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Joseph Heck

@heckj.bsky.social
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Developer, Technical Writer, forever a student

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It sent me two in-my-face notifications after I installed it but before I tried anything real with it, just to see what I thought. With the second, I deleted it. It just weirded me out, and I didn't want it splashing distractions at me to drive activity, so I noped' out early.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Developing cloud services in Swift (#swiftlang) just got a major boost, with extensive (I mean, really an absurdly large number of APIs) Google SDK support - cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... Lean on swiftly to install a toolchain, and then lean on the Google Cloud SDKs they've just made available!
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Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK | Google Cloud Blog
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Doug Schaefer @dougschaefer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Been a great summer planning expansion of Swift packages to better support Swift language interoperability and building something fun. forums.swift.org/t/expanding-...
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Expanding the power of build tool plugins to build something fun
As a tools developer, it's critical I try to empathize with developers who use the tools I help create. I am probably most intrigued by game developers. My favourite influencers are game developers. T...
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I loved The Fisher King when it came out. Thanks for re-posting that - brings it all back.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
now I have depeche mode playing in my brain
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Gospel of Awni teaches that you can give someone $15,299 in Claude credits and they can vibe code recipe apps for a month, or give them a 512 GB M5 Ultra and they can maintain their own Linux distro for life.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Very happy to have the combined docs site public and building with a pipeline of PR to publication. if you’re interested in the details and where it’s going, swing by the Swift Forums: forums.swift.org/t/swifts-new...
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Swift's New Documentation Site
The Swift project has new hosted documentation, now live. The tl;dr: latest release (canonical) docs (built from release/6.4.x branch): https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/ main branch docs...
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Adopting strict concurrency across my codebases was painful in some places, but can’t argue with crash reports going down.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When you use agentic development, leaning into software fundamentals matters more than ever before.
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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever
The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There's a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, what can be accomplished, and its implications for the future. The title I chose rather gives it away; it's about choosing — carefully — all the things you need to choose when you're solving the puzzles of software and systems development.
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Jack @jackbrewster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Looking for #ttrpg gaming groups in #Paris, #France. My son is attending uni there. He’s a big old nerd (no idea where he got that from 🤓) and not super outgoing. He has tried to find gaming groups/stores/etc. but no luck so far. So I figured I’d ask the for help here. Please RT. Thanks!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/07/2026
Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.
The Bennington Flag, flying at my house.
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Apple published a plugin for Godot that lets your Godot games get rendered by RealityKit: github.com/apple/plugin...
Blender game in the shared space.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So happy to see the details (github.com/apple/truety...) behind the #swift rewrite of the interpreter; performance doesn't just match, it exceeds — and gets Swift's safety features. Not that I need a interpreter myself, but seeing how the code goes together — what's been used — is really cool!
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GitHub - apple/truetype-hinting-interpreter-example: Swift TrueType Interpreter
Swift TrueType Interpreter. Contribute to apple/truetype-hinting-interpreter-example development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Agam @loopbackdev.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Vapor 5, alpha - release cut live by @0xtim.bsky.social! 🎉 #swift #vapor
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Karen Chu @karenchu.online · 26/05/2026
📣 ATTN Bay Area — we’re bringing the Container Install Meetup to you! Bring your laptop for hands-on activities & learn about the latest updates. WHO: Apple Container maintainers + YOU 🫵 WHAT: meetup + lunch 🥙 WHEN: Wed Jun 10 @ 12-2 PM 🕛 WHERE: CommunityKit @ Cupertino 🍎 luma.com/rh1k2tpy
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Container Install Meetup · Luma
The Containerization Framework and container tooling projects enable developers to create and run Linux container images directly on their Mac, with a strong…
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you’re coming by #communitykit or WWDC in San Jose and want to say hi, or get a little hands out with Apple Container and the amazing crew that assembled that technology, stop by luma.com/rh1k2tpy?tk=... - we’d love to see you!
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Container Install Meetup · Luma
The Containerization Framework and container tooling projects enable developers to create and run Linux container images directly on their Mac, with a strong…
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Swift Language @swift.org · 06/03/2026
🏗️What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: www.swift.org/blog/buildin...
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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 22/02/2026
I also uploaded a template to make it trivial for anyone to deploy a CRUD server in Swift, for obvious reason - it was always supposed to be this easy. railway.com/new/template...
railway.com
Swift + Vapor + OpenAPI + Postgres
A starter Swift Server using Vapor, OpenAPI, and Postgres
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/02/2026
Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
My thoughts (and 9 tips) from my journey so far in learning how to use agentic coding tools.
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Navigation Notes – Agentic coding
I don't doubt that jobs associated with software engineering are undergoing a massive sea change. While I was far less certain as to its applicability a year ago, tools like Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode are effective and - to me - can provide value. These tools are getting better at an extraordinarily high rate, but I don't see it going up forever.
