Khan Winter
@khanwinter.com
Computer Engineer, UMN24. WWDC2020 Scholar. Building @codeedit.app on GitHub. Blog at https://khanwinter.com.
Obsessed with distributed systems in Swift, and text editors.
Obsessed with distributed systems in Swift, and text editors.
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Khan Winter
@khanwinter.com
· Nov 10
Khan's Blog · New Blog, New Me
I redesigned my blog, in Swift.
khanwinter.com
I finally got my blog up and running! I wrote a little post testing it out, and talking about my experience using Swift and building my own site generator, check it out
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There’s also this on the other side of the street btw
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
There’s also this on the other side of the street btw
Lot of bad things happening now. This though, this was good
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Lot of bad things happening now. This though, this was good
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984
Trump defends the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Video footage does not support Trump's claims.
Video footage does not support Trump's claims.
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984
January 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are undefeated in 2026.
January 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
The Minnesota Timberwolves are undefeated in 2026.
I wish there was a way I could send a post to a feed operator to see more of. Then I could really redirect my algorithm where I want.
Eg I want to see wolves tweets but I haven’t seen any for a good few weeks. It’d be nice to go find a wolves tweet, hit ‘send to feed operator’, and select the feed
Eg I want to see wolves tweets but I haven’t seen any for a good few weeks. It’d be nice to go find a wolves tweet, hit ‘send to feed operator’, and select the feed
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I wish there was a way I could send a post to a feed operator to see more of. Then I could really redirect my algorithm where I want.
Eg I want to see wolves tweets but I haven’t seen any for a good few weeks. It’d be nice to go find a wolves tweet, hit ‘send to feed operator’, and select the feed
Eg I want to see wolves tweets but I haven’t seen any for a good few weeks. It’d be nice to go find a wolves tweet, hit ‘send to feed operator’, and select the feed
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i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on
Got to do a meet and greet with Jaden McDaniels. Hell yeah
Dude is way too cool
Dude is way too cool
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Got to do a meet and greet with Jaden McDaniels. Hell yeah
Dude is way too cool
Dude is way too cool
After a few days under regular use the results are in for my home server. This is an Optiplex 7060 with an i5 running my PDS, Samba backup server, and a few discord bots. After 99.5 hours it took 1.675 kWh, or about 0.0168kW/h
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
After a few days under regular use the results are in for my home server. This is an Optiplex 7060 with an i5 running my PDS, Samba backup server, and a few discord bots. After 99.5 hours it took 1.675 kWh, or about 0.0168kW/h
Has anyone written a script for pushing @standard.site publications where it checks against already published posts and publishes only new/updated ones?
I’m thinking as a step whenever I build my blog to be able to publish/update any new or updated posts
I’m thinking as a step whenever I build my blog to be able to publish/update any new or updated posts
January 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Has anyone written a script for pushing @standard.site publications where it checks against already published posts and publishes only new/updated ones?
I’m thinking as a step whenever I build my blog to be able to publish/update any new or updated posts
I’m thinking as a step whenever I build my blog to be able to publish/update any new or updated posts
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Swift Effect is now in public preview! it is an architecture-agnostic effect system that makes side effects (such as I/O, networking, randomness, concurrency) controllable, composable, and testable without forcing structural changes to your application code.
github.com/Alex-Ozun/sw...
#swiftlang
github.com/Alex-Ozun/sw...
#swiftlang
GitHub - Alex-Ozun/swift-effect: Algebraic Effects and Effect Handlers for Swift
Algebraic Effects and Effect Handlers for Swift. Contribute to Alex-Ozun/swift-effect development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Swift Effect is now in public preview! it is an architecture-agnostic effect system that makes side effects (such as I/O, networking, randomness, concurrency) controllable, composable, and testable without forcing structural changes to your application code.
github.com/Alex-Ozun/sw...
#swiftlang
github.com/Alex-Ozun/sw...
