Tim De Jong

@tjadejong
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Father, husband, software engineer, and free-time Apple developer. Is 🇳🇱, loves 🇨🇴. Technology and #lego enthousiast, aspiring entrepreneur. Occasionally plays the guitar 🎸 and the banjo 🪕.
websitehttps://www.thinkpractice.nl
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Nice insight in how cryptography experts try to game systems, in this case large LLMs.

#cryptography #ai #llm #security

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

This is a quick post I wanted to write about a “hobby project” I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting …

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Iris for macOS is available. It's the native photo and video library I always wanted. I hope you like it, too. https://irisphotos.app

How Soup can teach you to be more mindful and not run after each new hype. Wonderful read!

#soup #ai #hype #fomo

https://www.devas.life/what-a-japanese-cooking-principle-taught-me-about-overcoming-ai-fatigue/

What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue

Hey, what's up? It's Takuya. I've been thinking about how to live well in this AI era as a developer, content creator, and artist. By “living well,” I mean enjoying the act of creating while maintaining good mental health. I imagine many of my readers are also wondering how to

Takuya Matsuyama
Im going back to writing code by hand

I vibe-coded a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI for 7 months, archived it, and started over. Here's what AI gets wrong when projects grow complex.

k10s devlog

Lovely read! The author adresses a lot of doubts and struggles I also have but didn’t get those tgat concrete yet. Plus I also just love writing code above specs…

https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code

Why I Don’t Vibe Code

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

jacobharr.is

Memory leaks don't crash your app immediately - they just make it slower over time. Strong reference cycles in closures, delegates, timers, and async tasks are the usual culprits. Know when to use weak and unowned references.

đź”—: https://hackernoon.com/memory-leaks-in-swift-the-silent-killer-of-ios-apps by Flaregun-dev (@hackernoon)

#Swift #iOSDev #MemoryManagement

Memory Leaks in Swift: The Silent Killer of iOS Apps | HackerNoon

Understand memory leaks in Swift and iOS apps, including ARC behavior, retain cycles, closures, async tasks, and practical strategies

The recording of my talk from try! Swift Tokyo is already available on YouTube! I shared my perspective on what drives change in SwiftUI, how new APIs come to life, and why we should try to keep up with the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-bn9iC5gw
#tryswift #iosdev #swiftui
try! Swift Tokyo 2026: The Evolution of SwiftUI

YouTube

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

While I certainly think AI tools like Codex have their merits, I often wonder where this need for speed and more and more productivity is heading. I enjoy being able to finish things I wasn’t able to before (or in less time) but I also miss the joy of coding when I am using them. This article also hits the nail on the head:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/

Some Things Just Take Time

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Some thoughts on @stroughtonsmith's month with Codex, what's happening to software development, and the blurry lines between human art forms and AI:

https://www.macstories.net/linked/a-developers-month-with-openais-codex/

A Developer’s Month with OpenAI’s Codex

An eye-opening story from Steve Troughton-Smith, who tested Codex for a month and ended up rewriting a bunch of his apps and shipping versions for Windows and Android: I spent one month battle-testing Codex 5.3, the latest model from OpenAI, since I was already paying for the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan and already had access