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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 27/08/2026

Keen on some Haskell in October? I’ll be at MuniHac (9-11 October), giving a keynote on 9 October about the Accelerate EDSL for numeric computing: munihac.de/2026.html#Ma...

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 10/08/2026

Just released version 0.16.0 of CodeEditorView — a SwiftUI code editor view for i(Pad)OS and macOS: github.com/mchakravarty/CodeEditorV… The release includes a long list of fixes and syntax support for Python.

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 10/07/2026

EU vs Meta: ..addictive design of Instagram and Facebook breaches the Digital Services Act. The investigation highlights that features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and highly personalised recommender systems create addictive loops, especially for minors and vulnerable adults

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Today, the European Commission has preliminarily
found that Meta's addictive design of Instagram and
Facebook breaches the Digital Services Act. The
investigation highlights that features such as infinite
scroll, autoplay, push notifications and highly
personalised recommender systems create addictive
loops, especially for minors and vulnerable adults.
The platform's current mitigation tools such as
time-management settings, parental controls and
safety-centre resources, are insufficient, as they can
be easily dismissed or demand a high level of
technical expertise from parents.
The Commission now expects concrete design
changes: disabling autoplay and infinite scroll by
default, introducing meaningful screen-time breaks
and re-balancing the recommender algorithm away
from pure engagement-driven optimisation.
Protecting the physical and mental wellbeing of
Europeans must be a priority for all digital platforms.
The DSA gives us a clear framework to hold them
accountable, and I am fully committed to enforcing it.
https://Inkd.in/gvcdpHei

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 02/07/2026

This is fantastic news @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org regarding the “Cloud and AI Development Act” 💜

Greens MEP to co-lead talks on tech sovereignty bill
by Mathieu Pollet • 12 MINUTES AGO • 2 MINUTES READ
Reinier van Lanschot, a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Greens
group, will be one of the top two lawmakers helming the work on the EU's new cloud and
Al bill, he confirmed to POLITICO.
"Al is moving so fast that the world we're in today is already different from yesterday's,
and tomorrow's will be different again. We have no time to waste to minimize risks and
seize opportunities in a European way," van Lanschot said in a statement.
The Cloud and Al Development Act will aim to reduce the bloc's dependencies on
foreign technology, a push driven largely by fears that Europe's overreliance on U.S.
firms could be weaponized by Washington.
"One thing is certain amid the uncertainty: Europe needs a strong, independent, trusted
cloud ecosystem. One that earns public trust instead of loses it, as we see playing out in
the U.S.," van Lanschot stressed.
He will co-lead negotiations on behalf of the internal market committee, after the
Conference of Presidents — the Parliament's top political forum — overruled the initial
decision to allocate the file to the sole industry committee on Wednesday.
The proposal will seek to boost homegrown tech champions through a broad industrial
policy push, require member countries to assess and act to reduce their dependencies
and direct more public money towards European firms via public procurement. The
internal market committee cited these provisions in challenging the original attribution,
and justifying its involvement.
Lawmakers in the industry committee have yet to allocate the file to a political group
after the decision was postponed until the challenge was settled.

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 09/06/2026

It also seems as if they asked for an 18 month competitive head start:

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 09/06/2026

Reading the details, Apple wants a 18 months competitive head start. I’m not surprised that the EC didn’t go for that.

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 02/06/2026

Wouter introducing our first speaker, Hugo Peters from NVIDIA, at yesterday’s Haskell Utrecht meetup: www.meetup.com/haskell-utrecht/even… (with thanks to @chordify.bsky.social for being able to use their facilities) #Haskell

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 16/05/2026

The ProjectNavigator SwiftUI package now supports subtree refreshes, in its latest version 1.9.0. At the core is a file tree navigator that can be used inside a NavigationSplitView. It supports macOS and iOS: github.com/mchakravarty/ProjectNavi…

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 27/04/2026

‘ProjectNavigator’ is a SwiftUI package for a versatile file tree-based project navigation view for macOS and iOS. It just hit version 1.8.0, getting support for symbolic links: github.com/mchakravarty/ProjectNavi…

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 04/02/2026

I’m not surprised. In the reconfiguration of the global order, the members of the European Parliament are fast learners, realising that they wield considerable power: www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliame…

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 14/01/2026

This is not the first time: 17 February 1933 in Germany, Hermann Göring (excerpt from Wikipedia):

Bereits am 17. Februar 1933 hatte er die
Polizeibeamten angewiesen, mit „nationalen
Verbänden" (SA, SS und Stahlhelm), „in deren
Kreisen die wichtigsten staatserhaltenden Kräfte
vertreten sind, das beste Einvernehmen
herzustellen". Zeitgleich formulierte er wörtlich:
„Polizeibeamte, die in Ausübung dieser Pflichten
(gegen staatsfeindliche Organisationen) von der
Schußwaffe Gebrauch machen, werden ohne
Rücksicht auf die Folgen des
Schußwaffengebrauchs von mir gedeckt" [51] Dies
bedeutete praktisch die Anordnung eines
Schießbefehls („Schießerlass") und beinhaltete
die unverhohlene Aufforderung zu politischer
Willkür zum Nutzen der NSDAP. Den regulären

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 19/11/2025

New release (1.7.0) of the ProjectNavigator package, the SwiftUI project navigator for macOS and iOS. I bit the bullet and adopted strict concurrency. Moreover, death to ‘Binding(get:set:)’. Check it out: github.com/mchakravarty/ProjectNavi…

