61: “End-to-end Swift”, with special guest Tim Condon
Tim Condon, server-side Swift developer, writer and conference organizer, joins John to talk about all things networking. From organizing and abstracting networking code on the client-side, to using...
View Article62: “Backend-driven UIs”, with special guest Kate Castellano
Kate Castellano joins John to discuss how views and UIs can be made more dynamic and data-driven, and how that could even enable certain views to get their entire layout configuration from the server....
View Article63: “It’s been a wild year”, a Holiday Special with Donny Wals and Antoine...
iOS developers and bloggers Donny Wals and Antoine van der Lee join John to wrap up the third season of the show with this year’s Holiday Special. How has Swift changed in 2019, and where might things...
View Article64: “Earning the deeper look”, with special guest Sean Allen
Sean Allen joins John to kick off the fourth season of the show, by talking about interview processes, goal setting, prioritizing projects, and what we might expect from Swift and Apple’s developer...
View Article65: “Tools are just apps”, with special guest Gui Rambo
On this special Stacktrace cross-over episode of the show, Gui Rambo joins John to talk about building custom developer tools, how open Apple’s tooling really is, writing “Swifty” code versus shipping...
View Article66: “Bridging the gap”, with special guest Meng To
Meng To, founder of Design+Code, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI from a design perspective, and to talk about how developers and designers can build scalable and flexible UIs using it....
View Article67: “Building for open source”, with special guests Ryan Nystrom and Brian Lovin
Ryan Nystrom returns to the show accompanied by designer Brian Lovin, to go behind the scenes of the new GitHub mobile app which the two have been building. Also, creating a design system, building...
View Article68: “MVPs and prototypes”, with special guest Leah Culver
Leah Culver, co-founder and CTO of the Breaker podcast app, joins John to talk about her journey from iOS developer to startup founder, building MVPs and prototypes, iterating on and maintaining a code...
View Article69: “Swift Playgrounds”, with special guests Holly Borla and Grace Kendall
Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was...
View Article70: “Risks and rewards”, with special guest Christian Selig
Christian Selig, creator of the Apollo Reddit app, joins John to talk about building apps against third party APIs, and what sort of criteria an app needs to meet to be considered a “good platform...
View Article71: “Polymorphic interfaces”, with special guest Dave Abrahams
Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong...
View Article72: “Many layers of SwiftUI”, with special guest Tobias Due Munk
Tobias Due Munk joins John to talk about using SwiftUI to build prototypes, how third party developers can extend SwiftUI’s built-in APIs in various ways, and to discuss the challenges of writing...
View Article73: “Truly a general-purpose language”, with special guest Kilo Loco
Kyle Lee, also known as Kilo Loco, joins John to go behind the scenes of Publish — the static site generator used to build Swift by Sundell. Also, how to make a code base accessible to new team...
View Article74: “Let’s build a camera app”, a conversation with the Halide and Spectre team
On this special episode, John is joined by the entire team behind the award-winning apps Halide and Spectre, Apple’s 2019 App of the Year. Ben, Sebastiaan and Rebecca share their stories of how these...
View Article75: “The Swift package ecosystem”, with special guests Dave Verwer and Sven...
Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management,...
View Article76: “A huge year for SwiftUI”, a WWDC20 special with Josh Shaffer and Eliza...
Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting...
View Article77: “Adopting new system features”, with special guest Jordan Morgan
Jordan Morgan joins John to discuss various strategies for adopting new system features and APIs, how to keep up with the rapid changes to iOS, macOS and Apple’s other platforms, and how to allocate...
View Article78: “What’s new in Swift 5.3”, with special guest JP Simard
JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the current state of Swift and its evolution process.SponsorNoted:...
View Article79: “All about UICollectionView”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved over time, and how are modern APIs like compositional layouts...
View Article80: “Lists and loops”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood returns to the show to go on a deep dive into data structures and algorithms, what some of the pros and cons of writing high-performance code in Swift are, and how all of that relates to...
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