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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 17/09/2026

Shout out during the iPhone Duo lab! ❤️ thanks @curtclifton.net !

Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 08/06/2026

Honored to be featured by Apple during #WWDC26 before the Platforms State of the Union for my contributions to the community

Photo grid of community leaders on a big screen and audience sitting in front of the screen taking photos

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 12/04/2026

Never possible to have too much pizza 🍕 Starting off @deepdishswift.com with @cassidoo.co !

Cassidy wearing a shirt that has pepperoni pizza on it

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 07/10/2025

Finished my last 2 talks of the year!! 😍😍 @serversideswift.info and @swiftconnection.bsky.social I’ve been to 10 conferences this year and spoken at 6 of them Thanks so much to all the conference organizers volunteers and everyone else ❤️ This year has been an absolute blast, now time to rest 😴

Mikaela speaking on a stage with 8 logos behind her on an iMax screen

Mikaela speaking at a podium that says “Swift 25 Connection” and a slide behind her that says “The Technical Side of Liquid Glass”

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 03/10/2025

2nd day of @serversideswift.info Getting started with George learning about gRPC #ServerSideSwift

George standing on a platform and an imax screen behind him with the words “generating Swift code” .proto and arrow pointing to .swift

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 07/07/2025

Think you can build this paywall faster than me? Enter @revenuecat.com ‘s World Paywall Speed Building Championships! By July 22nd! Your goal is to build this paywall as accurately and quickly as possible! You could win: 💵$5,000 cash 🗽trip to NYC And more!

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 01/06/2025

Using version number 0.0, it looks like it's a confused owl 🦉 Confused and surprised, that it's coming to….fruition getfruitful.app

PR with the title RELEASE v0.0 (which looks like a confused owl)
And a merged tag and mikaelacaron username

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 04/05/2025

Now’s a great time to book a last minute trip to Macedonia! 😉 See you there at #iOSKonf !

iOSKonf graphic, Mikaela and the words “join me at iOSKonf your first AWS lambda function” logos for Netcetera, Stream, and RevenueCat

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 29/04/2025

Day 3 of @deepdishswift.com !! 😍🍕 App Intents, Actions, and Personal Context Oh My! By @matthewcassinelli.bsky.social This conference is so amazing I forget to post or take pictures every time #DeepDishSwift

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 28/04/2025

Day 2 of @deepdishswift.com Kicking off the day with @avanderlee.com speaking about Swift Concurrency #DeepDishSwift

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 24/04/2025

Sprint update day 3: Still working on this ticket

Image of a cat with a tearful expression, raising one paw in a gesture that resembles a hand giving a thumbs-up.

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 18/04/2025

Omg it's happening!! 😍 This will be my first time attending #WWDC25 with an actual golden ticket! 🎟️ I'm going to try to vlog the whole thing and then make a YouTube about it Oh and Fruitful will definitely be shipped this time 😉 See you there!

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 11/04/2025

Absolutely amazing first time speaking at #trySwift ! Thank you to all the organizers and staff who put on this amazing event!

The organizers posing for a group picture on stage and the screen behind them saying try! swift Tokyo 2025
Organizer / Staff

And the try Swift bird with a sign that says hashtag trySwift

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 09/04/2025

Ending the day with @sond813.bsky.social , Searching for Aliens 👽 #trySwift

$Noah speaking on stage and the screen is showing the Drake equation N = rate of habitable plants times fraction of planets with life times length of time they are active$

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 09/04/2025

@pinkerstraws.bsky.social amazing presentation! Swift WTF: Weirdness Traps Fixes #trySwift

Sophie speaking on stage and in big red letters “WTF” ok the screen

Sophie pointing and smiling and holding a plushie Pikachu in one arm

Sophie speaking and a slide behind her that says “Weirdness Traps Fixes” with WTF highlighted a different color

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 08/04/2025

Round 2 🤞🤞 Fruitful you can do it! ❤️

App Store Connect notifications changing status from:
Prepare for submission to Ready for Review, to Waiting for Review

Phone background is the pride background

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 04/04/2025

Noooo 😫😫 #WWDC25 this was supposed to be the year! I’m shipping an app just for you! ❤️ I’ll still be there though! Without a 🎟️

Email screenshot:
Your request to attend the special event at Apple Park

Hello Mikaela, thank you for your interest in attending the special event at Apple Park. While we regret that you are unable to accommodate your request, we encourage you to join us online for WWDC25 to explore the tools frameworks and features that’ll help you create your best apps and games yet.

