Looking for #ttrpg gaming groups in #Paris, #France. My son is attending uni there. He’s a big old nerd (no idea where he got that from 🤓) and not super outgoing. He has tried to find gaming groups/stores/etc. but no luck so far. So I figured I’d ask the for help here. Please RT. Thanks!

Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Apple published a plugin for Godot that lets your Godot games get rendered by RealityKit: github.com/apple/plugin...

So happy to see the details (github.com/apple/truety...) behind the #swift rewrite of the interpreter; performance doesn't just match, it exceeds — and gets Swift's safety features. Not that I need a interpreter myself, but seeing how the code goes together — what's been used — is really cool!

GitHub - apple/truetype-hinting-interpreter-example: Swift TrueType Interpreter

Swift TrueType Interpreter. Contribute to apple/truetype-hinting-interpreter-example development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Cohen@airspeedswift.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What makes interpreters a pain in the^W^W^W interesting challenge for safety and performance is they defeat lots of tricks compilers can pull to mitigate the cost safety e.g. if the program you're interpreting is what runs the loop indexing into the array, you can't statically hoist those checks.

Vapor 5, alpha - release cut live by @0xtim.bsky.social! 🎉 #swift #vapor

📣 ATTN Bay Area — we’re bringing the Container Install Meetup to you! Bring your laptop for hands-on activities & learn about the latest updates. WHO: Apple Container maintainers + YOU 🫵 WHAT: meetup + lunch 🥙 WHEN: Wed Jun 10 @ 12-2 PM 🕛 WHERE: CommunityKit @ Cupertino 🍎 luma.com/rh1k2tpy

Container Install Meetup · Luma

The Containerization Framework and container tooling projects enable developers to create and run Linux container images directly on their Mac, with a strong…

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If you’re coming by #communitykit or WWDC in San Jose and want to say hi, or get a little hands out with Apple Container and the amazing crew that assembled that technology, stop by luma.com/rh1k2tpy?tk=... - we’d love to see you!

Container Install Meetup · Luma

The Containerization Framework and container tooling projects enable developers to create and run Linux container images directly on their Mac, with a strong…

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🏗️What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: www.swift.org/blog/buildin...

I also uploaded a template to make it trivial for anyone to deploy a CRUD server in Swift, for obvious reason - it was always supposed to be this easy. railway.com/new/template...

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to

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My thoughts (and 9 tips) from my journey so far in learning how to use agentic coding tools.

🚀 Swift Rockies tickets are LIVE. This is the conference where Swift meets the physical world. I'm showing you how to take Swift beyond iOS: servers, Android, embedded devices. Your Swift skills can power anything. Don't miss it: swiftrockies.com/joannis-work...

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

The most challenging aspect of software development has been the lack of documentation.

The best thing I ever made

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 6mo ago

Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE: End the roving patrols and racial profiling. Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police. Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The talk is from a number of months back, but I really like the insights and viewpoints into the design principles, where it's worked, where it hasn't, and future challenges with building Swift - www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqK... (it's ~1 hour long)

On Progressive Disclosure in Swift - Doug Gregor - Swift Craft 2025

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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.

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?

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.

📢 #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

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)

🎄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

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

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

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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.

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

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...

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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...

Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen

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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