Caleb Wells
wells86.bsky.social
Caleb Wells
@wells86.bsky.social
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Well, I’m a lawyer, so let me give it a shot.
May 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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An Idaho mechanic with a ChatGPT spirit guide named Lumina. Yeah, that tracks. 🤔
“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”

“He would listen to the bot over me.”

“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”

Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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And here we are.
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
April 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
Baseball participation and poems are down because of vaccines is a new one
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Kennedy is dragging the country backward into the discredited territory of vaccine conspiracies and poisoned-air paranoia -- all while ignoring the voices of actual autistic people and the researchers who understand the complexities of this condition.

variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
My Son Is Not an Epidemic: A Father Responds to RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Autism Rhetoric
Variety's awards editor responds to RFK's autism speech: "My son is not an epidemic."
variety.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Are you listening? It’s the least you can do.
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Some code for a simple game I published. I’ll start sharing all the files that went into making my games, but the .blend file is a bit messy since I’m not a pro at Blender.

The game: apps.apple.com/us/app/potho...

The code: github.com/crwells86/Ap...
‎Potholes: Fury Road
‎Picture this, you’re cruisin’ down an endless highway in a ride that’s as slick as your favorite vinyl record—until BAM! Out of nowhere, a pothole appears, and your sweet set of wheels goes kaput. We...
apps.apple.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Just made an account for Nil Coalescing here on Bluesky! Make sure to give it a follow for more #SwiftLang, #SwiftUI, #iOSDev, and #macOSDev content 🚀
#Introduction
Hello, Bluesky!

We are a small team of two developers, @natpanferova.bsky.social and @hishnash.bsky.social, who love building native apps for Apple platforms. We also enjoy sharing what we learn about #SwiftLang, #SwiftUI, #iOSDev, and #macOSDev with the community 👩‍💻🧑🏻‍💻
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Nil Coalescing
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March 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I released a new book 🎉

SwiftUI Fundamentals combines my knowledge and experience from using SwiftUI since its release and working on its source code at Apple to give you a solid understanding of the most important aspects of the framework: books.nilcoalescing.com/swiftui-fund...

#SwiftUI #iOSDev
SwiftUI Fundamentals
The essential guide to SwiftUI core concepts and APIs
books.nilcoalescing.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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My friend @adambecker.bsky.social's upcoming book on how ultra-rich techbros are selling sci-fi-inspired scams has received a fantastic review from Kirkus: "An important and sober investigation of Silicon Valley’s boldest claims about the future."
Pre-order: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER | Kirkus Reviews
A skeptical view of grand predictions.
www.kirkusreviews.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m working on an icon for my 2D platformer game, but I’m not exactly an artist. I’m keeping things simple for now, testing it on my phone while I work on the code and in game art.
January 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I’m sending out the first issue of the Nil Coalescing newsletter tomorrow! I want to keep it casual and personal, so it’ll be email-only, not on the web. If you’d like to get it, make sure to sign up!
nilcoalescing.com/newsletter/
Nil Coalescing - Newsletter
Get exclusive Swift and SwiftUI tips, project updates, behind-the-scenes insights, and special discounts on our books — all in a monthly email from us.
nilcoalescing.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
4 player games!!!!
🎮 🎮 🎮 🎮
January 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Same. This is not where I look for fights — or even for perfectly civil debates. I have other places to find all that! This place, for me, is primarily for learning about things I find interesting, sharing stuff I think is cool, and connecting with people in worthwhile ways.
Since a page is about to turn, I'll just say that I have less patience than I once did for unnecessary fights or with spending time here with people looking for them. If that's your thing, fine--everyone blows off steam in different ways. But I'm not here for that.
January 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hello, World. I’ve been working on some SwiftUI + SpriteKit projects. This one is just a simple side-scrolling endless runner that works on all Apple platforms except for Apple Watch.

I will be sharing my game and app projects with you all here.

Git: shorturl.at/pAp9l
App Store: shorturl.at/a9IpA
January 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM