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This is awesome! You can get Replit Core FREE for 1 month AND gift someone Replit FREE for 1 month. Great win for builders!

@Tech_Over_Lord More on this in our next edition as well!

@ios_code_review How can I learn this?

Swift on the backend is underrated. Compile-time safety + real multithreading (no GIL) = fewer bugs, lower infra costs. Some teams are already running production systems at scale with it. iOS devs have an unfair advantage here

@Tech_Over_Lord Start at swift.org/server, that's the official hub. Then pick up Vapor at vapor.codes. For articles and tutorials, swiftonserver.com is the best resource. Apple also dropped a WWDC24 session called "Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem"!

iOS Code Review newsletter is back 😍 I’ve been building awesome tech to fight climate change since 2024, and coincidentally (not) I got no time to write anymore. Finding someone worthy of taking over the reins took time, and I’m happy to introduce Sam and his first issue 🎉

Issue #75: We're Back! Tool Calling, Default Actors & the Clock Is Ticking! ioscodereview.com/issues/issue-7…

We’ve been obsessing over models. The real bottleneck for AI agents is the data layer. The web is the largest dataset on Earth. And it’s basically unusable as infrastructure as it's not structured and not reliable. That changes today with Nimble @nimble_data They turn the live web into structured, queryable data tables in real time so agents get clean datasets instead of text blobs. You can install Nimble Skills directly into Claude, Cursor, and other coding agents to query the live web inside your workflow! Build with Nimble: docs.nimbleway.com This is infra for production-grade AI agents.

Most engineers are asking the wrong question about AI. It’s not “Will AI replace developers?” It’s which parts of the job disappear first. The junior work is going first. The mid-level work is under pressure. Architecture isn’t shrinking. It’s moving up a level. The job is no longer designing services. It’s designing systems where humans and AI make decisions together, and knowing exactly where the human must stay in the loop. The engineers who learn that boundary early will be fine. The rest will feel like they’re slowly disappearing. bytesizeddesign.substack.com/p/the-architec…

Stop trying to learn every new framework. Start learning why systems fail. Read postmortems, study outages, understand how things break at scale. The engineer who's seen 100 systems fail is worth more than one who's mastered 100 tools. Experience is just pattern recognition for disasters you haven't caused yet.

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The best engineers aren't the ones who never get stuck. They're the ones who get unstuck in 20 minutes instead of 2 days. They ping someone instead of spiraling. They read the actual source code and documentation instead of panicking. They write the failing test to understand the bug. Being stuck is part of the job. Staying stuck is a choice.

Microservices killed more companies than they saved. You don't have Google's problems. You have 12 engineers and a monolith that actually works. But you saw a Netflix talk and now you've got 47 services, a message queue you don't understand, and deploys that take 3 hours. Your "distributed system" is just a distributed mess with extra latency. Monoliths can scale to millions and at times billions of requests. Your startup will die from complexity debt long before you hit those numbers. The boring architecture is almost always the right one.

Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳

HTTP Headers you will be dealing with most of the time.

 iOS Code Review Issue #74 is out 💌🚀 Featuring @hiandic, @iosartem, and a series from @mecid ✨ This issue is kindly sponsored by @RunwayTeam ❤️ ioscodereview.com/issues/74/ #SwiftLang #iOSDev #iOS18 #developer #testing

KeyboardKit 9.0 RC 5 is out 🚀 This small update to the bigger RC 4 fixes some bugs & behaviors, and renames the feedback namespace. keyboardkit.com/blog/2024/11/2…

 iOS Code Review Issue #73 is out 💌🚀 This issue is kindly sponsored by @GetKeyboardKit, check out their Black Friday discount code ❤️ ioscodereview.com/issues/73/ #SwiftLang #iOSDev

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 iOS Code Review Issue #71 has been sent on Tuesday, check it out if you missed it! Featuring stuff from @matthew_spear @gabtheodor @dan_dee_lyons @k_katsumi @azamsharp 👯‍♂️ ioscodereview.com/issues/71/ #swiftlang #iosdev #swiftui