‘Networking’ is a word to strike fear into the heart of any developer, and upsettingly we’re dealing with both types this episodes: talking to other humans at conferences, but mostly trying to coax computers to talk to each other too.

Plus, our Open Ballot this episode is the trifling little matter of the major changes you’re hoping to see in Xcode, SwiftUI, SwiftData and more as WWDC25 rolls around.

Essential links from the episode:

• Apple Intelligence delay
• Original announcement: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/apple_is_delaying_the_more_personalized_siri_apple_intelligence_features
  • Gruber’s rant: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino
  • Apple introduces age-checking systems https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/apple-introduces-new-child-safety-initiatives-including-an-age-checking-system-for-apps/
• Testing Workgroup https://www.swift.org/testing-workgroup/

Conferences:

• Swift Heroes (8–9 April): https://swiftheroes.com/2025/
• try! Swift Tokyo (9–11 April): ⁠⁠https://tryswift.jp/

Conference organizers: we’d love to feature more events here on a regular basis. Get in touch with us when early bird tickets go on sale, or when you announce speakers or something else, and we’ll do our best to feature you!

Apparently, the secret to a great coding presentation is three Es. You’ll just have to listen to discover if this means Paul is advocating for consuming Class A drugs to get hyped or if they just, like, stand for something inspiring or something. Developers, developers, developers…

Plus, as well as your traditional rundown of the news and upcoming conferences, this episode has excellent advice from Mikaela and from our wonderful community of Swift Over Coffee listeners on how to deal with imposter syndrome. Well, it’s quite good advice. Decent, at least.

Essential links from the episode:

• Open Source Swift Build: https://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/
• Updated VSCode extension: https://www.swift.org/blog/vscode-swift-2/
• Swift on Android Working Group https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-android-working-group/77780
  

Conferences:

• Let’s Vision: Shanghai (1–2 March): ⁠https://letsvision.swiftgg.team⁠
• ARCtic conference (11–13 March): ⁠https://arcticonference.com⁠
• try! Swift Tokyo (9–11 April): ⁠https://tryswift.jp/

In this episode, we learn that the app that paid for Paul’s house hasn’t even been updated for iPhone X 😶‍🌫️ and Mikaela learns about some useful tools to help with the launch of the app that she absolutely, definitely, 100% is gonna debut in February. 😅 (Pretty sure she meant of 2025, but Paul neglected to press her on this point.)

Plus, time is running out for EU trader status compliance (and some tips about keeping your personal phone number private), a big change to Swift, all the upcoming conferences (where, you know, Mikaela’s app would be incredibly useful…) and we turn the spotlight on some of the brilliant apps the Swift Over Coffee listeners are making.

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Conferences:

Indie apps:

Mikaela is joined by the most English-sounding Irishman you've ever heard for an intensive therapy session. We're talking paper cuts in Swift, those tiny annoyances that, sure, don't stop you in your tracks, but wouldn't it be nice if instead of having to cover ourselves in the coding equivalent of a hundred Band-Aids, Apple just… fixed? Please? Empathise, sympathise, and have a nice little scream into the void with us.

Plus there's a roundup of conferences (running one? let us know!) and other Swift news, and we reveal Mikaela's One Weird Trick to actually shipping an app.

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We’re back! Many things have happened over that swift summer break, so pour a coffee and let’s jump right back in. In this episode, we’re talking Apple Intelligence and other code-complete co-pilots, the redesign of swift.org, shiny M4 Macs, good UI (and UX) design, and the Swift Foundation’s move to empower the community to fix tiny annoyances — but the big topic, of course, is how your adoption of Swift 6 has been going. If at all… 👀

This episode is sponsored by Astro, the App Store optimisation toolkit. The first 50 listeners to click https://tryastro.app/offer?campaign_id=swiftovercoffee&utm_source=swiftovercoffee get even more goodies!

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