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Swift by Sundell A weekly blog about Swift development

Aug 30
Aug 30 55: “A whole new world”, with special guest Marin Todorov

John Sundell

Marin Todorov joins John to talk about bridging the gap between UIKit, Combine and SwiftUI, how to design intuitive and robust APIs, and how the developer community can augment Apple’s SDKs through open source.

Aug 13
Aug 13 54: “Swift 5.1, iOS 13 and iPadOS”, with special guests Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek

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Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek join John to dive into the new APIs and features in iOS 13 and iPadOS, as well as Swift 5.1 — how it powers SwiftUI, and if it would be possible to backport parts of SwiftUI to earlier iOS versions. Also, text editors, new iPhone and iPad UI conventions, and much more.

Aug 1
Aug 1 53: “The Swift Apple”, with special guest Brent Simmons

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Longtime Apple platforms developer Brent Simmons joins John to discuss how SwiftUI is ushering in a new era for Apple’s developer tools, and how we as third party developers can prepare for it. Also, Mac development, lots of tips for writing efficient code, and how Swift is adopting more dynamic programming features.

Jul 18
Jul 18 52: “Diving into Combine”, with special guest Casey Liss

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Casey Liss joins John to talk about Apple’s newly announced Combine framework for reactive programming, how it compares to existing tools like RxSwift, and different strategies for adopting it. Also, unit testing, life as an indie developer, and much more.

Jul 4
Jul 4 51: “Accessibility is for everyone”, with special guest Kaya Thomas

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Kaya Thomas joins John to talk about Apple’s various accessibility technologies and how SwiftUI is taking things to a whole new level. Also, how UI testing and accessibility are closely related, and what makes declarative UI development so powerful.

Jun 20
Jun 20 50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special guest Chris Lattner

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Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like.

Jun 6
Jun 6 49: “A big buffet of frameworks”, with special guest James Thomson

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It’s time for the 2019 Swift by Sundell WWDC special, featuring PCalc creator James Thomson — who, with his over 25 years of experience developing apps for Apple’s platforms, joins John to discuss SwiftUI, Catalyst, and the other exciting tools and frameworks introduced at this year’s WWDC.

May 21
May 21 48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest Simon Støvring

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Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity, frameworks, and what it would take to bring automation on Apple’s platforms to the next level.

May 9
May 9 47: “Your North Star”, with special guest Mayuko Inoue

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iOS developer and YouTuber Mayuko Inoue joins John to discuss team work and how a solid code structure can make teams more productive. Other topics include goal setting, how to grow as an engineer, and contributing to open source.

Apr 23
Apr 23 46: “A desire for simplicity and performance”, with special guest Michael Ilseman

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Michael Ilseman, developer on the Swift team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into the String type, its implementation, and its related APIs. Topics range from the way Swift’s String API is designed, to its underlying complexities, and practical performance tips.

Apr 9
Apr 9 45: “That’s why we refactor”, with special guests Chris Eidhof and Matt Gallagher

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Chris Eidhof and Matt Gallagher join John to discuss app architecture, RxSwift and Functional Reactive Programming, and how to decide what patterns, frameworks, and concepts to adopt when architecting and building an app.

Mar 29
Mar 29 44: “Pull up the time profiler”, with special guest Janina Kutyn

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Janina Kutyn, former Apple Music developer and now an iOS developer in Amsterdam, joins John for a UI development special! Topics include various techniques for building UIs and layouts, measuring and fixing performance problems, and supporting different screen sizes and devices.

Mar 14
Mar 14 43: “The temporal axis of space-time”, with special guest Dave DeLong

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Dave DeLong, former Apple developer evangelist and now iOS architect and instructor, joins John to talk about handling dates in code, MVC & app architecture, Mac development, and to tell stories of how WWDC is put together.

Feb 26
Feb 26 42: “Pragmatic priorities”, with special guest Ted Kremenek

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Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes team at Apple, joins John to talk about Swift 5 — focusing on ABI stability and what it means for the future of the language, how the underpinnings of String have been improved in this release, how Apple is using Swift internally, and much more.

Feb 14
Feb 14 41: “The ultimate small company”, with special guest Dave Verwer

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Dave Verwer joins John to take a look behind the scenes of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, to talk about working as an indie and how to increase your chances of success as an indie creator or developer, juggling multiple projects, as well as iOS development trends.

Jan 29
Jan 29 40: “Throwing a JPEG over a wall”, with special guest Ben Sandofsky

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Ben Sandofsky, the developer behind the camera app Halide, joins John for this season 3 premiere of the show — to talk about designer/developer collaboration, what goes into building a camera app, iOS app architecture, handling dependencies, minimizing an app’s binary size, and much more.

Dec 20
Dec 20 39: "Sundell by Unwrapped", a Holiday Special with JP Simard and Jesse Squires

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JP Simard and Jesse Squires - the hosts of Swift Unwrapped - join John for this year's Holiday Special. Topics include ways that Swift has evolved during the year, what's coming up in Swift 5, maintaining open source projects, and continuing the tradition of sending wishes to Xcode Santa.

Dec 6
Dec 6 38: "Delete derived data in our sleep", with special guest Kristina Fox

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Kristina Fox, iOS and watchOS developer at Intuit, joins John to talk about Apple Watch development, building UI using storyboards vs in code, growing into a senior developer, and how to use change as a learning opportunity.

Nov 21
Nov 21 37: "The test of time", with special guest Ellen Shapiro

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Ellen Shapiro joins John to talk about all sorts of automated testing - unit tests, integration tests, UI test, you name it! The two also discuss Ellen's recent adventures into Kotlin and whether Kotlin Native could become a nice cross-platform solution for mobile apps.

Nov 8
Nov 8 36: "Promises everywhere", with special guest Max Howell

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Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and PromiseKit, joins John to talk about package manager design, asynchronous programming, interview processes, and also to tell some stories of how the Swift Package Manager was born.

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Hi, I'm John! I build apps, games & Swift developer tools. On this blog I post weekly posts about Swift development techniques, frameworks and tips & tricks. You can also find me on Twitter and GitHub.

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