Our resident in house iOS security hardware hacker @NinjaLikesCheez helped us create a hardware kit running embedded Swift that could afterwards be used as an smart-home accessory - this is what people made with it.

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It just occurred to me: now that we have raw identifiers in swift, nothing can stop me from pulling a ruby to indicate “this method returns a bool”.

I guess my coworkers can call me on my bullshit during code review, but considering how much of my other bullshit they’ve let through, what are the chances of that?

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What would you tell another woman in tech about Swift Island? More wisdom from Feli Bernutz.

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OpenAI published a set of Codex AI examples specifically for iOS and macOS: creating app intents for Siri and Spotlight, migrating to Liquid Glass design, scaffolding native apps, and debugging in the simulator. A solid starting point for AI-assisted development experiments.

🔗: https://developers.openai.com/codex/use-cases?category=ios&category=macos by OpenAI

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#SwiftLang odditity. When can't you trust string count? When you need to add a \r for reasons

let string1 = “12345\r”
let string2 = “12345\r\n”

string1.count == string2.count

Both are of size 6 which is not helpful when trying to build a network packet and need to count ALL the bytes. Grumble. I kind of remember this from way back when.

Why doesn't Xcode have a Swift template for a macOS screensaver project? So weird since Swift can be used. Maybe it's not integrated enough for Apple's liking? Or Apple doesn't have resources to hammer through any issues?

Here's a Swift 5 minimal screensaver project (not mine).

https://github.com/AerialScreenSaver/ScreenSaverMinimal

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