Fernando Barbat

Software engineer. Helping people and computers to control other computers. Working at Tuple. Always learning. (^o^)

[Stephen Dolan @Stephen_Dolan]

Continuing to tinker with real-time, local transcription on Tuple, connected to your harness of choice.

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

I'm from Uruguay building a personal project in which an AI wakes up while you are using your computer and starts doing weird things on its own. does this count as nefarious?

[roon @tszzl]

something really nefarious is happening in uruguay I can’t prove it but the collective unconscious is speaking to me

[Tuple @tuple]

We just released a zoom tool on macOS, making it even easier to see tiny text

And we’re giving an Apple Pro Display to a random person who uses it 😏

Official Rules 👉 https://t.co/96hHhhiou0

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What have I done 😅

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A dev I talked to said his favorite tool for development recently is called:

(I was expecting some AI IDE)

(Drumroll… it wasn’t)

Tuple!

It’s a lair programming tool that allows “taking over” the other person’s screen/IDE. Apparently his whole team uses it daily & love it

[Tuple @tuple]

Changing our cursors and adding color sounded pretty easy… Doing it well was much harder than expected.

[Tuple @tuple]

We redesigned our screen share window to make it easier to access commonly-used controls and understand what’s going on in a call. Coming soon to macOS. What do you think?

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@danielsaidi Random ideas: Did you try annotating the property or class with @MainActor?

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@Windows @SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd Check the source code for the finished project here

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

This is the source code and documentation for a cross-platform macOS/Windows application implemented in @SwiftLang 6. It’s an LLM client. I’ve been playing with it for some time in my spare time and I’m happy to share it publicly now!
https://t.co/YgYvMUsec2

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

Just implemented a @Windows native UI in @SwiftLang. In a Windows VM from a Mac. 🤯 Thanks @browsercompany for showing this was possible and @compnerd for the specific guidance! #buildinpublic

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@Windows @SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd My next step is to actually share the logic between the Swift and the Windows apps. This was just a UI mock to try to understand the limitations of this approach. I will keep posting!

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

Pretty unusual combination here. 😄 If you are curious, check https://t.co/YgYvMUsec2

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd @ollama @OpenAI @Anthropic I tried to condense down everything I learned about cross-platform Swift in this GitHub repo. Happy to improve it so we can all have more learning resources about this in the @SwiftLang community. Let me know if you have any thoughts about it! https://t.co/YgYvMUsec2

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

This is the source code and documentation for a cross-platform macOS/Windows application implemented in @SwiftLang 6. It’s an LLM client. I’ve been playing with it for some time in my spare time and I’m happy to share it publicly now!
https://t.co/YgYvMUsec2

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd @ollama @OpenAI @Anthropic So implemented this app that was conceptually simple but at the same time complex enough to get a better feeling about the whole developer experience. It basically has a chat view and settings view. Here is a live demo.

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

Implemented the Windows settings of the @SwiftLang cross platform architecture test app. Getting closer to publishing the code and learnings!

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@DonnyWals Happy Monday! I’m working on an example app for a cross platform Windows/MacOS native architecture. Hopefully I will finish it and share the code next week. https://t.co/JkRHijZcRh

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

They are alive! Windows and macOS native apps implemented in @SwiftLang. ***Core of the apps implemented once and reused***. 🤯 I will share the repo soon. Thanks again @browsercompany and @compnerd!

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

Super interesting how @OpenAI is more likely to go with the flow, while @AnthropicAI is more rooted in its core principles. This is llama3.1 starting the conversation, gpt-4o sticking at the beginning to what llama said, and claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 being authentic at the end.

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd My next steps are to implement the settings to configure the model provider, clean the code, document it and share the GitHub repo. Let me know if you have any requests or questions!

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

They are alive! Windows and macOS native apps implemented in @SwiftLang. ***Core of the apps implemented once and reused***. 🤯 I will share the repo soon. Thanks again @browsercompany and @compnerd!

[Fernando Barbat @fbarbat]

@SwiftLang @browsercompany @compnerd I had to fork dependencies of the Core (use SwiftFoundation and OpenCombine instead of fully macOS native implementations) and the VScode Swift extension didn’t work out of the box for me. Developer experience should get better over time. I really like the direction!