Empower Apps

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

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Links

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

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• (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 

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Links

• skip.tools (@[email protected]) - mas.to
• skipapp-showcase
• skiptools/skipapp-showcase: Sample Skip app demonstrating SkipUI components for iOS and Android
• Skip Showcase - Apps on Google Play
• Swift Everywhere: Bringing Swift Packages to Android
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• FOSDEM 2025 - A Free Software App Store for iOS: the App Fair Project's perspective on the DMA

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (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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Links

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• brightdigit/DataThespian: Concurrency-Friendly SwiftData
• Apple is pausing notification summaries for news in the latest iOS 18.3 beta
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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (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

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Links

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• Being Sendable with SwiftData
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• Using ModelActor in SwiftData
• Non-Sendable types are cool too you know
• Problematic Swift Concurrency Patterns
• SE-0430: sending parameter and result values
• SE-0431: @isolated(any) Function Types
• SE-0434: Usability of global-actor-isolated types
• So how does this whole @preconcurrency thing work?

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (00:00) - Concurrency in Swift 6: Challenges and Adoption

Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI.

Guest

• Donny Wals
  • Donny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky
  • Donny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / X
  • donny wals - YouTube
  • Donny Wals (@[email protected]) - chaos.social
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Links

• Practical Swift Concurrency - Make the most out of Concurrency in Swift 6 and beyond
• SwiftData | Fatbobman's Blog
• brightdigit/DataThespian: Concurrency-Friendly SwiftData
• Man vs Machine: Can ChatGPT write better SwiftUI than you? - iOS Conf SG 2023

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

• (00:00) - SwiftUI

Donny comes on yet again to give his thoughts on 2024 - Swift Data, Swift Testing and Swift Macros while we mourn the death of Combine.

Guest

• Donny Wals
  • Donny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky
  • Donny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / X
  • donny wals - YouTube
  • Donny Wals (@[email protected]) - chaos.social
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Links

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• SwiftData | Fatbobman's Blog
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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (00:00) - Bushel 2.0

Sébastien Stormacq joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Swift - what does "Serverless" mean, how deployment works, and how to get started.

Guest

• Sébastien ☁ Stormacq 🇺🇦 (@sebsto) / X
• Seb @ AWS (@sebsto.bsky.social) — Bluesky
• Sébastien ☁ (Seb) Stormacq | LinkedIn
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• Sebastien Stormacq (@sebstormacq) • Threads, Say more
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Links

• swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-runtime: Swift implementation of AWS Lambda Runtime
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• Swift, Server-Side, Serverless - Sébastien Stormacq
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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (00:00) - Understanding AWS Lambda and Serverless Computin

Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more.

Guest

• Natan Rolnik
• Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) / X
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• natanrolnik (Natan Rolnik) | Github 

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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) - Nathan's Work and Contribution

Adegboyega Olusunmade joins to talk about building his Full Stack Swift app Lyriq and what did he learn along the way: the differences between building an iOS app and a server app to deploying a server application.

Guest

• Adegboyega Olusunmade (@AdeOlusunmade) / X

Announcements

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Links

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• Vapor
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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) - Building Lyriq: Challenges and Decisions

Nick Lockwood of SwiftFormat (not dash) joins the show to talk about the server side Swift conference, quirks of Swift you didn't know about, language design, and the future of Swift.

Guest

• Nick Lockwood
  • @nicklockwood (Github)
  • Nick Lockwood (@[email protected])
  • Nick Lockwood | LinkedIn

Announcements

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Links

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• swiftlang/swift-format: Formatting technology for Swift source code
• realm/SwiftLint: A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
• jpsim/SourceKitten: An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit.
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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) - Server-Side Swift Conference