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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · 14d

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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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · 16d

Get hands-on experience using the Foundation Models framework, starting in 30 minutes!

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

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...

developer.apple.com

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · May 20

Join us online the week of WWDC to ask questions and learn more details about our biggest announcements.

Register for Group Labs today!

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On the horizon. - Latest News - Apple Developer

Here’s what's in store for WWDC25. Join us online from June 9 to 13 for a week of technology and creativity.Learn moreRegister for group labsAccessibility technologies group labApple Intelligence tech...

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · May 19

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.

ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · May 19

Tickets are now live! Super early birds are expected to go very quickly so get them while you can!

www.serversideswift.info/tickets/

Tickets | ServerSide.swift Conference

ServerSide.swift - the conference for server-side Swift developers

www.serversideswift.info

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Dec 11

+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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The HTTP QUERY Method

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Dec 8

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

Xcodes - Manage multiple versions of Xcode

Download Xcode easily with a mouse click or a Command Line Interface

www.xcodes.app

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Dec 7

You may want to try

xed .

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

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Joshua Tidsbury @joshtidsbury.bsky.social · Dec 6

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.

Hope you can join us! Details in the link.

developer.apple.com/events/view/...

Meet with Apple - Apple Developer

Learn and be inspired with a variety of live presentations, labs, and programs for developers and designers around the world.

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Tim Sneath @sneath.org · Dec 4

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

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Tim Sneath @sneath.org · Dec 3

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.

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paris. @parisinbmore.bsky.social · Nov 28

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

swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Nov 25

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

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Nov 25

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.)

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

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Nov 16

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

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Dave Anderson @electrobarn.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thanks for creating these to help people find their peers.

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