48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest Simon Støvring

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48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest Simon Støvring

FromSwift by Sundell

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May 21, 2019

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Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to
discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity,
frameworks, and what it would take to bring automation on Apple’s platforms
to the next level.

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May 21, 2019

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

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14: "Holiday Special", with special guests Tobias Due Munk, Nataliya Patsovska & Patrick Balestra: Tobias Due Munk, creator of Slør, Nataliya Patsovska from iZettle and Patrick Balestra, co-organizer of the Swift Alps & AppBuilders conferences, join John on this special holiday episode of the show! by Swift by Sundell
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13: "My DNA is on GitHub", with special guest Orta Therox: Orta Therox from Artsy joins John to talk about building developer tools, working on and maintaining open source projects, React Native, balancing coding time with personal time and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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2: “It’s a lot like cleaning your house”, with special guest Roy Marmelstein: Roy Marmelstein from Spotify joins John to answer questions about getting started with open source, expressive code, working in a large development team, using RxSwift at scale and more. by Swift by Sundell
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4: "Fake Canadian", with special guest Ash Furrow: Ash Furrow from Artsy joins John to answer questions about being inspired by other languages, asynchronous programming, doing test driven development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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5: “Escape into the open source world”, with special guest Louis D'hauwe: Louis D'hauwe joins John to answer questions about architecture, UI design, compilers, creating a programming language and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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1: "Hello world": The first episode of the show! John gives an introduction and answers the first questions. by Swift by Sundell
36 min listen
24: "The definition of debugging", with special guest Carola Nitz: 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. by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen
9: "The answer is YES", with special guest Paul Hudson: Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift joins John to talk about learning & teaching Swift, Storyboards vs XIBs vs code, game development, Swift on the server and much more. by Swift by Sundell
46 min listen
6: "Somewhere between the view and the model", with special guest Agnes Vasarhelyi: Agnes Vasarhelyi of Topology Eyewear joins John to talk about moving to San Francisco, AR, architecture, getting started with iOS development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
16: "Better than accessible", with special guest Sommer Panage: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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15: “My interpretation of functional programming”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof, founder of objc.io and co-host of Swift Talk, joins John to talk about app architecture, functional programming, the "rockstar developer culture", picking database solutions and much more! by Swift by Sundell
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7: "Spelunking the firmware", with special guest Gui Rambo: Gui Rambo joins John to talk about reverse engineering, finding product details in leaked Apple firmware & SDKs, getting started with Mac development & open source, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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8: "Time traveling is always cool", with special guests Marin Todorov & Florent Pillet: Marin Todorov and Florent Pillet, two of the four authors of Ray Wenderlich's RxSwift book, join John to talk about Rx, reactive programming, debugging, learning new technologies and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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10: “Boy, I have a lot of thoughts on this”, with special guest Soroush Khanlou: Soroush Khanlou joins John to talk about blogging, MVVM and other iOS architecture patterns, unit testing, new features in iOS 11 & Xcode 9 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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37: "The test of time", with special guest Ellen Shapiro: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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20: "A dependency injection kind of guy", with special guest Radek Pietruszewski: 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. by Swift by Sundell
56 min listen
30: "Do you wanna be my mentee?", with special guest Sean Allen: 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. by Swift by Sundell
71 min listen
17: "Squirrel Syndrome", with special guest Janie Clayton: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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21: "The sweeter Mac app", with special guest Benedikt Terhechte: 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. by Swift by Sundell
59 min listen
12: "A pretty good job for a view controller", with special guest Matthias Tretter: Matthias Tretter of MindNode joins John to talk about Auto Layout, working on the iPad, refactoring Massive View Controllers, dealing with old code and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
11: "Don't use this for evil", with special guest Mike Ash: Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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35: "Onion architecture", with special guest Rahul Malik: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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18: "It's like The Matrix", with special guest Tanner Nelson: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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23: "Epic compiler quest", with special guests Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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22: "A path for learning", with special guest Meghan Kane: 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! by Swift by Sundell
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39: "Sundell by Unwrapped", a Holiday Special with JP Simard and Jesse Squires: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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32: "Rapid fire interviews", with special guests Alek, Vixentael, Janina & JP: John heads to the Swift & Fika conference in Stockholm and, equipped with his portable recorder, speaks to four special guests about a wide range of topics. by Swift by Sundell
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29: "Flexing your learning muscle", with special guest Niels van Hoorn: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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19: "Proposal tour", with special guest Erica Sadun: 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. by Swift by Sundell
54 min listen

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48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest Simon Støvring

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