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✨  OSPO // @swift.org community ✨ @cncf.bsky.social ambassador ✨ @helm.sh community manager

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Toad talks to his seeds, trying to get them to grow.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad talks to his seeds, trying to get them to grow. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad put his head close to the ground and said loudly, “Now seeds, start growing!”

Toad looked at the ground again. The seeds did not start to grow.

10.03.2026 04:37 👍 259 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 9

Nope the bangs are different hahaha

07.03.2026 07:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahhh that’s cool 😍

07.03.2026 06:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hell yeah!!! I recently got a Kodak Charmera. That’s a real potato. It’s 1.6 megapixels 🫠

07.03.2026 05:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes this photo was taken with a point & shoot camera AKA a potato. I hear those are cool again though

06.03.2026 22:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Every time I go to SCALE, it’s such a throw back for me. Baby Karen used to hang out in this area ALL the time. I even graduated high school at the Pasadena Civic Center 🙃 so weird when my adult and childhood life merge

06.03.2026 22:33 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

move slow and repair things

06.03.2026 12:06 👍 3746 🔁 1214 💬 5 📌 0

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

04.03.2026 02:51 👍 16662 🔁 2687 💬 267 📌 136

We’re working on bringing free @swiftlangconf.bsky.social & #cloudnative workshops to AMS while we're there for #KubeCon 🌷 Join us on Mon 23 Mar–

[10:30-12:00] Building Cloud Services w/ Swift: A Hands-On Intro: s.apple.com/dr2F8e2FI7
[13:30-15:00] Container Install Workshop: s.apple.com/dN4e7D6zV3

04.03.2026 00:26 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Adding to that, here's a small wrap-up post about the pre #fosdem Swift Community Event, including the long awaited group pic! :-)

forums.swift.org/t/wrapping-u...

Thank you everyone for joining us! #swiftlang

03.03.2026 06:09 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

rofl

03.03.2026 07:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ohhh I didn’t even think about that. Wait…how does Rocky sound?!

03.03.2026 03:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And…just finished #ProjectHailMary just in time for the movie 😏

nothing motivates me to read like catching original content before it gets made into a movie/tv show

03.03.2026 02:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The @swift.org kids have some cool stuff lined up for
@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social!

Thur: 🛠️ Building High-Performance Linux Services with Swift: A Hands-On Intro: www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/pr...

Sat:  Containerization talk: www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/pr...

Hope to see y'all there! 😎

02.03.2026 23:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love when my doctors actually check my file and realize it’s my birthday hahaha

21.02.2026 00:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👏💯👏

14.02.2026 05:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is why we’re friends ROFL

08.02.2026 01:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok like I kind of regret reading it before the movie. I think I’m going to have to disassociate the two mediums and view them as unrelated pieces… otherwise I’m going to be so mad.

07.02.2026 06:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m raising rent funds for Minneapolis immigrant families in need. We now have a $5000 match offer (!) and are going to help as many families as we can to stay housed today.

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

Thank you so much! 🌷

05.02.2026 23:31 👍 237 🔁 142 💬 5 📌 5

…what do you mean it's already 2026??

…What do you mean it's only February of 2026???

06.02.2026 05:21 👍 193 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1

I’m just a girl who wants to drink warm tea, eat butter biscuits, and finish reading Wuthering Heights before the movie comes out next week 🙇🏻‍♀️

06.02.2026 06:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t believe this needs to be said…PLASTIC GARBAGE BAGS DON’T BELONG IN THE COMPOST BIN. Seriously?!

06.02.2026 02:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Polar Signals at #FOSDEM 2026 day 2!
Both talks in the Rust room.

Profiling Rust applications with Parca
Brennan at 12:30 @ UB2.252A (Rust)
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Frederic at 16:00 @ UB2.252A (Rust)
Random seeds and state machines: An approach to DST in Rust
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

01.02.2026 09:00 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Damn the utter disappointment in someone’s voice when they asked me if I “code” and I said no 🙃 happy 2026 at FOSDEM

31.01.2026 11:23 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Today at #fosdem #swiftlang in Brussels.
Greeted with a perfect swag for a nippy winter day.

30.01.2026 12:24 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

i hope i never hear that encryption is only for criminals “i have nothing to hide” ever again

27.01.2026 01:27 👍 182 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1

Thankful for the pharmacist who found a discount for my $1600 meds that now *only* cost me $90. Fun part is I’ll likely need a few rounds of this medication 🙃 plz work on the first round 🤞

27.01.2026 01:55 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Announcing the Windows Workgroup We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup!

Windows developers, you're invited! 🪟
We just launched a Windows workgroup to make Swift even better on Windows: improving the toolchain, core packages, API bridging, and deployment experiences.
Curious? Interested in contributing? You're welcome here. 👉 swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/

26.01.2026 20:52 👍 78 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 4

I am so so sad for Minneapolis

25.01.2026 00:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Terribly important and useful post.

15.01.2026 07:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0