Robin Phillips

@erithacus
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iOS Developer. Campaigner for people first urban spaces. Former Architect (built environment). Father (one). Pro vaccination (happy to have a chat if you’re unsure)

It's #InternationalWomensDay, so there's no better time to celebrate amazing women in the Swift community. Here are some sites I heartily recommend:

- https://nilcoalescing.com from @natpanferova
- https://danijelavrzan.com from @dvrzan
- https://tanaschita.com from @tanaschita

Nil Coalescing

Nil Coalescing

Love this idea. Why can’t we do ambitious infrastructure?

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/the-loop-chris-williamson-high-speed-railway/

Chris Williamson proposes Neom-informed Loop to connect northern British and Irish cities

Chris Williamson has proposed linking nine northern British cities with The Loop – a raised high-speed railway informed by Neom's megacity The Line.

Dezeen

If you’re not yet using worktrees - you should! Marco Haber explains why they make it super easy to switch between branches without stashing: https://www.marcohaber.dev/blog/git-worktrees

Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Understanding Git Worktrees

A practical guide to Git worktrees: mental model, real scenarios, and why it matters for AI-powered workflows.

What’s makes this worse is problems with WiFi on MacBooks. Apple seems to have nailed it in iPhones - why has there been problems with MacBook WiFi for so long. Maybe we need the N1 chip.

A MacBook with a gigabit or faster Ethernet port and WiFi 7 (presumably via N1) would probably be an almost instant buy for me.

Having gone down something of a rabbit hole about Apple silicon Mac compatibility (incompatibility) with some USB Ethernet adapters, I can’t help wishing MacBooks still had built in Ethernet ports.

The promise of USB C being one port that does everything just doesn’t seem to be true. I don’t want to have to hunt down drivers and then battle through Apple’s security stuff to just connect a network cable at full speed.

Interestingly M1 Pro MacBook Pro works fine. MacBook Air (M3 and M4) don’t

Tip: don’t enable ‘fast roaming’ option on Ubiquiti WiFi if you use Sonos.

Wow today’s phone transfer has been exceptionally difficult. Every step of the way things went wrong. Ultimately left with lots of things still signed out or in a bad state.

Instagram was the worst. Initially looked like the account had been hacked - request for password reset seemed to notify some unknown email address.

Monzo now requires a video selfie to authorise using the app on a new device. Couldn’t get home from the store without Apple Pay. Very unfortuante.

Really enjoyed Donkey Kong Bananza. It grew on me the more I played. There’s something especially satisfying about smashing stuff

Anyone else noticed Xcode regularly crashing when writing a closure call? Eg, writing () after the symbol.

It doesn’t happen every time, but it happens fairly regularly and across different projects.

This is INCREDIBLE; the Macs alongside the text aren't showing screenshots, it's booting emulators so you interact with what's being written about, and even includes the NeXT https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/
Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.