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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · May 04, 2026

Replying to @virgile_rendt@piaille.fr

@virgile_rendt@piaille.fr J'ai proposé à un copain qui vit là bas ! Je lui ai envoyé le lien en parlant d'un "clarinettiste au son piquant", et puis il y a quelques jours on parlait de musiques de l'est, tout se tient !

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · May 04, 2026

Replying to @virgile_rendt@piaille.fr

@virgile_rendt@piaille.fr Oh ! Saint Eustache ! Oh ! Le clarinettiste joue demain à Guingamp !

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io

@mahryekuh Tools and libraries that do not get in the way. As few bugs as possible (correctness), as few obstacles as possible (completeness), respect for the time that users devote to the tool, and knowledge of the users' needs (relevance and empathy). Expectable changes should not require a large rewrite. Being opinionated is not a license to raise walls.

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @virgile_rendt@piaille.fr

@virgile_rendt Oui, que voilà une bonne balade avec ce disque dans les oreilles 🙂

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Apr 06, 2026

RE: @dyckron@cosocial.ca

Is it getting any traction? Est-ce que ça pourrait prendre ?

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @ylegall@genart.social

@ylegall@genart.social 🤩 His instagram account mariodemeyer is really great!

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @igorkulman@hachyderm.io

@igorkulman I have memories of Geneva 12 and bold keywords 🙂

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Feb 27, 2026

Replying to @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

@brentsimmons Classic Socratic(?) questions are: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Feb 15, 2026

🚀 GRDB 7.10.0 is out! This release ships the hard work of @marcprux@mastodon.social, @tjadejong@mastodon.social and Micah Moore for supporting Android, Linux, Windows, and SQLCipher with SPM (for encrypted databases).

The situation of GRDB+SQLCipher with SPM is much better, but still not all sunshine and roses. You must fork GRDB, and modify Package.swift. Instructions are in the file itself, in comments that contain "GRDB+SQLCipher".

Maybe an "official" fork will ship eventually–this is still under discussion. In all cases, SQLCipher will need a GRDB fork for several years to come, which means that all derived repositories (GRDBQuery, GRDBSnapshotTesting, SQLiteData, etc) will need to be forked as well.

What are we currently lacking in order to avoid forks?

We need Xcode to support package traits. Only package traits can reliably link GRDB with SQLite, or SQLCipher, but not both.

We also need SPM to stop downloading unused dependencies, because I do not want that your projects download SQLCipher, or declare a dependency on SQLCipher, when you do not use it. And when GRDB adds more traits for more SQLite and SQLCipher variants, I do not want that those are downloaded, too.

https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/releases/tag/v7.10.0

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Dec 15, 2025

Replying to @SwiftPackageIndex@mas.to

@SwiftPackageIndex @orta Thank you for so many years of service, easy configuration, and support for wild setups ❤️

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Nov 19, 2025

Replying to @__bb@mastodon.social

@__bb Great article about our choices 🙂 For GRDB, the default Date storage is similar to ISO 8601, but with a space instead of a T between the date and the time. This format is understood by SQLite, and has the extra advantage of being comparable with the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP built-in (WHERE date >= CURRENT_TIMESTAMP). I was hoping it would be the format that would create the least surprise for users who do not think about their date storage upfront, and luckily no user feedback had me regret this choice in ten years. https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/blob/master/README.md#date-and-datecomponents

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Aug 13, 2025

Replying to @a_grebenyuk@mastodon.social

@a_grebenyuk Oh, yes, now I better understand - sorry for hesitating in my interpretation. We're in full agreement, it is much less tedious than it used to be :)

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Aug 13, 2025

Replying to @a_grebenyuk@mastodon.social

@a_grebenyuk I like programming, telling the computer what to do. So verbose it is, because I want to tell a lot of details, but tedious it is not, because the API is well designed and welcomes my instructions!

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Aug 12, 2025

Replying to @calicoding@mastodon.social

@calicoding Exactly. No magic strings, no nibs for plain labels, just an plain and efficient API. And fantastic support for partial layout invalidation. Yeah you have to do some maths and compute stuff. Heck, that's affordable.

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Aug 12, 2025

Replying to @Hugo_say@mastodon.social

@Hugo_say I don't need to! Plain default configuration with text values.

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Aug 12, 2025

UIKit is fantastic. In a few hours I have a gorgeous and super fast UICollectionViewLayout subclass that displays 20000+ items in a table with sticky columns and row headers. I'm glad I'm not too rusty with UIKit. Bye-bye, SwiftUI Table, you're unfinished.

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2025

Replying to @autoreleasefool@iosdev.space

@autoreleasefool Thank you Joseph! I tried to limit the breaking changes as much as possible. Just as you say, we collectively benefit from years of experience and best practices :-) When in doubt, check the migration guide, where all the breaking changes are listed: https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/blob/master/Documentation/GRDB7MigrationGuide.md

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2025

Replying to @martind@mastodon.online

@martind Thank you Martin :-)

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2025

Replying to @kristoffer@mastodon.kristofferjohansson.com

@kristoffer Thank you Kristoffer! Happy GRDB! 😊

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2025

Replying to @ole@chaos.social

@ole Thank you Ole! I'm lucky with my current position indeed, and my boss is my best sponsor :-)

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 26, 2025

Replying to @heathborders@hachyderm.io

@heathborders Thank you Heath! The trust of GRDB users is the best gift ever ❤️

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 26, 2025

Replying to @johankool@mastodon.social

@johankool Thank you Johan :-)

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Gwendal Roué @groue@hachyderm.io · Jan 26, 2025

🚀 GRDB 7 is out, a joint effort by ten contributors! The new version blends as well with Swift 6 concurrency as you need it, and is ready to follow you for the years to come.

Did you know 2025 marks GRDB's tenth anniversary? First commit was done on June 30.

#sqlite #swift

https://forums.swift.org/t/grdb-7-is-out/77465

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