Joseph Heck
@heckj.bsky.social
Developer, Technical Writer, forever a student
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My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.
Friend looking for work - newish developer, good with C++, Python, Lua, and Javascript/HTML. He's getting started and looking for something to help pay the bills while in school. Any suggestions on where to help him look for work, either in #seattle or remote, contract gigs, or paid internships?
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Friend looking for work - newish developer, good with C++, Python, Lua, and Javascript/HTML. He's getting started and looking for something to help pay the bills while in school. Any suggestions on where to help him look for work, either in #seattle or remote, contract gigs, or paid internships?
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Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour?
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour?
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
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📢 #Swiftlang is headed to FOSDEM with a Swift pre-FOSDEM Community Event on Fri 30 Jan (12-6PM) in Brussels AND we have talks at various devrooms ! 🤗
Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
Things to know –
📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6
📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan
Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
Things to know –
📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6
📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan
Swift @ FOSDEM 2026
swiftlang.github.io
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
📢 #Swiftlang is headed to FOSDEM with a Swift pre-FOSDEM Community Event on Fri 30 Jan (12-6PM) in Brussels AND we have talks at various devrooms ! 🤗
Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
Things to know –
📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6
📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan
Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
Things to know –
📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6
📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan
My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container:
container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \
-v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \
swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build"
(runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)
container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \
-v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \
swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build"
(runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container:
container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \
-v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \
swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build"
(runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)
container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \
-v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \
swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build"
(runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)
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🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-...
#AdventOfCode
#AdventOfCode
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-...
#AdventOfCode
#AdventOfCode
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Curious about Apple's #Containerization Framework & Tooling projects? Catch us in ATL next week!
🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a...
🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a...
🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
Container Install Meetup, Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
The Cloud Native Atlanta Group is excited to host members of the Apple Containerization dev team for a fun KubeCon 0 Day event.
Join us on Monday November 10th before we k
www.meetup.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Curious about Apple's #Containerization Framework & Tooling projects? Catch us in ATL next week!
🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a...
🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a...
🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
the light is dramatic and moody in #seattle today. deep grey clouds, bright sections where the sun breaks through, and rain spatters across the windows refracting it all.
tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
the light is dramatic and moody in #seattle today. deep grey clouds, bright sections where the sun breaks through, and rain spatters across the windows refracting it all.
tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition
Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a monthly digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift worl...
www.swift.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
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My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...
Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...
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📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
The Swift and OpenTelemetry updates keep rolling in! The latest release of Swift Async HTTP Client github.com/swift-server... now includes automatic tracing support. Including a core path for web requests from Vapor or Hummingbird really steps up the observability for these services! #swiftlang
Release Async HTTP Client 1.29.0 · swift-server/async-http-client
What's Changed
SemVer Minor
Introduce built-in swift-distributed-tracing support by @ktoso in #857
Other Changes
Enable Swift 6.2 jobs in CI by @rnro in #859
Full Changelog: 1.28.0...1.29.0
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Swift and OpenTelemetry updates keep rolling in! The latest release of Swift Async HTTP Client github.com/swift-server... now includes automatic tracing support. Including a core path for web requests from Vapor or Hummingbird really steps up the observability for these services! #swiftlang
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New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
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It's been an incredible year for the conference. We had attendees from 6(!) continents come together for an amazing 3 days of workshops, talks and meeting each other face to face. Thank you to all the volunteers and speakers, it's been truly special
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's been an incredible year for the conference. We had attendees from 6(!) continents come together for an amazing 3 days of workshops, talks and meeting each other face to face. Thank you to all the volunteers and speakers, it's been truly special
Kind of exhausted and excited at the same time, winding down for the flight home from @serversideswift.info conference. A stellar #swiftlang community sharing & new voices adding into the mix this year.
@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!
@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!
October 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Kind of exhausted and excited at the same time, winding down for the flight home from @serversideswift.info conference. A stellar #swiftlang community sharing & new voices adding into the mix this year.
@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!
@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!
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Very sweet config library that'll change how we configure libraries across the ecosystem. No more hardcoded values; easy reloading and overriding etc. @czechboy0 #swiftlang
October 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Very sweet config library that'll change how we configure libraries across the ecosystem. No more hardcoded values; easy reloading and overriding etc. @czechboy0 #swiftlang
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If a team that lived in C and Go can build production container infrastructure in Swift, the language is ready for serious server-side systems work. - Eric Ernst, Apple #swiftlang #serversideSwift2025
github.com/apple/contai...
github.com/apple/contai...
GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creati...
github.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If a team that lived in C and Go can build production container infrastructure in Swift, the language is ready for serious server-side systems work. - Eric Ernst, Apple #swiftlang #serversideSwift2025
github.com/apple/contai...
github.com/apple/contai...
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It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
Most existing algorithms for replicated lists, which are widely used in collaborative text editors, suffer from a problem: when two users concurrently insert text at the same position in the document,...
arxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
The expanding ecosystem for Swift Server #swiftlang #serversides.swift
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The expanding ecosystem for Swift Server #swiftlang #serversides.swift
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This team is central to the Swift OSS experience. And it's in Canada!
Great opportunity for someone keen on software quality to join the team at Apple in Ottawa working on fun devtools!
jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
Tools and Automation Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Tools and Automation Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
jobs.apple.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This team is central to the Swift OSS experience. And it's in Canada!
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Exciting stuff coming out of the Swift ecosystem! 👇 Catch @czechboy0.dev at @serversideswift.info next Friday @ 16:15 if you want to learn more! www.serversideswift.info/schedule/
September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Exciting stuff coming out of the Swift ecosystem! 👇 Catch @czechboy0.dev at @serversideswift.info next Friday @ 16:15 if you want to learn more! www.serversideswift.info/schedule/
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Observability is super important for production systems - Moritz Lang and Si Beaumont are going to give us the low down on how to do it in Swift!
Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...
Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/
Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...
Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/
September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Observability is super important for production systems - Moritz Lang and Si Beaumont are going to give us the low down on how to do it in Swift!
Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...
Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/
Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...
Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/
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Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉
You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️
forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️
forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
Introducing Swift Configuration
Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...
forums.swift.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉
You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️
forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️
forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
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Ever wonder how to write safe and fast code to run on your server ?
Ever considered the open source Swift programming language ?
Maybe it's time
Ever considered the open source Swift programming language ?
Maybe it's time
The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem
Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released. I’ve been involved with Swift on the server since almost the very beginning, originally picking it up as a way to use a language I really enjoyed for backend development. In that time Swift has come a long way, with stability across platforms, a burgeoning ecosystem and many success stories. It’s matured into a great option for highly-scalable server applications, websites, and lambdas. In this post, I’ll cover how Swift:
www.swift.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Ever wonder how to write safe and fast code to run on your server ?
Ever considered the open source Swift programming language ?
Maybe it's time
Ever considered the open source Swift programming language ?
Maybe it's time
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Did just realize there is actually a BTree structure in the swift-collections package but it’s not released yet 😔
The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections
The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections
September 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Did just realize there is actually a BTree structure in the swift-collections package but it’s not released yet 😔
The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections
The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections