Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev
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Let's hope this goes better than their six-month stewardship of React Native Ubuntu
Canonical will now serve as the lead maintainer and strategic steward for Flutter Desktop 🧡
With their deep technical expertise, @Canonical will lead the Flutter Desktop roadmap and oversee the maintenance of our Linux, Windows, and macOS embedders.
ALT A computer monitor displays the "Flutter Desktop" logo alongside icons for Linux, Windows, and macOS, with the text "Lead Maintainer: Canonical" below it. In the bottom-left foreground, a small blue bird mascot is typing on a blue laptop. The graphic highlights Canonical's role in maintaining Flutter across various desktop operating systems.
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Jamie Birch retweeted
Playing today with fast object transfer between runtimes 🚀
The two main ideas:
- Prepare data as a simple tree structure, so there’s no parsing needed 🌳
- Move strings instead of copying them 🚚
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C# 15 just got union types! 🥳
Having been an inspiration for TypeScript, I’m surprised C# didn’t have them to begin with, but it’s a feature I’ve sorely missed in Swift.
Blogged: .NET finally gets union types🎉 - Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 2
andrewlock.net/exploring-the…
In this post I discuss the support for union types released in .NET 11, how they're implemented, the choices made, and how to create your own union types
#dotnet #csharp
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btw this is asciiquarium - a project from 2005 that was last updated in 2013
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My bug report. It describes a situation even worse than in the video I provided in the quoted tweet, as things regressed even further in the version of Safari that comes with iOS/macOS 26.
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I just got a notification that the WebKit team are finally looking into this rendering bug that has blocked my ebook reader project since Feb 2025 🥹
I filed a Bugzilla report on Sep 2025. There are at least three parts to fix, but it sounds like they may have fixed one of them!
My app continuing to hit WebKit rendering bugs:
Place a <div style="position: fixed"> into your <body>. That <div> will scroll just fine *until* you scroll the <body> along by one viewport, whereupon it cannot be scrolled.
… but *only* for `writing-mode: vertical-rl`! 😭
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This is the most complex (yet well crafted) native Mac app I’ve seen in years. They say it’s SwiftUI, but didn’t clarify whether it’s targeting UIKit for Mac or AppKit – but either way, it’s amazing to see a team build an app on the scale of Xcode from scratch these days.
We’re bringing Xogot, our styled version of Godot, to macOS.
Xogot for Mac brings a native Mac experience, Xcode-inspired project navigation, and easier deployment to Mac, iPhone, iPad, and the iOS Simulator without the usual friction.
The beta is open today:
blog.xogot.com/xogot-on-mac/
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Last updated 5 years ago, and finally Killed by Google last month 🥲
NativeScript has been using it to implement flexbox layout on Android for a decade.
(Though what’s even more remarkable is that on the iOS side, NativeScript implements flexbox from scratch, purely in JS!)
FlexBox.
FlexBox is a container that lays out items in a single direction. It can resize, wrap, align, and distribute space among items to optimally fill the available space.
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Jamie Birch retweeted
Are these two SwiftUI snippets equivalent?
Text("Hello, world!")
.kerning(10.0)
Text("Hello, world!")
.kerning(4.0)
.kerning(6.0)
The answer is: it depends.
See more details here: kyleye.top/posts/swiftui-tex…
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Here’s the rest of the data from their nutrition information. Weirdly it’s only the small drink-in caffè latte that gets that treatment.
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Today I learned that Costa Coffee nerfs your caffè latte when you drink in. You get half the number of shots
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A great to-the-point article that echoes my experience earnestly trying to use UIKit and AppKit for personal projects. The web platform is just *so* far ahead on text, it is hard to explain to native devs the size of the gap in both features and dev experience.
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Thinking about this again. As the CocoaPods repo will move to read-only mode on December 2nd, I really hope Apple start to take Swift Package Manager seriously after 11 years and finally add support for mixed-language projects and start prioritising performance.
When someone mentions using SPM for project management, we can't help but think of this table by Bumble: medium.com/bumble-tech/scali…
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Our apps have used CloudKit as backend since forever, but we've decided it's time to move on. We already migrated Lysten, our podcast player, and next up is Ambre.
Check out our blog post for details on why CloudKit rocks, and why we're leaving it. 👇
blog.ambi.se/leaving-cloudki…
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