Hi! I'm Umberto Raimondi, a software engineer that has worked over the years as consultant for companies ranging from corporations to startupsin various sectors, using a wide range of technologies.
This blog is a collection of in-depth articles on various topics and updates on my opensource projects.

Contacts

You can reach me on twitter at @uraimo or send me an email, always available for a chat.

About this blog

If this is your first time here, these are some of the most popular posts on Swift:

• All about Concurrency in Swift - Part 2: The Future
• All about Concurrency in Swift - Part 1: The Present
• Building a LISP from scratch with Swift
• Unowned or Weak? Lifetime and Performance
• Swift And C: Everything You Need to Know
• 10 Swift One Liners To Impress Your Friends

For updates on the status of Swift on ARM and topics related to IoT, click here instead. For short snippets of Swift showcasing individual functionalities or language features check out the old Swift Bites section.

Open Source

I've released a few projects on Github that you could find useful, among them:

• SwiftyGPIO: GPIO/SPI/I2C/PWM/UART/1Wire Swift library for Linux (Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards).
• buildSwiftOnARM: All you need (additional patches and configuration) to build the latest Swift on ARM boards.
• run-on-arch-action: A Github Action that executes jobs/commands on non-x86 cpu architectures (ARMv6, ARMv7, aarch64, s390x, ppc64le) using a virtualized environment.
• Bitter: A Swift bits manipulation library.
• Libraries for various sensors and devices in Swift: HD44780, PCD8544, WS281x, uBlox GPS, MCP300x, DS1307, MPU-6050, Wii Nunchuck, SG90 Servos, RCWL-0516, DS18B20.

About this site

This site is built statically using Hugo and uses a custom layout built with HTML5/CSS3. Syntax highlighting for code snippets is done via highlight.js and diagrams are drawn using Sketch.