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Joannis Orlandos @joanniso.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚀 Swift Rockies tickets are LIVE. This is the conference where Swift meets the physical world. I'm showing you how to take Swift beyond iOS: servers, Android, embedded devices. Your Swift skills can power anything. Don't miss it: swiftrockies.com/joannis-work...
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Building Local AI Systems with Swift (WendyOS) | Swift Rockies 2026
Join Joannis Orlandos for a hands-on workshop on Building Local AI Systems with Swift (WendyOS) at Swift Rockies 2026. Learn to build AI-powered edge devices. July 24th, 2026.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 08/02/2026
The most challenging aspect of software development has been the lack of documentation.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The best thing I ever made
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The best thing I ever made
I've cobbled a lot of software over my career, led teams, coordinated large groups to both build and run products, to create (digital) infrastructure, even built a company and sold it. But I think the best thing I ever made - or honestly helped to make, as it never could have been myself alone - was a community. That group are the folks who identify as part of the broader…
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It's an absolutely brilliant book! I enjoyed going through, and it taught me an incredible amount about the underside of interpreters and - to a much lessor extent - some of the details behind language design.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Couple of years ago I took a train from Seattle to St Louis through Chicago. It was a blast, I loved it! Not fast, but that was sort of the point.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The talk is from a number of months back, but I really like the insights and viewpoints into the design principles, where it's worked, where it hasn't, and future challenges with building Swift - www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqK... (it's ~1 hour long)
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On Progressive Disclosure in Swift - Doug Gregor - Swift Craft 2025
YouTube video by Swift Craft
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 03/01/2026
My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Friend looking for work - newish developer, good with C++, Python, Lua, and Javascript/HTML. He's getting started and looking for something to help pay the bills while in school. Any suggestions on where to help him look for work, either in #seattle or remote, contract gigs, or paid internships?
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It takes time to invest in it, but it's been a fantastic sync point for our favorite recipes for the kitchen! Lots of holiday baking tucked in there, with our modifications for gluten and egg free that we need to match these days.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Shades of Nausicaa in that form...
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
i wish there’d been any doubt in my mind. it would have made these past months much easier.
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour? I have the perfect job for you: Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
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Karen Chu @karenchu.online · 18/12/2025
📢 #Swiftlang is headed to FOSDEM with a Swift pre-FOSDEM Community Event on Fri 30 Jan (12-6PM) in Brussels AND we have talks at various devrooms ! 🤗 Check out how we're showing up: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/ Things to know – 📌 RSVP here: s.apple.com/dn5G2r2Ns6 📌 CFP is now open til 5 Jan
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Swift @ FOSDEM 2026
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My fave tip for dev #swiftlang -> Linux, check how your Swift package compiles while on your mac w/ container: container run -it -c 4 -m 8g \ -v "$(pwd):/src" -w src/ \ swift:6.2 sh -c "swift build" (runs a Swift 6.2 image, gives it 4CPU and 8GB, mounts your PWD as "src", and builds)
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Swift Language @swift.org · 26/11/2025
🎄This year's Advent of Code promises fun coding challenges for all! And if you haven't tried Swift before, it's a great way to get started. Join the Swift challenge board here: forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-... #AdventOfCode
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Karen Chu @karenchu.online · 05/11/2025
Curious about Apple's #Containerization Framework & Tooling projects? Catch us in ATL next week! 🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a... 🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
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Container Install Meetup, Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
The Cloud Native Atlanta Group is excited to host members of the Apple Containerization dev team for a fun KubeCon 0 Day event. Join us on Monday November 10th before we k
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
look like Kevin caught a bit of it. Nice shot: mastodon.social/@KevinFreita...
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Kevin Freitas (@KevinFreitas@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Cloud drama north of downtown right now. Bit of Sun and blue sky here in West Sea. #wawx #seattle #CloudDrama #WestSeattle #pnw
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
the light is dramatic and moody in #seattle today. deep grey clouds, bright sections where the sun breaks through, and rain spatters across the windows refracting it all. tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
my niece is learning to use some of their tools in school this year, and reports frequent disgust with expense vs quality. we had a long talk about industry lock-in vs actual value. She’ll use it if she has to, but i’d be amazed if she ever advocated for it in the future.
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
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What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition
Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a monthly digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift worl...
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It (kto.so) is popping up with an invalid cert error through Cloudflare from here, asserting a host issue
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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...
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Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Congratulations- to you and the whole gang who've been working tirelessly to enable this! It's such a brilliant add to Swift primarily driven from the community!
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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
One of the coolest things about this SDK is that its development was almost entirely driven by the community, NOT folks at Apple. There's folks doing some seriously cool things with the Swift language!
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Swift Language @swift.org · 24/10/2025
📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
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