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  Suddenly T.S. Eliot is inserting himself into my talk for the Swift Rockies. I hope it speaks to the attendees as it does me - I worry about coming off preachy or pretentious

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  I've tried to cancel my Wells Fargo credit card many times this year. I've tried over the phone, I tried online, and I even went into a branch office while in California. I haven't used the account for years - what more can I do to tell them I'm not interested.

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  The Newsletter: Football is life. Also, a Fotomat lives on in San Francisco, three members of the Japan football team take on one hundred school children, a cool way to watch a baseball game from Ribbie, Ethnic cleansing in Ohio, the Stonehenge experiment, nutmegging, Maggie's link to Philosophers playing football, and John Gruber remembers Om Malik. https://mailchi.mp/1e3563dfb1d4/327-gooooooal

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  The Podcast On fighting against the move to progressive isolation. https://dimsumthinking.com/Podcast/2026/171TheFuture.html

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  All ready for today. 8 colors of pancakes - about 160 in total. Hoping that and the sausage, bacon, bagels, and donuts feeds the forty people coming. I’ll likely say more in this week’s essay- the tl;dr is a gathering of people to note 20 years since Elena died and 10 years for Kim.

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  The Podcast: On the importance of being able to answer 'I don't know' when you don't know. https://dimsumthinking.com/Podcast/2026/162IDontKnow.html

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  I won't be at Swift Island this year but it is a unique conference in a beautiful location. Unique how? Well the sessions are workshops based around the new things announced by Apple at WWDC and in the past there have been activities including morning yoga or a run an evening of star gazing or biking to the ocean. Anyway - well worth considering and they've sent me this code for you to use to get money off of your registration: DANIEL_APPROVED.

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  Tom Lokhorst and Mathijs Kadijk begin the afternoon Apple Track and #appdevcon

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  The Newsletter: On what happens when the things around us that we depend on change. Also, Miyazaki's clock, Flea's music quiz, training your brain to see possibility instead of doom, silent book clubs, Boots on the Ground, Maggie's link to a race around the world, and the try!Swift videos. https://mailchi.mp/418f4ac502c2/317-assume

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  Interested in SwiftTesting? My session from PragmaConf has been posted. It's a great quick intro to the new testing framework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTBhb65TRY&list=PLAVm70iJlMuuyXvimaw1Yze5Q_O_y5Z9L&index=11

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  Our final talk at #NSSpain2025 is the great Soroush

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  @brentsimmons oh good - it does it when I’m teaching and I’ve told my students my Mac is haunted. It also made me wonder if I should buy a new Mac when the M5’s appear. Your post makes me think “nope”

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  @Stattenf so so true

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  I need to verify but I think Apple fixed an on app intent execution bug

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  I love Bomani. “They call it a cease-fire but you know what ain’t ceased? Fire.”

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  Anyone have a favorite source in the US for organic brown rice from a grower?

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  The Newsletter: What happens when we break a habit. Also, Wiggly Paint, Favorite Tube stations, the WNBA's Nobel winning advisor, invisible women, Netflix's AppleTV changes, Maggie's link to Japanese train melodies, and Leo Dion's quiet timer. https://mailchi.mp/cbe8870d4be3/314-broken

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  RE: https://kind.social/@filmaniac/116324514861251074 He’s a great speaker - hope you can make it to Aberystwyth

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116331451935097424 Some

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  The Newsletter On Buddhism and a plate of food. Also, the distorted face emoji, math meets fashion, a PC user tries the Neo, gas price challenges, Ars on Altman, Maggie's link to a 96 year old preparing for her birthday celebration, and Swift 6.3 is released. https://mailchi.mp/33e4a49aedc0/315-five

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  Swift/Java people - This may be a stupid question. The W3C's epub validator is a jar file that can be executed from the command line. Is this something that can be easily wrapped in a small swift app? I.e. can you call a jar file from a swift Mac app and pipe the output. Do you need to install Java on your Mac to do so? I clearly haven't thought about this much but woke up wondering if I could replace this use of Docker and remembered @airspeedswift 's session at Serv...

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  The Newsletter The cautionary tale of making technology the cornerstone of your happiness or purpose. Also, Pillow Fights on television, Escher draws snakes, the future of film, odd Alaska laws, Maggie's link to St. Catty's Day, and Google's secret reference desk. https://mailchi.mp/71c9f12a840c/312-strangelove

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  Friends in Japan or those who know - in addition to tourist tips I’m interested in * a vegetarian sushi class. I love fish but in the US would be unlikely to buy that quality fish and would love to learn techniques for shaping rice for onigiri and sushi that use vegetables. Also I’d be interested in * a Go club or place that’s friendly to beginners and might have a class Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@brunoscheele/116255608896696446 Thanks Bruno - I enjoyed your workshop

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  The Podcast On skating to where the puck will be and not to an average of where it's been. https://dimsumthinking.com/Podcast/2026/156FasterHorses.html

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  James O’Brien on LBC makes me laugh. Talking about the weirdos and the “other word beginning with W that I can’t say on the radio.” And then for people that didn’t get it he said he could use rhyming slang and call the. “Bankers”

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  The Newsletter Relearning the lesson that the problem isn't always where you think it is - this time while learning to sketch buildings. Also, remembering early Zefrank, great advice, reliving WWDC when it had a playlist, Thurber and White ask "Is sex necessary", Manoush wonders why it seems everyone has ADHD, Maggie links to a border crossing cat, and Natalia has a new book on SwiftUI. https://mailchi.mp/567620528003/313-sketch

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  Flight and hotel booked for the week of WWDC. I probably won't apply for a ticket - that week I host my own conference - meeting people like you for coffee at Philz. Hope to see you there.

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  I've just revised my try!Swift talk on AsyncSequence. There's a lot there. I always want a talk to go well but being invited back to this conference after ten years means a lot to me and I particularly want it to justify them bringing me such a long way. #tryswift

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  I'm starting to plan my fall tour. I've just said yes to a "new to me" conference outside of the world of iOS and Swift. My schedule is starting to fill up - I'm still hoping to be invited back to some of my favorites.