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Prompted by recent rumors around a redesigned Apple Watch, John and Rambo discuss the state of the Watch as a platform, both as users, and from a development perspective. Also, managing an app’s colors, getting started with freelancing, and NSOperations.

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

• Working Copy
• Secure ShellFish
• Swift Playgrounds
• Defining dynamic colors in Swift
• CARROT Weather
• NSOperation/Operation
• Advanced NSOperations from WWDC 2015

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John’s new iPad development setup, Rambo’s widget layout challenges, and Apple’s (lack of a strong) home device strategy. Also, managing deadlines, maintaining SwiftUI views across multiple system versions, and continuous integration.

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

• Publish
• Working Copy
• SwiftUI layout priorities
• Report: Apple lacks a ‘strong living room hardware strategy,’ still planning HomePod/Apple TV combo for 2023
• Klipsch The Fives
• fastlane
• Bitrise
• Jenkins

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Rambo’s initial impressions of the Playdate developer tools, John’s process for keeping articles and sample code up to date, Google’s new Tensor chip, and designer/developer collaboration.

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

• John’s article about Swift’s Result type
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• Raspberry Pi 400
• Visual Studio Code
• CircuitPython
• MicroPython
• Playdate
• Lua
• Google Tensor

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After an accidental deep dive into Git branching strategies and a discussion about app-wide data models, John and Rambo talk about the recent news that Netflix is getting into gaming, and what that could mean both content-wise and technically.

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

• Bitrise
• Feature flags in Swift
• Beats Studio Buds
• AirBuddy
• Non-optional optionals
• Managing objects using Locks and Keys
• Gurman’s report about Netflix getting into video games
• Netflix’s Q2 earnings report
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• CARROT Weather

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John and Rambo discuss some of the most recent Apple hardware rumors, how they’ve been John and Rambo discuss how they use unit testing to verify their code, and how automatic testing fits into their overall workflows. Also, more details about Rambo’s new app, and strategies for adding new features to existing code bases.

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• Gui on Twitter: @_inside
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• Mazury
• SwiftUI’s minimumScaleFactor modifier
• SwiftUI’s blendMode modifier
• Unit testing
• Swift Evolution

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John and Rambo discuss some of the most recent Apple hardware rumors, how they’ve been changing their style of programming since the introduction of SwiftUI and Combine, and whether Swift package manifests could one day replace Xcode project files. Also, why does John always call Rambo by his last name?

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

• StatusBuddy
• Raphael, the designer behind Rambo’s app icons
• Published properties in Swift
• The source code for StatusBuddy
• MacRumor’s iPhone 13 video
• Recent MacBook Pro rumors about 32 GB RAM limit

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John and Rambo discuss the recent announcement of GitHub Copilot and the implications that such a tool could have on the world of software development. Also, deciding between SwiftUI and UIKit on a component level, and the power of relaxation.

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• CSS media queries
• How Swift 5.3 enhanced SwiftUI’s DSL
• Handling loading states within SwiftUI views
• The recent Swift by Sundell episode with Chris Lattner
• GitHub Copilot
• Express
• “GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright”, by Julia Reda

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It’s the Stacktrace App Store special! What could happen if Apple were to enable sideloading on iOS, and what other changes could Apple make to improve the App Store and its relationship to third-party developers? Also, connecting Combine with async/await, using design tools, alternatives to using analytics SDKs, and much more.

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

• StatusBuddy
• Calling async functions within a Combine pipeline
• Xbox Cloud Gaming
• John’s Xbox Cloud Gaming setup
• The Touryst
• The JavaScript GamePad API
• WebRTC
• AppTelemetry
• TablePlus
• Cloudflare

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John’s new daily writing challenge, Rambo’s continued deep dives into Bluetooth and local networking, and initial impressions of Apple Music Spatial Audio. Also, what might the future of technologies like Objective-C and Combine look like, given this year’s WWDC announcements?

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• Brazilian cuisine
• Swedish “fika”
• Customizing how an external Swift type is encoded or decoded
• MultipeerKit
• “Made for Spatial Audio” on Apple Music
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Create ML
• Carbon
• What Swift’s new concurrency features might mean for the future of Combine
• SwiftUI’s new pull-to-refresh API
• iA Writer
• Publish
• Splash
• Ulysses

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John and Rambo dive much deeper into some of the key new APIs and system features that were announced at WWDC21, including SharePlay, ShazamKit, Swift’s new concurrency system, and what’s new in Xcode 13. Also, debugging low-level crashes, and tips for getting started with app development.

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

• WWDC by Sundell & Friends
• Swift by Sundell episode with Doug Gregor from Apple
• Git’s bisect command
• AirBuddy
• ShazamKit
• SharePlay
• Beta of the unofficial WWDC app with SharePlay support
• SwiftUI’s new Table view for macOS
• Swift’s new AttributedString type
• John Gruber’s original Markdown spec
• The MainActor attribute
• Converting completion handler-based APIs to async/await
• What’s new in Xcode 13
• John’s package collection on the Swift Package Index
• Xcode Cloud
• Buddybuild
• Bitrise
• Stanford University’s iOS development course
• 100 days of Swift
• Swift Playgrounds
• Sean Allen’s YouTube channel

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