#swiftlang
Also my power situation is so cursed right now. I’ve only got one outlet in this room and it’s takin some HEAT
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Also my power situation is so cursed right now. I’ve only got one outlet in this room and it’s takin some HEAT
Now onto the server. After a few hours measuring without a lot of load we’re sitting at a comfortable ~11kWh / month.
Will update with more use over time. Eventually I’d like to get a battery pack to cover power outages and then move any app servers off the cloud onto this
Will update with more use over time. Eventually I’d like to get a battery pack to cover power outages and then move any app servers off the cloud onto this
January 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Now onto the server. After a few hours measuring without a lot of load we’re sitting at a comfortable ~11kWh / month.
Will update with more use over time. Eventually I’d like to get a battery pack to cover power outages and then move any app servers off the cloud onto this
Will update with more use over time. Eventually I’d like to get a battery pack to cover power outages and then move any app servers off the cloud onto this
Got a wattage meter to measure how much power my server is using but got distracted measuring my appliances
My toaster and microwave cost about $0.68 per month!
My toaster and microwave cost about $0.68 per month!
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Got a wattage meter to measure how much power my server is using but got distracted measuring my appliances
My toaster and microwave cost about $0.68 per month!
My toaster and microwave cost about $0.68 per month!
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Happy New Year, @swift.org crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.
If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!
If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!
What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition
Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.
www.swift.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Happy New Year, @swift.org crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.
If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!
If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!
Still developing my data sync package, Anchor. As an example of the simplicity I'm aiming for, here's a GRDB model with just a few macros and instantly I have a table of TODOs that'll be replicated across all my users devices with zero conflict resolution code required.
![@Syncable
struct Todo: Identifiable, Codable, PersistableRecord, FetchableRecord {
let id: UUID
@Sync var completed: Bool = false
@Sync(set: String.self) var tags: Set<String> = []
@Sync(string: String.self) var title: String = ""
@Sync(string: String.self) var description: String = ""
e
init(id: UUID) {
self.id = id
}
init(id: UUID, completed: Bool = false, tags: Set<String> = [], title: String = "", description: String = "") {
self.id = id
self.completed = completed
self.tags = tags
self.title = title
self.description = description
}
enum Columns {
static let id = Column(CodingKeys.id)
static let completed = Column(CodingKeys.completed)
static let tags = Column(CodingKeys.tags)
static let title = Column(CodingKeys.title)
static let description = Column(CodingKeys.description)
}
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkr4k2tscazu2d62xrwpxdup/bafkreiegfizmi7p2ns3dpf4wngylcdwaagnskmb42srdczkuzox6ktftna@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Still developing my data sync package, Anchor. As an example of the simplicity I'm aiming for, here's a GRDB model with just a few macros and instantly I have a table of TODOs that'll be replicated across all my users devices with zero conflict resolution code required.
Maybe someone here can help explain this thing I came across in Swift today. It's kind of unintuitive to me that you can pass `_: isolated (any Actor)? = #isolation` to an _actor's_ init. I thought the actor's init was always in *that actor's isolation region*, I didn't realize it was changeable.
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Maybe someone here can help explain this thing I came across in Swift today. It's kind of unintuitive to me that you can pass `_: isolated (any Actor)? = #isolation` to an _actor's_ init. I thought the actor's init was always in *that actor's isolation region*, I didn't realize it was changeable.
YES ANOTHER US CONFERENCE
▶️ It's time to push play on something new!
⭐️ @swiftsonicconf.bsky.social is a new iOS & Swift conference coming to Nashville November 20-22, 2026!
🎤 Community-driven, focused on real-world iOS and Swift stories, Sand shaped like a music festival.
👇🏻 More info in the replies!
⭐️ @swiftsonicconf.bsky.social is a new iOS & Swift conference coming to Nashville November 20-22, 2026!
🎤 Community-driven, focused on real-world iOS and Swift stories, Sand shaped like a music festival.
👇🏻 More info in the replies!
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
YES ANOTHER US CONFERENCE
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Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
Atmospheric Computing
Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.
www.pfrazee.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.