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Swift by Sundell A weekly blog about Swift development

Oct 24
Oct 24 35: "Onion architecture", with special guest Rahul Malik

John Sundell

Rahul Malik of Pinterest joins John to talk about working on a large-scale iOS app, using third party build systems, client/server networking architectures and much more.

Oct 12
Oct 12 34: "Pure functions", with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis

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Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis, formerly iOS developers at Kickstarter and now hosts of Point-Free, join John to talk about functional programming in Swift, and how it can be used to build apps, websites, and even control the world.

Sep 27
Sep 27 33: "Everything is an animation", with special guest Nick Lockwood

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Nick Lockwood, Core Animation veteran and creator of tools like SwiftFormat, joins John to talk about animations, layout, building parsers & compilers in Swift, declarative UI patterns and much more.

Sep 18
Sep 18 32: "Rapid fire interviews", with special guests Alek, Vixentael, Janina & JP

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John heads to the Swift & Fika conference in Stockholm and, equipped with his portable recorder, speaks to four special guests about topics ranging from security to rendering performance to static analysis.

Aug 29
Aug 29 31: "Code signing, but for APIs", with special guest Felix Krause

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Felix Krause, creator of fastlane, joins John to talk about building developer tools, scaling open source projects, automation, code signing, how fastlane came to be, and how to take the perfect Twitter profile picture.

Aug 18
Aug 18 30: "Do you wanna be my mentee?", with special guest Sean Allen

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Sean Allen, YouTuber and host of Swift News, joins John to talk about sharing, creating content for the Swift community, mentoring and giving feedback, teaching new technologies, interviewing and much more.

Aug 3
Aug 3 29: "Flexing your learning muscle", with special guest Niels van Hoorn

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Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping, experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building your own tools and much more.

Jul 19
Jul 19 28: "Long-term code evolution", with special guest Peter Steinberger

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Peter Steinberger, creator and CEO of PSPDFKit, joins John to talk about building and maintaining a large framework project, how PSPDFKit came to be, how his team works with Radar, and all the challenges and excitement that comes with running a business based on a closed source SDK.

Jul 4
Jul 4 27: "Exponential open source effect", with special guest Ryan Nystrom

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Ryan Nystrom of Instagram joins John to talk about data-driven UI development, working on open source, how to optimize performance, becoming an engineering manager and much more.

Jun 22
Jun 22 26: "Bootstrap our way there", with special guest David Hart

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David Hart, regular contributor to the Swift Package Manager, joins John to discuss the present and future of the SwiftPM project - how to get started both using and contributing to it, and how it lets the community build tools on top of it.

Jun 7
Jun 7 25: "Segue into Marzipan", with special guest Ben Scheirman

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Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John for a special WWDC episode of the show - to talk about the cool new things that Apple announced at the conference. iOS 12's focus on performance, UIKit apps on the Mac, what's new in Xcode and Swift 4.2, and much more.

May 23
May 23 24: "The definition of debugging", with special guest Carola Nitz

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Carola Nitz joins John to talk about LLDB and debugging, her work on the open source VLC app, how she got her previous job at Apple, and much more.

May 10
May 10 23: "Epic compiler quest", with special guests Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann

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Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann - who are both regular contributors to the Swift compiler - join John to take a deep dive into the internals of Swift, its type system, the compilation process and how they used LLVM to build their own programming language.

Apr 25
Apr 25 22: "A path for learning", with special guest Meghan Kane

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Meghan Kane joins John for a special Machine Learning episode of the show - talking about how to get started with tools like CoreML and TensorFlow, what they can be used for, deciphering the terminology, how Swift might be used for ML tooling in the future, and much more!

Apr 10
Apr 10 21: "The sweeter Mac app", with special guest Benedikt Terhechte

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Benedikt Terhechte joins John to talk about Mac development, working as an indie developer, code sharing between Apple's platforms, extending the standard library, system packages, and much more.

Apr 2
Apr 2 20: "A dependency injection kind of guy", with special guest Radek Pietruszewski

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Radek Pietruszewski, software writer at Nozbe and creator of SwiftyUserDefaults, joins John to talk about developer seniority, being inspired by the React paradigm, singletons & dependency injection, micro features and much more.

Mar 19
Mar 19 19: "Proposal tour", with special guest Erica Sadun

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Erica Sadun joins John to talk about Swift Evolution and its proposal process, civility in the community, the state of Apple's developer tools, protocol extensions, Swift Foundation vs Objective-C Foundation and much more.

Mar 13
Mar 13 18: "It's like The Matrix", with special guest Tanner Nelson

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Tanner Nelson, creator of the Vapor web framework, joins John to talk about the present & future of server-side Swift, designing Vapor's API, Apple's new SwiftNIO project, marrying the concepts of Swift with the web, and much more.

Mar 2
Mar 2 17: "Squirrel Syndrome", with special guest Janie Clayton

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Janie Clayton, author of the Metal Programming Guide, joins John to talk about Metal, GPU & graphics programming, shaders, when to dive into lower levels of abstraction, and much more.

Feb 1
Feb 1 16: "Better than accessible", with special guest Sommer Panage

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Sommer Panage joins John to talk about all things accessibility, adaptive UIs, learning new APIs, UI testing, her secret (well, not so secret) life as a circus artist, and much more.

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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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