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We’re growing our product team!

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This is a remote full-time position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.

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1. You are a senior iOS Developer comfortable with a mature codebase
2. Proficient in #Swift and #Apple Frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine)
3. Prior experience with social media networks is a big plus!

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iOS Developer (m/f/d)

We're looking for a full-time remote iOS Developer to work on our official Mastodon iOS app.
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#apple #app #Mastodon #ios #mastodev #hiring #FediHire #getfedihired #swift

Because of the broken #accessibility in #SWIFT UI tables with VOiceOver, it is not possible to interact with the text of posts when using Mona app. What I have to do is to copy “last spoken phrase" to clipboard, paste it into an editor, read it, discard it, then read on. I'm happy the solution exists, but OMG! :)
#Accessibility #swift

hey there #Swift folks. At this years #WWDC #Apple had introduced a Translation API, allowing our apps to utilize the built-in translate feature. However I see a major drawback in this API, it can be executed only from the UI. Isn't there any programmatic way to translate the text and get the result as a string? My usecase would be inside an app extension.
#apple #swift #WWDC

Some time ago I have written an article about interesting way to use Strings in #Swift. If you wish, feel free to take a look and tell me what I did wrong.

nunonuno.micro.blog/2024/05/01…

#programming #apple #iOS #macOS

Some interesting things we can do with strings in Swift

Today I want to discuss strings in Swift Hello everyone. I am trying to reinforce my knowledge of some interesting topics by writing about them.
nunonuno.micro.blog
#apple #ios #programming #MACOS #swift

Check out the latest blog post on the #swiftlang website about the #adwaita for #swift package!

swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

You can find the repo on GitHub: github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita…

#linux #libadwaita #gnome #gtk


GitHub - AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift: A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI

A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI - AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift
GitHub
#linux #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #swift #adwaita #swiftlang

The #gnome app "Memorize" is on Flathub!

flathub.org/apps/io.github.dav…

It is written using Adwaita for #swift with an interface very similar to #swiftui.

github.com/david-swift/Memoriz…

#linux #flathub #libadwaita


Install Memorize on Linux | Flathub

Study flashcards
Flathub
#linux #gnome #libadwaita #flathub #swift #swiftui

Currently working on two #gnome apps!

- Scripter: A simple app for basic scripts ⌨️ & calculations 📐 [GitHub: github.com/david-swift/Scripte…]
- Flashcards: Create, edit, and study flashcard sets 🎓 - easily import your existing Quizlet sets [GitHub: github.com/david-swift/Flashca…]

Both are written in #swift using an interface similar to #swiftui for #gtk and #libadwaita [GitHub: github.com/AparokshaUI/Adwaita]

A native GNOME app with a code view containing Python code and a sidebar on the right showing the output of that code
A native GNOME app with a list of sets in the sidebar on the left and a "carousel view" in the main view showing the flashcards in the selected set
A native GNOME app with a view showing a word (the flashcard's "front") and a text field for entering the answer (the "back").
A native GNOME app showing a list of flashcards, showing the user's answer directly below the question. Some answers are marked green, one answer is marked red because it is wrong.

GitHub - AparokshaUI/Adwaita: A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI

A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI - GitHub - AparokshaUI/Adwaita: A framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI
GitHub
#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #swift #swiftui

I came across a blog from a 2 years ago that compared different implementations of dot product. It had a couple interesting points. The cost of functional programming in #Swift was huge (31x on M1 and 198x on x86). I did an equivalent test in #Rust and the cost was 1x (on M2). That lets programmers use the high level abstractions without dreading the performance costs.

Rust:
left.iter().zip(right.iter())
.map(|(&l, &r)| l * r )
.sum::<f64>()
eclecticlight.co/2021/08/04/wh…


When idiomatic code is slower, and how to Accelerate

Benchmarking 32-bit Float vector dot-product calculations using Swift, NEON assembly, and Apple’s SIMD libraries, on Intel and M1 Macs.
The Eclectic Light Company
#rust #swift

OK, trying an experiment with my Programming Languages class!

• Have an AI generate some of your writing assignment.
• Critique its output. Call BS on its BS.

Assignment details in screenshots below. I’ll let you know how it goes.

