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22nd July, 2026 This week I’m at the inaugural Swift Rockies conference in Calgary and it’s been great so far.

22nd June, 2026 Join Matt Massicotte for an open Swift Concurrency Lab at Swift Rockies 2026.

6th June, 2025 Swift 6 concurrency checking made handling notifications without warnings kinda tedious.

18th April, 2024 It would be cool to open up the Photos app to a specific asset on iOS, just like the Photo Shuffle lock screen.

6th October, 2017 Swift compile times leave something to be desired and a common culprit is the affectionately-named nil-coalescing operator.

10th August, 2016 It’s not hard to hide a whole lot of complexity behind a function call, so you have to be very aware of what the functions you are using actually do, and how long they take to do it.

4th August, 2016 Krzysztof Zabłocki wrote a nice article on using a git pre-commit hook to catch mistakes in iOS projects before you push those mistakes out to the whole team/world.

12th April, 2016 Today I scheduled PRK laser eye surgery on April 19th.

30th March, 2016 This is all good advice.

28th March, 2016 I really like this style of modularity in C and Lisp.

27th August, 2015 This is exactly what I want to see from my VPN.

25th August, 2015 If you make Mac software please look into this.

9th July, 2015 This is all good stuff.

1st July, 2015 I really like this idea.

2nd June, 2015 Yoink

1st June, 2015 One of the least documented aspects of the configuration process are xcconfig files.

28th May, 2015 I’m going to snag bclean and bdone and add them to my git aliases

27th May, 2015 When everything works, the reader flashes green and emits a pleasing tone; if something goes wrong, it glows blue—never red.

24th May, 2015 You can upgrade a drive to a Fusion drive in-place with these commands.

22nd May, 2015 Being an iOS developer, it wouldn’t make sense to buy a Windows machine.

19th May, 2015 A wide variety of new internet-connected devices require an associated SAAS subscription to work.

15th May, 2015 Looks like a nice improvement

12th May, 2015 It’s great that Apple added this but I don’t understand why Foundation and UIKit aren’t imported automatically when you’re writing an iOS app

10th May, 2015 Time to read this again now that I’ve had a watch for a few days

3rd February, 2014 I made a diagram of an Ember app.

27th September, 2013 Send links from mobile devices to your computers.

6th March, 2013 Zelda Matt Gemmell recently shared some sweet Super Nintendo wallpapers for iPhone 5.

19th January, 2012 Does this even warrant any comments on why it’s already a massive failure?

17th January, 2012 rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging.

17th January, 2012 Something to keep in mind