Frank Lefebvre

@franklefebvre
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Freelance macOS, iOS & server-side Swift developer
On my way to #PragmaConference, my 8th (and last) conference of 2025. See you in Bologna!

My book on Foundation Models & MLX Swift is out!

To celebrate iOS 26 release, get 26% off! 🥂

https://academy.rudrank.com/product/ai?coupon=liquid-glass

Look Mom, I’m on WIRED!

So so so happy to be quoted about Liquid Glass, dropping a Dieter Rams principle as if I were an actual designer 😅

https://www.wired.com/story/liquid-glass-could-be-one-of-apples-most-divisive-system-designs-yet/

Workshop supplies have started to arrive! Shaping up to be a great few days!

Tickets here: https://www.serversideswift.info/tickets/

Swift these days can be used on a range of platform. At the conference Frank Lefebvre is going to run his awesome Embedded Swift workshop where you will learn (and get to take home!) how to write Swift for embedded platforms!

Speaker Profile - https://www.serversideswift.info/speakers/frank-lefebvre/
Tickets - https://www.serversideswift.info/tickets

I'm very happy to announce that I'll be a mentor at Swift Island this year. See you in Texel! 🏝️

There are still a few tickets available: https://swiftisland.nl/

Swift Island

Swift Island - An experimental Swift conference on an actual island.

Incredible talk by @pinkerstraws at #tryswift ! Congrats Sophie!

I was yesterday days old when I found out that holding down option when a file in the finder is selected will bring up a path that allows you to navigate back up.

This doesn’t happen if you have the Path Bar visible all the time (like I do), but if you don’t, it’s pretty darn handy.

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

GitHub - FFmpeg/asm-lessons: FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons. Contribute to FFmpeg/asm-lessons development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Back in Paris, after a great week in Finland for @ARCticConference where I had the pleasure to present my workshop.
Thank you all speakers and attendees, and huge shoutout to Jesse for organizing this awesome event. See you next year!