Joseph Heck

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...

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

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...

My thoughts (and 9 tips) from my journey so far in learning how to use agentic coding tools.

🚀 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...

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.

The most challenging aspect of software development has been the lack of documentation.

The best thing I ever made

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.

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.

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.

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.

YouTube video by Swift Craft On Progressive Disclosure in Swift - Doug Gregor - Swift Craft 2025

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)

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.

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?

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.

Shades of Nausicaa in that form...

i wish there’d been any doubt in my mind. it would have made these past months much easier.

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.

📢 #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

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)

🎄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

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

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

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

look like Kevin caught a bit of it. Nice shot: mastodon.social/@KevinFreita...

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.

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.

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...

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

It (kto.so) is popping up with an invalid cert error through Cloudflare from here, asserting a host issue

YouTube video by SwiftServerConf Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen

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...

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!

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!