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Do iOS Retrospective

Do iOS Speaker: Drew McCormack, founder of The Mental Faculty, talking about SwiftData

Drew is founder of The Mental Faculty, developer of Mental Case and the Ensembles sync framework. He works on Agenda. Agenda is an Apple design award winner, editor’s choice, and is featured a lot in the App Store, particularly for the Mac. Agenda made a switch to an interesting business model a while ago. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead sof...

Rudrank Ryam on his trip to Amsterdam and his talk at Do iOS

Rudrank and I talk about the things leading up to Do iOS, our failed attempt to get him to Amsterdam in 2022 and our second attempt this year. We also talk a bit about conference organizing and some of the ways I am doing things. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback ...

Josh Holtz about his Do iOS talk: Become a Shipshape Shipping Engineer

Josh Holtz is back on my podcast to talk about his talk for Do iOS. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1 Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps. My book: Being a Lead So...

SwiftDev

In this episode I talk with SwiftDev. Someone who got into iOS development because he just likes programming and the apple platform seemed like the best place to start.His goal is to become an indie developer at some point. Supported by his family and network he is making small steps every week to get closer to this goal. You can find and follow SwiftDev on Twitter. He created two apps: Libraried: UI Components Money Time: WTF Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the wh...

Donny Wals about his Swift Concurrency workshop

Donny Wals joins me on my podcast to talk about Do iOS. Why he's there and what he hopes to get from Do iOS. More information on his workshop and Do iOS. Learn more about Donny on his website. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Practical Combine by Donny Wals Buy Donny’ book on combine and support my podcast. Now that’s a ...

Do iOS Speaker: Monika Mateska

Monika Mateska is a speaker at Do iOS. Listen in to learn more about her. You can find Monika on LinkedIN and on Twitter/X. More info on her VisionOS talk, see the Do iOS site. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me on Mastodon: https://hach...

Conference Organizing Panel

Adam, Filip, Monika and me dive into some of the aspects of organizing a conference. You will probably be left with plenty of questions afterwards. Send them in.Also, this is based on our own experience, always consider your specific circumstances. https://swiftleeds.co.uk/ https://do-ios.com/ Monika on Twitter Filip on Twitter Adam on Twitter Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn b...

This is the AppForce1 conference primer: Do iOS History

Welcome to my new format. I will mention the occasional news item if it is amazing. But I don't want to add to your burden during WWDC week too much. More on my thoughts on that next time. This time some history on the biggest thing I am doing this year. A conference. Join me on my journey and learn what it takes to put together a conference for iOS App Developers. https://do-ios.com Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runw...

iOS Developer Conference Season 2023

This episode's articles: Spinning Up a Feature Request Screen with Supabase Security in iOS Applications SwiftUI: Using a Repository as the single source of truth Tips and tricks for exploring a new codebase Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) Swift Evolution Monthly: March + April '23 Simplify Time Comparisons in Swift with RelativeDateTimeFormatter Optimizing your app for Network Reachability Discover how @MainActor works I also mention: Appdevcon is a conference by app developers, for...

It was a content launch week...

Links in this episode: Build your own Twitter Real-World Xcode Project Using Tuist Linting Documentation with Vale to Increase Quality & Consistency Basic Stream Backend Integration using NodeJS Comparison of Cherry Brown and Gazzew U4 switches Skip typing your login credentials manually with Xcode breakpoints Native vs Web: Technologies Available to Native Apps but not Web Apps 3 mistakes to avoid with async / await Understanding unstructured and detached tasks in Swift What I Lea...

Ok that happened... Good and bad.

Links: Comparing Operators of Combine for iOS Planning Animations in SwiftUI SwiftUI Toolbar Automating Swift CLI releases with GitHub Actions GitHub webhooks 🤝 Xcode Cloud Show an Incoming Call on a Device Hide Sensitive Data When Device Is Locked? Tap Gestures on Widgets Swift Package Index Apple sponsorship Apple as a supporter of the Swift Package Index Multiplatform SwiftUI code Debug ASWebAuthenticationSession Web content with SFSafariViewController Swift Evolution Monthl...

