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Swift SDK for Android now available in nightly preview. Build your business logic once in Swift and share it across iOS and Android apps via swift-java bindings. UI still requires native Android frameworks
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...

Announcing the Swift SDK for Android

Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thank...

www.swift.org

October 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM

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Get 40M tokens for free from Factory AI's new coding agent, Droid
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October 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM

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A collection of React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia
github.com/enzomanuelma...

GitHub - enzomanuelmangano/demos: An ongoing collection of React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia.

An ongoing collection of React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia. - enzomanuelmangano/demos

github.com

October 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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What you need to get the best out of agentic coding rn

gpt-5-codex-high for Planning
claude-sonnet-4.5/glm 4.6 for Execution

October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM

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Expo UI makes it seamless to use SwiftUI in your app.

September 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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React Native solved "write once, run anywhere", but at the cost of performance and platform quirks.
With LLMs, writing Swift and Kotlin isn’t slow anymore.
Native speed + LLMs = the best.

If you're just getting into mobile dev, don't ignore native app development

September 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM

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What makes Claude Code so good
minusx.ai/blog/decodin...

What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?

Claude Code is the most delightful AI agent/workflow I have used so far. Not only does it make targeted edits or vibe coding throwaway tools less annoying, ...

minusx.ai

August 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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AI agents capable of browsing the web and handling tasks for you hold tremendous potential, but also bring new security concerns.

Recently, Brave uncovered a troubling vulnerability in Comet browser, which exposed users' accounts and other sensitive information to risk.

brave.com/blog/comet-p...

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

brave.com

August 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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open-source animated icon library for web projects github.com/pqoqubbw/icons

GitHub - pqoqubbw/icons: beautifully crafted animated icons

beautifully crafted animated icons. Contribute to pqoqubbw/icons development by creating an account on GitHub.

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July 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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Network IP scanner with a dashboard. Tracks devices and notifies on new connections github.com/aceberg/Watc...

GitHub - aceberg/WatchYourLAN: Lightweight network IP scanner. Can be used to notify about new hosts and monitor host online/offline history

Lightweight network IP scanner. Can be used to notify about new hosts and monitor host online/offline history - aceberg/WatchYourLAN

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July 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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Make text LLMs listen and speak github.com/kyutai-labs/...

GitHub - kyutai-labs/unmute: Make text LLMs listen and speak

Make text LLMs listen and speak. Contribute to kyutai-labs/unmute development by creating an account on GitHub.

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July 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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June 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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Collaborate with AI as a coding partner, Try Goose
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Dp...

Build Apps Faster with AI | Vibe Coding with Goose

YouTube video by Block Open Source

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June 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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Open-source TTS just got better.
Resemble AI drops Chatterbox, a production-grade, open-source TTS model that preferred over ElevenLabs in A/B tests (38.75% vs 27.5%).
- 0.5B Llama backbone
- 500K+ hrs of clean data
- Exaggeration dial for expressive speech

May 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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If you’re looking for something to read this week, I suggest:
simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude …

simonwillison.net

May 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Claude 4 System Card
simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...

System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …

simonwillison.net

May 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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May 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM

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Credits to the person who came up with this one

May 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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Zed released the fastest Agentic code editor, built entirely in Rust for exceptional speed and performance, integrates with Claude Sonnet 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and supports local models through Ollama. This editor is fully open source.
zed.dev/agentic