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Aussie software developer & uni student; Rock climber; Loves Swift, Rust and Svelte; Creator of Delta Client and SwiftCrossUI

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For the Swift Student Challenge I created a ray-tracer which respects general relativity (to the extent of the Schwarzschild solution) and renders blackholes; the fiery disk around the blackhole is in-fact flat! (the bending of light creates the iconic blackhole halo)

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SwiftCrossUI now supports hot reloading on Linux! If you'd like to try it out, install the latest commit of Swift Bundler, and create a new project from the SCUI hot reloading template. Then you can run the project with the ‘--hot’ flag, and everything should "just work” (TM)

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Much of my recent work has been supported by @videovillageco, meaning that for now funds will mostly go to moreSwift’s external core contributors (who have so far done everything for the love of open source ❤️).

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moreSwift just joined Open Source Collective 🎉 If you've ever considered sponsoring the development of SwiftCrossUI or Swift Bundler, there's never been a better time! https://t.co/DniapT5HqK

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SwiftCrossUI's Counter example used to take up 360mb on Windows and now it uses 144mb (including the Windows app runtime installer).

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Windows apps built with SwiftCrossUI are now 200mb smaller! 🎉 SwiftPM's static linking support has recently improved on Windows, allowing me to merge swift-winui and all of its dependencies into a single monorepo with static linking.

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SwiftCrossUI's AndroidBackend now supports sheets thanks to Beberka! https://t.co/OwepxtveSr

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GG for 3rd with @TeamOceaniaICC!

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3rd place at the International Cybersecurity Challenge with @TeamOceaniaICC

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If you want to learn more about her process creating the package, go read her Swift Forums post; https://t.co/NZPnV4GybI

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Mia Koring (a frequent SwiftCrossUI contributor) just released KeyringAccess, essentially KeychainAccess for Linux!

Packages like KeyringAccess help to reduce the barrier for porting macOS apps to Linux

https://t.co/WFR4QICFHu

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@JoannisOrlandos I’m glad to see that people are as excited about SwiftCrossUI Android support as I am!

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Wow these folks keep on going! SwiftCrossUI support for Android is going great!
https://t.co/KiLWNEXi64

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This release also includes the new DocC tutorials that Kaleb Ascevich created from our existing how-to guides.

The new DocC tutorials are hosted under the Meeting SwiftCrossUI page of our documentation site; https://t.co/lqN42kIUN4

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SwiftCrossUI v0.6.0 is out now. This release brings a ton of Android feature parity improvements thanks to Beberka, and Gradient support thanks to Mia Koring!

https://t.co/6xN7k1RKiR

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Thanks to Mia Koring, SwiftCrossUI now support gradients! (linear, radial, and angular/conical)

https://t.co/CtpTzoaUwu

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I've been working on SwiftCrossUI for ages and I still refer back to our Swift dev environment setup guides occasionally when setting up new VMs, so others will surely find them useful too; even more so now that they're easier to follow!

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Kaleb Ascevich recently converted SwiftCrossUI's quick start documentation and platform-specific setup guides into DocC tutorials, with screenshots and all!

https://t.co/a7ygYNTHnL

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SwiftCrossUI now supports WebViews on Android thanks to Beberka’s recent PR!

https://t.co/eiikuKG6eS

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This has made it much easier to implement new backends incrementally, and makes it possible to implement missing backend features from application code 👀

The PR was a monster to review, but was totally worth it: https://t.co/nLlkNiAztC

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I've recently merged some big AppBackend protocol changes into SwiftCrossUI. Kaleb Ascevich, who first contributed to SCUI earlier this year, refactored the 2000-line protocol into about 3 dozen smaller protocols, roughly separating the API surface by feature.