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(00:00) - Overview of Cultured Code and Things App
(02:19) - Migrating to Server-Side Swift
(09:07) - Technical Challenges and Solutions
(27:56) - Background Workers and Swift
(32:11) - Swift 6 Adoption
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SwiftUI Fundamentals with Natalia Panferova

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:07:34 -0400

Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals.

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Nil Coalescing

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(00:00) - Natalia's Background and SwiftUI Book
(04:48) - SwiftUI "Pet Peeves"
(13:57) - Natalia's Journey
(15:34) - SwiftUI and macOS

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Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:49:31 -0500

Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM.

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Marc Prud'hommeaux (@marcprux@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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(00:00) - Origins of Skip.Tools
(07:59) - Technical Deep Dive: Swift to Kotlin
(27:31) - Swift on Android Working Group
(31:37) - Transpiled vs. Natively Compiled Swift
(42:32) - Skip Showcase and Practical Applications
(51:33) - What is FOSDEM?

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Moving Forward 2025

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:15:00 -0500

What a wild ride 2024 was - from big life changes to surprising shifts in Apple development, I'm sharing the story of what went down this year. After navigating job hunts, tech trends, and some unexpected wins (and losses), I've got some insights about where we're headed in 2025, plus some exciting opportunities for you Swift folks!

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(00:00) - Introduction
(01:07) - Job Market
(04:13) - Apple Stuff
(08:51) - Analytics Review
(11:10) - Future Plans

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Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑

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Matt Massicotte - @mattiem@mastodon.social

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(00:00) - Concurrency in Swift 6: Challenges and Adoption
(16:47) - Swift 6.1
(25:47) - Understanding Sendable Types
(36:31) - Future of Swift and Xcode Enhancements

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Practical Year - Part 2 with Donny Wals

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI.

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Donny Wals

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(00:00) - SwiftUI
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(08:22) - AI
(14:26) - Job Market

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Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:15:13 -0500

Donny comes on yet again to give his thoughts on 2024 - Swift Data, Swift Testing and Swift Macros while we mourn the death of Combine.

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Donny Wals

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(00:00) - Bushel 2.0
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(14:37) - Swift Concurrency
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Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Sébastien Stormacq joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Swift - what does "Serverless" mean, how deployment works, and how to get started.

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(00:00) - Understanding AWS Lambda and Serverless Computin
(12:07) - Getting Started with AWS Lambda in Swift
(21:17) - Understanding AWS Security and Authorization
(27:36) - Developing and Deploying Swift on AWS Lambda
(32:42) - Testing and Integration with AWS Services

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Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more.

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(00:00) - Nathan's Work and Contribution
(05:14) - Deep Dive into Swift CLI Tools
(19:09) - Understanding Copy-on-Write in Swift
(23:42) - Practical Applications and Performance Considerations
(26:30) - Swift Package Manager and Development Tools

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Full Stack Lyriq with Adegboyega Olusunmade

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Adegboyega Olusunmade joins to talk about building his Full Stack Swift app Lyriq and what did he learn along the way: the differences between building an iOS app and a server app to deploying a server application.

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Adegboyega Olusunmade (@AdeOlusunmade) / X

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(00:00) - Building Lyriq: Challenges and Decisions
(16:55) - Exploring Swift and Database Management
(22:24) - Transitioning from iOS to Server-Side Swift

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Ludicrous Types with Nick Lockwood

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Nick Lockwood of SwiftFormat (not dash) joins the show to talk about the server side Swift conference, quirks of Swift you didn't know about, language design, and the future of Swift.

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Nick Lockwood

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(00:00) - Server-Side Swift Conference
(02:55) - So You Think You Know Swift?
(07:51) - Maintaining and Evolving Swift Format
(30:49) - Challenges with Swift Language Design
(46:02) - Future of Swift

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Debugging Your Job Search with Jaim Zuber

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:59:52 -0400

Jaim Zuber returns after over 5 years to give us an overview of looking for a job in iOS development in 2024, how has it changed, what are some things you can do now, and when becoming a manager is the right call.

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Jaim Zuber

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(00:00) - Welcome and Announcements
(02:18) - Navigating the Job Market
(20:51) - Transitioning from Engineering to Management
(24:09) - Challenges and Strategies in Management
(29:50) - Swift Concurrency and Career Reflections

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The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 2 with Ben Scheirman

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:57:33 -0400

Ben Scheirman is back for part 2 of our interview on SwiftUI Migration. In this episode we focus on navigation, data handling and Swift packages.

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(00:00) - Discussing Data Handling in Swift UI
(01:22) - Observable Objects and View Models
(04:20) - The Power of Previews in Swift UI
(06:36) - Combining Combine and Async/Await
(10:29) - Interfacing Between UIKit and Swift UI
(17:12) - Challenges with Swift Package Manager

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The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 1 with Ben Scheirman

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:10:00 -0400

Ben Scheirman of NSScreenCast comes on to talk about migrating apps such as a Nike's Sneakers app from UIKit to SwiftUI and all the little things you don't think about. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview.

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(00:00) - Who is Ben Scherman
(02:38) - Migrating Apps to Swift UI
(07:03) - Challenges with Swift UI and iOS Versions
(10:24) - Using Introspect for Swift UI
(16:44) - Implementing Collection View in Swift UI
(25:05) - Exploring iOS 18 Scroll View API
(25:30) - SwiftUI vs UIKit: Productivity and Constraints
(26:38) - Design and Engineering Collaboration
(29:43) - Stages of Migrating to SwiftUI
(34:14) - SwiftUI Navigation and Environment Bindings
(39:44) - Retain Cycles and Memory Management

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The Case of the Crimson Test Suite with Daniel Steinberg

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Daniel Steinberg comes in the podcast to talk about his latest book on Swift Testing as well as the state of Swift development in 2024.

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(00:00) - What is Swift Testing
(10:04) - Benefits of Swift Testing
(17:22) - Parameterized Tests
(20:30) - Swift 6
(24:47) - WWDC 2024
(31:20) - Swift Data
(35:10) - Swift Data 🙃 Sendable
(37:02) - Swift Macros
(41:44) - Books and Conferences

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Voice in a Can with Damian Mehers

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Damian Mehers shares the story of his app Voice in a Can from inception to shutdown. We talk customer stories and the future of voice assistants.

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(00:00) - What is Voice in a Can?
(11:46) - Working with the Alexa Voice Service
(16:25) - Customer Stories and Shutting Down
(21:21) - Future of Voice Assistants

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SwiftUI Field Guide with Chris Eidhof

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:45:09 -0400

I had a great time chatting with Chris Eidhof about his work with objc.io and his latest project, the SwiftUI Field Guide. We discussed SwiftUI's layout system and the exciting new features from WWDC 2024.

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(00:00) - Chris's Journey in iOS Development
(03:39) - SwiftUI Field Guide
(24:11) - WWDC 2024
(36:14) - Is SwiftUI Production Ready?

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Can you Vision Pro in Objective-C with Danielle Lewis

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400

I had great time chatting with Danielle Lewis about her experience becoming a Swift developer, learning to develop for the Vision Pro, and getting the Magical world of Objective-C.

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(00:00) - Getting into visionOS Development
(07:09) - WWDC, visionOS, and LLMs
(15:44) - Getting into Objective-C
(24:42) - Building in Public

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Swift Student Challenge with Dezmond Blair

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:19:29 -0400

I'm excited to have on the show Michigan's own Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winner Dezmond Blair on to talk about everything from his learning and mentoring experience at the Apple Developer Academy to his experience at WWDC 2024.

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(00:00) - Who is Dezmond Blair?
(03:06) - Apple Developer Academy
(09:29) - Coding Mentor
(14:41) - Swift Student Challenge
(26:19) - Call for Students

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WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 07:59:43 -0400

Cihat Gündüz comes on to talk about how his WWDC 2024 wish list went, Multilingual Apps, and more.

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(00:00) - WWDC In Person Thoughts
(06:13) - Cihat's Wish List Evaluation
(21:16) - WWDC Notes
(27:17) - Swift 6 Migration
(31:58) - Multilingual Apps and TranslateKit

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SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 02:23:11 -0400

Peter comes on and we use our Apple Intelligence to speak about the greatness of the WWDC 2024 Platforms State of the Union.

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Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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(00:00) - Privacy and User Control in AI
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(14:35) - Apple Intelligence
(21:57) - Swift Turns 10
(25:15) - Expanding Swift's Reach: Linux and Windows Support
(29:18) - Advancements in Swift 6: Typed Throws and Non-Copyable Structs
(35:41) - Enhancing Code Safety with Data Race Detection
(37:15) - Apple's Use of Swift Internally and the Impact on SwiftUI
(40:17) - Satisfaction with the Announcements and Anticipation for the Future

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Plinky with Joe Fabisevich

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:30:17 -0400

Joe Fabisevich is back on the show to talk about his new app Plinky from developing and designing as well as advice on 💍 choosing your next spouse for better marketing advice. 💒📈

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(00:00) - What is Plinky?
(05:33) - Designing and Developing Plinky
(16:32) - Marry a Product Marketer
(22:47) - WWDC 2024 and AI
(26:25) - Future Plans

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Hacking with Ignite with Paul Hudson

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:15:00 -0400

After a major pandemic and 3 iOS releases later, Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift comes on to talk about his new open-source project Ignite. Ignite is a static site builder for Swift developers, offering an expressive, powerful API to build beautiful websites that work great on all devices. We chat about his use Result Builders, the future of Macros, and what it takes to get started on your own open-source project or website.

