Comment Something struck me as I watched the M1 chip appear in more hardware on Tuesday. It won’t be long until the whole Mac lineup has the same internals. The “low” end of the Apple silicon Mac lineup now lo…
Lees meerComment I’m sure I’m not the only one who has a constant stream of ideas related to software I either work on now, or may work on in the future. The quality of my ideas varies wildly, and it’s often the worst i…
Lees meerComment Many years ago, back when I used to be a .net developer, I remember feeling frustrated by Microsoft developer marketing. They needed to sell Visual Studio upgrade licenses every year, so their messaging…
Lees meerComment Even though some countries are making good progress with deploying vaccinations and reducing cases, there was little doubt that this year’s WWDC would be virtual again rather than in-person. So it was n…
Lees meerComment It’s not only a milestone for OS X/macOS this week. Here we are at Issue 500! It was almost ten years ago, but I can recall pressing send on Issue 1 quite vividly. I remember at first being surprised b…
Lees meerComment You may remember back in January when I mentioned that some community members had kindly stepped up to run this year's iOS Developer Community Survey. Well, I'm delighted to say that they were successfu…
Lees meerComment In around three months, we’re likely to be settling into our comfiest chairs to watch this year’s WWDC announcements. Thinking about that made me consider what I’d most like to see this year, and if I h…
Lees meerComment One of my wishes for last year’s WWDC was that we’d see Xcode level up its support for projects opened from a Package.swift file. Compared to working with an xcodeproj or xcworkspace project, it can fee…
Lees meerComment “Clubhouse” would like to access your contacts. Knowing what apps do with contact data after issuing a prompt like this, my default answer is no every time I see this prompt. There’s been plenty of cri…
Lees meerComment In my comment last week, I said: I don’t want someone else being able to judge the value of what I produce, that’s the market’s job. Apple doesn’t want to go there either, even in regular times but esp…
Lees meerComment If you follow Kosta Eleftheriou on Twitter, you’ll have seen his recent campaign to yet again urge Apple to tackle scam subscription apps on the App Store. Kosta isn’t the first person to embark on thi…
Lees meerComment It was Data Privacy Day last week, and Apple was all over it. The most significant part of the event was Tim Cook’s appearance at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference. Tim doesn’t often s…
Lees meerComment I’ve been accepting suggestions for links to include in iOS Dev Weekly for years using off the shelf web form software. It worked, but every time someone suggested a blog post, I’d reply by email to tha…
Lees meerComment It’s a couple of weeks old now, but this post from Pedro Piñera stuck with me. He talks about open-source projects, why people work on them, and how the expectations of people who find your code might b…
Lees meerComment Everyone was a little confused by Apple’s pre-announcement of a “not a product” announcement earlier this week. I didn’t think it would particularly be related to iOS development, but it turned out that…
Lees meerComment Happy new year! I hope you all enjoyed a break from work over the holidays, I know I enjoyed some much-needed downtime (although I did use some of it to start writing a new app… Will I ever learn?! 😬). …
Lees meerComment Happy New Year! 🎉🎊🎉 I hope you all managed to find some time to rest and relax over the holiday break. I know I really appreciated a couple of weeks off before embarking on the road to Issue 500, which…
Lees meerComment I think it’s fair to say that this year has been exceptional, for all the wrong reasons. 😬 Yes, our industry has fared better than most in 2020, and we should all be grateful for that, but that doesn’t…
Lees meerComment This is a fascinating story from McLaren Stanley about a rewrite of the Uber app in the early days of Swift. If you’ve not yet read it, go and give it a look now. I promise it’s worth your time. It’s e…
Lees meerComment When you run your own business, the decision of how to spend your time is always tricky. When should you take on contract work, and when should you spend time working on something that’s less financiall…
Lees meerComment There’s no long introductory comment this week. Instead, I’m going to start by wishing those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday a happy one! I hope you managed to make the best of what must ha…
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