Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #079
Microsoft Tightens Plugin Restrictions, Google Pushes for the Cloud and What's Next for Xcode?
Microsoft Tightens Plugin Restrictions, Google Pushes for the Cloud and What's Next for Xcode?
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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #081
The Chrome Paradox: Could DOJ’s Antitrust Remedy Create OpenAI’s Next Monopoly?
The Chrome Paradox: Could DOJ’s Antitrust Remedy Create OpenAI’s Next Monopoly?
The Taylor Swift Songwriting School
Jensen McRae, Gracie Abrams, Maisie Peters, and Phoebe Bridgers carry Swift’s Torch
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere you get podcasts
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Lyrical hyper-specificity really came through on Brat too (not sure Charli was necessarily influenced by Taylor though)
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This was a great episode, thank you! Maisie's lyrics are even more specific than you noted in the pod - Columbia Road in London is a flower market on Sundays, which explains the lyrics "I'm running down Columbia Road / They're selling sunflowers cheap", and in the same area is a notable street called Brick Lane, referenced later in the song. The conversation with Jensen was also great - her point about journaling becoming feminised and thus not high art anymore was so real!! The episode is already long, but it's interesting to note the songwriters that preceded Taylor with this level of detail - Alanis Morissette, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, so many others. But I guess they don't all nessecarily have the specifity / minimal melody / big bridge combo of Taylor.
A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP
Updating Jonathan Swift
Grey Area Monarch's Psyop Demonising Veronica Swift
Introduction
My dysphoria is your fault
like a bad Taylor Swift song
My gut and heart did somersaults reading this. My trans daughter has experienced repeated assaults this year in London -- in public -- no one coming to help. She's 6 foot and very visibly doesn't 'pass' and isn't aiming to -- she wants to be simply be herself like any human, not scrunched into any kind of box for someone else's prejudices. And for that she is in constant danger. It keeps me awake at night -- my 'child' is 38 and I still don't know what to tell her - and she's wise and not a child anyway. Sometimes the urge to say -- dress down, fit in, ditch the t-shirts and hats with slogans, the badges rises becasue I'm afraid for her -- but F*** -- why should she slink around in hiding? Why should she comply with notions that want her invisible? How much dysphoria can one body be expected to carry fon behalf of a messed up society that is fine with ecocide, genocide, lack of care for the elderly and ... (the endless list), but not fine with people simply being their glorious selves in every shade of humanity?
You are right -- dysphoria is put on you, projected by a messed up society that we all need to wake up to this.
Thank you for such an honest post.
"I dropped him off at the grandmother’s house (out in the woods, a very long way from any town or city, surrounded by acres of trees). She seemed nice in a Fleetwood Mac kind of way."... Scary to be heading out to the woods, but all seemed well until the sons..... I'm so sorry for moments like this, for this level of fear, for the questions and worries over how much to say to the kids. I'm sorry that things that already were hard are so much harder now.
Not to make light of the story, but, really, birthday parties are the worst.
Reckoning With the Rise, Power, & Genius of Taylor Swift
Together We Can Defeat Taylor Derangement Syndrome
Hey y’all,
1. You've changed my perspective on TS. I thought that was impossible so brava lol
2. I NEED to hear your Tate thoughts because something isn't clicking and it's more than just the Tommy Pickles vocals.
Her songwriting ability alone is completely indisputable! The woman knows how to turn a phrase, how to write like very, very, VERY few artists can, it’s genuinely remarkable. Her music feels like it’s poetry or a really good book with beautiful melody attached to it.
Taylor Swift Stadium Concert weapon systems?
Photonic (LED), Ultrasonic (Voice & Music), Magnetic Resonance EMF Radiation Pulsing
Rave Music & Mosh Pit surveillance, trace, track & targeting
In this blog we explore Smart Stadiums in more detail, look at what it takes to become SMART and understand why stadiums are going down the Smart route.
Crowd control is a constant challenge for stadiums and often stretches the resources of organizers, law enforcement, and the emergency services. In a time when UK policing manpower is stretched to the extreme, solutions are required to manage people and keep everybody safe.
