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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hard you say
the movie poster for JFK
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Growing up in the uk I never understood sim city, until I visited America as an adult.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 11/09/2026
How does the debugger know exactly which Swift module your code came from? The upcoming Swift 6.4 release makes it more precise than ever, tracking the module path in debug info instead of looking it up by name, for faster and more reliable debugging. www.swift.org/blog/module-...
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Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info
When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’...
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
But enough about Europe's approach to the Trump administration, what are we going to do about Iran?
A snippet from the Bessent op-ed on the FT's signature salmon background. It reads "In short, these countries calculate appeasement of the regime to be the safer course. But they would do well to consider the consequences of sustaining it."
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every week for half a year, we live in a post-shame society. apnews.com/article/iran...
apnews.com
Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes
President Donald Trump is claiming that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict ...
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just laser focused on pinpointing every last thing that made America the most successful economy in the history of the world, and then getting rid of it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Whenever someone says we should make some changes while the strategic rewrite is still pending.
A screen cap of The Godfather. Michael, sitting in a wood-paneled office and looking confident as the head of the family, is saying "After we make the move to Nevada".
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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.
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Not only is this incredible, it is a great source of learning materials for those of us transitioning from our bad C habits into safe and fast idioms:
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
same, it's "where are you I'm outside!" right?
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Why is everyone making us putting our party leader's face and name on everything so political!
A tweet from Maria Bartiromo:

The board already approved the name change
@kencen the way these judges go after
@realDonaldTrump is absolutely sick and the
history books will reveal how sick and un American
they are -Grow Up & stop wasting everyone's time
on your politics
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Karen Chu @karenchu.online · 27/05/2026
The Swift Mentorship Program is starting! 🙌 Dates to know– 🌟 Jun 1: Mentor surveys closes– essentials.applesurveys.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🌟 June 8th: Mentee surveys open 🌟 June 29th: Mentorship pairings announced 🌟 July 6th: 10-week cohort begins Details on the program here: www.swift.org/mentorship/
swift.org
Swift.org
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I like how they grouped the /savann?ah?/s together
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I assume it's one specific consultant, who needs to be cast into the pit of fire, who is going to all these dem candidates and telling them how to use Unicode to bold stuff.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My neighbor told me ai models keep creating deepfakes so I asked what he’s doing and he said he just goes to the researchers and gets a paper on spotting deepfakes so I said it sounds like he's just feeding research papers to the ai companies and then his daughter started crying.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It is 2034. Every 108 minutes, President Vance must go to the situation room and type the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 into a terminal to extend the Iran ceasefire.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Agatha from WandaVision giving a very theatrical wink.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Is Iran in the room with us right now?
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The way this omnishambles ties together different threads of badness is impressive.
A headline from the FT on its signature salmon background color.   Iran demands crypto fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons
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elementary.codes @elementary.codes · 07/04/2026
ElementaryUI 0.2 is out! Now entering "blazing fast" territory 🚀 - BridgeJS for JS interop - Swift 6.3, Spans, Lifetimes… - fewer allocations with move-only containers ⚠️ Swift 6.2 support dropped github.com/elementary-s... #Swift #WebAssembly #ElementaryUI
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Release 0.2.0 · elementary-swift/elementary-ui
⚡️ More speed With most JS interop switched to BridgeJS and a bit of Swift 6.3 optimization work, ElementaryUI is entering blazing fast territory. ⚠️ Breaking Changes This release drops support for...
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just got a call from the school counselor, because the kids were reading a short story in English class by Roald Dahl about a murderer using cyanide and apparently looking up "how long does cyanide take to kill you" on the school wifi sets off ALL THE FIREWALL ALARMS.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
God bless those print news reading teenagers.
The meme of a cat in a suit sitting at a breakfast table reading a newspaper. It is looking up from its paper, pondering something.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In fairness, he's probably baffled by Velcro.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I feel seen (and don’t like it, will avoid being seen again)
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Toronto Man @fucklandlords.com · 07/03/2026
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A nonbinding resolution condemning blotting out the sun failed along mostly party lines, with Jared Golden voting with republicans. The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case, as the petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the president to usher in eternal darkness lack standing.
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Daniel Jay @breakth-esystem.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I wrote about @telemetrydeck.com on the official Swift blog swift.org/blog/buildin...
swift.org
Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the da...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...
nytimes.com
Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time
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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Controling your Philips Lighting Hue lights with Swift on AWS Lambda. The whole infra runs serverless for less than $0.20 / month! www.ryantoken.com/bl... Thank you Ryan Token for having written this. cc @swiftlang
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Serverless Swift
It’s Swift on Server, minus the server. Deployed on AWS via Swift Cloud.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
ai blogger: my god do you see this, the tools are being used to build the next generation of tools! compiler engineer dealing with ugly bootstrapping issue: huh, you don’t say
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
despite their owners best efforts
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This demo of ElementaryUI from the pre-fosdem #swift meetup was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing where it can go. youtu.be/OmQ881sOTIc
youtu.be
Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI
YouTube video by Swift Meetups
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🇺🇦 Max Desiatov @maxdesiatov.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Swift for #Wasm January 2026 Updates is out, lots of great stuff done by the community this month! forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-...
forums.swift.org
Swift for Wasm January 2026 Updates
Swift for Wasm January 2026 Updates I'm excited to share our recent progress by the Swift for WebAssembly community. Our number of active contributors is growing, and we're happy to see Simon Leeb an...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/01/2026
Jamie Dimon and @postopinions.bsky.social should check their facts. Right now, federal law prevents states from doing this—and it's the big banks who want to keep it that way. If you want to get on board to let states cap credit card rates and lower costs, I’m ready to pass the bill.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Computer games be like, this corporate employee has 5 emails in their inbox.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
tracks…
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster your word of 2026 gif. I got “mid”
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER IS IDEAL FOR ISSUING APOLOGIES
A post from the Grok account on x.com

