Ben Cohen

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the da...

I wrote about @telemetrydeck.com on the official Swift blog swift.org/blog/buildin...

Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Serverless Swift It’s Swift on Server, minus the server. Deployed on AWS via Swift Cloud.

Controling your Philips Lighting Hue lights with Swift on AWS Lambda.

The whole infra runs serverless for less than $0.20 / month!

www.ryantoken.com/bl...

Thank you Ryan Token for having written this.
cc @swiftlang

The "is this a bird" meme where the guy is pointing to a butterfly. The guy is captioned "blogger using a text editor" and the butterfly "text editor code". He is saying "is this the singularity?"

ai blogger: my god do you see this, the tools are being used to build the next generation of tools!
compiler engineer dealing with ugly bootstrapping issue: huh, you don’t say

the stock market is supposed to be up most of the time! this is like her yelling "2026 is the highest year number on record"

CO₂

despite their owners best efforts

YouTube video by Swift Meetups Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI

This demo of ElementaryUI from the pre-fosdem #swift meetup was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing where it can go.

youtu.be/OmQ881sOTIc

Swift for Wasm January 2026 Updates Swift for Wasm January 2026 Updates I'm excited to share our recent progress by the Swift for WebAssembly community. Our number of active contributors is growing, and we're happy to see Simon Leeb an...

Swift for #Wasm January 2026 Updates is out, lots of great stuff done by the community this month! forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-...

Jamie Dimon and @postopinions.bsky.social should check their facts. Right now, federal law prevents states from doing this—and it's the big banks who want to keep it that way.

If you want to get on board to let states cap credit card rates and lower costs, I’m ready to pass the bill.

idk inability to execute acted as a natural restraint on imposing these terrible ideas on others

Computer games be like, this corporate employee has 5 emails in their inbox.

its part of the war on protein

tracks…

A post from the Grok account on x.com Dear Community, I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an Al image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt. This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM. It was a failure in safeguards, and I'm sorry for any harm caused. xAl is reviewing to prevent future issues. Sincerely, Grok

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER IS IDEAL FOR
ISSUING APOLOGIES

a bald man with a beard is making a funny face Alt: A gif of Picard yelling “there are four lights”

me counting the syllables in zucchini

For years I’ve believed there is a punchline that goes with “what’s a semaphore?” but never been able to come up with one.

I think it's like penne but without the ridges and a bit longer.

cosigned by those of us who live on a street that gets jammed every summer weekend because it forms part of that shortcut

A photo of a dog-eared book of the original radio scripts for: HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPTS BY DOUGLAS ADAMS EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY PERKINS (WHO PRODUCED IT) WITH ANOTHER INTRODUCTION BY, DOUGLAS ADAMS, LARGELY CONTRADICTING THE ONE BY GEOFFREY PERKINS

Accurate script dialog brought to you by one of my most beloved childhood possessions.

Screenshot of headline from The Verge OpenAl says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is 'warmer' and has more 'personality' options / You can now toggle between Default, Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical.

FORD: They make a big thing out of the ship’s cybernetics. "A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature."
ARTHUR: GPP? What’s that?
FORD: Er ...... It says Genuine People Personalities.
ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.

The #swiftlang toolchain is now available on Amazon Linux 2023.

Two years after my first commit allowing Swift to compile on Amazon Linux 2023, it took a while team effort to make this happen.

Get started and deploy your Swift apps in the cloud today!

Checkout the new blog post about the Temporal SDK we released at the @serversideswift.info conference. This is a great addition to our amazing Swift ecosystem 🚀

There’s also comorse and antimorse but you only read about them in textbooks.

Swift on aws lambda moves into the official @awscloud.bsky.social org 😊 many years in the making! #swiftlang

The recipe called for two cups of shredded chicken but you can't know how much that is until it is fully cooked and shredded and also it varies depending on how extensively you shred it and weight has none of these problems.

I posted this to the other place originally but decided to repost it here so I could quote it to complain that a recipe calls for cups-worth of chicken.