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Dave Verwer

@daveverwer.com
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Author of iOS Dev Weekly and co-founder of the Swift Package Index.

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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 09/09/2026
Watching with a fantastic group of developers at @iosdevuk.bsky.social
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 19/08/2026
This is a totally reasonable task management technique, right? Right? RIGHT? 😂
Reminders app showing all tasks being selected and marked with a deadline of "Tomorrow"
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 01/06/2026
Interesting idea for an app, I like it. I'm getting this error when I click on any item in the sidebar, though. Brew doctor reports no issues, and everything is updated. Brew is at the latest version, too. Any ideas on what's wrong?
Invalid Homebrew response

Could not decode JSON response from Homebrew: The data couldn't be read because it is missing.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 06/01/2026
GitLab has been fundamentally broken for *months* now. In addition to the long standing error where it gives a 500 error during 4/5 login attempts, the last few months it has been completely unable to list projects you are a member of or have starred. How does anyone use it?
Screenshot of the GitLab “Projects” page showing an error banner that says “Your projects couldn’t be loaded. Refresh the page to try again.”

Below, the Projects header appears with tabs for Contributed, Starred (4, selected), Personal (1), Member (5), and Inactive (0)”
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 26/08/2025
Email marketer checklist: ✅ Has alt text for all images I mean, technically… 🙄
An image from an email marketing campaign with a popover showing the alt text, which says "ENTER TEXT THAT WILL BE READ ALOUD FOR ANYONE USING A SCREEN READER IF HARD OF SIGHT"
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 11/08/2025
Today in deciphering reminders dictated to Siri. I'm *completely* stumped, which means whatever I had to do is not getting done. 😬 What's extra weird is the capitalisation of "Ocean" 🤔
A reminder saying "Right to the swift Ocean"
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 23/07/2025
… and you try and tell me Claude isn't as good as a "real developer" when it also completely skips over Swift 6 concurrency warnings, just like real developers do 😂
⏺ Perfect! The build succeeded! There are only some warnings about Swift 6 language mode, but the app compiles successfully. Now let's run the tests:
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 19/06/2025
Hey, at least you don't have an added warning triangle 😂 I got this one this morning.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 02/05/2025
Six votes 😭 (and yes, this is my constituency)
Line chart showing vote share change between 2024 and 2025 in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection, focusing on Labour and Reform parties. Labour’s red line drops from 52.90% in 2024 to 38.70% in 2025. Reform’s light blue line rises sharply from 18.10% to 38.72%, narrowly overtaking Labour by 0.02%.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 18/04/2025
Is there a less useful type of alert than these? If time < 30 mins of it stopping, don’t tell me 😂
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 28/01/2025
Does anyone else routinely get 500 errors when logging into GitLab? For *years* now, it takes me 4 or 5 attempts to log in because the first few almost always fail.
GitLab's 500 error image
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 10/01/2025
Pressing send on an email going to more than 40,000 people always makes you pause, but when it's an entirely new sending system that pause turns into a little bead of sweat. 😅
Screenshot of email software preparing to send email.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 08/01/2025
I was just rickrolled by generative AI. 😂 I was working on this week’s newsletter and writing Markdown in Cursor, and as I typed an opening bracket it suggested a YouTube link. I couldn’t resist checking what it wanted me to watch and as soon as I clicked, I heard those familiar 80s drums, and …
The opening frame from the Rick Astley music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time in Switzerland over the last few days and it’s just as beautiful as you might imagine.
Lake Lugano with a small pier reaching into the lake. There are mountains in the background and a blue sky behind them.
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Dave Verwer @daveverwer.com · 04/12/2024
Achievement unlocked 😂
A Discord notification from rahaf saying "The SPI podcast was in my Spotift wrapped this year, haha!"
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