I have a Swift evolution proposal up for review! It's all about helping to simplify and reduce duplication of settings in package definitions. I'd love to hear your feedback.

SE-0540: Default Package Settings

Hello, Swift community! The review of SE-0540: Default Package Settings begins now and runs through August 17, 2026. Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All review feedback should be either on this forum thread or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to me as the review manager by DM. When contacting the review manager directly, please put "SE-0540" in the subject line. What goes into a review? The goal of the review process is to improve the pr...

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #147 is now available! Hot Tea or Iced Coffee 🔭 Liquid Glass: A Field Guide to UIKit Compatibility Pitfalls 🧷 The Map, Drawn Twice 🧠 Swift on Windows: A Year of Refinement more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147

Hot Tea or Iced Coffee

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My new repo is a tutorial project for a topic that does not get talked about very much: custom dynamic properties for SwiftUI view components. github.com/vanvoorden/T...

GitHub - vanvoorden/TaskProperty: Reusing Stateful Business Logic for SwiftUI Views

Reusing Stateful Business Logic for SwiftUI Views. Contribute to vanvoorden/TaskProperty development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Back in March, I talked at @bobkonf.bsky.social in Berlin about the connection between SwiftUI and functional programming. The video of that talk is up now: media.ccc.de/v/bob11-2026...

SwiftUI is functional

Scaling modern user interfaces is hard. GUI libraries simplify getting complex interfaces on the screen, but keeping UI state in sync wit...

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Boundless thanks to the remarkable spirits who so generously placed their invaluable hard-won wisdom in our hands: @vanvoorden.bsky.social, @emredeg.bsky.social, @dijamantina.bsky.social, @jordanmorgan10.bsky.social, Howard Oakley and Wayne Bishop

Fatbobman (东坡肘子)@fatbobman.com · last mo.

Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #143 is now available! When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters 🔭 Debugging Notes on Two SwiftUI Animation Bugs 🔧 SwiftUI 3D is Flat 🔍 Safari MCP 🔥 SwipeCell weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

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

Check out the new blog!

Applicative Code@code.applicative.co · 2mo ago

Applicative Code has got a blog! And with it, a first article sketching the concept behind the IDE. https://blog.applicative.co/a/3mmteyfxgoo23-developing-functional-code

Apple launched its Developer Community Recognition page—and I’m featured! Creating content on Swift and curating Swift Weekly has been a passion. Honored to be recognized by @Apple alongside so many brilliant community builders. developer.apple.com/community/r...

The final talk on track B of #BOBkonf2026 is @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org 's "SwiftUI is functional":

And tickets are now live for my Concurrency lab at Swift Rockies. I'm pretty excited for this format and cannot wait to see what kinds of questions people have. Oh, and the conference seems cool too 😉 swiftrockies.com/matt-concurr...

Very much looking forward to talking about the conceptual origins of SwiftUI and how that makes it an effective and versatile UI framework!

BOB Konferenz@bobkonf.de · 6mo ago

On track B at #BOBkonf2026, @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org's talk "SwiftUI is functional" gives insight into SwiftUI’s software architecture, with a focus on underlying concepts and not on a particular implementation. Find out more: bobkonf.de/2026/chakrav...

This is not normal. Business as usual cannot continue. But what that means, exactly, is up to us. www.massicotte.org/blog/act-dif...

Since Last May, ICE Officers Have Been Told They Don’t Need Warrants To Enter Homes The thing afforded the highest protections of the Fourth Amendment is a person's home. This isn't even a controversial statement. It has been that way ever since this amendment was ratified. But, under Trump, we're…

I’m probably about to be banned from CNN — but someone has to say this about Scott Jennings. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings

There are times when you need to tell your friends that they are committing a grave mistake, even if they resent you for telling the truth.

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Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 7mo ago

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

I’m on the latest episode of the @haskellinterlude.bsky.social talking about GHC, the FFI, type families, parallel programming in Haskell and also about the relationship of Haskell and Swift: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/72/

Manuel Chakravarty

In this episode, we talk to Manuel Chakravarty - specifically, his work on the ghc backend such as data-parallel Haskell and the FFI and how that work segued into type system design. We also discussed Manuel's perspective on Haskell from the language design of Swift.

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It started as a toy, but Empire has turned into the most complex package I've worked on. Macros, parameter packs, very tricky concurrency and generics. And now I'm looking at lifetimes and Span. Don't fully understand them yet, but I now get why it exists. github.com/mattmassicot...

GitHub - mattmassicotte/Empire: A local persistence system for Swift

A local persistence system for Swift. Contribute to mattmassicotte/Empire development by creating an account on GitHub.

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My talk from ServerSide is up!

ServerSide.swift@serversideswift.info · 10mo ago

More videos continue to land! Next up, Matt Massicotte teaches us how to approach approachable concurrency youtu.be/eqeDPIK2Msc

Appeals Court Subtly Lets The Trump Administration Know It’s Just Being Racist By Demanding An End To Birthright Citizenship It's not enough to go after the "worst of the worst." It was never a sustainable effort, what with migrants committing fewer crimes than natural citizens. The attempt to rid…

There's one more week to help review my first Swift Evolution Proposal! Please take a look and help us ship more tools in Standard Library for improving performance. Thanks! forums.swift.org/t/-/82296

SE-0494: Add `isIdentical(to:)` Methods for Quick Comparisons to Concrete Types

Hello, Swift community! The review of SE-0494: Add isIdentical(to:) Methods for Quick Comparisons to Concrete Types begins now and runs through October 6, 2025. Reviews are an important part of the ...

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Can you help us get to 1,000 followers today and spread the word about our movement?

Super excited to announce our first speaker! Matt Massicotte will be telling us how to approach approachable concurrency!

Concurrency is still a challenge for many, making Approachable Concurrency very welcome. To discover how and why it can improve your way to Swift 6, we’re honored to host one of the true authorities on the topic, @mattie.bsky.social ! 👉 https://swiftconnection.io

Omg. My app is #3 in the paid AppStore charts in Germany today. #1 in payed education charts. 🤩🤯😱 (It’s a timetable app for vocational students in Lower Saxony, and it’s payed so a bit easier, schools currently start here so that’s why, ranked before but never that high.)

ICEBlock creator, Joshua Aaron (@joshua.stealingheather.com) will be the closing speaker at the Hope Conference www.hope.net today at 4pm EST. If you would like to tune in you can watch the stream live on their website.

"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @theeconomistevents.bsky.social this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

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The American system of democracy has crashed

Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day

Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.

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WWDC is just around the corner, and that means ONE thing: it's time to open our Call for Proposals! (Closes June 22, just in time for you to submit a proposal with your barely-working last-minute hacks around those latest AI-centered WWDC APIs.) 👉 https://swiftconnection.io/cfp