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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 1d

github.com/swiftlens/sw... anybody experience if this improves Claude code? #swiftlang

GitHub - swiftlens/swiftlens: SwiftLens is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides deep, semantic-level analysis of Swift codebases to any AI models. By integrating directly with Apple's S...

SwiftLens is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides deep, semantic-level analysis of Swift codebases to any AI models. By integrating directly with Apple's SourceKit-LSP, SwiftLens...

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 2d

My talk from ServerSide is up!

ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 2d

More videos continue to land! Next up, Matt Massicotte teaches us how to approach approachable concurrency

youtu.be/eqeDPIK2Msc

How To Approach Approachable Concurrency - Matt Massicotte

🎥 Recorded at the ServerSide.swift conference in London in 2025. 🙌 Sponsored by Broken Hands: https://www.brokenhands.io 🐥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftserverconf 🐘 Mastodon:…

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 2d

I was experimenting with claude sub agents and created this tool. Might help somebody. Agents make managing conversation a lot easier. I'm still searching for the best way to use them but this is a start. I'm curious how you use it? All in #swiftlang

doozmen-stijn-willems.ghost.io/claude-agent...

Claude Agents CLI - Managing AI Agents for Swift Development

A Swift command-line tool for installing and managing specialized Claude Code agents. Install 29 built-in agents globally or per-project with a single command.

doozmen-stijn-willems.ghost.io

Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 2d

I used claude to structure my thoughts on the subject. Full thread claude.ai/share/1a1c26...

Claude

Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 2d

Hummingbird's RequestContext makes this clean: set your per-request environment once, let the framework handle propagation. Vapor does similar with req.storage. No threading parameters through every function call.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 2d

The pattern: inject dependencies at request entry, structured concurrency propagates them down the tree. No globals, no TaskLocal complexity. swift-dependencies gives you @Dependency property wrappers that just work.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 2d

TaskLocal is for metadata like tracing IDs. But swift-dependencies (pointfree.co/collections/dependencies) extends it for proper dependency injection. Use RequestContext at entry points, structured concurrency handles the rest.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 6d

Just discovered Universal Control by accident. My MacBook's trackpad suddenly controlled my Mac Studio - no cables. Turns out Apple built this years ago. One keyboard, two Macs, cursor flows between screens. Works perfectly once you get it.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 6d

Of course, this means it only works for tree-structured operations—if work escapes the tree, I fall back to safer global patterns (like actors or explicit context passing)

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 6d

I now use TaskLocal wherever possible for shared state in async workflows, since it keeps context neatly scoped to the structured concurrency tree and avoids many post-suspension surprises.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 8d

ServerSide Swift 2025 showed: Vapor, Hummingbird, Swift NIO, type-safe APIs, AWS integration, sub-200ms Lambda cold starts. The ecosystem is ready.

Now build MCP servers, not AI search clones.

serversideswift.info #swiftlang #srrversideswift2025

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

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 8d

The opportunity: companies need MCP servers that connect their internal systems—CRM, calendars, accounting, knowledge bases. Not public search. Private context engineering.

Server-side Swift is production-ready for this.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 8d

Building MCP servers means handling private data, real-time integration, type-safe protocols. Swift gives you: memory safety, async/await, C++ interop for existing systems, shared code with iOS, Android and Wasm clients.

#swiftlang

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 8d

MCP isn't "connect AI to more sources." It's AI becoming contextually aware of YOUR ecosystem. Your calendar + email + docs + code. The value is synthesis, not retrieval.

This is where server-side Swift matters. #swiftlang #serversideSwiff2025

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 8d

The AI bubble: everyone building "better search" because that's the frame people understand.

The actual shift: AI as context engineering—understanding YOUR data, YOUR work, creating value from what you already have.

That's not search. That's different.

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ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 8d

An Introduction to Valkey-Swift by Adam Fowler

youtu.be/RNVMM1p7jgU

Introduction to Valkey-Swift - Adam Fowler

🎥 Recorded at the ServerSide.swift conference in London in 2025. 🙌 Sponsored by Broken Hands: https://www.brokenhands.io 🐥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftserverconf 🐘 Mastodon:…

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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 9d

Apps SDK https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45494558)

Apps SDK

Learn how to use Apps SDK by OpenAI. Our framework to build apps for ChatGPT.

developers.openai.com

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Swift Language @swift.org · 9d

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 9d

Consider swift with c++ interop. Like ladybird browser did. Very interesting post about why here linuxiac.com/ladybird-bro...

Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred Language

Andreas Kling announces Swift as Ladybird's future language for better safety and ergonomics. Full transition awaits Swift 6.

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 11d

Sadly also the Belgium gov has shifted on this subject. www.techradar.com/computing/cy... I wonder what @jbaert.bsky.social thinks of this?

Chat Control: The list of countries opposing the law grows, but support remains strong

Germany, Belgium, Italy, Latvia, and Sweden shift their positions ahead of the October 14 meeting

www.techradar.com

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Jaleel Akbashev @jaleel.bsky.social · 11d

Just double checked temporal, looks interesting. „Pure“ workflows and activities like effect operations, they even have a SideEffect term in their docs. 🙃
Replaying workflows and blocking them indefinitely also looks nice, and it’s language agnostic. 🤔

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have it on GitHub? I could try and help …

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TelemetryDeck App Analytics @telemetrydeck.com · 12d

Fall is a great season for another founder update. @meetlisa.bsky.social shares a few thoughts on #GermanUnityDay, has gathered some figures (transparency!!!), and reflects on participating (and skipping) business events.
telemetrydeck.com/blog/fall-update-2025/?source=bluesky

TelemetryDeck Fall Update 2025 | TelemetryDeck

Learn what's new with your favorite app analytics solution.

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Daniel Jay @breakth-esystem.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic! @mikaelacaron.com just announced learnswift.space, a new blog about leaning swift 😍

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 12d

Validation flow: Parse CBOR attestation objects, verify Apple's certificate chain against root CA, validate nonce/challenge, extract and store public keys, implement assertion verification with counter checks, add request signing validation.