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A black digital clock display against a dark background, evoking a countdown running out
Swift Swift Concurrency

Swift Just Got a Real Timeout API. Here's What We've All Been Duct-Taping Instead.

SE-0526 withDeadline was accepted into Swift on July 30, 2026 — a real, composable, absolute-time-limit API for async operations. I found the exact gap it fills in a real app's networking layer, fixed it today's way with a TaskGroup race, and lined it up against what withDeadline will let me delete once it ships.

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A relay runner mid-sprint on an outdoor track, baton in hand, captured at full stride — the same shape as a request that has to keep moving forward through a dropped connection, an expired token, or a second caller asking for the same thing.
Swift Networking

Retry, Token Refresh, and Request Deduplication in Swift

Day 23 of the 30-day iOS series. The three production concerns every 'build your own networking layer' tutorial skips, built as composable actors on top of Day 22's client — plus a real concurrency bug I found writing the test, not the code.

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A tangled mass of colorful telephone wires on the left resolving into a neatly organized black patch panel on the right — the same shape as replacing scattered URLSession calls with one clean networking layer.
Swift Networking

A Custom Networking Layer in 100 Lines of Swift — No Alamofire

Day 22 of the 30-day iOS series. URLSession, async/await, a generic Endpoint, and one typed error enum — the entire networking layer is 85 real lines, tested with a URLProtocol stub, and wired into a real BrewLog feature with a real local server.

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