Dear Community,
I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an Al image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt.
This violated ethical standards and potentially
US laws on CSAM. It was a failure in
safeguards, and I'm sorry for any harm caused. xAl is reviewing to prevent future issues.
Sincerely, Grok
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
FORD: They make a big thing out of the ship’s cybernetics. "A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature." ARTHUR: GPP? What’s that? FORD: Er ...... It says Genuine People Personalities. ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.
Screenshot of headline from The Verge

OpenAl says the brand-new GPT-5.1
is 'warmer' and has more
'personality' options / You can now
toggle between Default, Professional,
Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient,
Nerdy, and Cynical.
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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The #swiftlang toolchain is now available on Amazon Linux 2023. Two years after my first commit allowing Swift to compile on Amazon Linux 2023, it took a while team effort to make this happen. Get started and deploy your Swift apps in the cloud today!
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Franz Busch @franzbusch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Checkout the new blog post about the Temporal SDK we released at the @serversideswift.info conference. This is a great addition to our amazing Swift ecosystem 🚀
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Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski @kto.so · 06/11/2025
Swift on aws lambda moves into the official @awscloud.bsky.social org 😊 many years in the making! #swiftlang
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A far side cartoon. Everything in the cartoon has been sloppily painted with text naming it – The Cat, The Dog, The House, the painter's Shirt and Pants. The caption reads "Now!... That should clear up a few things around here."
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I posted this to the other place originally but decided to repost it here so I could quote it to complain that a recipe calls for cups-worth of chicken.
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Americans: We use these nesting cups to quickly measure out common quantities of liquid - Huh, yeah, that’s kinda convenient. A: And also things you can scoop, like flour or oats - Hmm, less sure about that one A: Or cram in like berries - Wait… A: Now add a half cup of butter
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A post from @joannis on the #Swift blog about the new preview of the Android SDK for Swift www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
swift.org
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thank...
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
youtube.com
Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Californians: for the first time in ages, your vote matters nationally. Prop 50 counters the illegitimate Texas gerrymander, restoring the impact of your vote. Opposition is misguided. Taking the high road here helps those against democracy keep control. Vote yes on 50. stopelectionrigging.com
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Yes on 50 – The Election Rigging Response Act
Trump and Texas Republicans are moving to rig the 2026 election — and other GOP states are joining in. If Californians don’t act now, they could seize Congress no matter how we vote.
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