My delayed regular episode 100 with loads of Swift concurrency

Links TaskGroup error handling Filter debugger output Passkeys for iOS @available attribute Swift 5.9: Network reqs in Swift package plugins Users manage In-App Subs. ProgressView TabView Run and test async Vapor cmnds Tasks in parallel Order and Concurrency Share with UIActivityViewController Share breakpoints Sign in with Apple and AWS Amplify Animations with Mask View Modifier Sequential Animations Styling Components Pin SPM dependencies versions Charts. Customizations ...

Shaun Donnelly, developer turned manager turned developer with Indie apps on the side.

Shaun took me up on a request on Mastodon to come on my podcast. We had a great conversation about how he ventured into management as a software developer. We also talk about how he got into software and iOS app development. Shaun took the React route. Start with web development, get started with React, progress into React native and then making the leap into native app development. Ray Wenderlich, now called Kodeco was instrumental in learning about iOS app development. You can get in to...

A book, an article, loads of SwiftUI

I've been scheduling a few interviews again. It's interesting to see that people are often quite self-deprecating about being a good candidate to be interviewed on my podcast. People can always indicate why they are not exciting guests, but let's start at the opposite end. Think about why you would be a good guest for my podcast. And I notice that a lot. People often start with the negative. Why not start with the positive, I wonder? In this episode I am going to talk about many things: Th...

Natalia Panferova, business owner, book author, and ex-member of the SwiftUI team at Apple.

Natalia worked in companies in Europe and in New Zealand building web and mobile applications. Before joining Nil Coalescing she was designing and building SwiftUI APIs as a member of the core SwiftUI team at Apple. She enjoys working with Swift and sharing her iOS development knowledge with the community. She recently wrote a book Integrating SwiftUI into UIKit Apps that covers a variety of ways to add SwiftUI to an existing UIKit project and offers many tips to avoid common issues and mist...

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

Meet my friend. ChatGPT. I interviewed him. It's an idea I got from another podcast. Enjoy. :) Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1 Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps...

Fake hardware, Makefiles, protocols and churn... Lots of iOS and Swift content too.

It has been a while since my last episode. But no worries, I am not gone. January has been a super busy month and I have been working on some exciting things this month. Hopefully I can share a bit more on that soon. It involves setting up a new project using a micro framework architecture using Tuist.io. If you never checked out that too, make sure you do. Also, you can now support my podcast with a subscription directly through my podcast hosting provider. I love Buzzsprout for the way th...

New year, new microphone.

In this episode, I’m going to talk about: A new microphone for podcasting, the Shure 87A 2022 in review How to Run Stream’s Docs on a Multipass VM Xcode Cloud scripts: Fastlane and Cocoapods Swift async/await in AWS lambdas Looking back at my 2022 Using CallKit - How to Integrate Voice and Video Calling Into iOS Apps HTTP/3 support for URLSessionTesting Apps with an iPhone and the CarPlay Simulator Trap exit code (SIGINT, SIGTERM etc) in a Swift Package Executable CLI The day my ap...

Azam Sharp on his Aggregate Model Architecture

Azam and I discus some architectural ideas Azam has developed over the course of over a hundred sample codebases. Azam's blog Azam's article mentioned in the episode: Practical Mv Pattern Crud Azam's Udemy course: MV Design Pattern in iOS - Build SwiftUI Apps Apple's Way Azam on Twitter Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer....

Marin Todorov on 2022 and "dataTile"

Marin and I discus how 2022 went for him and what his plans are for early 2023.(It is dataTile, a smart developer tool that reads your app's logs from the Xcode Simulator in real time and displays your debug data in a beautiful, bold UI. You can find Marin online at: https://underplot.com/ On Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@icanzilb Learn more about dataTile https://underplot.com/dataTile/ Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More i...

Pol Piella Abadia, Senior software engineer at the BBC

Pol, a senior iOS developer working on the iPlayer app by the BBC. He loves sharing content and writing about all things mobile development and Swift. He also writes on his blog. https://www.polpiella.dev/ Follow him on Mastodon. Or Twitter. He did his first conference talk at Do iOS in 2022. I'm sure Pol will share that link once it becomes available. He did an amazing talk titled "Fantastic Swift Tools and where to find them". Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the wh...

