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Mikaela Caron 🦄
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👩‍💻 iOS Engineer | Organizer of @iosdevhappyhour | Freelancer | 🎙️ Swift over Coffee | 🐘 @mikaelacaron@swiftdevs.space
Happy holidays everyone!

And a moment of silence for a domain I let expire, it’s in a peaceful place now.

Also some new exciting news coming in 2026!!
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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New in Swift 6.2.3, available both separately and as part of Xcode 26.2: a way to express enums that can add new cases over time without breaking compatibility: github.com/swiftlang/sw...
github.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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🚀 New at TelemetryDeck: Export for AI: Download your app’s event & parameter JSON + a TQL guideline, upload to your AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), and ask plain language questions — AI writes the queries for you. No more manual syntax!
telemetrydeck.com/blog/export-...
Your AI assistant wants to help with analytics – we just gave it the data it needs | TelemetryDeck
Download your app's structure and TQL guide to create custom analytics insights with ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant. No query knowledge needed.
telemetrydeck.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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⚙️ Swift Configuration 1.0 is here! 🎉 No more juggling environment variables, config files, and command-line flags separately. One unified, type-safe API to read configuration from any source, and swap providers without refactoring your code. More here... www.swift.org/blog/swift-c...
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Speechless. Art of Fauna won the App Store Award in Cultural Impact 🫶

Check it out here:
apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

#AppStoreAwards #ArtOfFauna
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🧡🧡🧡 love ya #swiftLang
🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: swift.org/blog/welcome

What's grown since—thanks to an incredible community of contributors—has been extraordinary. Here's to the next ten years. 🧡
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It's time to catch up on my leetcode skills! What are some tips you have when doing a leetcode style interview? And any sites you'd recommend for practice, other than leetcode itself?

I was also thinking of doing #AdventOfCode , I haven't done it in several years
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I'm available to hire as an iOS dev! 👋
I'm open to remote, in-person, or hybrid. Either in the US or Europe. Looking for full time, something new and exciting

I'm ready for a new adventure!

Reposts appreciated and DM's are open
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm available to hire as an iOS dev! 👋
I'm open to remote, in-person, or hybrid. Either in the US or Europe. Looking for full time, something new and exciting

I'm ready for a new adventure!

Reposts appreciated and DM's are open
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Already using TelemetryDeck's free tier? 📊

Our Black Friday sale (Nov 24-Dec 1) is perfect timing to upgrade! 40% off paid plans – because you already know TelemetryDeck works for you.

More: 👇
telemetrydeck.com/blog/black-f...
#Analytics #iOSDev #IndieHackers #Flutter #BlackFriday
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Starting now! #iOSDevHappyHour
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
See you tomorrow! #iOSDevHappyHour
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#iOSDevHappyHour this Saturday!! Come hang out with other developers
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Every year, at the end of the year, I contemplate making an expense tracker for my personal and business expenses as a freelancer.

This year is no different

Into the rabbit hole I go🫠
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Big shout out to @helm-app.bsky.social ( @hiddevdploeg.bsky.social and @polpielladev.bsky.social ) for offering this discount to help more women ship their own indie apps! ❤️
💫 Calling all women in tech! We're offering a 90% lifetime discount on Helm Pro to help you build, launch, and scale your apps. Because your ideas deserve to thrive.

Learn more and apply now → helm-app.com/blog/helm-fo...
Empowering All Women in Tech
Because we believe that a thriving app community is one where everyone has a fair chance to innovate, create, and succeed.
helm-app.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My talk from #ServerSideSwift is live!!

And I’m announcing a new website I’m still working on called LearnSwift .space to provide more content for the Swift community on using Swift outside of Apple platforms

LearnSwift.space
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’ve seen @polpielladev.bsky.social give several talks on Instruments, a whole workshop would be amazing! 👏👏
👀 Have you ever struggled to diagnose and fix a performance issue in your app? Or opened Instruments to understand how your app is performing but didn’t know where to start?

This workshop is for you — join me on the 3rd of December!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1821715834...
Improve your SwiftUI app's performance with Xcode 26
A hands-on introduction to Xcode 26 instruments tailored towards diagnosing and fixing SwiftUI performance problems.
www.eventbrite.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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We're featuring results of the summer GSoC projects over the next few days. Here's the first from Priyambada Roul, who worked on integrating Swiftly with the Swift VS Code extension: www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
Another successful year of Swift participation in Google Summer of Code recently came to an end, and we’d like to shine some light on the projects and work accomplished!
www.swift.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I've just published the 4th edition of macOS Apps Step by Step formerly titled macOS by Tutorials.

Read the details and check out a sample chapter at https://troz.net/books/macos_apps_step_by_step/

#macos #swift #swiftui #appkit #techbooks
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Indie developers now have more tools in their toolkit for building with Swift across platforms, thanks to Skip. Exciting to see a Swift community member building a business with the open source Swift SDK for Android. skip.tools/blog/skip-fu... #Android
Skip Fuse is now free for Indie Developers!
Since the launch of the official Swift SDK for Android on swift.org last month, we have been overwhelmed by a surge of interest in building cross-platform apps using a single shared SwiftUI codebase. ...
skip.tools
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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It's been a busy month for Swift, with lots of project updates to share. Here's a digest of the latest news: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM