OrchardNest

For the past few weeks I’ve been writing Twitter threads on “Swift regrets”, things I wish we’d done differently early on in Swift’s development. I’ve been doing them on Twitter rather than as blog posts because of my RSI—short-form on my...

A year and a half ago, I left Apple, which among other things gave me a lot more time for personal projects. In particular, last March I put a tremendous amount of effort into getting Swift running on Mac OS 9. Which made me happy and...

As you probably know, I joined Signal after nearly a year between jobs. Signal’s a nonprofit whose goal is to make communication secure and private for everyone, mainly through their open-source messaging app. I feel good about being...

Welcome to the seventh in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. We’ve talked about structs and classes, so...

Welcome to the sixth in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Last time we went through the fields of class...

Welcome to the fifth in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Last time we finished talking about how the...

Welcome to the fourth in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. This time we’re going to be talking about the...

Welcome to the third in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. This time we’re going to be talking about type...

Welcome to the second in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. This time we’re going to be talking about how...

Welcome to the first in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Today we’re going to start with the basis of...

This is going to be another one of those posts where I did something ridiculous and then show you how I got there, so let’s just get right to it.

Dear Speaker Pelosi / Senator Harris / Senator Feinstein, There are a lot of crises happening right now, and I could write a letter three pages long simply detailing my fears and frustrations and what I would hope from Congress....

In addition to the personally-long-awaited launch of Hermit Crab, I’ve also spent the last week or so making a limited but easy-to-use Swift wrapper around the FUSE APIs, which I’ve dubbed Suffusion. Suffusion is heavily inspired by the...

Welcome to the first in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Today we’re going to start with the basis of...

When I was getting the code in the previous post ready to share, I ran into a problem: my checkouts of LLVM and Swift were shallow clones, i.e. git repositories that don’t store the full history of each branch. Working with those locally...

It’s April 1, and that means it’s both April Fools’ Day and the anniversary of the founding of Apple Inc. While this year is a sober one due to current events, I think a lot of people still appreciate what people are creating and sharing...