We're hiring for a new Design Evangelist based in Cupertino! Design Evangelists work with app developers to design and build intuitive, delightful, state-of-the-art experiences for Apple platforms through 1:1 meetings, workshops, in-person events & videos.

We're looking for someone with deep design experience and excellent communication and storytelling skills. A big part of the role will be contributing to the Figma and Sketch design templates (Apple Design Resources).

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200641181-0836/design-evangelist?team=MKTG

Art of Flora is AVAILABLE NOW! 🌸

🦆 Sister app of the App Store Award and Apple Design Award wining Art of Fauna
🌱 A cosy puzzle game based on real historical plant art
🫶 20 % are donated to nature conservation
🦾 Big focus on accessibility
🧑‍🎨 Artist gallery
🗺️ Map view to discover the plants origins
🎻 Beautiful sounds
🧒Kids mode

Exclusive on the App Store - Link Below!

Please spread the word! 🙇‍♂️

It looks like the ⍼ saga has finally ended!

The unicode character '⍼' was a mystery first noticed in 2022: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html. It's in the Unicode standard as a mathematical symbol. But no one could find any examples of it having been used, and no one knew what it represented. It was like the only record of an extinct species, fossilized in the Unicode standard.

But now someone has found the document it originally came from! It represents the angle 'Azimuth', and the symbol probably comes from the path light takes through a sextant. https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

(@johncarlosbaez might appreciate this symbol!)

I landed some performance improvements for the Swift type checker recently, and I'm currently finishing up the next set of changes which I hope to merge soon.

There are two main improvements. The first is a new "disjunction pruning" optimization to help skip impossible overload choices, and the second set of improvements concern implicit conversions and the constraints they generate.

Swift/JS interop used to mean "JSObject", "JSValue", and runtime surprises.

BridgeJS changes that: annotate your Swift, get typed glue code in both directions. Compile-time safe. Zero manual boilerplate. 🧵