Swift Has 217 Keywords Now. Nobody Agrees on What It's For.
Swift started as a simple, elegant language that composed beautifully. Twelve years later, it has 217 keywords, a governance problem, and an identity crisis. With WWDC 2026 weeks away, the community is asking: is Apple killing its own programming language?
Vibe Coding Has a Free-Rider Problem. Open Source Maintainers Are Paying the Bill.
AI coding tools consume open source libraries at scale but skip the human behaviors that keep them alive — bug reports, documentation visits, sponsorships. With 60% of maintainers unpaid and burnout at 44%, the ecosystem that powers your app might not survive the vibe coding era.
What iOS Dev Land Is Missing in 2026 — and a Few Things I Built to Fill the Gaps
There are a handful of small, specific frictions every iOS developer hits this year that should not still exist in 2026 — Privacy Manifests, Universal Links validation, iOS 26 icon variants, App Store screenshots. Walking through what's actually missing, why it persists, and four free tools I made for myself that you might find useful too.
AI Wrote 41% of Your Codebase While Your Reviewer Was Updating Their LinkedIn
A new study analyzed 1,154 developer posts and found that AI-generated code is creating a 'tragedy of the commons' in software development. PRs are up 20%, quality is down 23%, curl killed its bug bounty, and your code reviewer is one emoji-filled comment away from quitting.
ABSecureScreen — Protecting Sensitive iOS App Content from Capture
How we built an open-source iOS security SDK that prevents screenshots, detects jailbreaks, and protects banking-grade app content — all in a lightweight Swift Package.
ABNetworking — A Modern, Production-Ready Networking Layer for iOS
We open-sourced the networking layer we use across our apps — async/await, automatic retry with exponential backoff, certificate pinning, and comprehensive error handling, all in one Swift Package.