Mastodawn

Two new tools on https://www.streamspigot.com/:
- Sky Feeder generates a feed of your Bluesky timeline
- Tweeter Feeder generates per-account feeds for that other site

Together with the existing Masto Feeder tool, this lets me follow everything in my feed reader, continuing to allow me pretend to live in 2011.

And there's a blog post with some behind-the-scenes details (spoiler: agents were involved) and some additional tips (finally found a use for the JSON Feed format): https://blog.persistent.info/2026/06/how-i-consume-bluesky-and-twitter-and.html

Jon Parise 1d ago

Colin Cornaby 2d ago

This is not the only call for open source SwiftUI I've seen so I'm not trying to pick on it.

But my understanding is that SwiftUI cannot become open source. It touches too many private APIs. Even on platforms like macOS it's no longer really a wrapper for AppKit, and it's reaching deeper and deeper into private frameworks.

There were similar calls to open source AppKit back in the day - and this was one of a few reasons that went nowhere.

https://macguru.dev/swiftui-should-become-open-source/

SwiftUI should become Open-Source

We have a running joke on the team. Whenever we’re fed up fighting a framework and can’t find workarounds, someone proposes sending one of us as an undercover intern to that framework’s team at Apple, to fix the bugs from within. Over the years this has targeted

Max Seelemann

Jon Parise 2d ago

Max Seelemann May 25

I've been thinking about SwiftUI and the frustrations around it a lot lately. This is my hot take: https://macguru.dev/swiftui-should-become-open-source/

SwiftUI should become Open-Source

Max Seelemann

Jon Parise 5d ago

disregard Joe Groff 6d ago

if Swift is serious about helping people write better software, i think we should tailor how the standard library handles common anti-patterns

Jon Parise May 26

Andrew Nesbitt May 25

GitHub Actions security in Python packages - a written version of the talk I gave at @pycon last week.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/25/github-actions-security-in-python-packages.html

GitHub Actions security in Python packages

Thank you Dr. Zizmor

Andrew Nesbitt

Jon Parise May 26

Information Is Beautiful May 25

How reliable is the US weather temperature forecast? Didn't know that about Florida.

Jon Parise May 25

Pushed a small update (version 1.2.0) to my Alfred Letterboxd Workflow. The network client should be even more resilient and just as quick as before.

https://alfred.app/workflows/jparise/letterboxd-search/

Letterboxd Search - Alfred Workflow

Search Letterboxd for films and people. By Jon Parise.

Alfred Gallery

Jon Parise May 23

Firefox Nightly May 22

The new JPEG XL image format support was activated today in Firefox Nightly
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/2040074

2040074 - enable image.jxl.enabled pref on nightly channel only

RESOLVED (tnikkel) in Core - Graphics: ImageLib. Last updated 2026-05-22.

Jon Parise May 23

Tom Lyon ✅May 22

Today: 53rd birthday of Ethernet!

https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/from-megabits-to-terabits-ethernet-celebrates-its-birthday/

Jon Parise May 22

Jens Ohlig May 20

Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology.

https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html

If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get nostalgic. Otherwise you probably have no idea what this is about (and that’s fine).

Web	https://www.indelible.org
GitHub	https://github.com/jparise

SwiftUI should become Open-Source

SwiftUI should become Open-Source

GitHub Actions security in Python packages

Letterboxd Search - Alfred Workflow

2040074 - enable image.jxl.enabled pref on nightly channel only

ZMODEM Protocol Description