Alex Hadfield 

@AlexHadfield
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Apple fan, iOS App Developer, working at Hoth Technologies, Taylor Swift fan, and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Website:https://www.AndrTech.com
@samhenrigold Is there maybe a Swift Package that adds this capability?
Family Sharing in iOS 26.4 No Longer Forces Adults to Share a Payment Method https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/18/ios-26-4-purchase-sharing-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Family Sharing in iOS 26.4 No Longer Forces Adults to Share a Payment Method

With iOS 26.4, Apple has made a small but useful change to the way that Family Sharing works. Each adult member of the family can now use their own...

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@jimniels I’ve seen this on iOS sometimes too.
@stroughtonsmith When I was in High School, I started learning iOS Development and using Xcode via a macOS virtual machine on a Windows 7 machine. It was so slow. 😭 😂
love when codex gives a time estimate of a few weeks, then you just say "do it" and it's done in 8 minutes
@caseyliss Even the system emoji keyboard doesn’t work. 😭😂
@jelly The companies I’ve worked for typically support N and N-1.
New in iOS 26.4 is the LinkMetadata API! A Swift-y addition to the LinkPresentation framework to make it easier than ever to get metadata from URLs. And it also fully supports Codable, Transferable, and App Intents! Check it out! https://developer.apple.com/documentation/linkpresentation/linkmetadata
LinkMetadata | Apple Developer Documentation

A structure containing metadata about a URL.

Apple Developer Documentation

Reading through the System Prompts / Hints that Xcode 26.3 injects into the agents is fascinating..and honestly is just helpful documentation to read…essentially concise examples of best practices and implementations recommendations.

Reminds me of the old programming "Guides" which apple used to publish alongside the main documentation which were more focused on how to use the API, than what it was.

There're in: Xcode.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDEIntelligenceChat.framework/Versions/A/Resources

📢 PSA: Scripts are out, modules are in. If you are still using scripts, you're probably doing it wrong.

Modules are MUCH more than just syntax for import/export. They execute #JavaScript completely differently and BETTER than scripts—better scoping rules, instant strict mode, a neat dependency resolution algorithm… everything you can think of is better served by a module than by a script.

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