Swift by Sundell

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43: “The temporal axis of space-time”, with special guest Dave DeLong Mar 14, 2019

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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.

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42: “Pragmatic priorities”, with special guest Ted Kremenek Feb 26, 2019

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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.

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41: “The ultimate small company”, with special guest Dave Verwer Feb 14, 2019

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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.

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40: “Throwing a JPEG over a wall”, with special guest Ben Sandofsky Jan 29, 2019

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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.

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39: “Sundell by Unwrapped”, a Holiday Special featuring JP Simard and Jesse Squires Dec 20, 2018

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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.

This is the last episode of season two of this show, which will be back for its third season at the end of January 2019.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! 🎉

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38: “Delete derived data in our sleep”, with special guest Kristina Fox Dec 06, 2018

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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.

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37: “The test of time”, with special guest Ellen Shapiro Nov 21, 2018

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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.

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36: “Promises everywhere”, with special guest Max Howell Nov 08, 2018

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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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35: “Onion architecture”, with special guest Rahul Malik Oct 24, 2018

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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.

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34: “Pure functions”, with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis Oct 12, 2018

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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.