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(00:00) - What is Inferno
(14:33) - Building a Website
(22:13) - Lessons Learned
(30:06) - Macros
(37:11) - WWDC 2024

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SwiftUI Tips and Tricks with Craig Clayton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Craig Clayton from the DesignToSwiftUI Youtube channel comes on to talk about his favorite tips as as designer when it comes to SwiftUI as well as previews his upcoming talk on testing at Deep Dish Swift.

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(00:00) - Designing with SwiftUI
(11:16) - SwiftUI Tips
(18:53) - What's Countdown to Binge?
(25:31) - Concurrency, SwiftData, and Storyboards?
(35:05) - Shapes and Fonts in SwiftUI
(39:37) - Deep Slice of Design and Testing
(42:45) - Vision Pro Stuff

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Triple Glazed Apple Development with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:16:58 -0500

Malin and Kai from Triple Glazed Studios join us for a discussion on building their indie app Orbit and Mercury from prototype to feature enhancement and working in the Apple ecosystem.

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(30:46) - Paywalls
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What's Next with Adam Rush

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:56:06 -0500

Adam Rush from SwiftLeeds comes on the show to prognosticate and dream with me the possibilities of WWDC 2024 and how advancements in AI as well as the new Vision Pro will affect this year's developer conference.

Guest

Adam Rush (@Adam9Rush) / X

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(00:00) - What is Swift Leeds
(07:30) - WWDC 2024 and AI
(30:00) - Future of UIKit

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Apple's App Vision with Kyle Lee

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:59:58 -0500

Kyle Lee (Kilo Loco) comes on to talk about the EU changes to the App Store, the future of Apps and Apple, and what it means for the Vision Pro.

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Kilo Loco

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(00:00) - EU App Store Changes
(24:06) - Apple Vision Pro

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ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Indie Developer, Kris Slazinski comes on to talk about App Store localization, UX, and his favorite intern/mentor - ChatGPT.

Guest

Kris Slazinski

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(00:00) - Announcements
(02:01) - (App Store) Localization
(19:21) - ChatGPTovsky
(33:50) - UX vs UI

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PixelBlitz in Public with Martin Lasek

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:18:29 -0500

Martin Lasek comes on to talk about what's it's like building in public WishKit and his multiplayer game PixelBlitz and when feature creep can ruin an MVP.

Guest

Martin Lasek

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(00:00) - New Years Announcements
(04:00) - What does building in public mean?
(15:55) - What is PixelBlitz
(30:28) - What's an MVP

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The Bushel Holiday Special

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:59:00 -0500

Join us by the virtual fireplace this Christmas Eve for 'The Bushel Holiday Special' podcast episode! Unwrap the enchanting tale of Bushel's journey, filled with the warmth of festive storytelling and the magic of app development. Gather 'round for a holiday story like no other! 🎄🎁

Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15!
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Credits

(00:00) - Seed of an Idea
(09:12) - Building the Crust
(22:11) - Design, Architecture, and Automation
(35:09) - Making Cider from Apples

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We Have All The Heroes with Stefano Mondino

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:18:03 -0500

Stefano Mondino from Synesthesia comes on to talk doing not product work at Synesthesia as opposed to building a product and working with multiple projects across various teams. We also talk about his favorite dev tools including his own tool Murray.

Guest

Stefano Mondino

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Credits

(00:00) - "Agency Work"
(12:37) - Going Cross-Platform 😱
(16:23) - Dev Tools
(26:33) - Murray
(35:14) - Swift Heroes
(40:13) - Supporting Older OSes

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Calm Intentions with Alaina Kafkes

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 10:30:44 -0500

Alaina Kafkes from Calm joins us to talk about implementing App Intents and what she learning about her experience. Also special announcement regarding a certain app I've been working on.

Guest

Alaina Kafkes (@alainakafkes) / X
- Alaina Kafkes | LinkedIn

Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15!

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Calm's App Intents integration: how (and how not to) work with new Apple developer technologies — Calm Blog

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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(00:00) - Pre-Order Bushel
(01:03) - Intro and Public Speaking
(02:45) - What are App Intents?
(06:47) - Why App Intents
(11:16) - Coding Challenges
(17:21) - Components of App Intents
(21:24) - Multiplatform and Last Thoughts

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Empowering Accessibility with Via Fairchild

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Via Fairchild comes on the show to talk about accessibility, UI Kit, Swift UI and how it all brings your app to a wider more diverse audience.

Guest

Via Fairchild

Announcing a Brand New Patreon Page!

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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(00:00) - Special Announcement
(01:23) - Why Accessibility
(05:27) - What APIs to Use
(14:22) - Making Accessibility a Priority
(18:24) - Diversity and Accessibility

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Learning Judo with Sean Rucker

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:18:32 -0400

Sean Rucker from Judo comes on to talk about their product and what they learned in the process of building Judo in dealing with SwiftUI.

Guest

Sean Rucker

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Credits

(00:00) - What is Judo
(02:13) - Designer/Developer Handoff Problem
(04:46) - SwiftUI and Design
(11:45) - SwiftUI vs Web Design
(21:08) - Judo SDK

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The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Casey Liss comes on to talk about his new app Callsheet, working with Movie and TV APIs, old TV hardware companies, and enjoying App Review on the beach.

Guest

Casey Liss

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Credits

(00:00) - What is Callsheet
(05:52) - Secrets of Success
(10:17) - Delightful App
(14:42) - Design and API Challenges
(35:30) - StoreKit
(41:16) - AppReview Fun!
(51:00) - Favorite Features
(58:09) - Future Plans
(01:03:00) - Privacy and the Apple TV
(01:09:29) - C#
(01:16:55) - When are you going to change the theme song?

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Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Pol Piella Abadia comes on to talk about what's new in Xcode 15 as well as the landscape of CI tools out there. We aslo geek out about SwiftUI on the terminal and how Pol has helped production of the show.

Guest

Pol Piella Abadia (blog)

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Credits

(00:00) - What's new in CI?
(14:55) - Xcode 15
(19:44) - Macros
(23:05) - SwiftData
(29:32) - Swift Packages and CI
(31:03) - Accessibility Audits
(33:25) - QReate
(40:38) - Now Playing (the app)
(44:39) - SwiftUI in the Terminal

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Building a Video SDK with Marc Schwieterman

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Marc Schwieterman from daily.co joins us to talk about the in and outs of building a video SDK and what capabilities are for iOS.

Guest

Marc Schwieterman marcschwieterman.com

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Credits

(00:00) - What is Daily
(03:16) - Building an iOS SDK for Video
(16:19) - Swift UI
(28:12) - WWDC 2023
(33:06) - AV Foundation and Networking
(41:18) - Future Plans and AI

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Action Button for Ring Tones with Evan Stone

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

It's September Time! You know what that means. Evan Stone joins us to talk about the different ways we can spend money as well as his adventures at Apple's Vision Pro Labs.

Guest

Evan K Stone @evankstone@iosdev.space
- iOS Dev Break
- Interactive Logic

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Credits

(00:00) - Overall Impressions
(02:41) - Apple Watch
(07:59) - Inspirational Video Ideas for Apple
(13:07) - Octavia Spencer Rocks
(16:07) - iPhone 15
(35:23) - Swift Remote Studio
(39:41) - Evan went to a Vision Pro Lab

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Revisiting Third-Party APIs with Christian Selig

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:17:51 -0400

A lot has changed since the last time Christian Selig was on the show. We talk Apollo post-morten, Third-Party APIs and of course Pixel Pals!

Guest

Christian Selig (website)

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Credits

(00:00) - Origin Story
(05:07) - What Happened
(17:03) - Apollo Post-Mortem
(19:41) - Third-Party APIs Revisited
(23:40) - ChatGPT
(27:24) - On Yearly Subscriptions
(31:16) - Lost Features of Apollo
(34:08) - Pixel Pals and SwiftUI

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It Depends with Brandon Williams

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Brandon Williams from Point-Free comes on to talk about what dependencies are and managing then whether in testing or dealing with scaling.

Guest

Brandon Williams @mbrandonw

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Credits

(00:00) - EmpowerApps.Show
(00:03) - What's a dependency
(03:28) - Testing and Dependencies
(07:45) - Mocking Dependencies
(12:16) - Testing VS Persistance
(15:31) - Testing and the Community
(18:34) - Simulator and Dependencies
(21:18) - Testing Spectrum
(23:00) - Safety and Ergonomics
(33:11) - WWDC 2023

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Edge of Concurrency with Matt Massicotte

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Matt Massicotte from Chime talks about the challenges he faced migrating the Async/Await and some misconceptions folks might have with asynchronous programming.

Guest

Matt Massicotte - @mattiem@mastodon.social
- Chime

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Credits

(00:00) - What's (Not) New with ExtensionKit
(03:06) - Migrating to Async/Await
(10:59) - Dealing with Older APIs
(12:46) - On Swift 6
(18:59) - Locks and Semaphore
(24:48) - Swift Proposals
(27:31) - WWDC 2023

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Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Joannis Orlandos comes on to talk about the exciting work being done by the Swift Server Workground such as the new HTTP Types, Open API Kit, and Distributed Actors as well as the effects Macros will have on server-side development.

Guest

Joannis Orlandos

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We talked about

(00:00) - Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos
(00:04) - Origin Stories
(06:39) - What is the Swift Server Workgroup
(10:18) - HTTP Types
(12:59) - WebAssembly
(15:54) - Swift Language Features
(22:36) - Authentication
(27:11) - OpenAPIKit
(33:06) - Macros
(37:24) - What's next for the SSWG

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Now You Know What I'm Doing This Summer

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:48:43 -0400

In this episode, Leo goes over what he's working on this Summer of WWDC 2023 such as deep diving into watchOS 10 for Heartwitch, migrating from Combine to Observation in Bushel, and really taking advantage of a microapps architecture.

