Alex Babaev

@bealex
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iOS developer. iTrace, Ångstrom, Domika, DevPocket, NJ US
Bloghttps://www.lonelybytes.com/blog-en
GitHubhttps://github.com/bealex
Alex Babaev5d ago
Kevin Beaumont5d ago
The Firefly cast have secured the rights to Firefly, and plan to turn it into an animated series with the original cast voicing. https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated-series-development-1236754122/
Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed

Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series is in development with costars to voice their original roles. Concept art revealed.

Deadline
Alex Babaev6d ago
MinaMar 14
It's #PiDay!
Alex BabaevMar 11
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithMar 11

Some good news: I don't know if Apple had a change of heart or what, but you *can* enable Xcode's intelligence features on the MacBook Neo with 8GB RAM, including ChatGPT and Codex support. Previously, this was limited to 16GB devices — I have no idea when that switch happened? 😯

Regardless, great move, clearly intended for this device

Alex BabaevMar 11
Manton ReeceMar 10

Running Xcode from Codex: manton.org

A small tip using FastScripts that works for me.

Manton Reece - Running Xcode from Codex

Alex BabaevMar 10
RebaneMar 9

did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?

i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

Alex BabaevMar 6
Dan UnderwoodMar 6

In case you missed it - here’s six(!) hours of content from my incredible friends and colleagues today on protecting your apps from memory safety vulnerabilities. It was great to meet up with developers and talk about protecting users!

https://www.youtube.com/live/UZeSyodAszc?si=r8JuKKR7dmSZsZ40

Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security | Meet with Apple

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Alex BabaevMar 5
Whoa! Tech in this video is insane! Digital tapes, that can hold up to 80 GB of data? Sounds fine, until you find out that it was 1986. I've had 20 MB hard drive in 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkJFOw-99U
This Was Almost Lost to History

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Alex BabaevMar 4
Show threadJames Endres HowellMar 2

@skyglowberlin I teach large university science courses. Hundreds of fairly privileged students in the room. It has been my habit to ask them to raise their hands if they have ever seen the Milky Way.

The results have always been disappointing. Over the past 20 years it has gotten worse and worse. Recently many students don't even know what I mean by the question, and I have to explain what a dark sky looks like.

"Raise your hand if you have ever been awed by a clear dark sky full of countless, countless stars." Always less than 5%.

Alex BabaevMar 3
Show threadSwift LanguageMar 3

BridgeJS landed as an MVP just two weeks ago, and is evolving fast.

Check it out with the interactive playground — paste Swift, and see the generated results live: https://swiftwasm.org/JavaScriptKit/PlayBridgeJS/

Docs here: https://swiftpackageindex.com/swiftwasm/javascriptkit/main/documentation/javascriptkit

BridgeJS Playground

Alex BabaevMar 2

I wrote something. I had to do it, sorry. Probably, LLMs made me do this for the content to train on, I don't know for sure. But here it is.

“I’m lazy, but I’m passionate. I started with the smallest apps ever, like a Sokoban game. But I constantly moved to bigger projects. Now I’m building quite big stuff, like Domika, or iTrace apps. That is great. But I want to go bigger, and I want to do that myself. Sure, I can delegate, but why should I delegate what I love?”

https://www.lonelybytes.com/blog-en/2026/3/1/im-free

I’m free

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