Benjamin van den Hout

@Smorkolama
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Dad, Nerd, #LEGO enthousiast, #iOS software engineer. Check out BeerDiary, my app for collecting and rating all the beers you’ve tasted 🍻
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This is from 1975.

TGIF: Thank God It’s Friday.

TINGIM: There Is No God, It’s Monday.

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service

TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing it all with a Swift-based infrastructure.

Swift.org
Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky

https://birchtree.me/blog/daft-punk-stevie-wonder-pharrell-nile-rogers-get-lucky/

Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky

I don't have anything to say other than you're welcome for finding the best 5 minutes of YouTube you'll see today.

Birchtree

The following article shows how to morph a sheet directly from a button in a SwiftUI app:

https://serialcoder.dev/text-tutorials/swiftui/morphing-sheets-out-of-buttons-in-swiftui/

#SwiftUI

The following article talks about problems you may encounter when converting existing code from ObservableObject to the Observation framework :

https://captainswiftui.substack.com/p/objectively-better-observably-trickier

#SwiftUI

Objectively Better, Observably Trickier

The Observation Framework is great... once you figure out how it actually works

Captain SwiftUI

No excuses anymore! This is the article you need to make money as an indie developer 💸 🙌🏻

In my longest and most complex to write article to date, I explain step by step how to set up subscriptions with different levels of service and unlock content in a centralized, easy to maintain and generalized way.

This is the blueprint you can use for your SwiftUI app to finally jump over (1/2)

#BuildInPublic #Dev #IndieDev #iOS #iOSDev #Swift #SwiftUI #CreateWithSwift #TechArticle #Tutorial #Article

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

The Guardian

It's been two years since I left Twitter. And finally, I managed to set up a website and I started to recover some of my favourite lost threads from back then.
In case you're in for a long read, here's from 2022 and in its original thread format: #MountainMetro

https://www.dominicstucki.ch/mountainmetro

#MountainMetro

Back in twitter times, I used to portray Swiss railway lines in a thread every now and then. The most successful of all these threads was undoubtedly the one which basically waited on my doorsteps for…

Dominic Stucki