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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 28/02/2026

Worse than the repetitive rhetoric of Donald Trump the kerning on his hat is off. Very hard to watch

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 18/01/2026

Vecna in Mr. Whatsit form hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/ima...

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 04/01/2026

The sky was like a 17th century Dutch Master painting today

Dramatic winter sky that looks like 17th century Dutch painting

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 31/12/2025

Best post-ride gift shop item ever. At the new Danse Macabre ride in the Efteling theme park they sell snow globes featuring a black cat and dead tree, showing bats and black snow when you shake it.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 15/10/2025

Just ordered a Fellow Prismo for my AeroPress. I'm not into Espresso at all, but I do like a strong coffee as a base for a latté or some other milk-based coffee. Any experiences? fellowproducts.com/products/pri...

An AeroPress coffee maker with the Fellow Prismo mounted on top.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 09/10/2025

But can you pull off a Peg Bundy? wwd.com/wp-content/u...

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 08/09/2025

What was your query? Perhaps locality? I'm only getting this guy on Google for "Pennis" www.google.com/url?sa=i&url... A colleague of Jimmy Saville, by the looks of it

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 09/08/2025

Our future Machine Lord will not be kind to me when it finds out I fooled it like this:

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 08/08/2025

Bittersweet goodbye yesterday as my whole team at Nike was disbanded and most lost their jobs 💔 I got this size 52.5 shoe (MBP 16” for scale) signed by everybody to remember my time there. So… #opentowork again, I hope somebody can refer me to about any opening for a very experienced iOS developer

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 31/07/2025

Hello dear 🇩🇪 Germans 🇩🇪 in my network! 👋 Can you confirm that the translation of the English word “balls” to German in this game is absolutely correct? 🤣

Word “balls” translated to “eier” in German in a basketball game

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 12/07/2025

Pretty sure it was this one, but I started before buying this book.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 08/04/2025

Perhaps the last real computer ever made. I want one just alone for the sound of manually toggling in my POKEs. Satisfactory color scheme and lots of blinkerlighten. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence...

A 25% size PiDP-11 on top of a real PDP-11 control panel.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 17/03/2025

Who else is going to go to #appdevcon next Friday? Would be great to meet some of the amazing people here IR! 👍

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 25/02/2025

Days passed since accidentally pressing the Confluence Link Button that _overwrites_ the link on my pasteboard instead of applying it: 0

Exactly the same link icon right on top of each other. They do the opposite thing

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 24/02/2025

Lost a lot of time on this one: 🤦‍♂️ When you drag in your Local Swift Packages they enter the scope of your Project. New files are immediately seen, and you can include them in your test plan 📦 However they often take the absolute path instead of relative ⚠️ stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 03/02/2025

I updated my Constraint package to version 0.10.0 today, allowing you to easily add child ViewControllers and layout them immediately. It helps you get over that psychological hurdle of chopping up your UIKit screens with the same granularity as you would do in SwiftUI. github.com/LucasVanDong...

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 30/01/2025

8 hours to train a model in an M2, they’re not kidding around!

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 31/12/2024

The pants finally dried and the meeting commenced. Did not find the strength to change out of my pajamas.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 20/12/2024

When migrating from UIKit to SwiftUI you probably ran into the issue that you cannot store Cancellables in your SwiftUI Views. It made Combine publishers much harder to use. But with this pattern you can still access them in your SeiftUI Views without bridging:

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 19/12/2024

We buy it at Ethiopian stores. They have them stacked to the ceiling because they were occupied by the Italians. We’re pretty much addicted to them. Also a great gift if you get the ones that come in a nice can.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 05/12/2024

OpenAI in its infinite wisdom decided to cancel my Plus subscription because I missed approving one of my payments. How very Adobe from from them. I would like to hear from you about your experiences with alternatives that are strong at: - General questions - Code assist - API integration

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 02/12/2024

Kind of sad that it's easier to get old software working through Wine on macOS than to get the actual macOS software to work? I guess that's where Microsoft shines over Apple: developer support and API stability.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 01/12/2024

I found this picture in a photo book about Rotterdam. It’s probably Delfshaven, turn of the century. It almost looks like a 17th century painting, if it wasn’t for the modern clothing and skates.

People skating on ice in the old harbor of Delfshaven, Rotterdam. A little bit of snow can be seen, historical boats are frozen into the ice

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 25/11/2024

I think we all love the reduced boilerplate we get from being able to assign a value directly from a switch while assigning it directly to a value. But sometimes one clause creeps in that needs more logic. With many cases, adding return anywhere is laborious and also unnecessary: #swift #xcode

A function returning a value from a switch case statement omitting return. While the second case has multi-line logic to get to that value, wrapping it in { … }() allows us to keep omitting return.

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Lucas van Dongen - Swift developer @lucasvandongen.dev · 23/11/2024

A bit cramped, but all of the good stuff (except for that milk foamer, I must admit)

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