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Music, sports, and software. Swift & cloud software engineer. Podcast host @thegoldenhurricast.com. Probably listening to Avenged Sevenfold. #SwiftEverywhere

Website: https://ryantoken.com
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Swift itself picked up my blog post. I am in awe 🤩
When the lights flash, it's a win! @ryantoken.com starts the week off with a great article on serverless Swift -- connecting his smart light bulbs to a backend running in AWS Lambda: www.ryantoken.com/blog/serverl...
Good morning. Happy 2026.
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I cannot overstate how dramatically my opinion of Avenged's new song has changed

Really did not like it at first and was bummed they even released it. Now I'm so hooked on this it's crazy music.apple.com/us/album/mag...
Magic by Avenged Sevenfold on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:42
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December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
SO excited to debut Daysheets 2.0 for Mac. This is much of what I've been building since joining Daysheets in June.

✨ Overhauled UI
✈️ Flight Grid
🙋‍♂️ Personnel Grid
📅 Schedule Templates
🕒 Bumps
🏷️ Group Tags
🗓️ Multi Day
🐦‍🔥 All Swift & SwiftUI

Watch the keynote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZv...
Daysheets Winter 2025 Keynote
YouTube video by Daysheets
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December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Big year for the #Hurricast! Thank you VERY much to everyone who listened to and supported the show this year 🙌
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Very sad to listen to the final episode of Under the Radar with @marcoarment.bsky.social and David Smith. It's the only podcast where I've listened to every single episode, and it has helped shape my career.

Thank you both for the insights, inspiration, & thoughtful discussion. I'll miss it
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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🚨🌀 NEW #HURRICAST 🌀🚨

Hoops is here! Tulsa Men's Basketball Head Coach Eric Konkol joins us to preview the 2025-26 season!

We discuss:
* All 11 new guys + the 4 returners
* Why the schedule is the way it is
* What success looks like
* Listener questions & a lightning round

Links 👇
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Huge thanks to @craiggrannell.bsky.social from TapSmart for featuring CatchUp - Keep in Touch in their "7 apps for keeping in touch and friendship tracking" article 🤩 www.tapsmart.com/features/cat...
Catchup apps for iPhone: 7 apps for keeping in touch and friendship tracking
In a world of endless doomscrolling and digital minutiae, it’s easy to let real-world friendships slip through the cracks.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My apps (CatchUp, Outrank, and Hot Local Food) have all been updated with support for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!

I think they look much better with the new design. Download links in the thread 👇
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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After last year’s drought, the gods have once again blessed us with......

THE BATTLE OF THE COLOR-BASED WATER PHENOMENA 🌀🌊
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Introducing Swift Configuration, a new way to share and manage configuration for Swift. It's a smarter way to keep secrets safe and separate develop/test/prod environments. More here: forums.swift.org/t/introducin...
September 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This article by @jono.id goes extremely hard and I could not agree more www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
www.jonoalderson.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Need me a shirt with this @swift.org bird on it. Official Swift merch store when??
July 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It was inevitable: ryantoken.com is now built with @swift.org via Ignite 🔥

Swift for the web is real, and Ignite by @twostraws.bsky.social made it beautiful. I've never been happier with my site.

I wrote about Ignite and my experience with the rewrite: www.ryantoken.com/blog/swift-e...
Swift Everywhere: Web Edition
I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is rewriting my website in Swift (again).
www.ryantoken.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Avenged Sevenfold's live cover of Pantera's Mouth for War remains one of my favorite covers of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Ci...
Avenged Sevenfold - Mouth For War (Revolver Golden Gods Awards)
YouTube video by Gameplays Inconsistentes
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July 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Life is good today:
• Wake up early
• Work from Winter Park
• Camping all weekend with friends

🏕️⛰️🐶🎣
June 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing... #Android
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Finally had some time to watch a few WWDC sessions on this year’s updates to Swift Concurrency. The changes all look SO nice. Can’t wait to implement them.

“Embracing Swift Concurrency” was particularly great 🤝
June 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
MEGA bummer that when you lose access to a private GitHub repo, your commits on those repos are removed from your contribution graph

My graph looks like a barren wasteland now😩
June 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yes, the vibes are off at Apple. But I’ve never been more enthusiastic about writing Swift. Can’t wait to see what WWDC brings. #SwiftEverywhere #WWDC25
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Ahem... 🆕
June 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Finally got to implement something with the Swift OpenAPI Generator, and it is so incredibly nice

Best part: none of the generated code needs to be committed since it runs at build time
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Paul Hudson (@twostraws.bsky.social) has taught me most of what I know about Swift & iOS dev

VERY fun to hear him & @mikaelacaron.com talk about my fun lil Swift on Lambda project to flash my Hue bulbs on the latest episode of Swift over Coffee 🙌

Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
S4E6: The Fruitful Trombone of Great Sadness
Podcast Episode · Swift over Coffee · 04/28/2025 · 40m
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May 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I have once again bought a new domain name 👀
May 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Re-reading the @amazon.dynamodb.me book by @alexdebrie.bsky.social, and I think this is the primary reason why I keep coming back to Dynamo

You HAVE to be thoughtful & intentional when designing your data model. That fact alone improves so much about building apps & pays huge dividends over time
May 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I have never felt a stronger urge to go full-stack Swift. The tooling is either already there or very close.

Time to manufacture some side project and really dig in
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM