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

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

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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.

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Sep 27, 2018

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In-depth conversations about Swift and software development in general, hosted by John 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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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
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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
49 min listen
28: "Long-term code evolution", with special guest Peter Steinberger: 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. by Swift by 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
54 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
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
50 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
61: “End-to-end Swift”, with special guest Tim Condon: Tim Condon, server-side Swift developer, writer and conference organizer, joins John to talk about all things networking. From organizing and abstracting networking code on the client-side, to using Swift on the server, and how to combine the two in order to write Swift end-to-end. by Swift by Sundell
72 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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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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38: "Delete derived data in our sleep", with special guest Kristina Fox: 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. by Swift by Sundell
71 min listen
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
49 min listen
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
48 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
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
60 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
48 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
34: "Pure functions", with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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36: "Promises everywhere", with special guest Max Howell: 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. by Swift by Sundell
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3: "Talking with the server it's supposed to", with special guests Anastasiia Voitova & Marcin Krzyzanowski: Anastasiia Voitova & Marcin Krzyzanowski join John to answer questions about security & encryption in Swift. 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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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
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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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42: “Pragmatic priorities”, with special guest Ted Kremenek: 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. 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
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26: "Bootstrap our way there", with special guest David Hart: 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. by Swift by Sundell
60 min listen

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116: “The evolution of SwiftUI”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from using it over the past few years, and to discuss concepts like app architecture and state management. by Swift by Sundell
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114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage: Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like being an engineering manager at Apple. by Swift by Sundell
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113: “Where is Swift headed in 2022?”, with special guest JP Simard: On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new features that might be coming to the language during the year. by Swift by Sundell
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112: “The 2021 Season Finale”: To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and within the Swift community in general, throughout the year. by Swift by Sundell
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110: “Concurrency beyond app development”, with special guest Tim Condon: Tim Condon joins John to discuss how both client and server-side Swift developers could utilize the new built-in concurrency system, as well as how distributed actors and other upcoming language features might continue to make Swift even more capable on the server. by Swift by Sundell
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109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood: Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of various sizes. Also, the design of ShapeScript, using async/await within unit tests, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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106: “Opportunities for optimization”, with special guest Christian Selig: Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros and cons of open source, and how developers can utilize other iOS 15 and iPhone hardware features. by Swift by Sundell
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103: “What’s new in Swift 5.5”, with special guest Antoine van der Lee: Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — from the brand new concurrency system, to convenience features and various improvements. by Swift by Sundell
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102: “WWDC21, two months later”, with special guest Jordan Morgan: Jordan Morgan returns to the show to discuss some of the key new APIs and frameworks that were announced at WWDC21, and how they can be integrated into the apps that we build, now that about two months have passed since the conference took place. by Swift by Sundell
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33: “Everything is an animation”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

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