Dave Anderson

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Code along with the Foundation Models framework - Meet With Apple - Videos - Apple Developer Get hands-on experience using the Foundation Models framework to access Apple's on-device LLM. In this online session, you can code along...

Missed the live stream? You can now code-along at your own pace and use the Foundation Models framework with #Swift.

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Code along with the Foundation Models framework - Meet With Apple - Videos - Apple Developer Get hands-on experience using the Foundation Models framework to access Apple's on-device LLM. In this online session, you can code along...

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bsky.app/profile/serv... any Belgium students or other Young devs out there? I have one ticket to donate. Ping me I would only need your email.

+1 to the counter tracking the number of times I’ve wanted an alternative to a GET/POST with a request body.

The HTTP QUERY method draft was republished again yesterday. I hope one of these times it makes it past draft.

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As you continue on your journey of making Apps, you may find it useful to have more than one version of Xcode installed at the same time.

The Xcodes app can help make it easy to have a beta, the current release and a previous release all installed at the same time.

www.xcodes.app

You may want to try

xed .

to open the project/workspace/package in the current directory.

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We've got an exciting two-day event on Feb 5 and 6, held in person at the #Apple Developer Center Cupertino and live-streamed online, where you'll learn how #SwiftUI can help you quickly and easily elevate your apps.

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2/ Lots of useful shortcut keys can help you navigate around the command line:
^A: beginning of line
^E: end of line
^K: delete to end of line
^U: erase the whole line
^T: transpose the characters either side of the cursor

For those of you following along with #AdventOfCode, you're probably groaning as you refresh your memory of regular expressions! Unless you're using #Swift, which has this lovely mini-DSL for expressing them. The two expressions below are equivalent, and Xcode can help you convert from the former.

swiftlang enthusiasts: last call for the #fosdem swift devroom call for proposals. dec 1 is the deadline! we want to see you in brussels! 🏎️

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Four loaves of baked whole wheat bread and a fully operational HP 48GX calculator with a fresh screen.

Success on both fronts!

The screen from a donor calculator has this 30 year old keepsake working like new.

And the bread… will soon be sliced for some butter + honey.

Four loaves of unbaked bread with two partially disassembled HP 48GX calculators and tools in the background.

Baking bread + repairing an old calculator.

Not a common combination or everyone’s form of relaxation, but… I’m having fun!

(I promise there’s no cross-contamination. Lots of hand and surface washing between each context switch.)

Follow the docs for exponential backoff for retries.
Set the bucket lifecycle configuration to delete incomplete multipart uploads.
MediaConvert works well to transcode.

Thanks for creating these to help people find their peers.