Nodes on the Network with Sabrina Wallace
MESH Networks IoE (Internet of Everything) Discussion & examples of Networks
A lethal weapon delivered under the guise of remote 24-7 medical care monitoring.
Northern Lights, Taylor Swift, and the Science of Awe
From lava fields to moral elevation: how awe trains us for heroic action.
I spent this week in Iceland. On Thursday night, our last night, the Northern Lights busted out a farewell performance. My teenaged daughter laughed and jumped. Previously this behaviour has been reserved for Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo, and a large number of Australian soccer players. She was awestruck. As were her parents - by the ligh…
This Dispositional Awe part reminds me of this video I saw about AFC Wimbledon and John Green’s involvement with them. In the video they describe his ability to see the story behind the clubs rebirth in a way that most people can’t.
I have the word "awe" tattooed on one of my wrists. I put it there because it is one of my core values. I wasn't actually aware of the relationship between "feeling awe" and "being more prosocial" - that is super cool! Now that this connection is salient to me, I can think of my Colorado hikes as a kind of "gas tank fill up" for my tendencies towards prosocial behavior....
This is my Trying. (I love me some Taylor Swift)
I ran out of money and asked for help. I was terrified. And then... this happened.
Hey gang,
Into the Fridge 🐾
Rose-Marie Swift on eating durian and Kundalini breathing
PalCinema Review: On Swift Horses
April 24, 2025
The film is intriguing and you hit it on the head in your description of its successes and its shortcomings. Overall, it is quite satisfying and enjoyable to watch. I liked how it depicted the difficulties of the 1950s closet without punishing the characters or ending tragically for them.
Boardroom briefing: Another rate cut, move over Taylor Swift, IRL Conclave
and your election Cheat Sheet is inside
Let’s get you ready for the week ahead. In this week’s edition we have broken down the promises of the Federal Election’s top candidates, are getting you across the latest in tech (it has been a big week), found you another Mother’s Day idea, and the woman bringing luxury to your shower products.
Swift + OpenRouter: One LLM API to Rule Them All
Learn how to integrate OpenRouter’s Chat Completions API into your Swift app for unified, low‑latency access and billing across hundreds of LLMs.
As major companies included OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Alibaba, etc continue to release LLMs at an insane speed - we’re talking a handful of releases every week! With each model offering something different: faster responses, lower costs, bigger context, specialized skills and so on. We, as developers, are responsible for experimenting w…
Thank you Natasha. Do you think there's a benefit to switch to OpenRouter when we benefit from Azure's startup credits? (As share by you in a previous post).
I'm worried about Azure's performance.
Plus I heard that OpenRouter offers many free to use models. (As long as you add a little bit of credit top up, that won't be used anyway for free models)
critics, fans, and subjects (with tavi gevinson)
we also discuss self-knowledge, immediacy, blogging, and (obviously) Taylor Swift
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Analysis: What Circle Payment Network can learn from Facebook, Plaid, & Wise
Circle wants to be SWIFT and Visa combined — but so did everyone else.
Gm Fintech Architects —
Just a matter of time. Keep pushing forward 🙌
'On Swift Horses' is a slowpoke drama
Pretty surfaces and good-looking actors can't disguise tired tropes
Get yourself somebody who looks at you the way the characters in “On Swift Horses” look at a matchbook. In Daniel Minahan’s 1950s-set drama, every time a character encounters a book of matches advertising a hotel or a bar, the cardboard sleeve serves as a…
A friend of mine said something along the lines of "at last, queer folks can have their own boring romance movie." Progress??? 😂
Who is the Taylor Swift of venture capital?
The rise of solo GPs
VCs are intermediaries between capital and founders. USV’s Fred Wilson summarized the role perfectly in 2017:
Your Possible Pasts
My thoughts on Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII and On Swift Horses
Your Possible Pasts
Handle Deep Links with Async Algorithms
Building a reactive system with Swift Concurrency
Deep links are mandatory if you want users engaging with your app. Alongside push notifications, deep links form the technical cornerstone of your user retention strategy: a user gets a notification, taps it, then expects to be brought to the relevant screen in your app.
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