Kaya Thomas (kayathomas.is) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary (milkdiary.com). She talks about using new APIs like Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, and AlarmKit to handle the complex stuff other  feeding apps miss: intelligent scheduling and reminders, combo feeding that's actually easy to track, hassle-free tracking for twins and smart milk management.

Guest

• Kaya Thomas
  • Kaya Thomas (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
  • Kaya (@kayathomas.is) — Bluesky
  • kmt901 (Kaya Thomas)
  • Kaya Thomas | LinkedIn
  • Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas.is) • Threads, Say more
• Milk Diary App

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - What is Milk Diary

Rachel Brindle, maintainer of Nimble and Quick, comes on to talk about what's new in Swift Testing and what the future of Swift Testing may hold.

Guest

• Rachel Brindle
  • Rachel Brindle (@[email protected]) - Hachyderm.io
  • younata (Rachel Brindle)
  • Rachel Brindle (@rachelbrindle) • Instagram photos and videos

Related Links

• What's new in Testing, 2025 Edition
• nalexn/ViewInspector: Runtime introspection and unit testing of SwiftUI views
• Quick/Nimble: A Matcher Framework for Swift and Objective-C
• Quick/Quick: The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.
• pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing: 📸 Delightful Swift snapshot testing.
• swift-evolution/proposals/testing/NNNN-polling-confirmations.md at younata/testing-polling-expectations · younata/swift-evolution

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Comparing Swift Testing and XCTest

Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps.

Guest

• Kabir Oberai
• Kabir Oberai (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
• https://x.com/kabiroberai

Announcements

• macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel
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• cirruslabs/tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations
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• Kabir Oberai - Batteries Not Included: Beyond Xcode - YouTube

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Introduction and Announcements

Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025.

Guest

• Matt Massicotte - @[email protected]
  • massicotte.org | I write stuff here.
  • Matt Massicotte (@massicotte.org) — Bluesky
  • mattmassicotte (Matt Massicotte)
  • Matt Massicotte | LinkedIn
  • Matt Massicotte (@mattie) / X

Announcements

• BrightDigit #110 - WWDC 2025 = EmpowerApps 200th Episode + Bushel Sale! 🙌
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• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz
• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
• Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham
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Social Media

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GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @[email protected]
Youtube - @brightdigit
BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬
Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) -  Keynote Highlights and Initial Reactions

Before Leo heads to California, Peter joins to discuss Apple's crazy year and what we expect from WWDC 2025.

Guest

• Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer
• CompileSwift Podcast
• Peter Witham | LinkedIn
• Peter Witham - YouTube
• CompileDev - Twitch
• Peter Witham (@compileswift) • Instagram photos and videos
• CompileSwift | Facebook
• GrfxGuru - Github (Peter Witham)
• Peter Witham (@[email protected]) - C.IM
• Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

Announcements

• BrightDigit #110 - WWDC 2025 = EmpowerApps 200th Episode + Bushel Sale! 🙌
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• Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham
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Social Media

LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
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Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - WWDC Announcements

Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko from Cultured Code talk about their migration of Things Cloud to Server Side with Swift and what they learned along the way.

Guest

• Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS
  • Things (@things.app) — Bluesky
  • Things (@culturedcode)
  • Things (@[email protected])
• Werner Jainek (@[email protected])
• Vojtěch Rylko
  • Vojtech Rylko (@[email protected])
  • Vojtěch Rylko | LinkedIn
  • Vojtěch Rylko (@vojtechrylko)
  • vojtarylko (Vojtech Rylko)

Announcements

• Join Bushel Beta
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Links

• Swift.org - How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud
• The Success Story of Server-Side Swift at Cultured Code - Vojtech Rylko - YouTube

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Overview of Cultured Code and Things App

Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals.

Guest

• Nil Coalescing
  • Natalia Panferova (@natpanferova) / X
  • Natalia Panferova (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
  • Natalia Panferova (@natpanferova.bsky.social) — Bluesky
  • Natalia Panferova | LinkedIn

Announcements

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• Join our Patreon!
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Links

• SwiftUI Fundamentals
• Nil Coalescing Books
• Nil Coalescing - Blog

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Natalia's Background and SwiftUI Book

Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM.

Guest

• Marc Prud'hommeaux (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
  • Marc Prud'hommeaux | LinkedIn
  • @marcprux.bsky.social — Bluesky
  • marcprux (Marc Prud'hommeaux) | GitHub 

Announcements

• Join Bushel Beta
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Links

• skip.tools (@[email protected]) - mas.to
• skipapp-showcase
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• Skip Showcase - Apps on Google Play
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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Origins of Skip.Tools

What a wild ride 2024 was - from big life changes to surprising shifts in Apple development, I'm sharing the story of what went down this year. After navigating job hunts, tech trends, and some unexpected wins (and losses), I've got some insights about where we're headed in 2025, plus some exciting opportunities for you Swift folks!

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• Join Bushel Beta
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Links

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Introduction

Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑

Guest

• Matt Massicotte - @[email protected]
  • massicotte.org | I write stuff here.
  • Matt Massicotte (@massicotte.org) — Bluesky
  • mattmassicotte (Matt Massicotte)
  • Matt Massicotte | LinkedIn
  • Matt Massicotte (@mattie) / X

Announcements

• BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals
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Links

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• SE-0430: sending parameter and result values
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• SE-0434: Usability of global-actor-isolated types
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Concurrency in Swift 6: Challenges and Adoption