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Lees meerComment This week saw Apple announce the 2022 App Store Awards winners. Congratulations to everyone on that list! I hope your blue cubes are as beautiful as they look in the photos. 🟦 If your goal is to join t…
Lees meerComment Having a visible evolution process for the Swift language is great, but it can be easy to get tied up in the weeds of specific proposals and lose the broader picture, so it was great to see John McCall’…
Lees meerComment Like Marco Eidinger, I was also reminded of the Swift Snippets feature in Swift Package Manager as I read the post on VS Code that I linked to last week. He has a good write-up of what it does but conc…
Lees meerComment I’ve not talked about it in this newsletter yet, but for the last four months, Sven and I have been doing a bi-weekly Twitter Space called “Swift Package Indexing”. We’ve tried a few different formats,…
Lees meerComment I’m not against adverts. How could I be? I make a significant portion of my income from sponsorship and job adverts in this newsletter. I feel strongly about how I approach advertising, but I’m certainl…
Lees meerComment Along with this week’s operating system releases, Apple made some changes to the App Store Review Guidelines. There’s an official summary of the changes, but as always, the App Store Review Guidelines H…
Lees meerComment In previous years, I’d have reached for Ruby (specifically rake) if I had to build a little helper tool or script that needed more than my limited knowledge of shell scripting. I wrote server code with …
Lees meerComment When WWDC went virtual in 2020 and Apple replaced the in-person labs with virtual ones run over WebEx, the sound of everyone wishing that virtual labs and one-to-one sessions could become a year-round f…
Lees meerComment Why do I link to Alexandre Colucci’s articles reporting on Apple’s internal use of various technologies every time he publishes them? Because they’re fascinating! His latest post covers IOS 16, and the…
Lees meerComment I am sure that winning an Apple Design Award is a dream for many of you. It’s surely the ultimate recognition of an app well made. Knowing that a team of people inside Apple sat down with your app and d…
Lees meerComment I had an email from Derek Lee this week informing me about his latest article on getting started with Kotlin Multiplatform. We also had KotlinSpeechFeatures by Raquib-ul Alam and Arjun Sunil added to th…
Lees meerComment Isn’t it great to be back to not having a beta version of Xcode installed? I hope you enjoyed the last few days because that time is over. 😂 But why would you install the Xcode 14.1 beta that came out …
Lees meerComment Apologies that this issue is a little late! I spent most of this week at the iOS Dev UK conference, and my week got compressed. I wouldn’t change anything about this week, though. Being back at an in-p…
Lees meerComment It’s easy to miss if you’re not paying close attention, but Apple is doing lots of open-source work these days. The most obvious example this week was the open-source release of the DocC version of The…
Lees meerComment One prominent feature of Swift’s upcoming iOS 16 and macOS Ventura releases is a complete re-think of regular expressions. If you haven’t seen the new APIs in use yet, the best place to get up to speed …
Lees meerComment I wrote these words exactly one year ago: I’m going to try for more “blank” days in the next 12 months. Wish me luck! My phone dinged earlier this week with a reminder - “Did you have more ‘blank days…
Lees meerComment Something struck me as I read Daniel Saidi’s blog post on hiding the iOS home indicator with SwiftUI. It relates to the hackability of SwiftUI versus UIKit/AppKit. Yes, SwiftUI is getting significantly…
Lees meerComment I don’t think I’ve ever written about it before, but I believe there is an analogy between software development and rock climbing. 🧗♂️ I first started thinking about this in terms of source control. Y…
Lees meerComment I’ve been meaning to check out the Swift for Visual Studio Code plugin by Adam Fowler and other members of the Swift Server Workgroup since I read this post on the Swift.org blog published a couple of w…
Lees meerComment Did you see Steve Troughton-Smith’s experiments using Midjourney to generate sample album art for his Broadcasts app or to generate app icons this week? It’s hard to look at Steve’s examples and some o…
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