Rob Fahrni

Since we can use Swift to write code for Windows I’m excited to give it a try.

I’m hoping I can bring over all of Stream’s model, network, utility, and view model code over without changes, or perhaps few changes?

The other thing I’m thinking is, I should be able to port my C++ framework for building Windows apps to Swift. That would be something really special and would allow me to do a full version of Stream for Windows. Heck, if my shared code comes right over and I can rebuild my Framework in Swift, I should be able to do a Windows release pretty quickly.

Of course I really need to focus on the Mac version first.

Hey, Microsoft, can you make Visual Studio support Swift as a first class citizen so we can build and debug using it? Please? 🙏🏼

The Official Windows Blog

On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident, given it impacts our ecosystem, we want to provide an update on the steps we’ve taken with CrowdStrike and others to remediate and support our customers.

What Microsoft is actually saying:

WHAT THE F*CK DID YOU DO!?

I still love Microsoft Windows as an operating system and development platform so this event is a real bummer for everyone involved.

Lotsa love to all those IT folks out there busting their butts to fix up their broken PC’s. ❤️

I shared these photos this morning in our Staff and Senior Engineers Slack channel.

I owe my career to Windows and the Windows API. I spent years writing Windows apps and loved every minute of it. Sometimes I wish I was still doing it. C, C++, Win32, and even COM feel like an old friend compared to my comfort level with iOS dev. Even after 14 years of iOS Dev. I don’t know why that is, but there you go.

I built my personal Windows Class Libraries — ACLLib — based on these API’s and they still work to this day. That is an amazing testament to how good Microsoft’s backward compatibility promise has been for Windows Developers.

These are pictures of Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows, 1988.

I don’t know why I’d like to do this, but I’d love to do a Mac and Windows word processor that implements a WordStar clone. All the way down to keyboard shortcuts and file format.

Some writers still use WordStar as their word processor of choice.

Of course there are projects I will spend my time on instead of this odd thought.

Stream comes to mind. 😃