(Here are the links from the screenshots:)

Raw AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/7b68…

Comments on AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/d51b…

(Better) Human Text
gist.github.com/pcantrell/f363…

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered
#swift #proglang

Project check-in 2: Shred the AI Due Friday by 6pm I asked the ChatGPT AI to explain the core concept behind our Swift optionals activity. The AI produced an answer that was very impressive…for an AI. For a human, the answer would be pretty bad writing: fastidiously grammatical but verbose, full of fluff and waste, repeating ideas instead of synthesizing them, and sometimes just flat-out wrong. Here is what the AI wrote Links to an external site.. Here are my comments on its response Links to an external site.. (Don’t worry: I won’t be this detailed or this harsh with your writing. I want to be as critical as I can be, and I know I won’t hurt the AI’s feelings.) Here is my own attempt at a better answer to the same questions Links to an external site.. The fundamental problem with the AI’s answer is that it doesn’t really know what its main point is. It meanders around the relevant concepts, but it never quite manages to get to the heart of the central idea at hand. It is parroting fragments of the words of others, hoping that somehow they will coalesce into a coherent new thought. (They don’t.) It’s uncanny how much it’s like bad student writing. If I didn’t know this was written by an AI, I would probably think it was written by a student (or maybe an employee at a web content farm) trying to fill out their minimum word count at the last minute based on nothing but hasty web searching.
You all can do much better than the AI! Instead of doing a traditional pre-submission project check-in, I have a challenge for you: ask an AI to write a few paragraphs of your paper, and then critique its output. Here’s what to do: Use an AI (ChatGPT or other) to generate a few paragraphs of your final project. You can use the AI to generate English text or code, whichever is appropriate to your project. You can use ChatGPT or a different AI. The OpenAI account you need for ChatGPT is cheap but not free, and maybe a little intrusive. If you don’t want to set up an account and generate text yourself, let me know your topic and I will happily generate some text for you. Just ask. Save the raw text the AI gave you. Write comments about the AI’s output, much like the ones I wrote above. You can write your comments inline like I did, or use the Comments / Suggested Edits features of Google Docs, or use the Review / Track Changes features of MS Word. Consider the following: What is correct, a good point? What is wrong? What is missing? (This is the hardest one.) What is useless, just filler language? You do not have to be as detailed as I was with the AI. Quick notes are fine! Please send me (1) the original AI text and (2) your comments.
You do not have to create the “better human version” like I did. Of course, doing so might help you write your paper. If you choose to do that, however, don’t let the AI decide your paper’s structure for you. It might give you some good ideas for things to talk about! It might point out some ideas and resources you hadn’t considered! But it might also mislead you into a line of argument that is wrong (as the AI did with my response above), or into a structure that doesn’t make sense. Don’t switch off your own good sense — not for a computer, and not for a human either. Not ever. JUST TO BE CLEAR: Using an AI to help write your assignment would be cheating in most circumstances. Don’t let the fact that we are doing this as an exercise confuse you about the ethics of coursework in general! If you think an AI would help you with an assignment, you need to ask your instructor. Hopefully you already know all that, but I do not want to leave any confusion about it.

Raw AI text.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
#AI #education #writing #swift #chatgpt #highered #proglang

The first half hour of @rjmccall’s talk provides really good insight into Apple’s plans and motivation for Swift: a single successor language for C/C++/Obj-C for the entire stack, including kernel and embedded systems. Focused on correctness, safety, and security. Incremental adoption is key, hence the importance of interop with C, Obj-C, and now C++. #Swift

“Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases”: youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFr…


Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023

https://www.cppnow.org​https://www.linkedin.com/company/cppnow---Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023...
YouTube
#swift @John McCall

Today I'm excited to finally introduce @walleri!

Walleri is a Mastodon Client that lets you listen to your timeline instead of reading it!

Here is the TestFlight Link: testflight.apple.com/join/kex6…

If you have any feedback - good or bad, don't hesitate to reach out!

#walleri #swift #swiftlang #swiftui #ios #iosdev #iosdevelopment #tootsdk #fedidev #mastodonapi #buildinpublic #mastodev #testflight #xcode #indiedev

Join the Walleri beta

Available on iOS
testflight.apple.com
#ios #indiedev #mastodev #swift #iosdev #swiftlang #swiftui #tootsdk #xcode #walleri #iosdevelopment #fedidev #mastodonapi #BuildInPublic #testflight @Walleri

Man Reader - my Mac app for reading Terminal command man pages - has finally had its long awaited update. The new version is now waiting for review.

