41: “The ultimate small company”, with special guest Dave Verwer
Dave Verwer joins John to take a look behind the scenes of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, to talk about working as an indie and how to increase your chances of success as an indie creator or developer,...
View Article42: “Pragmatic priorities”, with special guest Ted Kremenek
Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes team at Apple, joins John to talk about Swift 5 — focusing on ABI stability and what it means for the future of the language, how the underpinnings...
View Article43: “The temporal axis of space-time”, with special guest Dave DeLong
Dave DeLong, former Apple developer evangelist and now iOS architect and instructor, joins John to talk about handling dates in code, MVC & app architecture, Mac development, and to tell stories of...
View Article44: “Pull up the time profiler”, with special guest Janina Kutyn
Janina Kutyn, former Apple Music developer and now an iOS developer in Amsterdam, joins John for a UI development special! Topics include various techniques for building UIs and layouts, measuring and...
View Article45: “That’s why we refactor”, with special guests Chris Eidhof and Matt...
Chris Eidhof and Matt Gallagher join John to discuss app architecture, RxSwift and Functional Reactive Programming, and how to decide what patterns, frameworks, and concepts to adopt when architecting...
View Article46: “A desire for simplicity and performance”, with special guest Michael...
Michael Ilseman, developer on the Swift team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into the String type, its implementation, and its related APIs. Topics range from the way Swift’s String API is...
View Article47: “Your North Star”, with special guest Mayuko Inoue
iOS developer and YouTuber Mayuko Inoue joins John to discuss team work and how a solid code structure can make teams more productive. Other topics include goal setting, how to grow as an engineer, and...
View Article48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest Simon Støvring
Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity, frameworks, and what it would take to bring...
View Article49: “A big buffet of frameworks”, with special guest James Thomson
It’s time for the 2019 Swift by Sundell WWDC special, featuring PCalc creator James Thomson — who, with his over 25 years of experience developing apps for Apple’s platforms, joins John to discuss...
View Article50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special guest Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language...
View Article51: “Accessibility is for everyone”, with special guest Kaya Thomas
Kaya Thomas joins John to talk about Apple’s various accessibility technologies and how SwiftUI is taking things to a whole new level. Also, how UI testing and accessibility are closely related, and...
View Article52: “Diving into Combine”, with special guest Casey Liss
Casey Liss joins John to talk about Apple’s newly announced Combine framework for reactive programming, how it compares to existing tools like RxSwift, and different strategies for adopting it. Also,...
View Article53: “The Swift Apple”, with special guest Brent Simmons
Longtime Apple platforms developer Brent Simmons joins John to discuss how SwiftUI is ushering in a new era for Apple’s developer tools, and how we as third party developers can prepare for it. Also,...
View Article54: “Swift 5.1, iOS 13 and iPadOS”, with special guests Benedikt Terhechte...
Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek join John to dive into iOS 13 and iPadOS, as well as Swift 5.1 — how it powers SwiftUI, and if it would be possible to backport parts of SwiftUI to earlier iOS...
View Article55: “A whole new world”, with special guest Marin Todorov
Marin Todorov joins John to talk about bridging the gap between UIKit, Combine and SwiftUI, how to design intuitive and robust APIs, and how the developer community can augment Apple’s SDKs through...
View Article56: “The power of software”, with special guest Ish ShaBazz
Ish ShaBazz joins John to talk about indie app development, planning and productivity, deciding which system features to adopt and what trends to follow, what’s new in Xcode 11 and Swift 5.1, and much...
View Article57: “Audio and Swift”, with special guest Adam Bell
Adam Bell joins John to talk about audio programming in Swift, and how SwiftUI makes rendering visual representations of audio and other custom shapes easier than ever before. Also, reverse...
View Article58: “Swift for Machine Learning”, with special guests Paige Bailey and...
John is joined by Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta from the Swift for TensorFlow team at Google, to talk about the work they’re doing adopting and adapting Swift for Machine Learning. What makes Swift a...
View Article59: “A major step forward”, a SwiftUI special with Josh Shaffer
Josh Shaffer, engineering director with the UIKit and SwiftUI team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI. What inspired the creation and design of SwiftUI, how does it impact the way...
View Article60: “Deploying SwiftUI in production”, with special guest David Smith
Indie iOS and watchOS developer “Underscore” David Smith joins John to discuss the current state of Apple Watch app development, and how SwiftUI is changing how watchOS apps are built. Also, managing...
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