Alexander Griekspoor, co-creator of Agenda.com

This is Alexander, he and Drew created the note taking app Agenda. A Mac and iOS focussed App.Learn more about Alexander, how he got to creating Agenda and what motivates him day to day. To learn more about Alexander and his product: Visit Agenda.com (referral link, it extends my Agenda update window) Learn more about Papers On Twitter Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best pr...

Recovering after a conference

In this episode, I’m going to talk about: When does a SwiftUI Environment get retained? Animated Launch Screen in SwiftUI A Guided Tour for SwiftUI ForEach Structure What is the difference between List and ForEach in SwiftUI How Does Swift Concurrency Prevents Thread Explosions? Building custom layout in SwiftUI. Basics Using SwiftUI Effects Library: How to Add Particle Effects to iOS  AppsIntroducing - Swift cheatsheet - The.Swift.Dev. This episode is something special. According t...

Time constraints are big the last couple weeks

In this episode, I’m going to talk about: Introducing Rollouts by Runway A menu bar only macOS app using AppKit How to check for network connection and present an alert in SwiftUI Understanding different cache policies when working with URLRequest in Swift Handling never finishing async functions in Swift package tests How to Get Push Notification while iOS App is in Foreground Don’t forget, you can buy me a coffee. Marco Eidinger did just that, buy me a coffee. Thanks a lot Marco. R...

Do iOS home stretch and I am trying to get back on my regular schedule again

Counting down to Do iOS. At the time of this recording, I have almost two weeks to go, but it sure feels like it is happening tomorrow. Sending out messages to all attendees and speakers, making sure roll-up banners are ordered, putting together staff briefings for the Do iOS team and for the catering team, and preparing "filler" slides for when speakers are switching. Hotel bookings for team members. It is just a lot of small bits that all need to happen. I must say I feel very well organiz...

SwiftLeeds, ready or not...

...here  I come. KLM permitting. Getting ready to go to Swift Leeds. Finally received that Model-100 keyboard I kept on talking about. This thing is just amazing. More on that when I have used the device a bit more. Also, the video of my talk at 360iDev is now available too. And if you are still looking for training on aSync/Await, Daniel Steinberg will be in Amsterdam on November 7th. Now I am off to SwiftLeeds, if you are there too, come say hi, I'll most likely be near the Stream tabl...

Do iOS sold all its conference tickets

Full on prep mode for Do iOS by now. What is it. Just 5 or 6 weeks remaining. When I am preparing this episode, there were just 2 tickets remaining. So we will have a full house. I was also looking into putting together a workshop the day before the conference and that has now been put together thanks to the gracious support of Jeremy Barger. You might know him as TheSwiftNomad on Twitter. He is looking for people to take a look at his Swift Developer Academy. So take a look. Articles in th...

I talk a bit about some hardware and a conference

I share my thoughts about a piece of hardware. Progress on the Do iOS conference and my anxiety about a delivery. In this episode I’m going to talk about: Editable navigation titles in SwiftUI on iOS 16 Dynamic Island (and Live Activities): Quick start tutorial Enabling Concurrency warnings in Xcode 14 SwiftUI zIndex: Everything you need to know Accessing UIHostingController from a SwiftUI view New BackgroundTask in SwiftUI and How to Test It iOS developer guide on the main aspects o...

Preparing my own conference now, Do iOS, tickets available

It is already two weeks since my previous episode. The one I did in the hotel room in Denver. It really feels like a distant memory already. So much stuff happened again in two weeks. My son's bedroom furniture got delivered. He now has a pirate themed bedroom, inclusing a shark desk, ship-bed / bed-ship and a treasure chest. I am not jealous at his room. Nope not at all. You can imagine we are now in a talk-like-a-pirate day streak here at home. Last week my voice was quite bad, I had a we...

Recorded from a hotel room in Denver

360iDev has been an enjoyable experience thus far. I still have the final day of the conference ahead of me when I record this. But I must say, it is awesome seeing so many familiar faces. The weird thing is, I'm seeing most of them for the very first time in real life. Special shoutout to Josh, Azam, Mikaela and Leo. It is great to be able to meet you, for real finally. What I also noticed is how different the conferences are. I've been to AppDevCon, SwiftHeroes, Techorama.be and 360iDev th...

