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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They studied a Roald Dahl short story in English class involving cyanide poisoning and then later that day we got a concerned call from the school counselor about our daughter googling “how long does cyanide take to kill you” on her Chromebook. They were unimpressed by my wife laughing.

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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Merz appears to have joined from the laptop in his attic.

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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“He knows just enough to be dangerous” now applies to everybody with a laptop.

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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

nobody said it had to be a good film...

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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 · 25/08/2026

"In short, where is the emergency?" The midterms are the emergency.

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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 · 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...

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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

Or visit an American high school, non-Americans have no idea the scale of school sports in this country.

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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 · 15/06/2026

This is, after all, the conservative answer to saying taxes should be higher. "You can pay more tax than you owe when you file, why not do that, I don't have to". And so goes choosing to not vote.

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Ben Cohen @airspeedswift.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The original TT interpreter of course had manual bounds checks – but just like it's easy to forget those, they're also easy to duplicate in hard to track down ways. One of the reasons the Swift rewrite is faster is that Swift guarantees those checks, then is good at eliminating its own checks.

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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/

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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 · 16/05/2026

what kind of cuisine and did it affect the design

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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 · 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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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...

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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 · 11/02/2026

the stock market is supposed to be up most of the time! this is like her yelling "2026 is the highest year number on record"

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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

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Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI

YouTube video by Swift Meetups

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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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