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What are the benefits of microapps?
Heartwitch
Bushel
Virtualization Changes
How to run older versions of Xcode
SwiftyPlace (Karin Prater)
Address for Stickers - 5859 W Saginaw #182 Lansing MI 48917

We talked about

(00:00) - WWDC 2023 Stuff
(03:02) - Playing around with watchOS 10
(06:54) - Bushel and WWDC 2023
(08:32) - Swift Observation
(09:56) - Macros Macrons Macaroons Macros
(13:39) - Microapps and Bushel
(15:50) - Final Thoughts

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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macOS Indie Deep Cuts with Aaron Vegh

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:29:25 -0400

Aaron Vegh, indie macOS developer comes on to talk about building Quantum Author, a long-form writing app. We talk about how he decides what UI SDK to use, how to make money, and what the Vision Pro means for AppKit and the iPad.

Guest

Aaron Vegh

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Related Links

Quantum Author

We talked about

(00:00) - Why Mac?
(05:27) - Where to Start?
(10:26) - On Vision OS
(13:40) - On the iPad
(24:47) - The "other" stuff
(30:34) - Making Money
(34:44) - What is Quantum Author?

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Supercharged with Pedro Piñera

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:58:30 -0400

Pedro Piñera of Tuist comes on to talk about his work on Tuist, thoughts on Mergable Libraries, Server-Side Swift, SwiftData, and the future of Tuist Cloud.

Guest

Pedro Piñera

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We talked about

(00:00) - What is Tuist
(05:25) - What are Mergable Libraries
(09:48) - Modularity and SPM
(18:16) - Future of Tuist

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Arm Sling for Apple Watch Developers with Hidde van der Ploeg

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Hidde van der Ploeg comes on to talk about all the big updates coming to watchOS 10 such as new UIs, better developer experience, and more.

Guest

Hidde van der Ploeg - @hiddevdploeg
- Mastodon - @hidde@mastodon.design

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We talked about

(00:00) - Apple Watch Blues
(02:51) - Everything is Different
(12:25) - Hidde's Favorite Talks from WWDC 2023
(16:36) - SwiftUI Animations
(27:08) - visionOS
(32:58) - Watch App Store

Social Media

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GitHub - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Spatial Experiences of the Wild with Adrian Eves

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Adrian Eves tells us about what it was like meeting folks at WWDC and what it was like watching some his work and his colleagues' work come to fruition.

Guest

Adrian Eves - @swifteves
- Mastodon - @swifteves@mastodon.social
- LinkedIn

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We talked about

(00:00) - Tears of the Layoffs
(03:48) - Spatial Experiences of the Wild
(28:23) - Partnership of Unity
(30:31) - Macros of the Swift

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:48:39 -0400

Peter comes on for our annual discussion of the WWDC 2023 Platforms State of the Union including Macs, Macros, Swift Data, watchOS, and the other thing 🥽.

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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We talked about

(00:00) - Mac Hardware
(01:46) - Swift Macros
(06:48) - SwiftUI (4.0)
(14:54) - iOS 17
(16:53) - Swift Data
(23:47) - Camera Stuff
(28:38) - Xcode 15
(35:02) - watchOS 10
(44:28) - Vision Pro

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
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GitHub - @leogdion
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Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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My Taylor Deep Dish Swift Heroes World Tour

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:24:24 -0400

For the 150th episode, Leo talks about his travels to Deep Dish Swift and Swift Heroes, his experience speaking at Swift Heroes, his thoughts on 32 talks, and what concerns he heard from other developers overall and concerning WWDC 2023.

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We talked about

(00:00) - My Travels
(03:55) - My Talk
(09:05) - 32 Talks
(33:53) - WWDC and Other Thoughts

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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How to WWDC with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:00:00 -0400

Peter comes on to discuss how to prepare for WWDC, what to really do that week, and what to focus on during the summer.

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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We talked about

(00:00) - Pace Yourself
(10:29) - Installing Betas
(19:11) - Headset Apps
(22:22) - Remote vs Live WWDC

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Pizza, Playpen, and Fastlane Funding with Josh Holtz

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Josh Holtz comes on to talk about a certain conference in a few weeks, the future of Fastlane, building kids apps with guided access and learning the other mobile programming language.

Guest

Josh Holtz (website)
- Twitter @joshdholtz
- Mastodon @joshdholtz@mastodon.social

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We talked about

(00:00) - Fastlane
(11:40) - Playpen
(25:53) - Dish Dish Swift
(37:43) - Trigger Warning

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Going Pro with Sean Allen

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Sean Allen joins the podcast to talk about what it means to be a pro developer, how to manage your career, and how to use social media to your benefit.

Guest

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We talked about

(00:00) - Beginner to Pro
(03:59) - The Tutorial Trap
(11:33) - Soft Skills
(21:27) - Profressional Networking
(33:42) - On Mastodon
(36:43) - Creator View

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Apples, Glasses, and HAL, Oh My!

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:48:52 -0400

In this episode, we explore the exciting and rapidly changing landscape of iOS development, as we discuss the potential impact of AI, machine learning, and AR glasses on the future of mobile apps. We also make predictions about what Apple might unveil at WWDC 2023, and speculate about the secret plans they may have in store. With a mix of humor, quirkiness, and expert analysis, this podcast episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the latest trends and developments in iOS app development.

Guest (how I made the episode)

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We talked about

(00:00) - Introduce Special Guest
(00:18) - On Managing App Development
(02:18) - Trends in Mobile App Development
(02:33) - AI and Mobile Development
(07:41) - WWDC 2023 Predictions

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Reality and Architecture with Mohammad Azam

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Mohammad Azam (aka Azam Sharp) talks about RealityKit and how to get started as well as his recent article exporting large-scale SwiftUI app development.

Guest

Mohammad Azam (Website)

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We talked about

(00:00) - RealityKit
(10:52) - SwiftUI Architecture
(24:01) - SwiftUI Navigation
(27:22) - SwiftUI Testing

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
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LinkedIn - @leogdion
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Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Yak Shaving with Tim Mitra

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Tim Mitra comes on to talk about the some skills which are helpful for large teams, also how to gauge Apple's rumors and of course yak shaving.

Guest

Tim Mitra (website)

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We talked about

(00:00) - Help?
(01:09) - Video Games
(04:15) - Buzzwords and Trends
(09:36) - QA and Testing
(16:35) - Multi Disciplinary Engineering
(17:54) - Programming Language for Getting Started
(21:58) - Breaking Things Down
(26:40) - Domain Driven Design
(35:25) - Apple Rumors

Social Media

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GitHub - @leogdion
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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dataTile for Simulator with Marin Todorov

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Marin Todorov joins us to talk about his app dataTile for Simulator: how it uses logs to help developers, getting help from Apple, and his experience with SwiftUI on macOS.

Guest

Marin Todorov - underplot.com

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We talked about

(00:00) - What is dataTile for Simulator
(02:26) - Power of simctl
(07:26) - Sandboxing dataTile
(10:34) - SwiftUI on the Mac
(18:13) - Keeping it simple for developers
(25:52) - Reactivitiy, Performance, and Apple's Unified Log
(34:02) - Launching dataTile to the App Store

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Mobile System Design with Tjeerd in 't Veen

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Tjeerd in 't Veen comes on to talk about asking the right questions for requirements, interviews, testing, and keeping teams in sync.

Guest

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/FRMeny1gsqY

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We talked about

(00:00) - What is Mobile System Design
(03:40) - Asking the Right Questions
(06:13) - Error Handling and UI Design
(10:48) - Diagrams
(14:17) - Keeping Backend in sync with Mobile
(19:42) - Holistic Driven Development
(22:18) - Abstractions
(27:47) - Architecture Patterns
(34:55) - Testing
(44:32) - Interviews
(49:23) - The Book

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
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LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Swift Package Index with Dave Verwer and Sven Schmidt

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:22:17 -0500

Guests

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DjgtYTEI7xQ

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We talked about

(00:00) - Introduction
(02:37) - Running the Largest open-source Vapor site
(09:49) - Implementing DocC
(13:57) - SPI YAML File
(21:44) - Search Improvements
(30:23) - Swift Package Registries
(36:18) - Growth of SPI
(46:56) - Supporting Swift Package Index

Social Media

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LinkedIn - @leogdion
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GitHub - @leogdion
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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A Swiftly Year in Review with Antoine van der Lee

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:40:06 -0500

Guest

Antoine van der Lee

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/Zqwt6YyABkA

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Existential any in Swift explained with code examples
Some keyword in Swift: Opaque types explained with code examples
RocketSim
Stock Analyzer
[Pitch] Introduce existential `any`
- “In addition to heap allocation and reference counting, code using existential types incurs pointer indirection and dynamic method dispatch that cannot be optimized away.”

