Dave Verwer
daveverwer.com
Dave Verwer
@daveverwer.com
Author of iOS Dev Weekly and co-founder of the Swift Package Index.
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I mean, technically… 🙄
August 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Today in deciphering reminders dictated to Siri.

I'm *completely* stumped, which means whatever I had to do is not getting done. 😬 What's extra weird is the capitalisation of "Ocean" 🤔
August 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
… and you try and tell me Claude isn't as good as a "real developer" when it also completely skips over Swift 6 concurrency warnings, just like real developers do 😂
July 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hey, at least you don't have an added warning triangle 😂 I got this one this morning.
June 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Six votes 😭 (and yes, this is my constituency)
May 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Is there a less useful type of alert than these?

If time < 30 mins of it stopping, don’t tell me 😂
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Does anyone else routinely get 500 errors when logging into GitLab? For *years* now, it takes me 4 or 5 attempts to log in because the first few almost always fail.
January 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Pressing send on an email going to more than 40,000 people always makes you pause, but when it's an entirely new sending system that pause turns into a little bead of sweat. 😅
January 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I was just rickrolled by generative AI. 😂

I was working on this week’s newsletter and writing Markdown in Cursor, and as I typed an opening bracket it suggested a YouTube link. I couldn’t resist checking what it wanted me to watch and as soon as I clicked, I heard those familiar 80s drums, and …
January 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time in Switzerland over the last few days and it’s just as beautiful as you might imagine.
January 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Achievement unlocked 😂
December 4, 2024 at 3:28 PM