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Love seeing job advertisements that say “native mobile” then you look inside and it says RN 🙃 such a joke

Added my app to review last night then said, oh I’ll start work on this feature a coworker asked for. Ya it took me like 1.5 hours is all to implement m4b support so now I’m debating do I pull my app out of review and just send it as well. I feel like it is a yes since it was another easy win

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 16/09/2026

"You must spend money to make money" said Frog. "But, you must also spend money to have no money left" replied Toad. "That is true" said Frog.

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/09/2026

It is always nice chatting with a co-worker and not feeling like you are crazy afterwards because you have the same complaints and concerns.

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/09/2026

Shopify posted about how they are moving back to native thanks to AI. I had a similar experience lately with doing a task that I wanted to test on iOS and Android. It worked out great. I wrote the iOS code with Claude and it was high quality and then it ported good code over to Android.

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Xcode Releases @xcodereleases.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apple has confirmed that #Xcode 27.1 with support for the iPhone Duo will be coming "later this month": developer.apple.com/iphone-duo Original: techhub.social/@xcodereleases/11724…

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/09/2026

Is it even worth replying to that review, probably but I don’t know what to say that isn’t going to be sarcastic at the moment.

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/09/2026

Whelp got my first 1 star review on an app I made myself… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry I let you fully test and use my app before asking for any money to import more books?

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Braden @bswift.io · 04/09/2026

I should probably update my resume in general… The question is how do I put that I’ve suffered through react native for a year and mostly pivoted during that year to backend. I want to focus on iOS still but I sure as hell don’t want to do more react native or have people try to convincing me on it.

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/09/2026

Wow not cool… blaming me for not having a thing when I sent it to you the day before…

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Braden @bswift.io · 02/09/2026

Always fun when you co-worker is anxiously awaiting your work and when you send it over 1 minute after they ask for it again and they go AFK for like 30+ minutes…

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Paul Hudson @twostraws.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pro tip for folks working with Apple documentation: add ".md" to the end of a URL to get it as Markdown – much lighter to load, and also friendlier for agents. Example: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/08/2026

Was all excited for my first trail subscription and it was immediately followed with an unsubscribe 😞 maybe they will still like it and resubscribe or purchase it…

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Braden @bswift.io · 20/08/2026

Apparently I made a mistake in introducing my boys to Palworld because now they just fight over who gets to play on the PS5…

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Braden @bswift.io · 15/08/2026

I swear my children are more concerned about having 3 meals called breakfast, lunch, and dinner than they are with actually being full…

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

The POC I’ve been working on is blazing fast on iOS thanks to Metal. On a cheap Android device it is so slow… It takes 3+x the time of a recording to process things… I really need to get hardware acceleration with the GPU working for it but even google is meh on their GPU support for Android…

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

Why does Apple have 65gigs of simulator backups in /System/Library/AssetsV2 which is a SIP protected folder! 😡 In all my years doing iOS development I’ve never had it show up as a place of eating a bunch of storage… This has been extra painful with work only giving me a 500gb HD

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Braden @bswift.io · 31/07/2026

Just had Claude basically tell me, “if the owner of this library is small you can either bully them or ignore them and use the software as closed source anyways” 😬 yikes

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Braden @bswift.io · 29/07/2026

Google hasn’t added any on device LLM stuff like Apple!?!? Foundation Models is so nice for basic LLM tasks. I guess the time has come to cross the hugging face boundary and get that working on iOS and Android once I get whisper.cop fully working.

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Braden @bswift.io · 29/07/2026

Just now seeing I can add animations to my load calls… How did I miss this before? It will be so nice to go update stuff to use that and get free animations.

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/07/2026

I’m getting to play with on device AI stuff for work and it is so much fun getting to do native stuff again

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Braden @bswift.io · 19/07/2026

Just had my first sale on my app that wasn’t friends or family. It pushed me over the threshold of have I spent or made money on my apple developer license this year for the first time. I’m not making tons of money obviously but it feels good to sort of break even for once.

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Braden @bswift.io · 19/07/2026

That color bug the other day, ya it wasn’t a simulator bug. It is an iOS26 bug. I finally updated my phone from 18 🙃 and now my phone is doing the same thing. So no more tinted glass modifier just a solid background for that view 🤷‍♂️

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Braden @bswift.io · 16/07/2026

So at work we have custom labeled checkboxes that companies can add to their employee notes. The system for unchecking a checkbox is RIDICULOUS. It goes to the table where the association between the note and the checkbox being checked lives and nulls out the note ID instead of changing its value…

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Braden @bswift.io · 13/07/2026

Every time I see Dave Abrahams post on the swift forums I am reminded of his presentation Embracing Algorithms from WWDC 2018. It is the most influential presentation on how I approach software development (even though I often fail to apply its principles).

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/07/2026

I’ve been doing a decent amount of go stuff at work lately and I just miss the functional aspects of swift that I now take for granted. Like being able to do first(where:) calls instead of looping and breaking in first match.

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/07/2026

I have this odd behavior with a custom SwiftUI control I put together. It has a background color for part of the control and the preview and sim both show the wrong variant of light/dark. But on device it is always correct… It is quite annoying…

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Braden @bswift.io · 08/07/2026

My mouse batteries died and we have no AA in the office. I’m now stuck with a Magic Mouse for the day 😭

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Braden @bswift.io · 07/07/2026

The vocal only drop at the end of the bridge in The Phoenix by @falloutboy.bsky.social is still one of my favorite parts of the entire Save Rock And Roll album. It is just so good

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Braden @bswift.io · 30/06/2026

I love when someone’s has bad test code and they double down on it being good. You shouldn’t be testing the standard library function and asserting it gives you what you expect… slice will always slice…

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Braden @bswift.io · 24/06/2026

This new process sucks. It is basically shoving down my throat all the things I had successfully moved away from being my main job. Now I have to do all of that crap again in react native instead of staying in new and interesting backend go land…

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Braden @bswift.io · 24/06/2026

The fact we can’t outright ban fireworks is ridiculous. It was literally raining ash yesterday because of all the wild fires.

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Swift Package Index @swiftpackageindex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Swift Package Index has joined Apple, and together we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. Read more: www.swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swif…

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Braden @bswift.io · 23/06/2026

This new work process for doing dev work isn’t my favorite but might be my least favorite. 🙃

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Braden @bswift.io · 18/06/2026

Just wrapped up my first Daggerheart campaign after many months. It had a long break in the middle and I didn’t think it would get to wrap up at all. But I thankfully got people on board with a few more sessions. I learned a ton and had a lot of fun. Hopefully all my players did as well.

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Braden @bswift.io · 17/06/2026

It might be unconventional but at this point I do 99% of my app setup, config, dependencies, launch point, etc in a SwiftPM package and then my project just depends on that local package. It is very nice and helps enforce boundaries and some organization of my code that otherwise would be optional.

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Braden @bswift.io · 16/06/2026

😂 my health insurance just emailed me claiming I could save $750 over the course of the year by swapping to a “similar med,” I’m on the only one that works well for me. They just want to save ~$24k it would cost me out of pocket. Health insurance companies are so terrible…

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/06/2026

AWS requiring a password to sign in and then my passkey as well is really annoying…

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 08/06/2026

Siri agentic-ly setting my password to “you’re absolutely right — I should come up with a unique, strong, password for this website”

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Braden @bswift.io · 08/06/2026

@migueldeicaza.bsky.social I am with you. It is super frustrating how much hate SwiftUI gets when it is more than performant enough for the vast majority of things devs are actually doing. It makes doing so many things simple and correct it is incredible.

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Braden @bswift.io · 08/06/2026

iOS 27 comes out in a tiny bit and I’m still on 18 😬 I’ve just been testing my apps against the simulator to make sure glass looks and behaves well.

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

SwiftUI is lovely and the most fun you can have when writing code. Don’t let the boilerplatetocracy tell you otherwise.

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Braden @bswift.io · 06/06/2026

I’ve never been good at spelling but lately I am on an extra struggle bus it feels like 🙃

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Swift Language @swift.org · 04/06/2026

A unified networking stack for Swift, layered from low-level I/O primitives, through common protocols, to a modern HTTP client and server API. ⚙️ That's what the new Networking workgroup is building. Interested in contributing? Join us: www.swift.org/blog/announc...

swift.org

Announcing the Networking Workgroup

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Sw...

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Braden @bswift.io · 01/06/2026

Here I am installing my umpteenth Nvidia driver to try to solve this “crash” on my windows machine. It just kills the display and maxes out the GPU fan sporadically… 🙃

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Braden @bswift.io · 01/06/2026

🎉 1 week until WWDC! 🎉

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My kid was joking the other day about visiting conspiracy websites, like the ones that end in .gov.

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