Alexander Botkin

Best part about working at @ChargePointnet is the team! It's wonderful working with folks with such a wide range of experiences and expertises. And if you're in the market, we've got lots of positions open, in-person and remote, across US, EU, and India chargepoint.com/about/opportun…

This GitHub incident is insane. Merge queue commits have been reverting previously merged commits at random. This not only breaks the mental contract teams have with Git in general, but is subtle enough to be really hard to unravel after the fact. githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1…

Swift/JS interop used to mean "JSObject", "JSValue", and runtime surprises. BridgeJS changes that: annotate your Swift, get typed glue code in both directions. Compile-time safe. Zero manual boilerplate. 🧵

Slack has rolled out a new plugin that allows you to connect to Slack for search, messaging, document creation and more. Use this to get context from Slack into Claude Code so it has context on what you're working on or to post updates.

Pretty draconian from Google. Be careful out there if you use Antigravity. I guess I'll remove support. Even Anthropic pings me and is nice about issues. Google just... bans? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471158…

Hey @Ticketmaster it seems kinda deceiving to send notifications to folks about “last minute Super Bowl tickets” and then have that link to a checkout for tickets to a Reno casino’s Super Bowl VIEWING party.

How I use Codex GPT 5.2 with Xcode (My complete workflow) Level up your development skills in the new era of agentic coding.

A number of folks asked for this article as an AGENTS.md file, so here you go! All contributions are welcome; please open a PR, so we can make it great for everyone. github.com/twostraws/Swif…

@alex_barashkov @Rivian I’m surprised too they’re able to put the “Say Alexa” commands right next to the Google Places search results. Would’ve thought that would be some services agreement issue.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees the problem with that video. 2025 @rivian Google Maps integration announcement.

Found this 1:1 copy of iOS Notes app for Android, and it looks and works so well! I really missed the iOS notes app since switching to Android, and this fixes that for me. 😭

@TheEVuniverse Price. While initially folks will want to try the right one when it’s new and novel, eventually this becomes Uber vs Lyft where which I use based off lowest price at the time I want to ride.

Very soon, you can choose between two robotaxi options in many cities. User experience slightly differs, but the core is identical - the car drives you somewhere, all on its own. What would make you choose the one on the left?

1/ For years, I thought I was driving innovation — helping shape early versions of Google Maps, Search, and YouTube. Then an MIT professor asked me: “Can you name a time you designed a truly new behavior?” Not a better version. Something genuinely novel. I couldn’t. 🧵

There is a vulnerability in LSApplicationWorkspace… seems like there is possibility for a DenialOfService attack… why… it’s open selector that is handled by an other process fails to check if its caller is still alive. It’s immune to App switcher kills, uninstall, etc…

A useful Xcode shortcut I just learned💡 We can quickly format long function calls or initializers with many parameters by placing the cursor inside the parentheses and pressing Control (⌃) + M. Selecting the entire expression will also format values like arrays and closures.

Zipline Patient Stories — Delivery #1,459,819 On the evening of March 28th at 17:00 GMT, a 4-year-old girl was playing outside her home in Gbintiri, a farming village in the north east region of Ghana, when she was bitten by a venomous snake hiding under a pile of firewood. Her parents, realizing the severity of the bite, rushed her to Gbintiri Health Center, the closest facility in the area.

if you understand how this works you know how easy it is to break it I present to you: "the future of gaming!" VS "looking up and down"

I wrote a blog post on how to build a macOS menu bar utility in SwiftUI using MenuBarExtra, customize its icon, hide it from the Dock, and add a quit option: nilcoalescing.com/blog/BuildAMac…

Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch

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In 2021, I organized Afghanistan's first all-female flight together with Kam Air. Many media outlets covered the event and the video reached millions of people but what happened to the women after the Taliban took over and where are they now? A Thread 🧵

EU folks: Apple is hosting Swift talks at FOSDEM, a big open source event in Brussels. They are really keen to get submissions from a range of people, so give it a try! Open source, server-side, concurrency, academia, community, and more are all welcome: swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/