Thick and Fluffy

I have returned from a four day expedition to the Desolation Wilderness in the northern Sierra, where I discovered Miles Chonkington, a truly thick Yellow-Bellied Marmot. Miles enjoys long strolls on the talus, snacking on wildflowers, and long cozy naps.

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Hear about new ways to interoperate between languages without fear in Safely mix C, C++, and Swift

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/311/

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Spring Warbler

On the West Coast, we’re blessed with a year-round warbler presence. Easterners have a bigger variety of warblers, but we have wintering warblers and summering warblers. With the arrival of spring, the Townsend’s Warblers have been replaced with Wilson’s Warblers, who are beginning to nest in and around the willows.

Stacking Owls

These owls were kind of enough to line up in roughly the same focal plane just before sunset.

Some really impressive work from my teammate Kevin here: https://forums.swift.org/t/the-future-of-serialization-deserialization-apis/78585

If you care about Codable and/or serialization in Swift in general, definitely check it out

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