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 - cameroncooke/XcodeBuildMCP: A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides Xcode-related tools for integration with AI assistants and other MCP clients.

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: Swift.org - Introducing swiftly 1.0

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

https://www.all-hands.dev/

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