Comment First up this week, I want to thank you all so much for how you responded to my comments on funding the future of the Swift Package Index. Since last week, the Package Index has had new monthly contribu…
Lees meerComment I was going to start this week’s issue with some words about open-source funding before getting to my main point, but it’s too important to bury below my usual twaddle, so here we go. The Swift Package…
Lees meerComment I’ve seen a few people talking positively about Xcode 14’s slightly firmer hand in re-indenting code as you type or paste code into the editor. I’m a fan of these new features, too, but in my opinion, t…
Lees meerComment I know this is a bit of an NSHipster move, but a new API from last week’s WWDC has been on my mind this week. SiriTipView. Discoverability is hard enough on small-screen devices when you use standard c…
Lees meerComment I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen someone ask, “What should I use, SwiftUI or UIKit” or read a blog post titled “Is SwiftUI ready for production?” over the last few years. To be clear, I inten…
Lees meerComment So, I successfully predicted this wasn’t the big AR/VR/MR year at WWDC. 🥽 What I missed were any signs that this would be the year we’d have two dedicated sessions covering regular expressions instead! …
Lees meerComment Coming up with ideas is easy, but they’re worthless until you execute them! Having the idea to create a website that allows someone to search metadata for open-source Swift packages isn’t particularly c…
Lees meerComment Do you remember Parse? The MBaaS platform that Facebook acquired in 2013 and closed down in 2017? Let’s recap some history, as it’s been a while! I first linked to it in Issue 2 of this newsletter! 😱 T…
Lees meerComment Did you see Apple announce door detection and other iOS 16 feature previews for Global Accessibility Awareness Day a few days ago? Don’t you love living in the future? I know I do. 🥰 Of course, Apple d…
Lees meerComment I want to start this week with the story of the first Apple product I owned, a third-generation iPod. This week, Apple finally retired the product line, and my thoughts went back to my first few minutes…
Lees meerComment This week saw Apple announce a few more details about the in-person portion of this year’s WWDC. Even though these words make no appearance on the page, I love how the URL to the page ends in “special-…
Lees meerComment This week saw many developers receive notices from Apple saying they will remove apps from the store that haven’t been updated for more than two years. I actually thought Apple had done this before, but…
Lees meerComment One thing I’d love to do a better job with for this newsletter is noticing when Swift packages get significant updates so that I can link to more of them. This community invests so much time and effort …
Lees meerComment If you read one thing this week, read this post by Rich Mogul on security and the App Store. In my opinion, it’s an excellent article, and he makes a good case for why both side loading and alternate st…
Lees meerComment Last week, the custom, automated subscription change people saw in Disney+ was surrounded by speculation. This week, we’ve had confirmation from Apple via Sarah Perez at TechCrunch: An Apple spokespers…
Lees meerComment When swift-numerics debuted in 2019, Steve Canon mentioned that you might have expected some of the APIs to be a part of the standard library. He talked about a few reasons why, but the primary benefits…
Lees meerComment If you’ve visited iOS Dev Jobs over the last couple of months, it might look the same as when it re-launched, but it’s not! I thought it was time for a quick update on some improvements since the new si…
Lees meerComment As John Ternus left us with “just one more product to go, Mac Pro” at the end of last week’s event, my thoughts turned to how Apple might get to that Pro machine from the Studio. The biggest problem fa…
Lees meerComment I continued my grand tradition of being wrong about Apple announcements with last week’s comment! 😅 I predicted they’d show us what the larger iMac and Mac Pro would look like, and we saw neither! Inste…
Lees meerComment It’s been around 20 months since Apple unveiled their Apple silicon roadmap and about 16 months since the first M1 machines landed on people’s doorsteps. I don’t know about you, but doesn’t it seem lik…
Lees meerComment I knew I’d get emails after writing about Twitch streams last week. I don’t spend much time watching Twitch and knew there would be more people streaming that I wasn’t aware of! So it was no surprise wh…
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