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Lees meerComment Is everyone ready for their phone to feel a little less shiny and new come Tuesday? 😂 You’re always more likely to come out of an Apple event happy if you go in with low expectations, and I’d say that’…
Lees meerComment Instead of writing about this, I’m going to take Holly Borla’s advice and write something positive. When I first linked to Airport, I wished Jordan Singer good luck but was sure that Apple would find a…
Lees meerComment As someone who has just released a SwiftUI app across three platforms, this tweet from Steve Troughton-Smith perfectly sums up today’s reality vs the promise of this technology. It’s so much better tha…
Lees meerComment One of the talking points of the last couple of weeks was this tweet from Hadi Partovi as part of this fascinating thread about launching Internet Explorer 3. I’m all too familiar with working too hard…
Lees meerComment 2020 was a challenging year for companies. Even though our industry was affected far less than most, the pandemic made companies nervous, meaning tightened recruitment budgets. As someone who runs a dev…
Lees meerComment I’ve not done anything for ten consecutive years during my career. Until now. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of iOS Dev Weekly! 🎉 I made a big fuss at 500 issues, so I’ll try to keep this short, bu…
Lees meerComment Last week, my final link used iDOS 2 to install Windows 3.1 on your iPad. I’m sure it wasn’t my link that focused Apple’s attention on the app. Many blogs and podcasts discussed it. Unfortunately, Apple…
Lees meerComment I’m determined to write something more positive today! I’ve been far too negative recently, so let’s fix that. First of all, one of the iOS Dev Weekly Insiders brought up a great point during the lates…
Lees meerComment You might have seen that Apple rolled back the fairly radical new Safari tab design in the latest beta releases of macOS and iPad OS this week. I love Safari, and I’ll admit that drastically changing su…
Lees meerComment While we wait to see what, if any, changes Apple will make to the App Store due to increasing pressure from legal cases and government legislation, it’s interesting to watch what the other companies are…
Lees meerComment It’s always a good signal to write about something when I get several emails saying “Have you seen this?” along with a link. I’ve received more of those emails this week about GitHub Copilot than for an…
Lees meerComment Sometimes I sit down to write my comment for this newsletter, and there are so many things I want to write about, it’s tough to pick one. Sometimes I sit here, and no matter how hard I try, nothing that…
Lees meerComment I didn’t know quite how to feel as I watched Kieran Senior talk about reviewing code and dealing with pull requests inside Xcode this week. At first, I was nothing but impressed when I realised Xcode no…
Lees meerComment I didn’t think I’d ever get to see anything I had worked on in a WWDC session presentation. That’s a privilege even if you work inside Apple. It’s pretty much unheard of if you don’t. And yet, this wee…
Lees meerComment It’s almost WWDC time! 🚀😍🎉 Looking around Twitter and the web this week, I see two very different narratives from the community about this year’s conference. On the one hand, I see the usual excitement…
Lees meerComment I still (just about! 👴) remember the first time I came across asynchronous programming. I assumed, incorrectly, that when I called into the concurrent code, execution would continue in my calling functi…
Lees meerComment A couple of weeks ago, I apologised for talking about the Swift Package Index too much. After the newsletter went out, someone replied via email saying: Keep talking about the Swift Package Index! I on…
Lees meerComment The last time I wrote about scam subscription apps, I finished by saying this: Communication about what Apple is doing and how they think about these problems would be a huge step in the right directio…
Lees meerComment You may think I talk about the Swift Package Index too much in this newsletter, and you’re probably right. After all, it’s what I spend most of my time doing. You might be happy using CocoaPods or Carth…
Lees meerComment I lost about two hours yesterday to this tweet from Davide Di Stefano. Xcode 2 was the first version I used, but this video of Xcode 3 from Kevin Vinck took me on a delightful trip down memory lane, whi…
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