David Barnhard, co-host of SubClub by RevenueCat

This episode I am talking to David Barnhard from the SubClub podcast. Interviewing a fellow podcaster is always a blast. Not much audio cleanup todo once done. David runs the SubClub podcast for RevenueCat. I reached out to David months ago and only just now did we get to a recording session. So this was set in motion long before the sponsorship a few weeks ago became a thing. Make sure to check David's app business called Contrast as well. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot an...

Full on trip prep mode

Two weeks since my previous episode. I had my reasons. My family and I went on a trip visiting family in Luxemburg. We slept over monday till friday and I was just not able to record an episode. Of those two weeks the first one was quite warm in the Netherlands. We actually had the first heatwave in the Netherlands this year. year. Nothing too terrible temperature wise, but the related drought is no fun. Again not as bad as other parts of the world, but it is noticable everywhere you go. Al...

RevenueCat and Josh Holtz

I have a talk with Josh Holtz about his work at RevenueCat and what RevenueCat can do for you as an iOS app developer. In-App Subscriptions Made Easy The world's best subscription apps use RevenueCat to power in-app purchases, manage customers, and grow revenue on iOS, Android, and the web. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software develope...

Building team boards (in Notion)

Right after my vacation it was heads down mode again. At my work, we had a sort of restructuring of the group I am a part of. And this meant a lot of things have changed in how my day to day looks. I now lead developer experience at Stream within Developer Relations. This involved setting up a lot of project related things. From Developer Experience we work very closely with developer advocacy and because of this we chose to set up a shared task board. This way we can easily hand over work o...

Obsessing over Obsidian

Obsidian note taking Articles of this week: Slicing Environment Object Global Routing Using Navigation Stack Asset Catalog and Dark Mode Delay an async Task in Swift using the new clock APIs Background tasks in SwiftUI The Trade-offs of Using Mirror API to do Code Reflection in Swift How to create a list with Compositional Layout Code generation using Swift Package Plugins First Experience With Transferable Implementing Drag And Drop In SwiftUI Runway Put your mobile releases on a...

Tools of podcasting, well atleast what I use

Welcome to my podcast. Different one again. Today I'll tell you what I use for podcasting and why I use these. Hindenburg Journalist Pro Pixelmator Pro Audient Evo 4 Samson Q7 Audio Technica ATH-M50x MacBook M1 Expert Mouse Trackball IQunix L80 with Cherry MX Brown switches <-  I use an Atreus by KeyboardIO now OWC Thunderbolt Dock LG 27UL850-W, 27 inch 4K UHD IPS LED Monitor Buzzsprout Podcast hosting (Affiliated link) Riverside.fm (Affliated link) Agenda - Date-focused note ta...

Shane Zilinskas, president of ClearSummit

Shane owns and runs ClearSummit an agency with a clear focus on React and ReactNative development.He started in aviation and got into iOS on his own time. Learn how teaching himself iOS development ended him up owning a business. More info on ClearSummit, the company by Shane They also have job openings Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Book: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team ...

10x all the engineers? Or maybe not. Swift Charts and cool CoreMotion

Something a bit different this week. A big shout out to Benoit for his article. Articles of this week: What Are Vanity Metrics? - And How to Identify Them Being more efficient as a mobile engineer My Template to Research, Design and Ship iOS Apps How to use inner shadows to simulate depth with SwiftUI and Core Motion Mastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. Deep Linking Align y-axis to leading edge in Swift Charts Plotting data distributions with Swift Charts Comparing build speeds of...

WWDC Aftermath/Blues

With over a week to inspect and reflect @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblos and me look back and share what we think thusfar. Please rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send me feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me through twitter Buy me a Coffee or become a member of my podcast. The Thing About IT A technology podcast focused on IT, solutions integration and real-world use cases. Listen on:   Spotify Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on run...

WWDC Aftermath or Blues

With over a week to inspect and reflect @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblos and me look back and share what we think thusfar. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1 Support my podcast with a monthly subscri...

