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Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-American programmer and activist, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
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business · Mexican software developer (born 1972) · software developer · engineer · programmer · computer scientist · technology evangelist · entrepreneur · also Miguel de Icaza, Icaza
Born 23 November 1972 · Q62849
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2026· 10 entries
“After looking at photos of the blistering rashes from shingles, I got my second vaccine dose to keep the beach body I deserve”
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“One of my favorite relatives, nearly 80, just looked at me and said “you have enough personality for about four people.” Now sorting through what this actually means.”
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“Deploying apps on the web has always been a major turn off for me - it feels like being gifted a litter of puppies. Assorted pain reduction services exist with tamagotchi rental economics. And then I discovered miren.dev. I have absolutely no association with them. I am just genuinely in awe.”
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“Two days in Instruments. This includes Ghostty's IO system and the elimination of swift_beginAccess in most places:”
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“One area where SwiftTerm (and my apps based on it) always lacked was the IO handling. Plus, I had a very primitive understanding of processing cost, figured “read/parse on the main thread, draw on a timer” which was ok-ish.”
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“@repauchincloss.bsky.social has received $1.08 million from AIPAC and subsidiary groups since 2020. He's previously said that there should be no daylight between the United States and Israel on military policy. I think that we should be acting in the interest of the United States at all times.”
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“There's a lot of contrasts in this primary. Medicare for all — @repauchincloss.bsky.social does not support. He's the only member of the delegation not to cosponsor the PRO Act. He only recently signed onto the constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.”
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“Why is SwiftUI so much faster to compile in Xcode 27? The new `ContentBuilder` splits view construction from validation with parameter packs. In tests, an 11-level nested layout went from a 10.9s timeout to 5.38ms. fatbobman.com/en/posts/co...”
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“Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #148 is now available! Apple Intelligence Has Passed Chinese Government Review and Is Coming to China 🔭 Controlling Orphans in SwiftUI Text ⚡ Weekly Tuist News #1 🔥 Swift Subprocess 1.0 more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...”
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2021· 1 entry
“I Was Not Born to Obey, but Rather to Command”
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2014· 1 entry
Joined Anders Hejlsberg on stage during the announcements of the
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2003· 1 entry
He married Maria Laura Soares da Silva (now Maria Laura de Icaza) in 2003.
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2001· 1 entry
Helix Code, later renamed Ximian, announced the Mono Project, to be led by de Icaza, with the goal to implement Microsoft's new
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (1999).
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Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000
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De Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-11-23.
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