We talked about

(00:00) - A Swiftly Year in Review with Antoine van der Lee
(02:22) - Conferences in 2022
(11:43) - Async/Await and Combine
(19:25) - Existential and Opaque Types
(26:18) - Stock Analyzer
(29:51) - RocketSim
(40:13) - 2023 Wishes and Predictions

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Elephant in the Room

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:43:46 -0500

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/jE43X-CwFag

(00:00) - Introduction
(00:53) - Rebuilding the Ship of Theseus
(07:32) - Social Media and the Elephant in the Room
(18:58) - Empower Station Blues
(25:43) - What I've Been Working On
(36:19) - My Favorite Architecture
(41:32) - Plans for 2023

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Show Notes

What am I working on
What I am hoping to work on in 2023
Social Media Changes
Personal Adventures
Accomplishments for 2023
Apple Tech Blues

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdion
Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
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Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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App Clips with Jon Bauer

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:26:58 -0500

Guest

Jon Bauer
- Mastodon @coveloper@mstdn.social
- Twitter @coveloper

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/dOnI2PGqql0

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Show Notes

What is an App Clip?
What is a good example of an app which should be an clip?
"But I don't want my user to only use the app once"
What are some technical limitations of an App Clip?
What's a good way to start an app which may be an app clip?
What's a good way to integrate an app clip in an existing app?
How do you get a user to move from an App Clip to an app (both technically and marketing-wise)

Social Media

Email
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GitHub - @brightdigit

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

(00:00) - What are App Clips
(03:40) - Developer Experience
(12:50) - Starting From Scratch
(16:00) - App Store Setup
(29:55) - Testing Experience
(33:30) - App Clip to App
(36:25) - Future of App Clips

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Humane Development with Jill Scott

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:11:18 -0500

Guest

Jill Scott

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/YVrHPCZnC50

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Jill's Talk from 360iDev

Sponsors

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over 5,000 packages indexed now, you’ll find a package that can help.
help you make better decisions about your dependencies.
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We talk about...

(00:00) - What is Humane Development
(02:15) - Finding the Cleverest Solution
(05:45) - Bad Code Smells
(07:45) - Your Brain on Code
(11:30) - What you should do now
(20:30) - Accessible Code
(23:15) - Cognitive Overload and Teams
(31:30) - Cyclomatic Complexity
(36:00) - Final Thoughts

Social Media

Email
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GitHub - @brightdigit

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Leo - @leogdion

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Posture Island with Jordi Bruin

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Jordi Bruin @jordibruin

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/5gYwCHhu_8k

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Twitter
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Bushel - the macOS virtual machine app for developers
I'm looking for beta testers!

For developers who want to be rigorous and uncompromising in their app testing.
You can set up your virtual machine for almost any configuration, from a fresh, factory reset of the Ventura beta all the way back to Big Sur.
Test, simulate, roll back and debug apps and scripts however you need to without worrying about destroying your machine.

If you want to be invited to our first TestFlight, or even if you just want updates on Bushel, sign up at the website, and we will get in touch with you.

swiftpackageindex.com is the place to find Swift packages.

over 5,000 packages indexed now, you’ll find a package that can help.
help you make better decisions about your dependencies.
host DocC-based documentation for package authors.

Show Notes

Building with Private APIs
Selling Apps on Gumroad
Where Posture Pal came from
Importance of Localization
How CoreMotion works with Airpods
Dealing with Connection Issues
Testing Motion Data
Future of Apps and the Dynamic Island
Live Activities API and Dynamic Island
What is the 2-2-2 Method

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

(00:00) - Who is Jordi Bruin?
(03:55) - How Posture Pal Works?
(11:15) - Airpods Challenges
(23:00) - Dynamic Island
(31:45) - 2-2-2 Method

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Behind the Scenes of SwiftUI with Aviel Gross

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Aviel Gross - @avielgr

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/G8I8xdGJB68

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Try Stream Chat free for 30 days https://gstrm.io/empowerapps or
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Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

Bushel - the macOS virtual machine app for developers
I'm looking for beta testers!

For developers who want to be rigorous and uncompromising in their app testing.
You can set up your virtual machine for almost any configuration, from a fresh, factory reset of the Ventura beta all the way back to Big Sur.
Test, simulate, roll back and debug apps and scripts however you need to without worrying about destroying your machine.

If you want to be invited to our first TestFlight, or even if you just want updates on Bushel, sign up at the website, and we will get in touch with you.

swiftpackageindex.com is the place to find Swift packages.

over 5,000 packages indexed now, you’ll find a package that can help.
help you make better decisions about your dependencies.
host DocC-based documentation for package authors.

Show Notes

How migrating from UIKit
Terminology Confusion
How SwiftUI detects changes
SwiftUI mistakes
Combine vs Async/Await
What is a POD?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

(00:00) - Migrating to SwiftUI at Adobe
(05:45) - SwiftUI and Performance
(15:00) - How SwiftUI Detects Changes
(27:50) - Architectures and Patterns
(36:30) - Combine and Async
(44:45) - Why Internalized Views
(51:00) - What to do right now

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Impactful Development with Maxim Cramer

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 20:05:38 -0400

Guest

Maxim Cramer - mennenia.com
- Twitter @mennenia

Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-xWEdAaOTc

Related Episodes

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Heath Brothers

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Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

Bushel - the macOS virtual machine app for developers
I'm looking for beta testers!

For developers who want to be rigorous and uncompromising in their app testing.
You can set up your virtual machine for almost any configuration, from a fresh, factory reset of the Ventura beta all the way back to Big Sur.
Test, simulate, roll back and debug apps and scripts however you need to without worrying about destroying your machine.

If you want to be invited to our first TestFlight, or even if you just want updates on Bushel, sign up at the website, and we will get in touch with you.

swiftpackageindex.com is the place to find Swift packages.

over 5,000 packages indexed now, you’ll find a package that can help.
help you make better decisions about your dependencies.
host DocC-based documentation for package authors.

Impact Development

Why developer happiness gets in the way
The widening gap between founder and developer
Startup thinking vs Enterprise approach
Taking Shortcuts
Supporting other engineers on your team
Dealing with difficult founders
Importance of Communication

Social Media

Email
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GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

(00:00) - Introduction
(03:01) - Excited about Technology
(05:55) - Widening gap between founder and developer
(17:00) - Using Shortcuts
(18:45) - Long-term code
(26:45) - Supporting other engineers
(32:30) - Difficult founders
(35:15) -

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The Composable Architecture with Zev Eisenberg

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 21:21:07 -0400

Guest

Zev Eisenberg (website)
- Twitter - @ZevEisenberg

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/vlwQm6Q_FEI

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Sponsors

Stream - Free In-App Messaging SDK & UI Kits for iOS/Swift

Stream Chat is the easiest way to add messaging to your iOS app. High-level UI components connect the Stream Chat API with minimal coding.

Try Stream Chat free for 30 days https://gstrm.io/empowerapps or
apply for your Maker Account, free forever for qualifying teams https://gstrm.io/empowerappsmaker

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Bushel - the macOS virtual machine app for developers
I'm looking for beta testers!

For developers who want to be rigorous and uncompromising in their app testing.
You can set up your virtual machine for almost any configuration, from a fresh, factory reset of the Ventura beta all the way back to Big Sur.
Test, simulate, roll back and debug apps and scripts however you need to without worrying about destroying your machine.

If you want to be invited to our first TestFlight, or even if you just want updates on Bushel, sign up at the website, and we will get in touch with you.

swiftpackageindex.com is the place to find Swift packages.

over 5,000 packages indexed now, you’ll find a package that can help.
help you make better decisions about your dependencies.
host DocC-based documentation for package authors.

The Composable Architecture (TCA)

Why is TCA so useful
How does it take advantage of Combine and SwiftUI
How does it work with UIKit
How well does it work with developer teams
How does async and await work with TCA

Also how can you learn to talk backwards!

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(02:00) - What is TCA?
(08:00) - TCA, SwiftUI, and Testing
(11:30) - Getting Started in your Team
(23:15) - Terminology of TCA
(26:45) - TCA, Combine, and Async/Await
(30:00) - S'Vez Sppa

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Open and Extensible with Matt Massicotte

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:18:37 -0400

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Matt Massicotte - Twitter @mattie
- Chime

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(14:30) - What is ExtensionKit?
(17:30) - What is XPC?
(19:00) - On Sandboxing
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Dynamic Island with Steve Lipton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:50:05 -0400

Guest

Steve Lipton- Twitter @Steve_Lipton

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/QfSFAjaHrZM

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Apple September Event

Apple Watch Series 8 - Body temperature for Women’s health
Apple Watch Series 3 is dead!
Who is the Apple Watch Ultra for?
iPhone 14 - Satellite SOS is here!
iPhone 14 Pro - Always-On Display
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360iDev 2022

Great Talks this year!
especially the "no-code" sessions
Sad to see it be the last year
Settings up conferences in a post-Covid world
How could it come back and in what form?

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(00:00) - 360iDev 😢
(10:15) - 360iDev 2022 - Favorite Things
(16:45) - What’s next for 360iDev
(18:15) - September Apple Event 2022
(19:45) - Apple Watch Series 8
(29:15) - Apple Watch Ultra
(33:00) - AirPods Pro 2
(36:00) - iPhone 14 and Satellite SOS
(38:00) - iPhone 14 Pro
(40:45) - The Pill
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macOS by Tutorials with Sarah Reichelt

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 10:51:13 -0400

Guest

Sarah Reichelt (troz.net)
- Twitter @trozware

YouTube video - https://youtu.be/QgFW0L0a_D4

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Design, macOS, and Ventura System Preferences
Is it more difficult to design an app well in SwiftUI vs AppKit
Did WWDC 2022 make it much easier?
How is macOS development different from iOS
Why write a macOS App
Dealing with multiple windows
Document-Based Apps using SwiftUI
Multi-Platform Apps
Menu based Apps
What do users expect in a Mac app?
Where to distribute your App
Dealing with the Sandbox

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Credits

(00:00) - What is "macOS by Tutorials"?
(03:00) - Settings, Ventura, and Design on macOS
(08:00) - WWDC 2022
(13:50) - Why write a macOS app
(19:45) - Documents, Windows, and Menus
(29:00) - macOS Expectations and Multiplatform Apps
(38:20) - Distributing your app on macOS
(43:20) - Sandboxing

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NSSpain X with Luis Ascorbe

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Luis Ascorbe (lascorbe.com)
- Twitter @Lascorbe
- NSSpainX

YouTube video - https://youtu.be/hmSFPjQ7HuY

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Show Notes

Organizing an In-Person Conference After 2 Years of Remote
The challenges of organizing
Migrating to SwiftUI
New NavigationStack API

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Coffee Chats with Danijela Vrzan

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Danijela Vrzan https://danijelavrzan.com/
- Twitter https://twitter.com/dvrzan

YouTube video - https://youtu.be/AbK1n_WHsZM

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Show Notes

The Importance of Meeting with your Co-Workers
Conferences for Swift Devs
Contributing Documentation and Open-Source Projects
Starting a Blog with Publish

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Backend Decisions with Mikaela Caron

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:29:10 -0400

Guest

Mikaela Caron

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/_-k97s1ZPzE

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Show Notes

Do you need a backend?
Why company size matters?
SQL vs NoSQL Database
Hosting vs MBaaS
What if you have an existing dev ops or backend team?
Is CloudKit an even better option with transferrable apps?
When does Vapor make sense?
How can devs learn more about iOS/Swift backends?

