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The Sneaky Coordinator Leak in UIViewRepresentable

Let's talk a little about a memory leak I recently found while working with UIViewRepresentable. The issue happened in a custom UIKit view wrapped inside SwiftUI. At first, nothing looked suspicious.

• Memory leak in UIViewRepresentable custom view
• Coordinator maintains strong reference to binding title
• Weakly capture Coordinator instance in FixedCallbackButtonView

2026-09-07 ·dev.to

Switzerland's Federal Government Tests Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It's FOSS.

2026-09-07 ·yro.slashdot.org

I built a free image preprocessor to get better OCR results (PrepOCR)

The problem OCR is only as good as the image you feed it. A scanned form that's slightly tilted, low-contrast, or has a noisy background can tank recognition accuracy — even with a good OCR engine…

• PrepOCR is a free image pre-processing service.
• Supports tilt correction, contrast enhancement, and binarization.
• Parallel processing improves speed on capable machines.

2026-09-07 ·dev.to

The Rusty Reality of OSS: Chasing Socket Leaks, Replacing DNS Libraries, and the Unseen Cost of Building in Public

Originally published on tamiz.pro . Building in public sounds noble until you're three days into a socket leak that only manifests under 10k concurrent connections, your CI is red, and someone on…

• Author created a DNS resolver in Rust to replace trust-dns.
• File descriptor leak discovered in proxy, traced to getrandom dependency.
• Transitioned to trust-dns-resolver, acknowledging community feedback.

2026-09-08 ·dev.to

Architectural Breakdown: Stop rebuilding from scratch: cache Docker layers on Cloud Build

 # Stop Rebuilding From…

• CI pipeline wastes $340/month due to redundant Docker layer downloads
• BuildKit cache stored in local filesystem, erased after each Cloud Build worker
• Cache hit rate improves to 94% after implementing Buildx and registry cache

2026-09-08 ·dev.to