Issue 7 - April 4th

Share interesting bits from the internet that you’ve recently come across and explain what inspired you about them.

Include any artwork with a reference that you liked and that’s connected with app development or design.

Very on point with our last issue: languages became a new interface to technology. This blog post shares why people are obsessed with it:

This is a pretty wild read on the dark side of LLMs causing huge strains to many projects: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

The quality of these native-like animations is astounding to see in a browser: https://silkhq.co/

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MCP integration for xcodebuild: GitHub - getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP: A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and CLI that provides tools for agent use when working on iOS and macOS projects. · GitHub

The CEO of Replit thinks we should not learn how to code. This can be the topic around which the next issue revolves:

https://x.com/amasad/status/1905103640089825788?s=46

It’s good to see the Swift ecosystem decoupling itself further from Xcode. Swiftly, the Swift version manager reaches 1.0: Introducing swiftly 1.0 | Swift.org

Standards are amazing. Imagine if SwiftUI was open to proposals like Swift: Nolan Lawson: "This is a great example of why the web rocks. Saf…" - Toot Café

Runno - Embed code examples in a website

Supabase created a UI library on top of shadcn. Especially the realtime components look great: Supabase UI Library

Swift 6.1 has been released:

On boring technology

AI coding agent

Turso is building an excellent alternative for CoreData’s iCloud-based syncing.

They even have a Swift SDK

Another ElectronJS alternative:

I enjoyed this article about markdown and Office: Oliver Reichenstein: "I wanted to quickly explain why school kids shoul…" - Mastodon

The underlying data representation matters and it should be as portable as possible (looking at you pbxproj)

Tigris now has an MCP integration. I can very much see this being a thing for the Tuist server as well: Announcing the Tigris MCP server | Tigris Object Storage