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Developer Productivity with Rudrank Riyam

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Rudrank Riyam (@rudrankriyam)
- Exploring MusicKit and Apple Music API by Rudrank Riyam

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/BnsPUjcDSik

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Show Notes

What is developer productivity
The importance of version control
The importance of build time optimization
automate appstore feedback
Xcode 14 and Developer Productivity
Smarter Autocompletion and Improved Live Previews in Xcode 14

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WWDC 2022 - SwiftUI and UIKit with Evan Stone

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Evan K Stone @evankstone
- iOS Dev Break
- Interactive Logic

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/6Te0jPp82qg

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Show Notes

SwiftUI Navigation and Layout
UIKit Updates
New App Icon features in Xcode 14
Autocomplete in Xcode 14
Visualizing builds in Xcode 14
Our deprecated devices
Swift Remote Studio from beginning to end

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WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

Crossover Episode

CompileSwift - Episode - Keynote Review

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/eKe4XpPadho

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Xcode Cloud Announced
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SwiftUI - Widgets and Complications
SwiftUI - Live Activities
SwiftUI - Compositional Layout and Navigation
SwiftUI Charts
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Microapps Architecture with Majid Jabrayilov

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Majid Jabrayilov

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/XRVO43j1ogQ

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Show Notes

What is microapps architecture?
What are some ideal circumstances to use it?
How does SPM fit into it
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How does dependency injection fit into this
- How does the PointFree “World” method work?

Social Media

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GitHub - @brightdigit

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Apple Developer Academy with Sarah Gretter, PhD

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 19 May 2022 08:20:02 -0400

Guest

Sarah Gretter, PhD (@SarahGretter)
- LinkedIn - Sarah Gretter, PhD

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/2uXDG04aJUI

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Community Spaces
Job Board
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360iDev - Denver, CO – August 28-31, 2022 (Hybrid)
Grand Hyatt Denver

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 20% off registration.

Show Notes

What kind of unique skills does the Academy teach
How does it differ from a college class or coding boot camp
What do you think are the most important skills students could learn to participate in the iOS app economy
What skills do you focus on?
- coding
- design
- business
What are some unique challenges students run into?
What do you find to be the most difficult part for students to get started?

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Server-Driven UI with Mohammad Azam

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Mohammad Azam (Website)
- Twitter (@azamsharp)
- YouTube Channel - azamsharp

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/z5JTfzBX4WM

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Community Spaces
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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

Want Ariel to review your screenshots so you can get more downloads?
Submit it here and tune into the live stream on Thursday 5/5 @ 10:30AM EST to see it!

There's a lot of demand for apps right now, so it's a really great time to give it a try. It's easier than you think.
The guys who run it are indie devs who had a need and created a tool. 11 years later, it's an all-in-one platform for developers who want to get more downloads and make more money with their apps.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Submit your app today at:
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and tune into the live stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4hs-g_bhY
on Thursday 5/5 @ 10:30AM EST to see it!

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 20% off registration.

Show Notes

Where Server-Driven UI makes sense
How it helps with Cross-Platform development
Setting decoding components from the server
Migrating your app to use server-driven UI
Which is easier SwiftUI or UIKit
Dealing with Versioning

Social Media

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GitHub - @brightdigit

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Leo - @leogdion

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Xcode Tips with Dominik Hauser

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Dominik Hauser

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/bgDI6HbxeDU

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It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 20% off registration.

Riverside

The easiest way to record podcasts and videos in studio quality from anywhere. All from the browser.
Continuously uploads everyone’s audio and video during recording to the cloud, so when it ends you can download the files in seconds. Computer crashed or reloaded while in session? The recordings are saved automatically.
Local recording up to 4K video resolution

Try it for free today. Use our referral link:
https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=empowerapps

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Show Notes

The importance of learning your tools
The history of Xcode
Best keyboard shortcuts to learn
How to edit code while debugging
Apple Watch issues
Best third party tools to augment Xcode
Swift Packages and Xcode
The future of Xcode Cloud
WWDC 2022 Xcode Wish List

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Swift Package Manager Super Powers with Marco Eidinger

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Marco Eidinger (website)
- Twitter (@MarcoEidinger)
- iOS Dev Updates

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/QY0TPCHXMWA

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Show Notes

How Swift Package Manager has improved?
Dealing with Binary Dependencies
Plugin Support in Swift 5.6
Xcode Issues
Proper Versioning in SPM
SwiftUI and Localization with SPM
Targets vs Products
Setting up for CI Success
Find Packages for your App

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
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Tracking and Performance with Philipp Hofmann

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Philipp Hofmann (@phil__hofmann)
- Articles on Sentry

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/xMm7qR0FBDU

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Show Notes

What you should track in your app
When to integrate tracking
Linking tracing back-end and front-end
Tools to help debug
How can managers do to help
Android Dev Perspective

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Empower Station with Matt Braun

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:00:00 -0500

Guest

Matt Braun (@mattbraun)
- Twitter (@mattbraun)
- SketchParty TV

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/HRfciIxoSMo

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Show Notes

Home Button is here to stay
M1 on the iPad Air
What the Mac Studio Means
Leo's Choice of Configuration
Future of Apple TV
How the market of the Apple TV works
The power of being mentioned at an Apple Event
Testing Apple TV Software
TVML vs UIKit vs SwiftUI on the TV
Games on the Apple TV

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Indie Dev #5 - Knowing Your Market with David Barnard

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

David Barnard (blog)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/LaCj_Oaw1uo

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Show Notes

Does not being a developer help?
How to check if there's market for your idea?
What markets attract “scammy” apps?
The Future of App Store
Building a Better App Store
Biggest Mistake Indies Do

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

Indie Dev #4 - Making an App Best-in-Class with Jordan Morgan

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Jordan Morgan - @jordanmorgan10
- Swiftjective-C
- A Best-in-Class iOS App - A Five Book Series

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/aMBoJDnBuSo

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Show Notes

How to manage your time as a side gig
How to decide what apps to work on
Why learning about the competition is important
Using SwiftUI and CloudKit in 2022
How getting an acquired works
On writing his book series - The Best-in-Class iOS App
Why accessibility is important
Can you learn design
Why you shouldn't start with design
Why you need to be able to describe your app in one sentence
Pros and cons of low vs high fidelity
Why the tone of your app is important

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Indie Dev #3 - Focused Work with Michael Tigas

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:01:00 -0500

Guest

Michael Tigas (@michael_tigas)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/HwC2_dETDFs

Related Episodes

Related Links

Pre-Order Ochi Today!
Suggested People to Follow by Michael:

Sponsors

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Transistor.Fm
Your podcast's publishing platform
Transistor not only hosts your podcast but also:

Help distribute your podcast with integrations to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Mailchimp
Deep analytics including average downloads per episode, popular podcast apps, number of subscribers, trends
Professional support for creatives, businesses, and professional podcasters when it comes to hosting and analytics

How do you start a podcast?
https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=empowerapps

Try it today with this special link:
https://transistor.fm/?via=empowerapps

Show Notes

How to find the "right" idea
Using Catalyst to migrate Focused Work from iOS to the Mac
What is AppKit Bridging?
How to get started designing your app
How to get beta testers
How to build interest
How to decide what APIs and Features to tap into

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Indie Dev #2 - Tasks by Mustafa Yusuf

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Mustafa Yusuf (@mufasaYC)
- Tasks App

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/u_7Ow5dN0lc

Related Episodes

Sponsors

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend.

Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces.
Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime.
Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
Real-time application monitoring means data, in real-time.
Dashboards add a visual element to our application monitoring.

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Show Notes

Working culture differences
Balancing Architecture and Progress
Benefits and Drawbacks of CloudKit
Understanding Your Audience
Differentiating Your Product

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Indie Dev #1 - Dark Noise by Charlie Chapman

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Charlie Chapman (Blog)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/UXvCBj6SAEA

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Linode
A cloud experience developers love

Great for Setting Up a Backend for Your App
Variety of VM Configurations and Settings
Reasonable Pricing Starting at $5 per month
Global Data Centers
The Developer Cloud Simplified

Try it today with this special link:
https://www.linode.com/?r=97e09acbd5d304d87dadef749491d245e71c74e7

Check out OrchardNest Today:
https://orchardnest.com

Show Notes

How to keep track of ideas?
How to get help?
What features to prioritize?
Why having a story for your app is important?
What skills have transferred to a day time job?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2021 - Year in Review with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter
- Peter's New Livestream - compileswift.live

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/3MOK_smitUU

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

How do you start a podcast?
https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=empowerapps

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Transistor.Fm
Your podcast's publishing platform
Transistor not only hosts your podcast but also:

Help distribute your podcast with integrations to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Mailchimp
Deep analytics including average downloads per episode, popular podcast apps, number of subscribers, trends
Professional support for creatives, businesses, and professional podcasters when it comes to hosting and analytics

Try it today with this special link:
https://transistor.fm/?via=empowerapps

Indie Developer Spotlight - KalWoche by Matthias Deuschl

Give a try to the first of many Indie Developer Spotlights with KalWoche by Matthias Deuschl

With this Independent Watch app, scroll through the calendar with the Digital Crown. Count days / weeks with the date calculator. Multiple complications including weekday, week of year, date.

