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Swift by Sundell

John Sundell

In-depth conversations about Swift and software development in general, hosted by John Sundell.

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83: “Adventure into widgets”, with Scriptable...

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2020/10/08

Simon Støvring, the developer behind several powerful iOS productivity apps, including Scriptable, joins John on an episode all about the new home screen widgets introduced in iOS 14. Topics include how to create and update dynamic widgets, managing and sharing data between an app and its widgets, and much more.

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00:52:00

82: “Translating designs into code”, with special...

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2020/09/24

Jordan Singer joins John to discuss various approaches of turning designs into fully implemented UIs, how to manage things like mock data during the development process, and when to turn a given view into a reusable component. Also, the story behind the Airport app and Jordan’s recent SwiftUI experiments.

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00:51:11

81: “How big iOS teams typically operate”, with...

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2020/09/10

Carola Nitz, iOS developer at Netflix, joins John to discuss how larger iOS development teams typically operate, and how smaller teams can prepare their code bases for future growth. Also, organizing remote conferences, balancing feature development with bug fixing, and much more.

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01:03:11

80: “Lists and loops”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

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2020/08/28

Nick Lockwood returns to the show to go on a deep dive into data structures and algorithms, what some of the pros and cons of writing high-performance code in Swift are, and how all of that relates to parallelization and performance.

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00:59:36

79: “All about UICollectionView”, with special guest...

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2020/08/13

Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved over time, and how are modern APIs like compositional layouts and diffable data sources changing the way collection views are built and used?

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00:48:07

78: “What’s new in Swift 5.3”, with special guest JP...

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2020/07/28

JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the current state of Swift and its evolution process.

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00:54:42

77: “Adopting new system features”, with special...

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2020/07/16

Jordan Morgan joins John to discuss various strategies for adopting new system features and APIs, how to keep up with the rapid changes to iOS, macOS and Apple’s other platforms, and how to allocate time between different projects.

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01:14:35

76: “A huge year for SwiftUI”, a WWDC20 special with...

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2020/06/30

Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting and improving SwiftUI, and much more.

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01:07:33

75: “The Swift package ecosystem”, with special...

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2020/06/19

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management, composing libraries, deploying server-side Swift in production, and much more.

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00:58:29

74: “Let’s build a camera app”, a conversation with...

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2020/06/04

On this special episode, John is joined by the entire team behind the award-winning apps Halide and Spectre, Apple’s 2019 App of the Year. Ben, Sebastiaan and Rebecca share their stories of how these apps came to life, how they’re working together between design and development, and how technologies like Computational Photography and Augmented Reality are influencing their work.

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01:07:50

73: “Truly a general-purpose language”, with special...

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2020/05/19

Kyle Lee, also known as Kilo Loco, joins John to go behind the scenes of Publish — the static site generator used to build Swift by Sundell. Also, how to make a code base accessible to new team members, learning from open source, getting started with Swift-based web development, and much more.

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01:03:01

72: “Many layers of SwiftUI”, with special guest...

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2020/05/07

Tobias Due Munk joins John to talk about using SwiftUI to build prototypes, how third party developers can extend SwiftUI’s built-in APIs in various ways, and to discuss the challenges of writing highly dynamic systems in Swift.

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01:09:16

71: “Polymorphic interfaces”, with special guest Dave...

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2020/04/23

Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on value types and protocols, and how it’s been influenced by other languages.

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01:06:29

70: “Risks and rewards”, with special guest Christian...

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2020/04/09

Christian Selig, creator of the Apollo Reddit app, joins John to talk about building apps against third party APIs, and what sort of criteria an app needs to meet to be considered a “good platform citizen”. Also, REST vs GraphQL, architecting API clients, and more.

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01:03:22

69: “Swift Playgrounds”, with special guests Holly...

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2020/03/24

Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in education and as a language for beginners.

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01:01:25

68: “MVPs and prototypes”, with special guest Leah...

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2020/03/12

Leah Culver, co-founder and CTO of the Breaker podcast app, joins John to talk about her journey from iOS developer to startup founder, building MVPs and prototypes, iterating on and maintaining a code base, and growing a development team. Lots of tips and learnings about everything from app architecture to hiring.

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01:17:25

67: “Building for open source”, with special guests...

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2020/02/25

Ryan Nystrom returns to the show accompanied by designer Brian Lovin, to go behind the scenes of the new GitHub mobile app which the two have been building. Also, creating a design system, building custom controls, and more discussions on how developers and designers can work better together.

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01:04:01

66: “Bridging the gap”, with special guest Meng To

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2020/02/13

Meng To, founder of Design+Code, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI from a design perspective, and to talk about how developers and designers can build scalable and flexible UIs using it. Also, structuring view code and components, the power of modifiers, and how SwiftUI compares to other UI tools and platforms.

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01:15:57

65: “Tools are just apps”, with special guest Gui Rambo

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2020/01/30

On this special Stacktrace cross-over episode of the show, Gui Rambo joins John to talk about building custom developer tools, how open Apple’s tooling really is, writing “Swifty” code versus shipping great user experiences, and much more.

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01:18:36

64: “Earning the deeper look”, with special guest...

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2020/01/15

Sean Allen joins John to kick off the fourth season of the show, by talking about interview processes, goal setting, prioritizing projects, and what we might expect from Swift and Apple’s developer tools in 2020.

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