Run Swift on Debian Trixie

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Installing Swift on Debian is a no-brainer. Users can either pick up swiftly or unpack the current tarball, and if you are running a supported Debian version—e.g. Debian 12 Bookworm at the time of this writing—then you are good to go.

This article is about running the latest Swift version on the current stable Debian version: Trixie.

Introducing fashion command-line tool

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

fashion is a Swift command-line interface to traverse a file hierarchy and compute or match popular hash digests. The project is hosted on GitHub and natively supports:

CryptoKit hash functions: SHA-2 (SHA256 by default), insecure SHA-1 and MD5
fuzzy hash functions: ssdeep and TLSH as submodules with Swift C bridging
searching for multiple digests with any algo and a similarity / distance score for fuzzy hash
git-hash-object
symhash with any algo, separator and optional sort (Mach-O binaries)
XAR archives (macOS packages) table of contents checksum with any algo and optional decompress (zlib)
CDHash (signed Mach-O binaries)
multithreading

With optimizations, fashion is very fast yet has a minimal real memory footprint < 150MB:

Toolbox on Melomac

Run Swift on Debian Trixie

Introducing fashion command-line tool