Practical calendar for quick flipping: scroll through time month by month with the Digital Crown.
- What weekday is April 1st? When is week 18? Which week of the year is beginning of November? → Just scroll until you see.
- How long until date x? → Simply scroll, tap, see.
date calculator: add days, weeks, months or years from today or the selected date and the result is displayed as a date with weekday and calendar week. In addition, the duration from today or the selected date until then is displayed.
Clean watchface complications help to always keep the current weekday, date and week of year in view. Find your perfect fit with numerous options.

Give this app a try today at:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1554477157

Show Notes

Future of ...

Connecting Wirelessly with Gui Rambo

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Gui Rambo - Twitter @_inside

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/U97HwkmKpg8

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Linode
A cloud experience developers love

Great for Setting Up a Backend for Your App
Variety of VM Configurations and Settings
Reasonable Pricing Starting at $5 per month
Global Data Centers
The Developer Cloud Simplified

Try it today with this special link:
https://www.linode.com/?r=97e09acbd5d304d87dadef749491d245e71c74e7

Check out OrchardNest Today:
https://orchardnest.com

Show Notes

Dealing with the Menu Bar
AirPods Thoughts
Lessons learned working on AirBuddy
Bluetooth Terminology Lesson
Dealing with AirPod Issues as a user
How Bluetooth works and differs from Networking
How the Nearby Interaction framework works
How the Multi-peer Connectivity framework works

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Objective-C Today with Graham Lee

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Graham Lee - Twitter @iwasleeg
- Graham's Blog - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
- Graham's Book - APPropriate Behaviour

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/H8O0rj1It1w

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

How do you start a podcast?
https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=empowerapps

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Transistor.Fm
Your podcast's publishing platform
Transistor not only hosts your podcast but also:

Help distribute your podcast with integrations to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Mailchimp
Deep analytics including average downloads per episode, popular podcast apps, number of subscribers, trends
Professional support for creatives, businesses, and professional podcasters when it comes to hosting and analytics

Try it today with this special link:
https://transistor.fm/?via=empowerapps

Show Notes

Why you should know something about Objective-C
Why is Objective-C so different from Swift?
Is there a purpose for Objective-C outside of Swift?
Should you still write Objective-C?
What steps to migrate Objective-C over to Swift?
How to make sure your Swift is consumable by Objective-C?
How to work with C++ through Objective-C?
What are the differences between Dynamic and Static Typed languages?
What are the benefits of Dynamic vs Static Typed languages?
What does a PhD in Software Engineering do at Oxford?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What is Firebase with Peter Friese

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Peter Friese - Blog

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/8m8oppa-Los

Related Episodes

Related Links

Firebase Summit - November 10th
Firebase YouTube Channel
Firebase Blog
Firebase Medium channel
Firebase vs GCP Videos
- Projects & storage
- Functions & Firestore
the LansingCodes app that never was
Authenticate with Firebase Anonymously on Apple Platforms
Make It So - Replicating Apple's Reminders app with SwiftUI and Firebase
Swift on Cloud Run by Grant Timmerman from GCP

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Linode
A cloud experience developers love

Great for Setting Up a Backend for Your App
Variety of VM Configurations and Settings
Reasonable Pricing Starting at $5 per month
Global Data Centers
The Developer Cloud Simplified

Try it today with this special link:
https://www.linode.com/?r=97e09acbd5d304d87dadef749491d245e71c74e7

Check out OrchardNest Today:
https://orchardnest.com

Show Notes

What does Firebase consist of
How to use it properly in your iOS app
How Firestore's NoSQL DB works
How to work with Firestore and SwiftUI
What are Firebase's authentication features
Setting up security properly
How to authenticate with Firebase anonymously?
Register for Firebase Summit

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Expert Swift with Shai Mishali

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Shai Mishali - Twitter @freak4pc
- GitHub @freak4pc

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/wQNs2ii-zsI

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Show Notes

What is Expert Swift?
How to be pragmatic about expert features on your team?
How can you improve your use of Codable in Swift?
What are ways to improve Objective-C for Swift consumption?
How can you hide certain Objective-C APIs from Swift?
What makes for good API design?
How to version your API?
How Functional Reactive Programming fits?
Future of Combine and Reactive in an Async and Await

... and another book Shai is helping with concurrently

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Mac Dev in 2021 with Daniel Jalkut

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) | Twitter
- Red Sweater - Software Company - https://redsweater.com (without the dash 😎)
- Daniel's Blog - https://bitsplitting.org
- Core Int - Podcast with Manton

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/W2f-GJFRY_U

Related Episodes

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Show Notes

Thoughts on the Apple Sept Event
Macs we want to buy
Apple Watch Evolution
Frustrations of SwiftUI Mac Development
Migrating from Objective-C to Swift
Mac App Store and AppleScript
Shortcuts on the Mac
Setting up AppleScript Access

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Navigating DocC with Ellen Shapiro

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:50:35 -0400

Guest

Ellen Shapiro - Twitter @designatednerd
- designatednerd.com
- Apollo GraphQL
  - ApolloGraphQL - YouTube Channel

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/KhIg2u0J_wQ

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Show Notes

Why use DocC (and why not)
Why adding header docs is an important first step
How to organize your documentation
Articles vs Tutorials
What is a DocC extension?
Hosting your DocC
What are some challenges with DocC?
Future of Open-Sourced DocC
Adopting New OSes and Deprecating Old Ones

...and quick thoughts on the September 2021 Apple Event

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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In-App Purchases and the StoreKit API with Andy Boedo

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Guest

Andy Boedo - Twitter @AndresBoedo

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/_3sIBHZPhx8

Related Episodes

Related Links

Show Notes

How Court Cases will affect the App Store
Why In-App Purchases and Subscriptions are popular?
Why go with Apple's payment system vs. outside payment system?
How to decide what features to cut-off behind your app's paywall?
What exactly is a receipt in StoreKit?
What's new in StoreKit2?
Future of the App Store

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

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Learning From Your App Store Competitors with Ariel Mitcheli

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:48:45 -0400

Guest

Ariel Michaeli - Twitter @arielmichaeli

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/JHmn2y--wy0

Related Episodes

Related Links

Show Notes

Thoughts on 360iDev
What's New in the App Store?
How to do A/B Testing on the App Store
What to do before starting an app
Information to research from competitors
Why competitors' tech stack matters
Future changes to the App Store
Other Apple App Stores
Future of the Metaverse

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

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How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Stewart Lynch @StewartLynch
- Stewart Lynch Youtube Channel
- CreaTECH Solutions

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/gH3QnVHsUAc

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Show Notes

Is it just me or a bug?
When to upgrade to betas?
Challenges learning from documentation
Learn SwiftUI or UIKit
Learning Limitations of an API

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Stewart Lynch @StewartLynch
- Stewart Lynch Youtube Channel
- CreaTECH Solutions

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/gH3QnVHsUAc

Related Episodes

Related Links

Top Headlines Videos

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Show Notes

Understanding Different Mental Models
Why getting a good foundation is important?
Have a reasonable goal and expectations
Break your app idea into smaller parts centered around specific APIs
How to be a good mentor and good mentee

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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100th Episode Spectacular

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:30:00 -0400

https://youtu.be/Rnv58mzGXOk

Links

gBeat.com
transistor.fm
podcastedition.com

Related Episodes

About the Show

How it got started
Difference between interviewee and interviewer
Why it's important to get help
Planning vs Flexibility
Leo's Year(s) in Review
Adjusting to working from home during 😷
Producing a video and audio version
How do guests and topics work?
Future of the Show

Big 5 Topics

SwiftUI/Functional Programming
Large Complex Apps/Patterns and Practices/DevOps
Server-Side Swift
Indie Apps
Leadership/Communication and Organization

Also...

Questions and Answers
Future Plans

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
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Patreon - empowerappshow

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Practical Entrepreneur with Donny Wals

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 19:00:00 -0400

Guest

Donny Wals - donnywals.com
- Twitter @donnywals
- Donny's Practical Books

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/L6U5Wm8_G74

Related Episodes

Sponsors

Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
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Available Online or In-Person

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Differences from being an Employee

Keep Yourself on Task
Balancing contract work with your product work
Finding the Right Clients
Getting Yourself Ready
How to decide whether you go solo
What's the best way to find clients for your business?
What are the biggest time vacuums for your business?
How to be prepared to leave your employer

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/H6vW7f66zyU
Questions for Episode 100 Here

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Async, Await, and Combine with Marin Todorov

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Marin Todorov - underplot.com
- Twitter - @icanzilb
- Blog - trycombine.com

Related Episodes

Related Links

Timelane 2
What about Swift actors and Combine
How should profiling new Swift Concurrency APIs look like?
Combine: Asynchronous programming with Swift
Thoughts on Combine in an async/await world
Using Combine for Your App’s Asynchronous Code
Leo Dion - The Multi-Threaded Asynchronous Parallel World of Swift
- from UIKonf 2020
- from 360iDev 2019
Hacking with Swift - How to document your project with DocC
DocC2HTML

WWDC Videos

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Show Notes

How does Async and Await work with Reactive Programming?
When is Combine a good fit rather then Async and Await?
Why does Async and Await require new OSes?
How do Actors work?
What do Actors replace?
What secret project Marin worked on at Apple?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Day One App Ideas with Mikaela Caron

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Mikaela Caron
- Twitter - @mikaela__caron
- Instagram @mikaelacaron

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/mk1H6JIJkOE

Related Episodes

Related Links

Mikaela's Apps
- Gibbs Crew Trivia
- Job Application Tracker
Leo's Apps
Inspiration
Dev/Design Tools in iOS
Favorite Guides
Learning Resources
Also...