Currently, Man Reader costs USD 4.99 or the local equivalent. I will be increasing this to USD 9.99 when the update is released, so if you want to save some money, buy it now and get the upgrade at half-price.

itunes.apple.com/app/man-reade…

#macOS #swift #terminal #zsh #bash

Man Reader app showing its own man page.

‎Man Reader

‎Man Reader allows quick, convenient and easy access to the man pages on your system, useful for programmers, system administrators and tweakers.
App Store
#bash #terminal #MACOS #swift #zsh

One thing I particularly like about Rust — which I’m very new to — is how thoughtfully the compiler errors and warnings have been designed. It not only diagnoses and explains the problem: it provides a possible solution. Genius.

This is the essence of good design: it’s compassionate, anticipating the needs and wants of another person. I can’t think of another language that does anything like this. Certainly not Swift, not that I’m bitter.

#rust #swift

A screenshot of compiler errors from Rust in the macOS command line, showing the source of the error, a detailed explanation, and possible solutions to the problem.
#rust #swift

Using #GTK and #Libadwaita in #swift Attempt Number 2.

Instead of using GIR to generate the code, use hand-written bindings.
More work? - Yes

Full coverage? - No

Better API and easier to use? - Yes

#gtk #libadwaita #swift

XMPP + Google Summer of Code 2023

Project presentation:

@Monal - Monal is a modern #iOS and #MacOS XMPP chat client

wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

monal-im.org/

#XMPP #GSoC2023 #GSOC, #Google #interoperability #standards #federation #SwiftUI #Swift #ObjC

Monal

Monal IM - https://github.com/monal-im/monal
Monal
#xmpp #google #ios #federation #gsoc #interoperability #MACOS #GSoC2023 #standards #swift #swiftui #objc @monal-im.org :xmpp:

Fellow #iOS #swift #swiftui developers. Do you know if the ButtonRole structure actually does anything purposeful? With #VoiceOver, I cannnot get any indication whatsoever about the button’s role, while at the AppleDeveloper documentation site: developer.apple.com/documentat…, they state that such an info should be conveyed. Is there any visual indication of the role? If so, what?

Apple Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com
#ios #swift #voiceover #swiftui

Finally got around implementing #swift demangling support for #GNOME Sysprof (Not upstream (yet?))

The power of FLOSS, a feature you really want is missing? - Just add it

#gnome #swift

Big news for everyone who runs Swift on server swift.org/blog/future-of-found…

#swift #serversideswift

#swift #serversideswift

#Dev recommendations 6. #RegEx can be a hard topic for every new person starting with #programming. However don’t be scared of them because they are useful and fun! If you struggle to learn #RegularExpressions here are my favorite resources.
1. regex101.com. This website is your all in one toolbox for regular expressions, with tutorials, reference and a very advanced debugger which can visualise the expression’s output. All for free, and with #accessibility for the #blind out of the box.
2. youtube.com/watch?v=r6I-Ahc0HB…
A little course on regular expressions. The teaching is cler and the guy explains everything on the way.
As always, if you have any questions about #RegEx, #csharp #dotnet, #swift or anything else, feel free to ask me!

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET.
regex101
#Accessibility #blind #programming #dev #swift #dotnet #RegEx #RegularExpressions #csharp

One of the coolest tools we use at #1Password has been #opensource ’d!

I present to you Typeshare 2.0! A way to share Rust types across the FFI (supports, Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Go). We use it everyday and I love it, makes things so easy and awesome.

github.com/1Password/typeshare

#rust #swift #kotlin #go #golang #rustlang


GitHub - 1Password/typeshare: Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI.

Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI. - GitHub - 1Password/typeshare: Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchron...
GitHub
#opensource #rust #kotlin #go #RustLang #swift #golang #1password

Hi, I'm treefit, a #foss dev working on #deltachat. I'm responsible for the desktop client together with @jikstra.
My favorite coding language is #rustlang, but I "speak" #typescript, #javascript, #html, #css, too.
I'm also capable in #python and #swift, but not as much.

I'm new to the mastodon/toot style of communication (never used Twitter, either), so I'm still learning of how this all works.

My goal is to give you some behind-the scenes peeks onto the DeltaChat development.

#introduction

#foss #html #typescript #python #introduction #javascript #css #RustLang #deltachat #swift @jikstra

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