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.

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 Jekyll and uses a custom layout built with HTML5/CSS3. Syntax highlighting for code snippets is done via highlight.js and digrams are drawn using Sketch.