Come join me at AppDevCon or BuyMeACoffee

Honestly, exciting week for me. A presentation at AppDevCon this week. I also put together a BuymeaCoffee page. And on top of that there is some really good content coming out in the last week. Not as much as right after WWDC. But still... great stuff. The App Icon Book by Michael Flarup, previous guest on my podcast discussing his book and other activities. Slides CocoaHeadsNL talk: WebAuthN and PassKeys Swift Package Index DocC This week's articles: SwiftUI '22 in Numbers (and a few C...

So much new goodness due to WWDC

Swift and SwiftUI received big updates last week. Yes, only available on beta releases. But give it a few months and we are living and breathing these changes. I also liked a CarPlay article I stumbled upon. It is a really nice change of pace integrating something on CarPlay. A bit like venturing into AppleWatch or macOS for the first time. I tried to order them in a logical way. Obviously there is a ton more news from Apple. But this is what I could fit in an podcast episode within reason...

WWDC Afterthoughts with Stefan and Amos

Amos travelled to Cupertino for WWDC, and all three of use really enjoyed WWDC. So enough to look back on. With @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblos and me.  We each have our own experience of WWDC and each of us has a preference for what we liked most. We share our thoughts and discus what we think about the latest announcements by Apple. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices ...

WWDC 2022 first impressions

Stefan and I reflect a bit on the past 24 hours. We've been frantically working on our keynote and state of the union articles. Good stuff to work on. Stefan and me writing about: The WWDC 2022 Keynote The Platform State of the Union Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer. Support the show Rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send fee...

WWDC expectations and predictions Twitter Space

This is a quick edit of the proceedings. There can very well be audio mishaps in this. We had a MEGA-PRE-WWDC Twitter space on June 1 talking expectations/predictions! These were the hosts: @mikaela__caron, @dvrzan, @joshdholtz, @jordibruin, @rudrankriyam, @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblos and me.  We had tons of fun though. Runway Put your mobile releases on autopilot and keep the whole team in sync throughout. More info on runway.team Lead Software Developer  Learn best practices for being a...

Marina Gornostaeva, writing iOS Code Review Newsletter and Away App

Marina is a software developer and engineering leader focusing on development for Apple platforms. She's been working in tech since 2008, building tools, products and leading teams.She runs the iOS Code Review Newsletter, and is building the Away App. https://hybridcattt.com/ Marina on Twitter Away App Sign up to Marina's newsletter iOS Code Review Newsletter Please rate me on Apple Podcasts. Send me feedback on SpeakPipe Or contact me through twitter Newsletter, sign up! My book: Be...

Getting ready for WWDC with a special guest

This week I decided to do things different a little bit. I have no clue how exactly next week will look. I know it will be busy, I know it will be awesome. My team and I at Stream are putting together all kinds of ideas for the iOS community. News articles of this week: Server-Side Vapor Swift Implementation With Google, Apple, and Github Authentication What’s A Best-in-Class macOS App Look Like? Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks — An iOS Engineer's Perspective Understanding Certificates...

Lea Marolt Sonnenschein, coach and creator of Jrny app

Seems I made a muting mistake on my part of my episode with Lea. Please re download the episode if you have issues. It should be fixed now. Meet Lea, you might have seen her online before. If she's doing a talk at a conference near you. JOIN THAT SESSION You will not regret it.Lea is working on Jrny an app based coaching system. Lea bootstrapped it with shoestring and not much more, a fun insight in how an idea can be validated. Just by doing the work. Register with JRNY to see if JRNY is ...

WWDC prep, talks, and a bunch of articles…

Let's get ready for some conferences. Techorama, AppDevCon and 360iDev. Ready or not… Articles of this week: Fold/Unfold | Xcode Tips How to use a different Swift toolchain in Xcode Using the isEnabled environment value in iOS 14 Mastering TimelineView in SwiftUI Use textCase() to make Text uppercase or lowercase How to Start iOS Development Career Part 2 - Learning Swift Language CLIs are products too Unlisted App Distribution on the App Store CocoaHeadsNL events: June @ Stream, ...