Comment Swift 5.10 is here! Holly Borla introduced the release on the Swift.org blog, and if you haven’t dug into what this release is all about yet, I’ll let Holly explain by quoting the bolded sentence in her…
Lees meerComment People often ask me about a new app idea they want to build, and one thing I always try to think about is, “Is this app boring enough?” Obviously, “boring” is subjective, but the number of success stor…
Lees meerComment I know it's possibly a less popular opinion recently, but I still love and appreciate developers who put their time and attention to platform fit on Apple platforms. I also love it when Apple makes it …
Lees meerComment Did you see Chris Eidhof's announcement of The SwiftUI Field Guide this week? At first glance, you might take a quick look and think it's a well-illustrated guide to SwiftUI, but it's so much more than…
Lees meerComment From Stuart Varrall's recent article on Inspiring Apple Vision Pro Apps: Apps such as Mercury Weather and Longplay change the information displayed in a window depending on the size. Every iOS-based p…
Lees meerComment From John Gruber’s excellent summary of last week’s DMA proposal: The Core Technology Fee (CTF) disrupts the free/freemium model used by Apple’s biggest rivals and competitors. Meta’s apps are all free…
Lees meerComment I've been enjoying all the memories of the Mac that have been everywhere this week as we reach the 40th birthday of Macintosh. My favourite story was sent out only via email from the Steve Jobs Archive,…
Lees meerComment Happy Vision Pro pre-order day, at least it is if you live in 🇺🇸! I'd like nothing more than to write more about visionOS today, but there was some more significant news announced earlier this week. Ap…
Lees meerComment Get ready! 😍 The time for wondering when “early next year” might happen is over, as Apple announced availability for its newest platform earlier this week, and it’s only three weeks away! 🎉 Does that …
Lees meerComment Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are all feeling rested and enthusiastic for the year ahead. It might be a notable one, too, with the debut of you know what. I don’t want to start the year thinking …
Lees meerComment Here we are at the end of another year, and as tradition now dictates, that means it’s time for the “Best Of And Finally…” issue! There’s no double-anonymized voting system going on with how I picked t…
Lees meerComment 2023 has been a fantastic year for me in many ways. This newsletter continues to do well, which is constantly surprising, and the Swift Package Index received support from Apple and continues to grow be…
Lees meerComment You’ll almost certainly have seen links to the new mlx repository during this week. It’s a new project from a machine learning research group inside Apple, so it makes sense that the repository descript…
Lees meerComment It’s thrilling for any app developer when Apple shines their light your way. It’s great to find something you worked on in an editorial list, or even better if your app is lucky enough to be picked as “…
Lees meerComment The two stories in this Apple Developer News post set me thinking about how visionOS brings new interaction and UI problems to solve with shared and collaborative user interfaces. Most of the devices w…
Lees meerComment Did you watch the GitHub Universe keynote earlier this week? Or should I say, the GitHub CoPilot keynote? I won’t talk about the state of AI, the CoPilot technology itself, or any other potential issue…
Lees meerComment This year’s Swift Mentorship Program just wrapped up, and I’m happy to say that it’s now the third year I have participated as a mentor for the Swift Package Index project. It’s something I really enjoy…
Lees meerComment You might have noticed a couple of changes to the Swift website recently. First, a long-running project from the Swift Website Workgroup¹ went live with a significant content update. The old home page i…
Lees meerComment When we added DocC documentation hosting to the Swift Package Index, I was very happy with what we built and how easy it was for package authors to opt in to. But I also hoped that people might spend mo…
Lees meerComment During the Meet Push Notifications Console session at this year’s WWDC, you may have seen that Apple added logging functionality to the Notifications dashboard in your developer account. This feature i…
Lees meerComment Apple’s swift-distributed-actors library is an interesting one. It’s an ambitious project with great potential, but while you can adopt async/await, tasks, and other areas of Swift concurrency increment…
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