Stratton Ashworth

I only met you in my dreams before, when I was young and alone in the world

[Mazi Olisaemeka C. ™ @OlisaOsega]

The disrespect Viktor Gyökeres gets from some Arsenal fans here is crazy. Julian Alvarez scored only 8 goals in La Liga, 20 in all competitions. Gyökeres would’ve been destroyed if he had such output last season. Gyök had 21. It’s okay to want Alvarez but don’t disrespect Gyök.

[Jacob Bartlett @jacobtechtavern]

The App Launch instrument gives a cool visual overview of iOS launch theory.

- Launch Executable covers the full pre-main process.
- Validating Closure at the start is the tell for a warm launch, loading the launch plan computed by dyld. In cold launches, it’s Building Closure, lives at the end, and takes much longer.
- Map Image takes the actual file paths of your dynamic frameworks and mmaps them into your app process. This is where an overabundance of dynamic frameworks can slow down your launch.
- Apply Fixups wires these symbol references to actual memory addresses.
- ObjC Image Init makes classes visible to the Objective-C runtime.
- Run Static Initializer… runs your static initialisers.
- dlopen handles library loads at runtime. You can call this yourself!

Post-main, we can also see UIKit initialisation, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions, UIScene creation, then the declaration of victory: Foreground — Active*.

Read “How did Apple cut launch time by 30% in iOS 27?“ here 🚀 https://t.co/jtzcCVtuY7

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

@EduardoHagn Now I know you're not a serious Arsenal fan

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

@AFTVMedia 100Ms is too expensive. But even if we pony up that type of cash, it would be better than this poisonous idea of swapping Gyokeres for Alvarez. A man who would bleed for the badge

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

@HandofArsenal Let's give them Gabriel Jesus+ 60Ms for Alvarez. Gyokeres is untouchable. That Man would bleed for the club

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

Ronaldo is hounded for things others are praised for, especially Messi.

Take the nickname “Penaldo.” When you hear it, you’d think Ronaldo built his entire career on penalties.

The irony is that Ronaldo did not start out as an elite penalty taker. Early in his career, penalties were a weakness. He missed important penalties, including one in the 2008 Champions League final shootout against Chelsea. Back then, he wasn’t called “Penaldo.” He was mocked and criticised.

What happened next is what Ronaldo has done throughout his career: he identified a weakness and worked relentlessly until it became a strength. He went from being an inconsistent penalty taker to one of the greatest the game has ever seen.

Yet instead of being praised for improving a flaw in his game, critics began using “Penaldo” to diminish his achievements.

What’s even more ironic is that Messi holds the record for the most penalties scored in World Cup history, Champions League history, and La Liga history. Yet the “Penaldo” label is reserved almost exclusively for Ronaldo.

As Ronaldo’s goalscoring numbers became impossible to ignore, football discourse suddenly became obsessed with “non-penalty goals.” It felt as though the conversation kept changing whenever Ronaldo excelled. First goals were counted. Then the type of goals started being counted.

Ronaldo was mocked when he missed penalties. Mocked when he took penalties. And mocked when he became one of the greatest penalty takers in football history.

For many fans, that is why the standards have never felt the same. Ronaldo’s story is one of turning weaknesses into strengths, only to see those strengths used against him in the debate over greatness.

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

@TheM0ngies @WelBeast Brother, watch games, don't focus on stats only. He contributed massively in the run-in. Without him and Raya, we don't win the league

[Arsenal Rep @Arsenal_rep1]

This is so unfair to Gyökeres in every possible way you want to look at it.

I don't think a player who had 1 open play goal in his last 25 Laliga games deserves this hype, Infact he scored 2 goals in is last 25 Laliga games (one from the spot and the other from open play), a player of that kind shouldn't be worth the headache.

I was genuinely thinking the anonymous player was Vinicius Jr. or a serious superstar..

Gyökeres is the first striker in the Emirates era that gave Arsenal the premier league title scoring 14 goals inhis first season and he was the highest scoring premier league striker in 2026., he indeed had a rough start but it was evident to all how he has adapted to how Arsenal play..

If Alvarez deal doesn't involve Gyökeres then it's a perfect one as he will be a great addition but if it involves touching the swedish striker then it makes absolutely no sense to me..

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

@HandofArsenal We don't want Alvarez if it means losing Gyokeres. That Man bleeds for the badge

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Mbappe 😮‍💨

#FIFAWorldCup

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🔥🇫🇷 16 World Cup career games, 16 goals for Kylian Mbappé.

[Stratton Ashworth @strattonashwrth]

It's ball knowledge babe

[͏͏͏𝐉𝐚𝐲 ⌖ @cagiago_]

Keep your World Cup man this is the best football player ever, even Kendrick Lamar has more Grammys than Michael Jackson and we all know who’s better, football is not measured by goals and trophies.🏆

[Nil Coalescing @NilCoalescing]

Reorder items within and between custom SwiftUI containers, and build selection-aware multi-item drag and drop interactions with the new APIs in iOS 27: https://t.co/Tf6lv3hLAl

[Jacob Bartlett @jacobtechtavern]

You need to understand the difference between structured vs. unstructured concurrency.

This is the root of the misunderstanding, and often very poorly explained. Frankly, I don’t like it much as a mental model, because it doesn’t feel like you unlock any useful shortcuts. It’s just more stuff to memorise.

Basically, structured and unstructured concurrency is purely about the relationship between parent and child tasks. Structured concurrency is simply when a parent task has child tasks. What people misunderstand is that these child tasks can only be created using async lets or by using task groups.

Read that bit again, seriously. It’s really dang important.

I wrote about the most context inheritance, cascading cancellation, interleaving, and Swift 6.2 in Swift Concurrency's Biggest Unintuitive Gotchas 👽 https://t.co/WXjwHwblRE

[Joannis Orlandos @JoannisOrlandos]

We're almost ready to bring a preview of SwiftNIO to Windows. Run your Swift and Hummingbird apps on any OS!

https://t.co/Pf7MaVnHwA

[Mohammad Azam @azamsharp]

In iOS 27 for SwiftData you can join different predicates together using Predicate(all..) and Predicate(any...)

[Natalia Panferova @natpanferova]

AsyncImage got some useful improvements in iOS 27. We can now pass a URLRequest for per-image headers, caching, and timeout control, and provide a custom URLSession for image loading across a SwiftUI view hierarchy.

You can learn more in my new post:
https://t.co/78FjrR1dPR

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

2.⁠ ⁠"It’s Not Done" - Declan Rice after the defeat at the Etihad. I wouldn’t normally select a picture from a loss, but this was such a powerful moment from the season.