Stacktrace

Stacktrace is back! On this first episode of 2022, John and Rambo talk about their holidays, using Swift Playgrounds to build apps on the iPad, Mac gaming, and project goals.

• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Gastropod
• Rambo’s implementation of the App Library animation
• Ink
• Plot

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Join John and Rambo on this special New Year’s Eve episode of Stacktrace, on which they celebrate some of their favorite moments, products, media, and learnings from 2021.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Upgrade
• Raycast
• WWDC by Sundell & Friends
• Duolingo
• Xbox Game Pass
• Payoneer
• Rambo’s WWDC article about StoreKit 2
• John’s WWDC article about the new UIButton system
• Plot Components
• The Expanse
• Foundation
• Truth be Told
• Ted Lasso
• Metroid Dread
• The Forgotten City

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John and Rambo share their first impressions of the newly released Swift Playgrounds 4, which enables developers to build full iOS apps right on the iPad. Also, the value of narrowly scoped open source libraries, and what it’s like using GitHub CoPilot in practice.

• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Gumroad
• Paddle
• Cloudflare Workers
• GitHub CoPilot
• Discover Concurrency on Swift by Sundell
• CollectionConcurrencyKit
• AsyncCompatibilityKit
• SimplyCoreAudio

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The importance of sleep for both humans and async tasks, transferring apps and Apple developer accounts, and what things John and Rambo carry in their bags at all times.

• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Pillow (disclaimer: has sponsored the show in the past)
• Delaying an async Swift Task
• Swift’s closure capturing mechanics
• Rambo’s new company website

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John and Rambo discuss software quality trends, async functions and unit testing, Apple’s approach to private data with CloudKit, and dealing with technical debt.

• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Using CloudKit for content hosting and feature flags
• CloudKit Web Services
• Functional networking in Swift
• Rambo roasting his own code on Twitter

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It’s time for the first ever Stacktrace Headphone Holiday Guide! Along with discussions about writing technical articles, view models and the MVVM design pattern, and using Swift actors to solve race conditions and data races.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• NetNewsWire
• Tilt
• CloudKit 101
• Common pitfalls when using Keychain Sharing on iOS
• Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve?
• Beats Studio Buds
• Steelseries Arctis 7X
• View models
• SwiftUI’s state management system
• Combine subjects
• John “The Lost Art of System Design” talk
• Rambo’s “MVC: Many View Controllers” talk

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Rambo shares his set of principles for when and how to rewrite existing Objective-C code in Swift, John talks about his preferred workshop formats, and the two discuss the current state of Apple’s services.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Connecting async/await to other Swift code
• SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability
• Periphery
• notify_register_dispatch
• Property wrappers
• The Shrink Next Door on Apple TV+
• Foundation on Apple TV+

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John and Rambo discuss asynchronous unit testing, using Windows as a development platform, SwiftUI previews on laptops, and conclude their deep dive into Swift’s concurrency system by talking about actors and structured concurrency.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Unit testing Swift code that uses async/await
• Test expectations
• Unit testing in Swift
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• IOKit
• Audacity
• Actors in Swift
• The MainActor attribute
• Using async let to run multiple tasks in parallel

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Rambo longs to get back to UI development, John releases a new open source project, and the two embark on part one of their deep dive into Swift’s new concurrency system. Also, organizing devices, and mechanical keyboards.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Swift by Sundell episode with Christian Selig
• CollectionConcurrencyKit
• The new, concurrent version of Publish
• Async sequences and streams
• Sketch
• NSXPCConnection
• Swift’s concurrency system
• The WIP MultipeerKit concurrency implementation
• Adding pull-to-refresh to a SwiftUI List using async/await
• Making URLSession’s async APIs backward compatible
• Task
• An example of running async unit tests on Linux
• Keychron K2

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John shares his first impressions of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro and how he has been utilizing Swift’s new concurrency features to get the most out of the M1 Max. Also, Rambo’s work with Shortcuts, maintaining SwiftUI-based Mac apps, and much more.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
• John on Twitter: @johnsundell

• Using SwiftUI to build internal tools
• John’s MacBook Pro box tweet
• Swift’s new concurrency system gains backward compatibility in Xcode 13.2
• Publish

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