📱 The Swift SDK for Android
This development cements Swift as a credible cross-platform language, rivaling Kotlin and Flutter. It bridges iOS and Android workflows, moving toward a unified mobile development ecosystem.
The Swift community has launched nightly previews of the Swift SDK for Android—an important step in Swift’s cross-platform journey. The SDK lets developers build native Android apps in Swift, with Java interoperability via the swift-java project. It includes setup guides, sample apps, and a collaborative workgroup shaping its evolution.
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🌡️ Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment
A systems-level look at clean energy adoption, showing that technology alone isn’t enough—human behavior and institutional trust matter just as much.
Joseph DeNatale examines how heat pumps—an efficient yet century-old technology—could reshape heating and cooling in U.S. homes. The challenge lies not in technology but in culture, workforce familiarity, and fragmented policy. The article calls for education, training, and policy coordination to make heat pumps the default climate solution.
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🛫 Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways
A sharp illustration of how exposed metadata like SNI weakens network security policies—underscoring the growing need for encrypted SNI in real-world deployments.
A researcher shows how they bypassed British Airways’ in-flight WiFi paywall by exploiting unencrypted SNI filtering in TLS. By spoofing the domain to mimic WhatsApp, they tunneled arbitrary HTTPS traffic through the airline’s free messaging plan. The post details the setup with stunnel and HTTPS proxies, and discusses encrypted SNI (ECH) as a long-term fix.
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💰 Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512K to the Zig Software Foundation
A strong vote of confidence in Zig as a next-generation systems language—and a model for sustainable open-source funding driven by industry stakeholders.
Synadia and TigerBeetle have committed $512K to support the Zig Software Foundation. The article explains TigerBeetle’s choice of Zig over Rust and C for its simplicity, control, and safety. It credits Zig’s subtractive complexity and clear leadership for improving their system design and performance.
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🦀 How to Avoid Fighting Rust’s Borrow Checker
An indispensable guide for seasoned Rustaceans—clarifying the design trade-offs that make Rust both strict and safe while offering pragmatic design patterns to thrive within its ownership model.
A deep technical dive into Rust’s borrow checker and the infamous ‘contagious borrow’ issue. It explains why borrowing one field can lock the entire object and explores practical strategies—like data-oriented design, arenas, deferred mutation, and persistent structures—to work around it. Advanced topics include interior mutability, lifetimes, async behavior, and compiler optimizations.
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