Swift by Sundell

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33: “Everything is an animation”, with special guest Nick Lockwood Sep 27, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Amazon Web Services

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32: “Rapid fire interviews”, with special guests Alek, Anastasiia, Janina & JP Sep 18, 2018

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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.

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Alek Åström, the co-organizer of the Swift & Fika conference.
Anastasiia Vixentael, security & encryption specialist.
Janina Kutyn, ex-Apple Music developer & iOS developer at Adyen.
JP Simard, creator of SwiftLint & Swift Unwrapped co-host.

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31: “Code signing, but for APIs”, with special guest Felix Krause Aug 29, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Bitrise

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30: “Do you wanna be my mentee?”, with special guest Sean Allen Aug 18, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Bitrise

This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to Bitrise - a fast, reliable and easy to use continuous integration platform for your apps & projects. Build, test and even ship your app on every single commit. Get started for free at bitrise.io/swiftbysundell.

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29: “Flexing your learning muscle”, with special guest Niels van Hoorn Aug 03, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: AppSpector

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28: “Long-term code evolution”, with special guest Peter Steinberger Jul 19, 2018

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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.

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27: “Exponential open source effect”, with special guest Ryan Nystrom Jul 04, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Bitrise

Special thanks to Bitrise for sponsoring this episode and for their continued support of this show! Bitrise offers fast, reliable and easy to use continuous integration for your iOS apps.

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26: “Bootstrap our way there”, with special guest David Hart Jun 22, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Bitrise

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25: “Segue into Marzipan”, with special guest Ben Scheirman Jun 07, 2018

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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.

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24: “The definition of debugging”, with special guest Carola Nitz May 23, 2018

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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.

Sponsor: Instabug

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The ADDC conference is giving away 3 free tickets to Swift by Sundell listeners! Share a link to your favorite episode of the show on Twitter and add the hashtag #sundelladdc to enter the competition. Winners will be picked randomly on the 1st of June.