Swift over Coffee is a podcast that helps you keep your Swift skills up to date the easy way, hosted by Paul Hudson and Mikaela Caron. In each episode we chat a...
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.
Essential links from the episode:
Fruitful: https://getfruitful.app
Black Friday deals I: https://github.com/mRs-/Black-Friday-Deals
Black Friday deals II: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/black-friday-2024/
Black Friday deals III: https://indieappsales.com
Improving the approachability of data-race safety: https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-improving-the-approachability-of-data-race-safety/76183
James Dempsey’s Swift Virtuoso course: https://swift-virtuoso.com/
iOS Conf SG: https://www.iosconf.sg
FOSDEM25: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
Mazie Conference: https://maize.dk/
Let’s visionOS: https://letsvisionos.swiftgg.team/page/
ARCtic Conference: https://arcticonference.com
WebKit for SwiftUI: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/36760
TelemetryDeck: https://dashboard.telemetrydeck.com/registration/organization?referralCode=MYYXAFU3ZWQHM2CJ (Mikaela’s affiliate link, to get 100k extra signals of the free plan)
Write Great Accessibility Labels WWDC 19: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/254
WebKit: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/36760
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S4E1: You have to sit down and do it
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!
Essential links from the episode:
Paul's new app, Pocket Assembler: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-assembler/id6737518265
GitHub Copilot for Xcode: https://github.com/github/CopilotForXcode
Announcing The Swift.org Redesign Project: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-the-swift-org-redesign-project/75865
Ignite, Static Site Generator, by Paul Hudson https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite
Swift-Foundation 2024 Annual Update: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-foundation-2024-annual-update/75609
Swift Interoperability with Java: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java
Inferno, Metal shaders for SwiftUI by Paul Hudson: https://github.com/twostraws/Inferno
Vortex, Particle Effects, by Paul Hudson: https://github.com/twostraws/Vortex
Matt Massicotte’s blog: https://www.massicotte.org
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S3E16: Swift 6 strict
In this episode: We discuss Apple's worldwide catch up events for WWDC, discuss how we stay up to date with new Swift features in old projects, and share the APIs and features you're most looking forward to adopting in iOS 18.
WWDC Catch up Events: https://developer.apple.com/events/
Microsoft blames the EU for CloudStrike downtime: https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-crowdstrike-eu-rules
Share your code snippets on swift.org: https://x.com/SwiftLang/status/1813977828163195046
What’s new in Swift: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift
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S3E15: Swift turns 10
In this episode: We discuss Apple's developer academies, share our advice for becoming a fully independent developer, and on Swift's 10th anniversary share your stories of how Swift impacted your lives:
Hacking with Swift WWDC24 sale: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/offers
Mikaela’s Keyboard: https://zsa.io
New Apple forums: https://forums.developer.apple.com
Apple developer academy graduation: https://x.com/EEhare/status/1796145402695012499
Getting featured on the App Store: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/getting-featured/
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S3E14: An archaeological trove of Mikaela
In this episode: We discuss Apple's newest accessibility features coming in iOS 18, share our tips for working with difficult colleagues and clients, and read your replies to our open ballot: is Swift Evolution working?
Apple’s new accessibility features in iOS 18: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/?1715781602
Deep Dish Swift: https://deepdishswift.com
Swift Craft: https://swiftcraft.uk
iOSKonf: https://www.ioskonf.mk
ARCtic Conference: https://arcticonference.com
Matthew Skiles, icon designer: https://www.matthewskiles.com/
Swift Gems from Natalia Panferova: https://books.nilcoalescing.com/swift-gems
The Advantage book: https://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Organizational-Health-Everything-Business/dp/0470941529
Extreme Ownership book: https://echelonfront.com/books/extreme-ownership/
Interview with Chris Lattner: https://www.youtube.com/live/OAaQhW4ifu0?si=drHVY_dkJoc4_4H6
Swift over Coffee is a podcast that helps you keep your Swift skills up to date the easy way, hosted by Paul Hudson and Mikaela Caron. In each episode we chat about the latest developments in the Swift community, and also host an open ballot where you can share your views on important topics.
Follow us on Twitter at @swiftovercoffee.
Note: all the discussion from Mikaela and Paul is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Our regular intro/outro music is also licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, and is called "Dropping out of School" by Brad Sucks.
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