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Our App Ideas

How Mikaela got into iOS Development
Brain Marks (from Big Brain Hackathon) - hoping to finish this and make it open source
Alarm app, where you can record your voice as the alarm
Bop It App Gestures: like bop it, but moving a phone around in various ways
Podcasting app for Apple Watch
Another Todo App
Another Expense App
Heartwitch
Speculid
gBeat
OrchardNest

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Localization with Zach Brass

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Zach Brass - @zhbrass

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/2Lj21NQ3CXI

Related Episodes

Related Links

WWDC 2021 Sessions

Sponsors

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

What is Localization

What's the relationship with Internalization?
Why does limiting yourself to English speaker hurt your app?
What's the relationship with accessibility?
Why you should start doing it now?
What's the first thing you should do with your Xcode project?
What's new with inflections from WWDC 2021?
What's the best way to take advantage of formatters?
How does WWDC 2021 improve formatters?
What's Zach's biggest pet peeve with Localization tutorials?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Swift Playgrounds with Steve Lipton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Steve Lipton- Twitter @Steve_Lipton

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/l5A8FHfvqIc

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

Swift Playgrounds Challenges

Challenges with the File Structure
Mac vs iPad
How Playground Templates Work
UIKit vs Swift on Playgrounds
Dealing with Access Levels

Swift Playgrounds Benefits and Updates

Publishing to the App Store
Integration with Xcode Cloud?
Benefits of Direct Hardware Access
More Accessibility with the iPad
Pro Apps on the iPad
Xcode Integration?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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iPad Development with Adam Shaw

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Adam Shaw (Twitter @kabukivision)

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/WHzAdaMHWgE

Related Episodes

WWDC Sessions

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Developing for iPad

Why develop an iPad app?
iPad vs iPhone
iPad vs Mac
Building Pro Apps on the iPad
Limits of iPadOS
Using Custom Controls

Designing for the iPad (specifically)

Migrating from iPhone to iPad
Designing for Different Sizes
Whether to support multiple windows
Supporting SplitView
Supporting Pointers and Keyboard Shortcuts

Pro Apps for the iPad

Problems with Pro Apps on the iPad
Missing Pro Apps on the iPad
Swift Playground on the iPad

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Test-Driven Development in Swift with Gio Lodi

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Gio Lodi - gio.codes

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/OM9jbAbUXZ0

Related Episodes

Related Links

How to test Swift async/await code with XCTest by Gio
xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
What's a Test Double?
What's New in Testing talk by Gio from Melbourne CocoaHeads - June 10th 2021
- Slides from talk
Dependency Inversion Principle
CombineAsyncually
dimsumthinking.com by Daniel Steinberg
Leo Dion - Combine-ing the Old with the New from 360iDev 2019 (on creating Publisher Factories/Publicists)
Xcode Cloud Beta Signup

WWDC Sessions

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

TDD Thoughts from WWDC 2021

Is Xcode Cloud Ready?
Who's the target audience for Xcode Cloud?
On Testing with Async/Await
Combine vs Async/Await
How to expect failures in Xcode 12.5
Testing Repetitions

TDD, SwiftUI & Combine

Why do TDD now in Swift?
Difficulties adopting it later in project
TDD in SwiftUI vs UIKit
Isolating Systems with TDD
What are the different types of Test Doubles?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
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WWDC 2021 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:09:40 -0400

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

Crossover Episode

CompileSwift - Episode - Keynote Review

Podcast Survey - https://brightdigit.typeform.com/to/yVZN2gIT
Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/6IEvRlyu904

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

Xcode Cloud

How does it differ from Xcode Server and Serverbots?
Is there an on-premises version?
Can the Workflows be edited via web or text?
How does it compare to other services?
Where's the REST API for Xcode Cloud
How much does it cost?
What's is going to be the relationship with Fastlane?
How do pull requests, discussions, etc... interface with Git Repo Services (GitHub, Gitlab)?

Xcode... Swift Playgrounds on the iPad

Fully Build and Upload Apps from the iPad
How does sharing code with Xcode on the Mac work?
How does it interface with Git Repos?
Can Preview Apps in Full Screen
Sounds perfect for testing and prototyping

Async/Await and Actors

See episode with Vincent on async and await
Xcode includes tools for refactoring
What's the relationship with Combine?
Uncertainty with Actors

SwiftUI - Year 3

Used in various macOS apps (Maps, Photos, etc...)
Continued improvements to List
Table added to macOS
Specific Platforms for modifiers
Pull-to-Refresh One liner
New Material Styles and UI Focus API

Focus and Notifications

More Granular control over notifications
How do notification scores work?
What can we do about notification spam?

Widgets

New Extra Large Widget
More Stacks
Widget Suggestions
iPad Home Screen Widgets
Peter's rant on Widgets

Also... ScreenTime API, SharePlay API, AR Object Capture, and the death of Objective-C

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fastlane with Josh Holtz

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Josh Holtz (website)
- Twitter @joshdholtz

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/YgEXQ1k6eRI

Related Episodes

Related Links

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

What to know about Fastlane

How Fastlane started?
How Fastlane is built and maintained?
How can Fastlane help your team?
What's Fastlane's hidden gem?
How to automate signing your app?
How does Fastlane working with the App Store Connect API?
How does Fastlane deal with Apple's updates behind the scenes?
How does WWDC affect Fastlane development?
What's on Josh's WWDC Wish List (i.e. What feature could help Fastlane)?
How can you contribute to Fastlane?
What's the future of Fastlane?

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AWS and SOTO with Adam Fowler

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Adam Fowler (website)
- @o_aberation (Twitter)
- @adamfowlerphoto (Instagram)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/X5XOnyysMWo

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The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
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Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
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Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

What is SOTO and how does it work with S3?

How SOTO Works?
How SOTO sets up its code?
Why use S3 for storage?
How S3 compares with other services?

What Devs Should Know About AWS

What is the best way to serve your website from AWS?
How to setup authentication with AWS?
How does Amplify fit in with other services?
How to use DynamoDB with SOTO?

How SOTO works with Lambda?

How SOTO works with your Lambda?
Dealing with Authentication, SOTO, and Lambda?
How to avoid high costs with AWS?
What is Hummingbird?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

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Cryptography with Marcin Krzyżanowski

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Marcin Krzyżanowski
- Twitter @krzyzanowskim
- Swift.best

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/eigMjltZlP8

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

What Should Devs Know About Cryptography

What is CryptoSwift
What is relationship between Randomness and Encryption
What's the difference between Base64 Encoding and Encryption
What is a cypher?
What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric?
What is key derivation for?
What is an initialization vector (aka IV)?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Swapnil S
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Conferences with John Wilker

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

John Wilker (johnwilker.com)
- 360|iDev - August 22 - 25, 2021
  - Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.
- Twitter (jwilker)
- Instagram (johntwilker)
- 360Conferences

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/XXQB24mqQp4

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
It's all about Community and Code!
Four days of hands-on training, amazing sessions, and the great community. All Swift.
Available Online or In-Person

Use the promo code EmpowerApps to get 25% off registration.

Hosting Conferences Today

Different Challenges with 2021 vs 2020
Getting Signups and Registrations
Improvements to Online Platforms
Dealing with Zoom Fatigue

Being a Speaker

There's always something the audience can learn
Teaching as a novice and avoiding missing steps
Practice at your "local" meeting or on a podcast 😁
Encourage others to speaker for the first time
The More The Merrier

WWDC Wish List

Allowing more content available on Apple TV
Leo's novice experiences with Apple TV
Thoughts on multi-user Fitness+
Apple Watch Band for Watch Enthusiasts?
More Interactive Widgets on iOS 15
iPad Pro vs Mac Book Air M1

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Core Data Fun with Tim Mitra

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Tim Mitra (website)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/SwVF-wihDvE

Related Episodes

Related Links

WWDC 2021 Announced
Swift TO
MistKit - Swift Package for Server-Side and Command-Line Access to CloudKit Web Services
NSPersistentCloudKitContainer
Setting Up Core Data with CloudKit - Apple Docs
CoreStore by John Estropia - real power of Core Data with the elegance and safety of Swift

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

Building Apps with Core Data Today

Working with CloudKit and CoreData
Fun with SwiftUI and CoreData
Learning how to use AppData
Power of Combine
How to Sync Subscriptions with Core Data
CloudKit on the Server
Business Problems with CloudKit
Why Choose Core Data?
Power of Live Previews

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Third-Party APIs with Christian Selig

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Christian Selig (website)

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/rhVazmvPTYo

Related Episodes

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Using RevenueCat to power your in-app purchase infrastructure solves:

For edge cases you don’t even know you have
Protects from outages your team hasn’t seen yet
Saves you time on future maintenance
As well as new features released by the app stores
Empowers your marketing teams with clean, reliable IAP data

All that to say, RevenueCat handles all the headaches of in-app purchases so you can get back to building your app. Try RevenueCat today at revenuecat.com.

