Empower Apps

Cihat Gündüz returns to break down everything from WWDC 2026. We go through Swift 6.4's quality-of-life wins, Apple turning Foundation Models into a full agentic harness, Xcode 27's agent and built-in skills, Device Hub, and where we land on the iPhone Fold.

Guest

• Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut) / X
• Cihat Gündüz (@[email protected]) - iOS Dev Space
• Cihat Gündüz (@jeehut) on Threads
• FlineDev

Related Links

• WWDCNotes
• My Top 5 AI Wishes for WWDC26 – FlineDev
• FlineDev/SiteKit: AI-first static site generator written in Swift
• QwenLM/Qwen3.6: Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group.

Related Episodes

• Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham
• Actually Really Useful
• Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik
• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz
• Hacking with Ignite with Paul Hudson

Chapters

• (00:00) - What's New in Swift & SwiftUI

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Peter Witham joins us to talk about today's Platforms State of the Union. Is Apple Intelligence here? Is Liquid Glass here? Where's 
John Ternus? 

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
• Peter Witham (@[email protected]) - C.IM
• Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

Related Episode

• Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos
• Actually Really Useful
• Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
• v26.0 with Peter Witham
• Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko
• SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham
• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz

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Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi hardware, the future of cross-platform Swift across Android, Windows, and Wasm, and somehow end up arguing about whether you should let LLMs format your code at all.

Guest

• Joannis Orlandos
  • Joannis Orlandos (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
  • Joannis (Joannis Orlandos)
  • Joannis Orlandos | LinkedIn
  • Joannis Orlandos (@joanniso.bsky.social) • Bluesky
• WendyOS — The open-source OS for Physical AI

Related Links

• Wendy Labs Inc. — GitHub
• WendyOS Documentation
• Swift on Server — Joannis Orlandos
• Hummingbird — Lightweight Swift web framework
• MLX — Apple's array framework for machine learning
• Swift Android Working Group — Swift Forums
• Build and Packaging Workgroup — Swift.org
• Swift Evolution
• Bringing Swift to Android — Goodnotes

Related Episodes

• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq

Chapters

• (00:00) - What Is WendyOS

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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/)

After ten months away, Leo's back. He covers Swift Craft 2026, the rest of his speaking year (Beer City Code, iOSDevUK), and his honest take on AI dev tooling. Plus updates on MistKit, SyntaxKit, swift-build, MonthBar, and a new watchOS app called AtLeast (in TestFlight now). He's open to work, offering free 30-minute consultations, and a live WWDC 2026 episode is coming. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

Related Links

• Free 30-min consultation — Zcal
• Swift Craft 2026 — Folkestone, May 2026
• Beer City Code — Grand Rapids, Aug 14–15, 2026
• iOSDevUK — Wales, September 2026
• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
• AI-assisted development talk (Boston) — YouTube
• MistKit — GitHub
• SyntaxKit — GitHub
• swift-build — GitHub
• MonthBar — month.bar
• AtLeast — atleast.app (TestFlight)
• Bushel — getbushel.app

Related Episodes

• Ep 200 — Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
• Ep 199 — v26.0 with Peter Witham
• Ep 178 — SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham
• Ep 196 — Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Ep 203 — Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas

Chapters

• (00:00) - I'm Back

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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

Related Links

• Rob Napier - TIL:AI. Thoughts on AI
• AI Code Reviews | CodeRabbit | Try for Free

Related Episodes

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• Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
• Plinky with Joe Fabisevich
• ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski
• The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss
• Apples, Glasses, and HAL, Oh My!

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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

Related Episodes

• Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
• The Case of the Crimson Test Suite with Daniel Steinberg
• Empowering Accessibility with Via Fairchild
• It Depends with Brandon Williams
• Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals
• SwiftUI Tips and Tricks with Craig Clayton
• Mobile System Design with Tjeerd in 't Veen

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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
• SyntaxKit - More Friendly SwiftSyntax API
• Post Show Discussion with Kabir on Patreon
• BrightDigit Newsletter

Related Links

• xtool | Documentation
• xtool-org/xtool: Cross-platform Xcode replacement. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, macOS.
• cirruslabs/tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations
• kabiroberai/node-swift: Create Node modules in Swift
• Kabir Oberai - Batteries Not Included: Beyond Xcode - YouTube

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• Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
• v26.0 with Peter Witham
• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik
• Swift Student Challenge with Dezmond Blair
• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz
• We Have All The Heroes with Stefano Mondino
• The Bushel Holiday Special
• Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia

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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! 🙌
• macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel

Related Episodes

• v26.0 with Peter Witham
• Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko
• Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte
• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham
• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz
• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
• Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham
• Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham
• Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham

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GitHub - @brightdigit
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Credits

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"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! 🙌
• EmpowerApps.Show LIVE with Leo Dion · Luma
• macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel
• One More Thing Conference – OMTConf
• CommunityKit | WWDC | June 9th to 11th in Cupertino

Related Episodes

• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham
• WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz
• Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
• Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham
• Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham
• Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham

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Credits

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"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
• Join our Patreon!
• Newsletters | BrightDigit

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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• Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq
• Full Stack Lyriq with Adegboyega Olusunmade
• PixelBlitz in Public with Martin Lasek
• Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia
• Backend Decisions with Mikaela Caron
• What is Firebase with Peter Friese
• AWS and SOTO with Adam Fowler

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"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