<p>I’ll keep this week’s update brief as I’m itching to get back to coding Heartbeat.</p>
<imgsrc='images/pulse-swift-team-at-work.jpg'alt='The Pulse team: George, Mark and Stefan working together in the Ind.ie office'/>
<h2>Pulse Swift Hack Weekend</h2>
<p>Over the weekend, Mark and Stefan flew over from the Netherlands to meet the rest of the team and hack on <ahref='https://source.ind.ie/project/pulse-swift/tree/master'>Pulse Swift</a>. Among other things, we set up a sweet Jenkin’s-based continuous integration environment on our new Mac Mini and, as of approximately 10:20PM British time, Pulse Swift received its first message. Awesome work, folks!</p>
<imgsrc='images/pulse-swift-first-message.jpg'alt='The first message sent by Pulse Swift. Received message: Pulse.ClusterConfig'/>
<h2>Heartbeat pre-alpha</h2>
<p>We’re officially in pre-alpha mode and making great progress on Heartbeat. If you’re in the pre-alpha, we’ll send you another email with further details.</p>
<h2>Back to code</h2>
<p>Right, time for me to get back to my two favourite code editors (Xcode and Sublime Text). Have a lovely week and, as always, and on behalf of <ahref='https://ind.ie/about/team'>our little team</a>, thank you for your continued support.</p>