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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 1h

Enjoy not walking for a few days :)

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9h

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9h

I'll give a longer version of my talk "Best Practices in SDK Design" at BuildStuff '25 in Vilnius Dec. 3-5! 🥳 If you want to join me, you can use the link in the next post to get a 15% discount! I really hope to see you there - it will be a lot of fun!
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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 13h

The KeyboardKit app is updated with many new features and settings, and improves the emoji keyboard and accessibility a great deal. Let me know if you decide to check it out - I'd love to hear what you think of it.

KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 13h

The KeyboardKit app has been updated with support for custom fonts and for clipboard & clips. These features make this an affordable alternative to many of the very expensive custom font apps in the App Store. This version also adds many new settings. Please share :)

keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/10...

KeyboardKit App 3.14 is out!

Version 3.14 of the KeyboardKit app is out! This update make the app use KeyboardKit 10, which adds features like font and clipboard supp...

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 1d

My talk from ServerSide is up!

ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 1d

More videos continue to land! Next up, Matt Massicotte teaches us how to approach approachable concurrency

youtu.be/eqeDPIK2Msc

How To Approach Approachable Concurrency - Matt Massicotte

🎥 Recorded at the ServerSide.swift conference in London in 2025. 🙌 Sponsored by Broken Hands: https://www.brokenhands.io 🐥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftserverconf 🐘 Mastodon:…

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 1d

I had a great sit down with my wife, who have analyzed the GA and Google Search Console setup for keyboardkit.com - she found SO many things that I have overlooked and configured incorrectly. Will be very interesting to see how the changes affect things over time.

Home

KeyboardKit is a powerful SDK for creating custom keyboard extensions

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 1d

It started as a toy, but Empire has turned into the most complex package I've worked on. Macros, parameter packs, very tricky concurrency and generics. And now I'm looking at lifetimes and Span. Don't fully understand them yet, but I now get why it exists.

github.com/mattmassicot...

GitHub - mattmassicotte/Empire: A local persistence system for Swift

A local persistence system for Swift. Contribute to mattmassicotte/Empire development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much! 😊

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 2d

I have modifiers called forceMultiline/Singleline that wraps this modifier, so that I’ll understand why I added it when I return to the code later.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 3d

I had a great time at @swiftleeds.co.uk, where I got to meet so many amazing people! Like we say in Sweden - "Ingen nämnd, ingen glömd" (No one mentioned, no one forgotten). I enjoyed giving my talk "Best Practices in SDK Development", and answer some questions here:
danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/10...

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 4d

The US needs a Democrat GOP event like the Clinton Jeltsin one to end this current travesty.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 4d

Same here.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sooo bummed out that Swift Connection and Swift Leeds happened at the same time this year. I think it would be amazing to have them in two connected weeks, so that you could attend one, hang out a few days, then head to the next.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I work on my apps while traveling, I realize how badly I have to replace this huge Realm dependency with SwiftData. 😴

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

I think it will :)

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you 🙏 Hope we get to meet again soon!

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

Likewise!

Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 10d

I’m flying to @swiftleeds.co.uk for my talk on SDK Best Practices. I’ve been looking forward to this for so long and can’t wait to see the other talks. It’s my third year attending SwiftLeeds, such a great conference! Let me know if you’re going and want to meet up. swiftleeds.co.uk

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JΛKΣ✌️ @mothmanshadow.com · 10d

Select all squares containing someone on the Jeffrey Epstein list.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 13d

I’m very happy with these StickerApp cuties 🤩 Come say hi and grab one if you’re at @swiftleeds.co.uk next week.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 13d

I decided to rewrite the DeckKit demo app in iOS 26 as part of bumping the library to Swift 6.1. Feels pretty nice :)

#SwiftUI

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 14d

I’ll bring tomatoes 🍅

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 14d

I've started bumping my various open-source #SwiftUI projects to Swift 6.1 and xOS 26. It's fun to play around with liquid glass in the various, very limited demo apps. The BadgeIcon project has a new demo app that lets you scale all the predefined icons.

github.com/danielsaidi/...

GitHub - danielsaidi/BadgeIcon: Create beautiful, scalable icons with SwiftUI.

Create beautiful, scalable icons with SwiftUI. Contribute to danielsaidi/BadgeIcon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 14d

I watched @peterfriese.dev live stream, as he tried to find a blog post on my website and mentioned the lack of search. The next morning, I asked ChatGPT to fix it...while I was exercising. I came home to an (almost) effortless copy paste. And now I have search. Will add to the other sites tonight.

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