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

The last talk of Do iOS is by Burcu K. Kutluay on “The Evolution of iOS Development & Swift Language” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

The talk after the coffee break at Do iOS is by @hiddevdploeg.bsky.social about “Less AI, more Magic” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

At Do iOS, we turn our attention back to Swift concurrency with @avanderlee.com telling us that “Swift 6.2 is here — It's time to migrate to Strict Concurrency.” Let’s get going! #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

The next talk at Do iOS is by Claire Sivadier on “Who Let the App Intents Out?” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

The last talk before lunch at Do iOS is taking us back to accessibility with @robinkanatzar.bsky.social speaking about “Engineering Accessibility: Practical, Maintainable, Testable” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

Next up, we turn to SwiftUi at Do iOS with @thomasdurand.fr talking about “Crafting SwiftUI components in the same way Apple does!” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 13/11/2025

The second day of Do iOS starts with a talk about accessibility by Bas Broek “Roasting your app's accessibility”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

The last talk of the first talk at Do iOS is by Lucy Galik addressing “The enemy within: how UIKit mindset is leaking into your SwiftUI views” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

At Do iOS, we are moving to Swift concurrency with “Swift Concurrency in 6.2: Patterns & Pitfalls Nobody Told You About” by Kanagasabapathy Rajkuma #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

Next Do iOS is changing gear, looking at multi-platform development with Swift. We have @joanniso.bsky.social with “Cross-Platform Swift - Reusing Code between iOS and Android” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

After lunch at Do iOS, we continue with the security topic with Pascal Jungblut, telling us “What Really Happens to Your iOS App During Compilation - and What it Exposes” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

We stay with the security topic in the next talk at Do iOS with Eric Bariaux on “Cryptography 101: What Every Swift Developer Should Understand” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

Next up at Do iOS is Peter Kurzok with a talk on “DeviceCheck - Securing your App’s Communication” #doios

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 12/11/2025

The first talk at Do iOS is immediately about a very important topic, namely privacy. It is by @carrascomolina.com with a talk entitled “The importance of Privacy on iOS”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 20/10/2025

“Uit de traditionele toets van verkiezingsprogramma’s door de Nederlandse orde van advocaten blijkt dat alleen de Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD), GroenLinks-PvdA en Volt binnen de rechtsstatelijke lijntjes kleuren.” (Cadeaulink in de volgende post)

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The last talk at @swiftconnection.bsky.social is by @steipete.me arguing that “You Can Just Do Things” sharing his excitement about GenAI tools for software development.

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Next up, we have Juan Moya on spatial computing with “Slide Into visionOS” at @swiftconnection.bsky.social

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Next we move to error handling at @swiftconnection.bsky.social with @jeehut.bsky.social talking about “Better Error Handling in Swift: From Obj-C Legacy to Swift 6 Power”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

We now have @manuelkehl.bsky.social kicking off the last session of @swiftconnection.bsky.social, continuing the SwiftUI theme with “SwiftUI Apps That Effortlessly Scale from Your Smallest to Your Biggest Screen”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The talk before the coffee break at @swiftconnection.bsky.social dives into designing components for SwiftUI, presented by @thomasdurand.bsky.social and called “Crafting Reusable SwiftUI Components the Same Way Apple Does!”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Next up at @swiftconnection.bsky.social, we dive into accessibility with @benfreiband.bsky.social talking about “What People Get Wrong with Accessibility”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Next at @swiftconnection.bsky.social, we have Montana Braswell with “When iOS Talks Back: Speaking and Listening Without Chaos”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

After the lunch break, we continue at @swiftconnection.bsky.social with Josh Holtz & Zach Brass with “A Talk... Two Ways”, which is about different styles of giving talks.

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The last talk before lunch at @swiftconnection.bsky.social completes the testing theme with Emma Gaubert on “To Test Is to Doubt? Using Swift Testing as an Alternative XCTest to Improve App Quality”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Continuing with the topic of testing, we next have Mike Gerasymenko talking about “Streamlining iOS Development with Selective Testing” at @swiftconnection.bsky.social

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The following talk at @swiftconnection.bsky.social is by Oleksii Kirizii on “Defence Against the Analytics Regressions”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The third talk today at @swiftconnection.bsky.social is by @quentinfasquel.bsky.social on “The Wonderful World of Private APIs”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

Next up at @swiftconnection.bsky.social, we have Samuel Hopstock talking about “What Really Happens to Your iOS App During Compilation - and What It Exposes”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 07/10/2025

The second day at @swiftconnection.bsky.social starts with a talk about coding with GenAI by @dimillian.app entitled “Building iOS Apps Without Xcode, Using Cursor, Claude Code and XcodeBuildMCP”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 06/10/2025

Finally, @swiftconnection.bsky.social is closing for today with a talk diving into virtualisation and containers by @krzyzanowskim.com entitled “Swift on Linux on Mac”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 06/10/2025

For the second to last talk for today at @swiftconnection.bsky.social, we change the topic again to go into live activities with Maxime de Chalendar talking about “Live Activities - Notifications That Users Actually Enjoy”

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 06/10/2025

Continuing with Liquid Glas, next up at @swiftconnection.bsky.social, we now have @inside.bsky.social with “Inside Liquid Glass: How iOS 26 Synthesizes Refractive UI” (getting into Core Animation)

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