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unison-lang.org
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!

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Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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basicappleguy.com
Remembering I have free will and can absolutely buy a 2013 Mac Pro...
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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czechboy0.dev
Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

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
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swift.org
Introducing Swift Configuration, a new way to share and manage configuration for Swift. It's a smarter way to keep secrets safe and separate develop/test/prod environments. More here: forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
let config = ConfigReader(providers: [ EnvironmentVariablesProvider(), try await JSONProvider(filePath: "/etc/config.json") ]) let httpTimeout = config.int(forKey: "http.timeout", default: 60) print(httpTimeout) // prints 15
September 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
Mac Mini (5.25") vs Mac Mini 2024 (3.5")
A photo of the old style Mac mini with its wide 5.25 inch floppy drive. A photo of the new M4 Mac mini with its modern 3.5 inch floppy drive.
November 1, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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alex.zenla.io
I've been trolling through the macOS Tahoe man pages and I stumbled upon this.
When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting, until an account has been authenticated using a password. The macOS version of OpenSSH stores all of its configuration files, both system-wide and per-account, in the data volume. Therefore, the usually configured authentication methods and shell access are not available during this time. However, when Remote Login is enabled, it is possible to perform password authentication using SSH even in this situation. This can be used to unlock the data volume remotely over the network. However, it does not immediately permit an SSH session. Instead, once the data volume has been unlocked using this method, macOS will disconnect SSH briefly while it completes mounting the data volume and starting the remaining services dependent on it. Thereafter, SSH (and other enabled services) are fully available.
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Infinite Canvas – iOS and macOS Whiteboarding and Sketching App, Now Available https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/08/infinite-canvas-ios-and-macos-whiteboarding-and-sketching-app-now-available/
August 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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lookitup.baby
Tell me you don’t take care of children without telling me
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 12
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?

“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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soren.bsky.social
iOS notification indicator fills up the app
August 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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toddheberlein.bsky.social
Apple has pulled all of its sample code/projects into one place. All the WWDC 2025 projects are grouped at the top, but there are also groups for topics like RealityKit, ARKit, etc.

developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Sample Code Library | Apple Developer Documentation
Enhance and expand your knowledge of Apple technologies by exploring the full library of sample code projects.
developer.apple.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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avi.im
sorry not sorry but you gotta know this cursed SQLite fact too
Not only that, it does not throw any error if you give some random type. CREATE TABLE t(value TIMMYSTAMP); There is no TIMMYSTAMP type, but SQLite accepts this happily. SQLite has five types: NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB. Want to know something cursed? The type affinity works by substring match! CREATE TABLE t(value SPONGEBLOB) --- This is BLOB type! So yeah, this happens too: Note that a declared type of “FLOATING POINT” would give INTEGER affinity, not REAL affinity, due to the “INT” at the end of “POINT”.
July 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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swift.org
Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing... #Android
An illustrative screenshot of Swift on Android.
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Escape from Tutorial Hell is now available!

Read all about it and check out a free sample at https://troz.net/post/2025/new-book:-escape-from-tutorial-hell/

Buy it from Gumroad at https://sarahreichelt.gumroad.com/l/iqdry

If you bought the pre-release, you […]

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Escape from Tutorial Hell book cover
June 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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pointfree.co
Next week: We are hosting a live stream where we will preview some fantastic new features coming to our SQLite persistence library, including CloudKit sync and sharing, and answer your questions!

Submit your questions *today* 👇

www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...
Upcoming live stream: A vision for modern persistence
We are hosting a live stream on June 25th to unveil our vision for modern persistence. Learn how to seamlessly synchronize your app’s data across many devices, including sharing data with other iCloud...
www.pointfree.co
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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molly.wiki
“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”
dansinker.com dan sinker @dansinker.com · May 23
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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jweiss.io
SwiftNIO users, please make sure you update to swift-nio >= 2.80.0. There's a compiler bug in the Xcode 16.3's compiler that can make your program hang in a CPU spin loop. NIO 2.80.0 contains a workaround.
April 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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mweinstock.bsky.social
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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p-y.wtf
Chefs, remember: customers couldn't care less about your utensils, your kitchen discipline or how clever your recipe is.

They just want fast service, gorgeous food and a smooth experience. That's what matters.

...

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Oh. Wait.
cyrilmottier.com Cyril Mottier @cyrilmottier.com · Feb 11
Engineers, remember: users couldn’t care less about your tech stack, your architecture, or how clever your code is.

They just want fast products, gorgeous UIs, and a smooth experience. That’s what matters.
February 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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marchurboston.bsky.social
POLL: Is this Time Magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year?
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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kto.so
Only a few weeks till #FOSDEM! Make sure to plan to check out the #Swift track and/or the Swift talks the main and FreeJava tracks! Swift DevRoom: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

See you there! #oss
January 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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kto.so
We also have some cool Swift talks on the main track:

Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack: Lessons Learned from Swift fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

and I'm on the FreeJava track with: Foreign Function and Memory APIs and Swift/Java interoperability
fosdem.org/2025/schedul...
January 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM