Jace T. Chan

@peterfriese.dev I imagine this would be a lot harder, but I would love to make a standalone copy of the SwiftUI documentation too! Do you think it’s possible?

I got featured in @peterfriese.dev ‘s really cool Not Only Swift newsletter!!! 😮😄

In any case, I appreciate the share. Seems useful. I’ll evaluate!

Cassidy on AI Cassidy doesn't use AI on her website, but she does talk about it sometimes!

I dunno when or where it’s worth mentioning this (probably everywhere), but I don’t use AI to create any stuff I post online (unless explicitly mentioned, in which case it’s usually comedic/satirical).

I first learned about the /ai page from @cassidoo.co . I intend to make my own at some point!

Other times, I have my computer display off (sleeping) but the background sounds still running while I’m doing tasks in front of my workstation. Like reading a technical paper, for example. In those instances, muting wouldn’t be ideal (though of course I can just not run the app!)

To your reply:

Thanks for the recc! I’ll take a look. Do you happen to know if it auto-pauses any playing media when the sleep condition is met? I prefer the former to auto-mute since muted media still plays and can cause me to return to an unexpected place in a podcast, for example.

First off, congratulations for being my 🥇 first ever reader! :) I’ve been on and off with the goal to write more, even if it has always been for myself. I don’t collect any analytics (and have no desire to do so), so I don’t know who actually sees this. Mentions like these are so nice, so thank you!

Oh my!! Thanks for putting this on my radar. I’ve been itching go to my first Swift conf.

Was considering Deep Dish Swift, Swift Craft, Swift Leeds, and try! Swift Tokyo. Couldn’t make ANY of those dates sadly.

I’m highly considering this one because it actually works out well with my schedule! :)

Really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing!

Even though I’m primarily interested in computing, I love it when we breach the gates of topicality. I see worth also in exploring under the same breath re: politics, policy, governance.

Heck or even learning how to paint.

Do I *really* know my tools? 😅

I’d hate to be at the other side of the this for fear of messing up, but even this part gave me quite the chuckle:

> And then he’d see whether they would actually admit “I don’t know the answer to that”, or whether they would bluff. He knew that nobody understood the system all of the way down.

I set mine to US Letter. It worked perfectly. I love how I can make notes in the margins, too.

In case anyone decides to go this route and sees this, these are the settings I used on Lulu:

Book: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm), Color, 60# White — Uncoated, Hardcover Case Wrap, Matte Cover

It was $49.39 delivered stateside and zero misprints! Can you believe it?! 😄

Literally uploaded the Swift lang typeset PDF as is, added my custom cover, and it worked like a charm!

I chose color print. And found some random 10% off coupon before ordering. Other competitors were 3x the price!

I designed the cover quickly using their interactive designer. I didn’t want it to be too bare, so I chose the color Swift lang uses.

I guess I should mention this is for private use only. No intention to sell it or claim any affiliation or endorsement by Apple, of course.

Using it is such a joy!

It’s exists in my hands because of you! The only thing I’ll have to figure out which diffs to print when the language updates. Because this version is forever stuck at v6.2.3 😂

I evaluated a lot of different print services, and ended up going with a service called Lulu! Cheapest and best quality!

Photo of The Swift Programming Language as a physical print textbook. The cover is red. The book is propped up on a flat surface.

Photo of The Swift Programming Language as a physical print textbook. The cover is red. The book is lying flat against a level surface.

Photo of The Swift Programming Language as a physical print textbook. The book is displayed open against a flat surface. The print quality is impressive.

Photo of The Swift Programming Language as a physical print textbook. The cover is red. The back of the book is displayed, showing a description of Swift.

A month ago, @peterfriese.dev turned the @swift.org language into a typeset PDF. Today I turned it into a physical print textbook. This was such a fun project!

Words cannot describe how immensely grateful I am this reference now exists in my hands. Learning is now more accessible to me. Thank you!!

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

Substantive piece as usual! Apt b/c lately I’ve been interested in the spirit of the old web. LLMs affect it. It’s b/c of you I’ve actually started being more active online with intent. And we even had a nice and thoughtful discussion about your piece the other week. Just wanted to let you know! :)

RSS is still a treasure. I just switched to @netnewswire.com the other day, and it is excellent! And they just launched 7.0 of the iOS app today with Liquid Glass :)

This makes me sad!

Okay, wow. After only a few minutes in, I also wasn't expecting to utter the same thing. I've been purposefully forgoing any agentic tooling since I want really solid fundamentals. I wonder if I'm holding myself back at times. Will read up on Xcode 26.3 later. It's getting harder to resist... geez!

Congrats!!! So appreciate that you created a space for iOS devs, especially @iosdevhappyhour.com ! It was so helpful and fun when I was just getting started not too long ago. Good luck with the new job! :)

   Sketch 🤝 Claude
Great with an MCP server

We shipped our MCP server back in October last year. Here are five (of many!) things we’ve been using it for 🧵 ↓

(We’re big Claude Code fans here, but you can use any MCP-compatible client)

Whomever is writing these docs in the last few months is on fire. Well done! 🔥

Also, this is such a good use case that I haven’t considered. I was just starting to get worried that my solo project could grow out of control considering I’m just one person who isn’t even a designer!

Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in dark mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature with cover photo. There are currently 146 members with 25 posts.

The Birds community I made on #Digg just got featured!!! 🥳🦜

We passed 100 members yesterday and we’re almost at 150!!

Makes me so happy to build this small and budding community of people who enjoy birds :)

Ok this is one of the most creative things I’ve seen on the developer side of the internet in 2026 so far!!! 🤩

I really believe that we should support smaller Not Huge™ companies if we can. It's really nice to know that @sketch.com is investing more into developing community this year. We need more content on Sketch! Can't wait to learn and grow with them, and seeing what they come up with on this front.

Over at the new #Digg, I spent a few days moderating /birds before making my introductory post in another community I founded at / #SwiftUI.

I ended up accidentally writing a lot of words. Decided to hit post before I chicken out at my own cringe.

Here’s to building community! 😬

Clean!! What are you using to implement the toggle drop-down behavior?

This is SO LOVELY. Thank you @peterfriese.dev !!!

Birds Community | Digg As the birds know, the sky is the limit!

And check out #birds while you're at it! 🕊️

#birding #digg