've been using Swift Cloud to write & deploy @swift.org on AWS for over a year. Love the project, but the compiled binaries for Lambda were large Finally contributed back this weekend: got zip size down from ~75MB to ~25MB A 66%+ reduction! Check it out: github.com/swift-cloud/...

The beta for my forthcoming app, YouHQ, is now open to the public! Track everything from home maintenance and vehicles to career history and where all of your money is, all in one place. Join the beta: testflight.apple.com/join/yyScpTR4 Learn more: youhq.app

I've been doing a *lot* of AI-assisted coding lately, but this weekend I explicitly went all manual again just to reset. So refreshing. Worked on YouHQ, built a simple CLI tool in Swift, spent some time on my zsh config, etc. Feels good

🚨 New app alert! YouHQ: Your life, organized. Where's all my money? What paint color did I use? When's my next oil change? I've kept this stuff in a messy Apple Note for years. So I built a native app to organize it. The beta is live on TestFlight. Drop me a line for access! 👇 www.youhq.app

🚨 New app alert! YouHQ: Your life, organized. Where's all my money? What paint color did I use? When's my next oil change? I've kept this stuff in a messy Apple Note for years. So I built a native app to organize it. The beta is live on TestFlight. Drop me a line for access! 👇 www.youhq.app

Wrote my own little MCP server today (in Swift of course). Great way to learn how MCP actually works! Fun project, and not nearly as weird or complicated as I anticipated.

Good morning. Happy 2026.

I cannot overstate how dramatically my opinion of Avenged's new song has changed Really did not like it at first and was bummed they even released it. Now I'm so hooked on this it's crazy music.apple.com/us/album/mag...

SO excited to debut Daysheets 2.0 for Mac. This is much of what I've been building since joining Daysheets in June. ✨ Overhauled UI ✈️ Flight Grid 🙋‍♂️ Personnel Grid 📅 Schedule Templates 🕒 Bumps 🏷️ Group Tags 🗓️ Multi Day 🐦‍🔥 All Swift & SwiftUI Watch the keynote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZv...

Big year for the #Hurricast! Thank you VERY much to everyone who listened to and supported the show this year 🙌

Very sad to listen to the final episode of Under the Radar with @marcoarment.bsky.social and David Smith. It's the only podcast where I've listened to every single episode, and it has helped shape my career. Thank you both for the insights, inspiration, & thoughtful discussion. I'll miss it

🚨🌀 NEW #HURRICAST 🌀🚨 Hoops is here! Tulsa Men's Basketball Head Coach Eric Konkol joins us to preview the 2025-26 season! We discuss: * All 11 new guys + the 4 returners * Why the schedule is the way it is * What success looks like * Listener questions & a lightning round Links 👇

Huge thanks to @craiggrannell.bsky.social from TapSmart for featuring CatchUp - Keep in Touch in their "7 apps for keeping in touch and friendship tracking" article 🤩 www.tapsmart.com/features/cat...

My apps (CatchUp, Outrank, and Hot Local Food) have all been updated with support for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass! I think they look much better with the new design. Download links in the thread 👇

After last year’s drought, the gods have once again blessed us with...... THE BATTLE OF THE COLOR-BASED WATER PHENOMENA 🌀🌊

Introducing Swift Configuration, a new way to share and manage configuration for Swift. It's a smarter way to keep secrets safe and separate develop/test/prod environments. More here: forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

This article by @jono.id goes extremely hard and I could not agree more www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

Need me a shirt with this @swift.org bird on it. Official Swift merch store when??

It was inevitable: ryantoken.com is now built with @swift.org via Ignite 🔥 Swift for the web is real, and Ignite by @twostraws.bsky.social made it beautiful. I've never been happier with my site. I wrote about Ignite and my experience with the rewrite: www.ryantoken.com/blog/swift-e...

Avenged Sevenfold's live cover of Pantera's Mouth for War remains one of my favorite covers of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Ci...

Life is good today: • Wake up early • Work from Winter Park • Camping all weekend with friends 🏕️⛰️🐶🎣

Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing... #Android

Finally had some time to watch a few WWDC sessions on this year’s updates to Swift Concurrency. The changes all look SO nice. Can’t wait to implement them. “Embracing Swift Concurrency” was particularly great 🤝

MEGA bummer that when you lose access to a private GitHub repo, your commits on those repos are removed from your contribution graph My graph looks like a barren wasteland now😩

Yes, the vibes are off at Apple. But I’ve never been more enthusiastic about writing Swift. Can’t wait to see what WWDC brings. #SwiftEverywhere #WWDC25

Ahem... 🆕

Finally got to implement something with the Swift OpenAPI Generator, and it is so incredibly nice Best part: none of the generated code needs to be committed since it runs at build time

Paul Hudson (@twostraws.bsky.social) has taught me most of what I know about Swift & iOS dev VERY fun to hear him & @mikaelacaron.com talk about my fun lil Swift on Lambda project to flash my Hue bulbs on the latest episode of Swift over Coffee 🙌 Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I have once again bought a new domain name 👀

Re-reading the @amazon.dynamodb.me book by @alexdebrie.bsky.social, and I think this is the primary reason why I keep coming back to Dynamo You HAVE to be thoughtful & intentional when designing your data model. That fact alone improves so much about building apps & pays huge dividends over time

I have never felt a stronger urge to go full-stack Swift. The tooling is either already there or very close. Time to manufacture some side project and really dig in

🚀 Join us for Swift Server Side Meetup #04 – April 28th, 2025! 💡 Infrastructure as Swift by Andrew Barba + Serverless Swift with Hummingbird & DynamoDB by Natan Rolnik 🕙 10am PT / 18h London / 19h Paris 🔗 www.youtube.com/watc...#04 #SwiftLang #SwiftOnServer

Stage Manager on Mac + multiple desktops is actually so nice. Most focused work environment I've ever used

I have finally seen the light on the View -> ViewModel -> Repository -> Data architecture pattern. Thank you @cocoatype.com - great stuff here: pado.name/blog/2025/02...

TIL you can put spacers in the macOS dock 🤯

I tried this today, and now the app I work on professionally has 2,047 fewer lines of code. Feels good!

I don't know why, but I have become basically allergic to reading blog posts/long-form content from my Mac If I see something I want to read, I save it to a reading list somewhere and pick it up on my iPad later 🤷‍♂️

Just completed the annual maintenance ritual for my personal website: * Svelte 4 -> Svelte 5 * Tailwind 3 -> Tailwind 4 * Vite 5 -> Vite 6 Down to 0 browser/console warnings and things are a bit snappier. Check it out at www.ryantoken.com Thanks for the inspiration @atp.fm!