Swift by Sundell

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93: “Combine and Core Data”, with special guest Donny Wals Mar 14, 2021

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Donny Wals, book author and iOS developer at Disney Streaming Services, joins John to give practical tips on Combine and Core Data. How to manage and test increasingly complex Combine pipelines, and how come the opinions on Core Data are so divisive? Also, working on internal SDKs and frameworks, and taking a pragmatic approach to unit testing.

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92: “All of our wildest Swift dreams”, with special guest Kaitlin Mahar Feb 27, 2021

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Kaitlin Mahar, lead engineer at MongoDB and member of the Swift Server Work Group, joins John to discuss the current state of server-side Swift, designing APIs for server-side libraries, and Swift’s upcoming suite of structured concurrency features.

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91: “Is SwiftUI ready for production?”, with special guest David Smith Feb 15, 2021

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David Smith, creator of apps like Widgetsmith, returns to the show to discuss whether SwiftUI is currently capable and stable enough to build production-level apps, and what sort of things that can be good to keep in mind when starting to deploy SwiftUI in production.

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90: “The essence of app architecture”, with special guest Matt Gallagher Jan 28, 2021

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Matt Gallagher, creator of Cocoa with Love, returns to the show to discuss how the introduction of SwiftUI and Combine has impacted how apps are architected on Apple’s platforms, and what sort of principles that are good to keep in mind when designing a solid app architecture.

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89: “Framework and SDK development”, with special guest Ellen Shapiro Jan 18, 2021

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Ellen Shapiro returns to the show to discuss framework and SDK development, and how that often requires a somewhat different process from app development. Also, API design, GraphQL, using the standard library’s protocol-oriented design, and more.

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88: “The 2020 Holiday Special” Dec 21, 2020

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On this special episode of the show, John wraps up the 2020 season by revisiting some of the key themes and topics that were discussed on the show during the year.

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87: “The SwiftUI layout system”, with special guest Chris Eidhof Dec 03, 2020

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Chris Eidhof returns to the show to go on a deep dive into the SwiftUI layout system. What are the different phases involved in determining a given view’s layout, how do concepts like layout priorities and flexibility work, and what makes SwiftUI different from UIKit and AppKit in terms of layout?

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86: “Map is a design pattern”, with special guest Daniel Steinberg Nov 19, 2020

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Daniel Steinberg joins John to discuss how various functional programming patterns can be adopted in Swift, and how many of those patterns can be found in both the standard library and in frameworks like Combine and SwiftUI.

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85: “Cross-Apple platform development”, with special guest James Thomson Nov 05, 2020

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James Thomson, creator of PCalc, returns to the show to discuss how developers can bring their apps to multiple Apple platforms using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI, and how and when it can be a good idea to share code across platforms.

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84: “Key paths, functions and closures”, with special guest Vincent Pradeilles Oct 22, 2020

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Vincent Pradeilles joins John to discuss various ways to use Swift language features like key paths and closures, how they relate to patterns typically used within functional programming, and when and how to adopt such patterns.

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