Dave Lester

PaperCall.io - ServerSide.swift 2025 ServerSide.swift is a framework-independent, server-side Swift conference, to bring all of the community toghether to learn and share. The conference is aimed at being a non-profit conference and…

Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @serversideswift.info, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim.bsky.social is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. www.papercall.io/serversidesw... #SwiftLang

[meetup] Swift Server Meetup #5 - Online - June 23rd 📅 Monday, June 23rd, 2025 🕖 7pm CEST (10am PDT / 1pm EDT) 🌐 Online – https://youtube.com/live/0JrLkHgZa-k We’re excited to invite you to the next Swift Server Side Meetup, where Swift takes a…

Join the @swift.org server meetup group online in less than an hour. Talks feature embedded Swift and edge AI forums.swift.org/t/meetup-swi... #swiftlang

#Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from #Java to #Swift!

The result❓

40% increase in throughput and significantly reduced memory usage - freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity.

Learn more: bit.ly/4mZcs1T

#InfoQ #Performance #SoftwareDevelopment

Ahem... 🆕

In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

The story behind the Apple Password Monitoring service, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world, which was recently rewritten in Swift: www.swift.org/blog/swift-a...

Experimental Drug Tested in Mice Repairs The Eye to Restore Vision Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve c...

“Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve cell regeneration in the retina.”
#scicomm
#neuroskyence

www.sciencealert.com/experimental...
🧪 🧠 👁️

YouTube video by NPR Music Alt-J: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sunday morning vibe: Alt-J (2012 tiny desk concert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdp...

Saw Jake Xerxes Fussell in concert tonight in Novato! Great show.

📰 Announcing Swift 6.1 📰 With ergonomic improvements to concurrency, simpler Objective-C interop, productivity and package improvements: swift.org/blog/swift-6... Install with Xcode 16.3 or the new swiftly version manager!

Spring is here (in the northern hemisphere) 🪺🐣 -- and what could be a better time for some code tidying? Fortunately Periphery is here to rescue us, building unused code detection on top of swift-syntax. Have you tried it? github.com/peripheryapp...

Swift 6.2 Release Process This post describes the release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 6.2. Snapshots of Swift 6.2 Downloadable snapshots of the Swift 6.2 release branch will be posted regularly as part of contin...

Swift 6.2 Release process announced: forums.swift.org/t/swift-6-2-... #swiftlang

Thrilled to have rejoined Apple as a Senior Product Manager for Swift!

Announcing the New NixOS Foundation Board Hey Everyone! + Happy Almost 22nd Birthday to Nix 😉 The NixOS Foundation board rotation selection has concluded, and we’re excited to introduce the new board members! This is the first rotation held ...

The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing... #noxos #opensource

FOSDEM 2025 - Stream K.4.401

Standing room only in the #swiftlang DevRom at #fosdem! Starting at the top of the hour and live streaming online: live.fosdem.org/watch/k4401

Up next at #fosdem in building K! “Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack. Lessons learned from Swift” #swiftlang

Google’s #opensource program office is hiring! We’re looking for people who have experience working at the intersection of open source and business, and who enjoy working with engineering and product teams to get things done

(We also enjoy OSS puns and animal memes)

www.google.com/about/career...

Poetry as religion Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 09/02/2024 · 59m

The full episode “Poetry as Religion” was a great listen as well podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A poem for the week ahead, [Traveler, your footprints], by Antonio Muchado www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58815/....

I particularly like the English translation that Jennifer Michael Hecht read on the The Gray Area podcast, which ended with “Traveler, there is no path, only a foam trail on the sea”

Bell Labs Holmdel Complex - Wikipedia

TIL: Lumon's office building in Severance is actually the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_La...

I have a lot of flexibility in my schedule during #FOSDEM -- feel free to say hello if you want to catch up or talk about package ecosystems, open source programs, or developer tools!

Looking forward to being in Brussels for @fosdem.bsky.social, including the Swift DevRoom!

From the homepage of Hacker News: "Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 12: Move Semantics" by Doug Gregor www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... As a commenter noted, you may want to start with Part 1: www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-.... #swiftlang

Embedded Swift, Swift on Server, IoT, Cross-Platform Development, and more -- excited about the range of talks in the #swiftlang Developer Room at #fosdem next month

First time having eggnog and the verdict is… that it’s delicious

Earlier this year I briefly presented at GitHub's OSPO Advisory Board meeting about analyzing GitHub Data with BigQuery, which inspired this written tutorial: davelester.github.io/gharchive-bi.... Open to ideas and feedback on how to improve and expand the resource.

That does the job.
Merry Christmas everyone!

A new prospective #swiftlang vision was just published for accessors. github.com/rjmccall/swi... The relevant forum post is here: forums.swift.org/t/prospectiv...

swift-evolution/visions at main · swiftlang/swift-evolution This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language. - swiftlang/swift-evolution

If you're interested in delving deeper into the design of recent #swiftlang technical directions, as well as the requirements that are driving their development, I highly recommend exploring the Swift vision documents:

Fantastic article in the latest issue of iOS Dev Weekly which features some of the work Luke Howard is doing to develop a hardware project that uses #swiftlang

Paris by Nils Frahm on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 10 Songs

A new live album by Nils Frahm dropped last week music.apple.com/us/album/par...