All week long, you can learn to elevate your apps games through video sessions engage with Apple experts and labs and connect with the developer community.

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 12/03/2025

Vidit Bhargava about Action Centered Design The actions apps take that make them feel like apps #ARCticConference @arcticconference.bsky.social

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 02/03/2025

Congrats to Marko Nikolovski for winning a free ticket to #iOSKonf ! 🔥 See you in Skopje!

Ticket promo for iOSKonf, Apple Ecosystem Developer’s Conference
a free conference ticket
14-15 May 2025
Skopje Marriott Hotel, North Macedonia

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 28/02/2025

Win a FREE ticket to #iOSKonf !! 🎟️ Enter by filling out this form, you must follow iOSKonf on Twitter or LinkedIn Join the premier iOS conference in the Balkans! Form open for 24 hours! Enter soon! forms.gle/egkC1ExaBZ24...

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 01/02/2025

My first #FOSDEM25 ! There's over 20 tracks from lots of big open source projects, all talks are recorded to view later Starting with Doug Gregor, Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack Lessons Learned from Swift

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 11/01/2025

2024 was…. Travel Discovery Conferences Speaking Fruitful 🍎 Fun Procrastination Productive Unproductive Confusion Happy Sad Frustrating Snowboarding Exhaustion Burn out Amusement Friendship Chaotic Bad decisions Good decisions Lost Amazing Swift Here's to 2025 🥂

Flighty app passport with a map connecting all mu flights

Flags: US, UK, Germany, Croatia, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, and Canada

38 flights
Distance: 42,773 miles
Flight time: 4 days, 16 hours

Airports: 28
Airlines: 13

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 06/12/2024

Same for iOS 😅 the sheet covers the image

Sheet for adding alt text, and the iOS keyboard

Buffer to add a description for a post and the image shown below

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 03/12/2024

“Mikaela Caron is blending code, coffee, and community like a true Swift artist”

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 03/12/2024

🦋 Bluesky Receipt bskypt.vercel.app Haha this is pretty cool!

Bluesky, stats about Mikaela’s Bluesky account formatted as if it looks like a receipt
Showing Mikaela as the customer ,
Post, likes earned, post, repost, followers, following,
Favorite words: Swift, app, iOS, it’s, new, hacktoberfest
Most active day, replies, post per week

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 29/11/2024

I didn't finish Fruitful, but I did find my old iPod touch, and it works!! Running iOS 5! Also my first iPhone! Any idea how I could turn on my phone, without needing to connect it to my computer? (Or is it mandatory, and I'll have to reset it?) i wanted to avoid that if I could

Mikaela holding an iPod touch and a split mechanical keyboard at the moonlander seen behind it

iPod Touch is running iOS 5.1.1

iPhone 4S showing an iTunes icon and the 30 pin connector with an arrow pointing to it, to connect it to iTunes

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 24/11/2024

‪At least my code is rooting for me too ❤️🦝‬

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 15/11/2024

Posting on Instagram #30DaysOfCode hoping to be more productive and actually get stuff done by posting socially Here’s some pics from my Summer of Swift going to 6 conferences in 2 and a half months!

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #92,435! I should maybe start posting here more 😅 but dang! I was in the first 1%! First 100k even!

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Mikaela Caron 🦄 @mikaelacaron.com · 07/08/2024

My code should definitely compile now 🍻 @ SwiftConf

MacBook Pro with Xcode on the screen and an empty 0,2 L kölsch, and refilled one next to the MacBook

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