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AI x Spatial Compute

[kris @svidtx]

@simonbs OK!

[DHH @dhh]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! https://t.co/zuf5h9ClWX

[kris @svidtx]

waiting patiently for what the reality composer pro team is brewing at apple 👀

[kris @svidtx]

after about 20 mins of intense computer-think, my local qwen model managed to create a perfectly round and centered sphere ⚪ ♥︎

[kris @svidtx]

@iBrews Okay, good to know! Should get myself one of those - just in case 😬

[kris @svidtx]

What a great initiative!

[Florian Ludot @florianldt]

This has been sitting in my head for a long time, and a conversation today pushed me to finally write it down.

I want to run an event in Seoul about accessibility. @dev_korea, Seoul iOS Meetup, or both together, I have not decided yet and honestly that is the least important part.

Here is the idea. Most of us have read the docs. We know VoiceOver exists, we know about alt text, contrast ratios, semantic HTML, Dynamic Type. But almost none of us have watched someone actually navigate our own app with a screen reader. I think seeing that live, in the room, would change how a lot of us build.

So I am looking for people who are blind or have low vision, and who would be willing to show us how they use websites and mobile apps day to day. What works. What is broken. What we keep getting wrong without realizing it.

The format is open. No slides needed. A live demo on your own device is probably worth more than any deck. We run in English and that is my preference, but I know it is not a small thing to ask. If it is a barrier for you, tell me and we will discuss how to make it work.

If this is you, or you know someone, please comment or DM. Sharing helps too.

I know this is raw, but I have to start somewhere to make it work. Thank you 🫶

[Florian Ludot @florianldt]

This has been sitting in my head for a long time, and a conversation today pushed me to finally write it down.

I want to run an event in Seoul about accessibility. @dev_korea, Seoul iOS Meetup, or both together, I have not decided yet and honestly that is the least important part.

Here is the idea. Most of us have read the docs. We know VoiceOver exists, we know about alt text, contrast ratios, semantic HTML, Dynamic Type. But almost none of us have watched someone actually navigate our own app with a screen reader. I think seeing that live, in the room, would change how a lot of us build.

So I am looking for people who are blind or have low vision, and who would be willing to show us how they use websites and mobile apps day to day. What works. What is broken. What we keep getting wrong without realizing it.

The format is open. No slides needed. A live demo on your own device is probably worth more than any deck. We run in English and that is my preference, but I know it is not a small thing to ask. If it is a barrier for you, tell me and we will discuss how to make it work.

If this is you, or you know someone, please comment or DM. Sharing helps too.

I know this is raw, but I have to start somewhere to make it work. Thank you 🫶

[Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tom_krikorian]

Looks like Apple is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer for the Apple Vision Pro Developer Ecosystem! Might be interesting for some of you 👀

https://t.co/XErQZoH3MX

[Florian Ludot @florianldt]

The State of Dev in South Korea 2026 closes in 10 days.

We're at 130+ responses from 25 countries. Every extra one makes the compensation data sharper and the report harder to argue with.

If you're a developer in Korea, or thinking about moving here, this is your window. Less than 5 minutes, fully anonymous, and you get the full report before it goes public. It means a lot to us at @dev_korea.

https://t.co/u0NN9Zdofg

Already filled it out? Send it to one developer you know. That's the whole ask.

[kris @svidtx]

Great. Another week of deep-dive and no socializing 😂✨

[Claude @claudeai]

We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

[kris @svidtx]

Is anyone else having issues with absurd usage on 5.6 Sol?

5 hour limit is soft cap, meaning you easily spend the entire weekly budget on an afternoon 🤔

[kris @svidtx]

@florianldt @OpenAI @dev_korea @hashed_official @gabrielchua @wonforall That's awesome. Count me in 👍

[Jip @jipvandervelde]

grug is probably the first Apple Design Award winner built by two designers using Codex to write the code.

We didn't prompt "build me an award-winning app, make no mistakes.” It did not wake up one morning and decide the world needed grug. We did. We wanted to build it and AI was the tool that helped us take it all the way there.

Ever since we started building with AI a few years ago, we got bolder. You stop killing ideas just because they sound too hard to build. You get weirder when trying things becomes cheap enough to be silly again. You start following the strange little thought further than you normally would.

That is how grug happened.

AI can write your code. It can help you move fast. It can make impossible things feel possible.

But it cannot care. It cannot make your app memorable. It cannot make your app feel like it has a soul.

You have to bring the taste. You have to stay incredibly close. You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.

grug would not have been this memorable if we didn't have Codex to go all-in on all the crazy ideas we had. If we had not decided to make the whole thing hand-drawn. If we had not spent days and nights obsessing over every detail, every animation, every interaction, every tiny bit of weirdness.

That is the difference between slop and something with a soul.

And I think that is why this award means so much to us. Not because what we were able to do using AI to build grug, but because Apple recognized the care we put inside all the weirdness.

For the past 15 years, so many of our ideas stopped at the mockup. They were too weird, too small, too hard to explain, too expensive to build, too unlikely to survive a meeting. Now designers like us can build the fun little things. Designers like us can ship the crazy ideas. Designers like us can make unreasonable little things and see if the world cares.

There are plenty of people who do not get grug. That is totally fine.

We do not try to build for everyone, because when you do you end up building for no-one. The people who get grug really get it. And if it makes their morning feel a little lighter, that is all that matters to us.

Make the weird thing. The right people will find it.

grug no wait for permission.

grug back sun rise.

[kris @svidtx]

@al_vin @nandoprince93 Right, I use that all the time for minor fixes on my main machine (at home), while on the go. It's not without lag, but for general high-level work, it does the job :)

[Lysandre @LysandreJik]

We're opening a Hugging Face office in Tokyo!

Our goal: help open-source AI develop in Japan and grow the local community. Let's meet!

ハギングフェイスの東京オフィスがオープンしました！

私たちの目標は、日本におけるオープンソースAIの発展を支援し、ローカルコミュニティを育てることです。ぜひお会いしましょう！

[kris @svidtx]

That's awesome! I can’t wait to implement more high-performing animations into my UI.

Give this one a star:
https://t.co/GbnCcFjvCH

[Rive @rive_app]

The Rive Apple runtime is out of experimental.

Faster, multi-threaded, Swift-first.

[kris @svidtx]

@xrdevrob Legal issues, I assume. And with that, I hope it's just a flip of a button when things get sorted. It feels very limiting having a device with so much power and potential, and not being able to explore what developers are creating.

[kris @svidtx]

My first attendance of #TrySwift, so much energy, so much passion, and creativity. I believe the future of Swift and the community is broad and bright!

[try! Swift Tokyo @tryswiftconf]

Thaek you for joining try! Swift Tokyo 2026 #tryswift