Joannis Orlandos
@joanniso.bsky.social
Dad, Swift Nerd and consultant - OpenSource Swift (Hummingbird, Swift Server, Android, Build & Packaging Workgroups). CTO @ wendy.sh
🏎️ While Swift was originally created for iOS/macOS apps, many might not realize that at Apple we run Swift on the server to operate massive services, on Linux, serving billions of requests per day. Check out our VP's keynote at AWS re:Invent for details youtu.be/JeUpUK0nhC0?...
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown
YouTube video by AWS Events
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This is hilariously cool, I need to dust my old NDS off I guess. github.com/MillerTechno...
GitHub - MillerTechnologyPeru/swift-embedded-nds: Embedded Swift for Nintendo DS
Embedded Swift for Nintendo DS. Contribute to MillerTechnologyPeru/swift-embedded-nds development by creating an account on GitHub.
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We’ve released a command line tool to help with Hummingbird application development hummingbird.codes/news/hb
Hummingbird (HB) command line tool
We are really pleased to announce the release of "hb" our new command line tool for supporting Hummingbird application development.
hummingbird.codes
Line go up! @hummingbird.codes is gaining traction in recent days - and for good reason! It's being used in businesses of all scales - and we're releasing many new features for everyone!
I've been working on fast JSON parsing in #swiftlang for ages now - and made a little library to get rapid JSON decoding from schema.json files! forums.swift.org/t/swift-json...
Swift-json-schema: An Efficient Codable Alternative
I'd like to share swift-json-schema, a SwiftPM build tool plugin that generates Codable Swift types from .schema.json files (JSON Schema Draft 2020-12) at compile time - with an optional fast path tha...
forums.swift.org
We're sponsoring swiftinit.org - an opensource documentation (search) engine for Swift! Go try it out!
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Introducing swift-ai. One API for chat, embeddings, images, agents & RAG. Swap Apple Intelligence ↔︎ OpenAI ↔︎ Anthropic ↔︎ Gemini ↔︎ Mistral ↔︎ Ollama in a single line — every provider hides behind the same protocols. Server-side compatible! github.com/Dean151/swif... #Swift #iOSDev #ServerSideSwift
GitHub - Dean151/swift-ai
Contribute to Dean151/swift-ai development by creating an account on GitHub.
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That's awesome. I'm starting to research if I can write apps in Swift for the PocketBook. Maybe @joanniso.bsky.social has ideas
Late is just a concept :D e-ink gizmos are very addictive! I got this tiny little thing a while back - you can flash the OS to an open source one if you want to use it for reading or code your own things on it.. and it has a MagSafe circle 😍 mstdn.social/@iamkonstant...
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Attached: 1 image It can MagSafe to the iPhone
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Afraid you missed something on AWS last week? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. 😎 BYOM for RDS SQL Server, IoT SDK for Swift, and more.
AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more
AWS Week in Review - June 8, 2026
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I'll be in Tokyo coming July for the Embedded Swift meetup! luma.com/isvrubx6
Embedded Swift Tokyo #1 · Luma
With the advent of Embedded Swift, the ecosystem has expanded far beyond traditional application development, making its way into microcontrollers and edge…
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SwiftNIO just updated with a couple vulnerability patches. Make sure you bump the version to 2.100.0! One of the vulnerabilities is one I found, and can crash some backends remotely.
We launch Embedded Swift Tokyo in July 16th, and invite @joanniso.bsky.social from WendyLabs. which create robot with Swift! luma.com/isvrubx6
Embedded Swift Tokyo #1 · Luma
With the advent of Embedded Swift, the ecosystem has expanded far beyond traditional application development, making its way into microcontrollers and edge…
luma.com
🆕Looking to add a fast, scalable, resilient, in-memory key-value store to your Swift project? Valkey just shipped a production-quality Swift client today: valkey.io/blog/valkey-... @valkeyio.bsky.social #server
Valkey: Valkey-swift - Announcing 1.0 Release
We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of valkey-swift, a client library for Valkey written in Swift.
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SwiftCrossUI v0.5.0 is out now, with a very basic Android backend 👀 Using the Android backend requires using the main branch of Swift Bundler (which supports compiling Swift apps to Android APKs and managing Android devices/emulators). github.com/moreSwift/sw...
Release v0.5.0 · moreSwift/swift-cross-ui
The headline feature of this release is the new AndroidBackend (which is still in a very early stage; so far most of what I've done has been laying the groundwork). My focus has mostly been on Swif...
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Need authentication in your Swift backend? Paul Toffoloni has you covered in this new article on JWTs in Swift: swiftonserver.com/2025/jwt-kit/
Introduction to JWTs in Swift - Swift on server
Learn how to use JWTs in Swift to secure your API
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WendyOS currently supports the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, and the Raspberry Pi 5. We're adding more platforms to the list too! What hardware are you most eager for? 👇
If you are using an AI assistant to contribute to Hummingbird we have a policy for that now hummingbird.codes/news/ai-policy
Our AI Policy
As AI assisted coding becomes more prevalent in open source, we have established a policy for AI usage in contributions to Hummingbird.
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Very excited to have met the amazing Swift community in Japan. They are extremely curious and enthusiastic for Swift on more platforms! Between, during and after the conference talks, I've spent over 16 hours just talking with people about Swift on Android, Server and Embedded!
Mark July in your calendar, because Swift Rockies is coming to Calgary! I'll be giving a workshop for Swift on Embedded systems - and a talk as well ❤️ See you there! swiftrockies.com/joannis-work...
Building Local AI Systems with Swift (WendyOS) | Swift Rockies 2026
Join Joannis Orlandos for a hands-on workshop on Building Local AI Systems with Swift (WendyOS) at Swift Rockies 2026. Learn to build AI-powered edge devices. July 24th, 2026.
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Big Hummingbird 2 improvement 🎉 We've managed to speed up your typical HTTP response by 25%, by batching writes into the network stack. This change, while small, increases the req/sec by 25%, and reduces the latency to a response by the same 25%. All that at 165K req/sec, in only ~20MB of RAM
I'm sorry if you're not yet using Swift on Server - 'cause you're missing out on an amazing community! People are super motivated, collaborative and friendly! ❤️ Couldn't wish for more.
☕️ New update to the Swift Java interop tooling, with plentiful improvements for use in both server and Android scenarios: github.com/swiftlang/sw... #java
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Swift is more than Apple platforms! We support Android - and even Backend development! Become a full-stack dev with Swift today: github.com/hummingbird-...
GitHub - hummingbird-project/hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift - hummingbird-project/hummingbird
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The folks working in Swift-Java are doing tremendous work! Java interoperability is looking like a solid pillar for Swift! github.com/swiftlang/sw...
Release 0.2.0 · swiftlang/swift-java
This is a really great release, thank you for all the work to all contributors. Highlights Improvements in generic handling, especially around Tuples #657 and even labelled tuples #670 Specializat...
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🆕 The Swift extension is now live on the Open VSX Registry, enabling first-class Swift support in Cursor, VSCodium, AWS Kiro, and Google Antigravity. That means code completion, refactoring, debugging, testing, and DocC support, wherever you code.🧑💻https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
Swift is more than Apple platforms! We support Android - and even Backend development! Become a full-stack dev with Swift today: github.com/hummingbird-...
GitHub - hummingbird-project/hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift - hummingbird-project/hummingbird
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