Engineering Manager📱 Previously iOS @ 🇺🇸🇰🇷 Maintainer of xcparse 💬 Opinions expressed are my own 🚚 axbotkin@mastodon.online
Joined January 2009
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5 Mar 2022
Best part about working at @ChargePointnet is the team! It's wonderful working with folks with such a wide range of experiences and expertises. And if you're in the market, we've got lots of positions open, in-person and remote, across US, EU, and India chargepoint.com/about/opport…
ALT Outdoor team lunch at ChargePoint
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Starting with iOS 27, we can actually convert a tab bar to a sidebar.
A new modifier was introduced to do this.
“.defaultTabBarPlacement(.sidebar)”
As of current testing, this seems to work on iPhones as well when the app is in landscape mode. This is the same behavior used in the iPhone Health app, where the tab bar converts into a sidebar in landscape mode!
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
Apr 24
This GitHub incident is insane. Merge queue commits have been reverting previously merged commits at random.
This not only breaks the mental contract teams have with Git in general, but is subtle enough to be really hard to unravel after the fact.
githubstatus.com/incidents/z…
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
Mar 3
Swift/JS interop used to mean "JSObject", "JSValue", and runtime surprises.
BridgeJS changes that: annotate your Swift, get typed glue code in both directions. Compile-time safe. Zero manual boilerplate. 🧵
ALT The BridgeJS Playground at https://swiftwasm.org/JavaScriptKit/PlayBridgeJS/
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Slack has rolled out a new plugin that allows you to connect to Slack for search, messaging, document creation and more.
Use this to get context from Slack into Claude Code so it has context on what you're working on or to post updates.
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
Feb 23
Pretty draconian from Google. Be careful out there if you use Antigravity. I guess I'll remove support.
Even Anthropic pings me and is nice about issues. Google just... bans? news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Hey @Ticketmaster it seems kinda deceiving to send notifications to folks about “last minute Super Bowl tickets” and then have that link to a checkout for tickets to a Reno casino’s Super Bowl VIEWING party.
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
6 Dec 2025
A number of folks asked for this article as an AGENTS.md file, so here you go! All contributions are welcome; please open a PR, so we can make it great for everyone. github.com/twostraws/SwiftAg…
4 Dec 2025
Four times in four days I've been asked for advice on working with AI-generated Swift code, so here you go – here's a brief article about dubious code I suggest you watch out for, and what to replace it with instead: hackingwithswift.com/article…
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26 Jun 2025
Found this 1:1 copy of iOS Notes app for Android, and it looks and works so well!
I really missed the iOS notes app since switching to Android, and this fixes that for me. 😭
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
14 May 2025
1/ For years, I thought I was driving innovation — helping shape early versions of Google Maps, Search, and YouTube.
Then an MIT professor asked me:
“Can you name a time you designed a truly new behavior?”
Not a better version. Something genuinely novel.
I couldn’t. 🧵
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
3 May 2025
There is a vulnerability in LSApplicationWorkspace… seems like there is possibility for a DenialOfService attack… why… it’s open selector that is handled by an other process fails to check if its caller is still alive. It’s immune to App switcher kills, uninstall, etc…
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2 May 2025
A useful Xcode shortcut I just learned💡
We can quickly format long function calls or initializers with many parameters by placing the cursor inside the parentheses and pressing Control (⌃) M. Selecting the entire expression will also format values like arrays and closures.
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10 Apr 2025
Zipline Patient Stories — Delivery #1,459,819
On the evening of March 28th at 17:00 GMT, a 4-year-old girl was playing outside her home in Gbintiri, a farming village in the north east region of Ghana, when she was bitten by a venomous snake hiding under a pile of firewood. Her parents, realizing the severity of the bite, rushed her to Gbintiri Health Center, the closest facility in the area.
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
5 Apr 2025
if you understand how this works you know how easy it is to break it
I present to you:
"the future of gaming!" VS "looking up and down"
5 Apr 2025
Microsoft has created an AI-generated replica of Quake II that you can play in browser.
"Every frame is created on the fly by an AI world model."
Play it here:
copilot.microsoft.com/wham?f…
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13 Feb 2025
I wrote a blog post on how to build a macOS menu bar utility in SwiftUI using MenuBarExtra, customize its icon, hide it from the Dock, and add a quit option:
nilcoalescing.com/blog/Build…
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Get ready to meet the newest member of the family.
Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Introducing Starview 🥳⭐️🌠, a convenient new way to do App Store market research and ASO
✨ View trending apps across regions
✨ Track rating, reviews, rankings
✨ Track ASO keywords with popularity and difficulty scores
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Retweet for a chance to win 1 free license
Checkout launch discount 🤑 & affiliate program
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
27 Dec 2024
In 2021, I organized Afghanistan's first all-female flight together with Kam Air. Many media outlets covered the event and the video reached millions of people but what happened to the women after the Taliban took over and where are they now?
A Thread 🧵
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Alexander Botkin retweeted
27 Nov 2024
EU folks: Apple is hosting Swift talks at FOSDEM, a big open source event in Brussels. They are really keen to get submissions from a range of people, so give it a try! Open source, server-side, concurrency, academia, community, and more are all welcome: swiftlang.github.io/event-fo…
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25 Nov 2024
We are excited to hear news from @joshdholtz about next year’s @DeepDishSwift 🍕conference in Chicago. Call for Papers is open, more details at the link below! reddit.com/r/swift/s/RvkxfWr…
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