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Custom macOS virtualization on Apple Silicon, the pros and cons of SwiftUI’s List view, initial thoughts on WWDC 2022, and why Italy is such an amazing place.

Links

• SwiftUI’s List view
• Rambo’s new AirBuddy UI
• AirBuddy’s custom widget sheet
• Virtualizing macOS on Apple Silicon
• Asahi Linux
• WWDC 2022 announcement

New website, new logo, same show! Rambo shares his initial impressions of using Apple’s new Studio Display, along with some interesting spelunking results. Also, behind the scenes of the show’s new website, and a few web development tips.

Links

• RSS
• Publish
• Sweep
• Chrome’s Lighthouse testing suite
• Studio Display
• Rambo’s new desk setup

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John and Rambo celebrate the show’s 4th birthday with a big announcement, and then talk about security research, project priorities, and how to combine SwiftUI views with protocol-based observable objects.

Links

• The first ever episode of the show
• The show’s new email: [email protected]
• Rambo’s blog post about his CVE
• Steve Jobs’s joke about iMovie on the App Store
• Demo of John’s SwiftUI-based game
• Modeling loading states using enums
• Protocol inheritance/specialization
• Reflection in Swift

John and Rambo share their first impressions of the products announced at Apple’s “Peek Performance” event — including the new iPhone SE and iPad Air, M1 Ultra, Mac Studio and the Studio Display.

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Links

• Apple’s “Peek Performance” event
• The Banker on Apple TV+
• “There is only one MTLDevice on M1 Ultra.”
• Mac Studio
• Studio Display

On this extra episode of the show, John and Rambo share their bets, hopes and predictions for Apple’s upcoming “Peek Performance” event.

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Links

• Upgrade
• Mac Studio rumors

Unit testing SwiftUI-based views, view and data architecture, as well as a behind the scenes look at Rambo’s home automation setup.

Sponsor

• Sentry: Actionable iOS error tracking and performance monitoring. Try Sentry for free today. New users can use the code 'STACKTRACE' during sign-up to get 3 free months of Sentry.

Links

• Unit testing SwiftUI-based views
• SwiftUI’s state management system
• The “Locks and Keys” principle
• Philips Hue
• Fibaro switches
• Zigbee
• Shelly 2.5

John and Rambo speculate what the SDK for Apple’s rumored AR/VR devices might look like, and what sort of user experiences that we might be able to build using it.

Sponsor

• Sentry: Actionable iOS error tracking and performance monitoring. Try Sentry for free today. New users can use the code 'STACKTRACE' during sign-up to get 3 free months of Sentry.

Links

• realityOS references in Apple’s open source code
• SwiftUI
• ARKit
• RealityKit
• Google Cardboard
• Blender
• Rambo’s AR article from 2019
• Reality Composer
• Quixel
• UIKit scenes
• Apple AR/VR headset renders
• IKEA Place

SwiftUI for animations, prototyping, and game development. Plus, a second review of the M1 Max-based MacBook Pro, and an update on how well it performs for gaming.

Sponsor

• Sentry: Actionable iOS error tracking and performance monitoring. Try Sentry for free today. New users can use the code 'STACKTRACE' during sign-up to get 3 free months of Sentry.

Links

• Rambo’s MacBook Pro specs
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• SpriteKit
• Imagine Engine
• John’s new SwiftUI-based game demo
• Part of the source code from John’s new game
• SwiftUI animations
• The SwiftUI Namespace API
• Custom SwiftUI view modifiers
• SwiftUI transactions

How memory management works when using Swift’s new concurrency features, getting out of productivity traps, remote pair programming, and the process of installing Mac apps.

Sponsor

• Sentry: Actionable iOS error tracking and performance monitoring. Try Sentry for free today. New users can use the code 'STACKTRACE' during sign-up to get 3 free months of Sentry.

Links

• Memory management when using async/await in Swift
• Swift’s closure capturing mechanics
• AppZapper
• The dmg file format
• The pkg file format