I think there must be a better solution than a file, like an attachment to effectively round the edges, or even something like fingerless gloves.

On the other hand Apple always replace the top case when the keyboard needs changing so the filing approach may not be entirely insane. It might send a message to Apple.

internal should definitely go though.

Focusing on the keywords rather than the macros, I think the rest of them have legitimate use cases, though they're often misused, especially fileprivate.

Another problem is the Apache Software Foundation don't seem to have any Swift maintainers, which means there really aren't any good pure Swift libraries for Arrow or Parquet.

There are some really good open-source libraries from Apple like Swift Collections or Swift Binary Parsing.

I find LLMs are great for building ideas, improving understanding and basic prototyping. This is more useful at the start of the project lifecycle, however when getting toward release it's much more about refactoring and dealing with large numbers of files and resources, making very specific changes e.g. from user feedback.

For those of us with decades of muscle memory who can fix a bug in 30 seconds with a few Vim commands, LLMs are very likely to be slower in most coding tasks, excepting prototyping and obscure bug spotting.

I find I need to explain I know what I'm talking about first before it gives me non-patronising answers.

It definitely advertises Google services and I would say I hate it. But it's just reliably available. Neither Claude nor ChatGPT are responding at all today.

It's a shame because when Claude is working well it is the best for actual algorithmic coding. There's so much cruft around it now, memories being the most annoying part of that.

80% of the time I just use these things as a sounding board when exploring options and I need responsiveness for that.

Might be time to run my own models.

Arrow is also directly usable as the application memory model. It’s pretty common to read Parquet into Arrow for transport.

"The data types generally have a 1-1 correspondence with the Apache Arrow data types." [1]

So it would probably be relatively simple to set up an Arrow Flight endpoint working with LanceDB.

[1] https://lance.org/format/table/#manifest

Nothing has fundamentally changed! A good solution is a good solution.

I do worry that the mental health of developers will take a downturn if they’re forced into a brain rotting slop shovelling routine, however.

So yes readability and good concise code is still important.

"According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey from June 2025, 45% of all organizations and 56% of “digital natives” cited data sovereignty and potential cloud changes as their greatest concern for 2026."

https://www.veeam.com/blog/saas-data-sovereignty-microsoft-3...

You can. Any local packages are automatically editable in Xcode. Opening two projects referencing the same local package dependency isn't possible however.