Joseph Heck
heckj.bsky.social
Joseph Heck
@heckj.bsky.social
Developer, Technical Writer, forever a student
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Curious about Apple's #Containerization Framework & Tooling projects? Catch us in ATL next week!

🍑Mon 12-4PM: Container Install Meetup - demos, Q&As & more: www.meetup.com/kubernetes-a...

🍑Tues @ #KubeCon: Keynote-Apple Containerization + BoF: The Future of macOS Containers w/ #CloudNative Tooling
Container Install Meetup, Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
The Cloud Native Atlanta Group is excited to host members of the Apple Containerization dev team for a fun KubeCon 0 Day event. Join us on Monday November 10th before we k
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
look like Kevin caught a bit of it. Nice shot: mastodon.social/@KevinFreita...
Kevin Freitas (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Cloud drama north of downtown right now. Bit of Sun and blue sky here in West Sea. #wawx #seattle #CloudDrama #WestSeattle #pnw
mastodon.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
the light is dramatic and moody in #seattle today. deep grey clouds, bright sections where the sun breaks through, and rain spatters across the windows refracting it all.

tried a couple of photos, but couldn’t get it to capture what I was seeing.
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
my niece is learning to use some of their tools in school this year, and reports frequent disgust with expense vs quality. we had a long talk about industry lock-in vs actual value. She’ll use it if she has to, but i’d be amazed if she ever advocated for it in the future.
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Swift project is starting up digest posts on their blog, and I had the good fortune to be the guest voice, sharing some of the cool things from October. www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

I kind of expect the format to morph as we try this out, but i’m really happy to see this happenin’ #swiftlang
What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition
Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a monthly digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift worl...
www.swift.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It (kto.so) is popping up with an invalid cert error through Cloudflare from here, asserting a host issue
kto.so
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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My talk from Server Side Swift is up! Talking about how languages make the trade-off between easy to write and fast at runtime, and how (shockingly!) I think #Swift strikes the right balance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3h...
Usability Meets Performance in Swift - Ben Cohen
YouTube video by SwiftServerConf
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October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Congratulations- to you and the whole gang who've been working tirelessly to enable this! It's such a brilliant add to Swift primarily driven from the community!
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One of the coolest things about this SDK is that its development was almost entirely driven by the community, NOT folks at Apple. There's folks doing some seriously cool things with the Swift language!
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android
October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Swift and OpenTelemetry updates keep rolling in! The latest release of Swift Async HTTP Client github.com/swift-server... now includes automatic tracing support. Including a core path for web requests from Vapor or Hummingbird really steps up the observability for these services! #swiftlang
Release Async HTTP Client 1.29.0 · swift-server/async-http-client
What's Changed SemVer Minor Introduce built-in swift-distributed-tracing support by @ktoso in #857 Other Changes Enable Swift 6.2 jobs in CI by @rnro in #859 Full Changelog: 1.28.0...1.29.0
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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It's been an incredible year for the conference. We had attendees from 6(!) continents come together for an amazing 3 days of workshops, talks and meeting each other face to face. Thank you to all the volunteers and speakers, it's been truly special
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Kind of exhausted and excited at the same time, winding down for the flight home from @serversideswift.info conference. A stellar #swiftlang community sharing & new voices adding into the mix this year.

@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!
October 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Very sweet config library that'll change how we configure libraries across the ecosystem. No more hardcoded values; easy reloading and overriding etc. @czechboy0 #swiftlang
October 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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If a team that lived in C and Go can build production container infrastructure in Swift, the language is ready for serious server-side systems work. - Eric Ernst, Apple #swiftlang #serversideSwift2025

github.com/apple/contai...
GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creati...
github.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
Most existing algorithms for replicated lists, which are widely used in collaborative text editors, suffer from a problem: when two users concurrently insert text at the same position in the document,...
arxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The expanding ecosystem for Swift Server #swiftlang #serversides.swift
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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This team is central to the Swift OSS experience. And it's in Canada!
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Exciting stuff coming out of the Swift ecosystem! 👇 Catch @czechboy0.dev at @serversideswift.info next Friday @ 16:15 if you want to learn more! www.serversideswift.info/schedule/
September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Observability is super important for production systems - Moritz Lang and Si Beaumont are going to give us the low down on how to do it in Swift!

Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...

Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/
September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️

forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
Introducing Swift Configuration
Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...
forums.swift.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Did just realize there is actually a BTree structure in the swift-collections package but it’s not released yet 😔

The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections
September 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Last lear was the first in-person conference in ages for me - Server Side Swift @serversideswift.info, I had a blast and it was amazing to be part of the community in action. So i’m super stoked to be going back, attending again this year, and looking forward to the amazing line up of speakers!
September 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM