Cocoanetics

Everything that happened on github.com/Cocoanetics since the SwiftText post — and it’s more than I expected to fit into three weeks: a foundation package that didn’t exist on June 23 and now carries three protocols, SwiftMCP turned inside out, two brand-n…

It started, as these things do, with a shortcut I was certain would work.

It started with a bedtime problem.

Everything that happened on github.com/Cocoanetics since the SwiftCross post (June 2 – June 13, 2026).

My passion for cross platform software development started around the year 2000 when I saw how a contractor at Austria’s Connect Austria – which eventually became the cellular network provider DREI – would create C++ utilities on PC with Visual Studio that

The components I’ve been announcing recently certainly hinted at what I’m working on at the moment.

There is a thing that happens, after a couple of weeks of working with coding agents at a steady pace, where you stop thinking of yourself as the person typing and start thinking of yourself as the person seeing.

I’ll be honest.

When I was building SwiftBash I made surprisingly quick headway on the basic CLI utilities — jq, awk, sed, grep.

A few days ago I introduced SwiftBash — a sandboxed bash interpreter written in pure Swift.

A few hours again, four little checkmarks lit up next to a commit in SwiftScript‘s GitHub Actions: That’s a Swift package — written in Swift, depending on swift-syntax, exposing a Swift API — building and running its full test suite on all four platforms…

Every coding agent I use — Claude Code, Codex, even PI — leans on the same tool: /bin/bash.

15 years ago, I started my first open source project on GitHub.

Before I figured out how to use macros to enable SwiftMCP, I experimented a lot with SwiftSyntax and built a project that I called SAAE – Swift AST Abstractor & Editor.

My last update post was just two weeks ago, but the pace hasn’t slowed down.

Instead of writing blog posts about individual package updates, I think I’ll be changing things up a bit.

Many moons ago I had the idea that I would like for an agentic system to be able to access my e-mail servers.

A few days ago I emailed to the OpenClaw team hoping to be considered for a maintaining role.

It’s 5 months since the release of SwiftMCP 1.0 and I’ve been slow cooking some enhancements for it.

Over the course of the last year, I’ve had quite a few side projects that required some way to get text from a variety of sources, with code and frameworks found in a number of private repos.