I’ll be speaking at Blavity’s #AfroTech conference on Nov 9+10! Hands down the most enlightening and uplifting experience for Black techies, startups and entrepreneurs. Don’t sleep, use my promo code ATAdil for a hook up before it expires. Visit AfroTech tech for more info.

We’ve 1.0-released a new Swift snapshot testing library and it’s unlike any other snapshot testing library out there!

Swift folks: who can write a Swift-related haiku? Tweet me your best effort and my favorite will get a big pile of books. Bonus points for funnies 😛

Congats Garric G. Nahapetian. Awesome first episode!! The Swift community has a long road ahead, this is going to be extremely valuable! Happy to help in any way I can!! 🚀

The future of consumer products will start with trust: 1. Do customers trust the company/employees who built the product? 2. Do customers trust other users on the platform? 3. Do customers trust that the platform protects their data? Trust will be the most important feature.

Congrats to Sophia French, one of our Android Engineers, for participating in the GDG Los Angeles panel of engineering leaders for the International Women's Day Event yesterday #womenintech #TinderEng #AndroidDev

"If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0." ― Unknown

LOL so true - "When QA takes a shot at developer releases" (via theo-pants):

“For the first time in years, Netflix is no longer the top grossing, non-game mobile app. Instead, that title now goes to dating app Tinder.” So proud of the Tinder team. Still feels like the beginning. techcrunch.com/2019/04/11/tin…

when hiring people focus less on - if someone sent a thank you note, answered ?s perfectly, wore the right clothes - whether they’re a fit for the culture you have today focus more on - core skills - unique experiences - whether they’ll contribute to the culture you want tmrw

The most valuable skill in any endeavor - design, engineering, leadership - is a beginner’s mindset. Beginners are open, humble, and delighted in each discovery. We can learn from everyone. Experts learn from small mistakes to avoid the big ones. I’ve made both kinds. 😅👍

This is 💯: compassionatecoding.com/blog/2019/4/17…

The best quote I’ve ever heard for developing empathy in business: “Everyone has a boss.” Your CEO has a boss. Your investors have a boss. Everyone has a boss. The sooner you internalize this, the more effective you will be as a teammate, investor, and friend.

Git’s “cheap” branches were revolutionary. It’s a powerful idea that you can apply to other areas. — What if API versions were cheap? — What if tests were cheap? — What if modules were cheap? — What if deployments were cheap? — What if bug reports were cheap?

"Be gentle, kind, and forgiving of your peers; respect from people you respect is really the only reward that sticks" – Rusty Russell

I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end.

This is a profound and inspiring vision for Swift 6: multi platform investment, concurrency, move semantics, rust-style ownership, Automatic Differentiation and investment in developer joy 💖🚀

Lighting 4 candles to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. One for each of us descended from survivors. #1915NeverAgain

And, of course, if you missed the premiere of James Dempsey @[email protected] and the Breakpoints, LIVE-ish concurrent with WWDC, don’t worry about missing out. It's available to watch right now at youtu.be/cXDGK99pvtA.

Happy 8th birthday, Tinder! On August 2nd, 2012 we went live on the App Store. Congratulations to everyone, past and present, who have contributed to its success. #SwipeRight