How building around Reddit works?

Why Reddit is easier than Twitter?
How the variety in apps helps the experience?
Simplicity and Native Features
Dealing with Walled Gardens like Reddit Chat

How Apollo works?

How Server-Side Push Notifications
Dealing with Imgur
Whether to use third-party library
Finding great beta users
Testing Accessibility
UI Design notes
Building Widgets with SwiftUI
Finding a user community
Designing great gestures

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

AWS Amplify with Kilo Loco

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Kilo Loco

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/kQP7dCaKdEc

Related Episodes

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Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

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What does AWS Amplify do?

How it works with your iOS project
Why Amplify vs your own backend
How does it compare with other MBaaS services
What are the different components
How does it compare with something like SOTO
How does the cost compare
Can you opt-out later and use the individual services

Getting Started with AWS Amplify

Using Cocoapods vs SPM
How to use the AWS CLI
How to setup your data model in DynamoDB
How you can take advantage of AWS Lambda
How do you get started with Push Notifications and APNS

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

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Automation Fun with Jared Sorge

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Part 2 of Episode at Xcoders!

More on Swift Package Manager, Graphics Management, and Server-Side Dev 👆

Guest

Jared Sorge

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/hWVfxNkY5Sw

Related Episodes

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Xcode Project Generation: A Primer
- Tuist
- XcodeGen
App Distribution
Continuous Integration
Scripting
Mac Development

Sponsors

AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Why Automate

Getting started with Continuous Integration
Avoiding Xcode Project Merges
Avoiding over-automation
Using test plans to empower your tests

Automation Tools

Xcodegen vs Tuist for Project Generation
Gitlab CI vs GitHub Actions vs Jenkins
The power of Fastlane
Yes Makefiles are still great!
Using ArgumentParser and ShellOut
macOS Development Challenges

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Interviewing Tips with Kim Arnett

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:28:58 -0500

Guest

Kim Arnett (kimarnett.com)
- Twitter @kaydacode
- DEV.TO @kaydacode

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/UpUQY7sD9g4

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Job Posting Tweet

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AppFigures
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The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
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Interviewing Techniques

Removing Anxiety for the Process
Testing Skills Properly
Importance of Communication and People Skills
Creating a Welcoming Environment
Clear Intentions and Company Buy-In
Clear Job Postings

What to Ask Company During Interview

Find out about Turnover
How's their Diversity
What's their Day-to-Day Schedule
What's their priority for Mobile Development and iOS

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/cqhSz3-fZtI

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Game Development with Tammy Coron

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Tammy Coron

Related Episodes

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

Why Game Development

Where to get started
Native vs Cross-Platform
What is a Game Loop
How SpriteKit helps?
SceneKit vs Unity
Working with Game Controllers

On Managing Multiple Projects

Where to get started
Working Remotely
Staying Organized

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Credits

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Awaiting for Async with Vincent Pradeilles

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Vincent Pradeilles

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/hcVJSu7we5w

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Dealing with Asynchronous Calls Now

Dealing with GCD
History of CPU Cores and Asynchronous Programming
Power of GCD and Queues
How Promises fit in with Swift
Managing Network Call Asynchronously
Dealing with UI Changes
What is a DispatchGroup

What Await and Async Provide

Avoiding Blocking the Main Thread
Subscribing/Publisher vs Async/Await
How do Tasks work
How to get started now with Async and Await
What are Continuations
What is an Unsafe Continuation
Dealing with Errors in Async Functions
How do parallel asynchronous tasks
How Combine works with Async/Await

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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A Tour of Software Testing with Christina Moulton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Christina Moulton - @ChristinaMltn
- GrokSwift.com

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/5LShKIwHEsA

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
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What is Software Testing?

Why is important?
What can be automated? (and what can't?)
Why are unit tests so important?
How to automate the workflow between manual tests?
What tests should you do before release?

What kinds of testing are there?

How to use visual snapshots for testing?
What is integration testing?
How to deal with outside systems which are always changing?
How is smoke testing different from integration testing?

What should be tested?

How to test the visual appearance of your app?
Where to draw the line when isolating what should be tested
How to avoid the code coverage trap?
How iOS devs can share specs with server developers?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Swapnil S
Steven Lipton

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Large Scale Teams with Joe Fabisevich

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Joe Fabisevich - Website

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/Mgg9D4JggQI

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
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Working with Big Teams

Does it translate well to each team's work?
Dealing with different levels of communication and detail
How to keep communication consistent
Documenting Why Decisions Are Made
How Early Company Decisions Affect their Future

Organizing Architecture and Code with Large Teams

Staying away from dependencies
Mono-Repo vs Modularity
Server-Driven solutions
Consistency in Platform Design
What does it mean to put People-first in your code?

Social Media

Email
leo@brightdigit.com
GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Credits

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Apple Silicon Review with Gui Rambo

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Gui Rambo - Twitter @_inside

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/L-lOLeuGrnM

Related Episodes

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AppFigures
The tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
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Twitter
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Leo - @leogdion

Distributing App Outside the App Store

Dealing with Design Restrictions
Avoiding Sandboxing
Avoiding the Apple Cut
Dealing with Technical Restrictions

Mac Book Air Review

Mac Book Air vs Mac Book Pro
Portability vs Screen Size
Battery Life and Optimized Charging
USB-C 😡
Software Compatibility and Rosetta 2

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Swift Package Index with Sven A. Schmidt

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Sven A. Schmidt - finestructure.co
- Twitter - @_sa_s
- LinkedIn - Sven A. Schmidt

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Maintaining Swift Package Index

Supporting Different Projects and Packages
Dealing with Schemes and Docker Images
Supporting Badges

Server Side Support

Snapshot Testing for the web page
Tracking Metrics and performance
Setting up CI on Gitlab and Github Actions
Making deployment easy

Future of SPI

Dealing with Apple Silicon
Running a Database Server on an M1
README Support Here
Improved Search Support
Category Support
More Metadata Support

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Scaling and Security with Jeroen Leenarts

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Jeroen Leenarts - AppForce1.Net

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Working in 2020 and 2021

Why do podcasts in 2020 and 2021?
Running a Cocoaheads in 2020
Networking in 2020
Working from Home
Writing a Book in 2021

Dealing with Complexity in Your Code Base

Dealing with Large Teams
Keeping Your App Secure
Using the Keychain properly
How does ATS work
Dealing with Isolation and Repetition
Transitioning through Objective-C, Swift, and SwiftUI

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Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Tim Condon
- Twitter @0xTim

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/VMNvZtw9OyU

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Vapor 5 and Async/Await

How Async/Await affects SwiftNIO
How Async/Await affects EventLoopFuture
Performances vs Maintainability
What is the timeline on Async/Await

Amazon and Server-Side Swift

What is Soto?
What Amazon web services Soto supports?
How to integrate Soto into your sever-side Swift project?
What is Smoke?

Important Server-Side Frameworks

Smoke, Kitura, and Chaqmoq
Logging and Metrics
Job and Queue Management
Swift Tracing

Server-Side Swift in the Real World

Where to Host Your Server-Side App
Is Server-Side Swift Production Ready
Growth of Server-Side Acceptance in 2020
Differences from iOS Development
Scaling Your Server-Side Application
Can You Develop in Swift outside of Xcode?

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Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:33:02 -0500

Guest

Tim Condon
- Twitter @0xTim

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/7pNF4em4pyU

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Swift Server Work Group and SwiftNIO

What is the Swift Server Work Group?
Server-Side at WWDC
What is SwiftNIO and how does it fit with Server-Side Swift?
Why SwiftNIO instead of URLSession?
Should you use SwiftNIO for my iOS app?

State of Swift on the Server

Where Swift has grown in 2020
State of Kitura after IBM
Swift and Server-Side Swift on Windows
AWS Lambda and Smoke
Swift on Ubuntu 20, Centos, and Amazon Linux

ARM and Swift on the Server

Server Development on Apple Silicon/ARM
Virtualization on Apple Silicon
The Future of ARM Servers
more on concurrency proposal and Vapor 5 in the next episode... 😯

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Multi-Platform SwiftUI with Malin Sundberg

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:24:54 -0500

Guest

Malin Sundberg - @malinsundberg
- Orbit - https://timeinorbit.com - A nicely designed time tracking and invoicing app
- Cup of Tech - http://cupof.tech - Podcast with Malin, Kai and Zach

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Building for the macOS

macOS Design Differences
Where AppKit is necessary on macOS?
How Big Sur changed the design?
Supporting Older Operating Systems

Migrating to iOS

Dealing with iOS screen size
Differences in navigation
What parts can be reused for SwiftUI?
Designing for "glimpses"

Whether to go with SwiftUI

AppKit/UIKit vs SwiftUI
Some parts faster for development - some slower
Based on expertise
How about Catalyst?

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Functional Programming with Daniel Steinberg

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:40:25 -0500

Guest

Daniel Steinberg - dimsumthinking.com
- Twitter @dimsumthinking
- Newsletter

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/YWZt2vq3Y_U

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My recommendation
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Learning and Conferences

Presentation vs Code
Avoiding the actual work
Using what works best when you need it
The importance of writing everyday

Functional Programming

History of functional programming
Mathematical basis for functional programming
Examples of use with Array and Optionals: zip, reduce, map, etc...
Difference compactMap vs flatMap
What flatMap actually means
Relationship between functional programming and object-oriented programming

Functional Programming and Combine

Mutability and Values
Adapting to new patterns
Staying organized with small pieces
Testing mapping between inputs

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App Dev Stack with Jordan Morgan

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0500

Guest

Jordan Morgan - @jordanmorgan10
- Spend Stack
- Swiftjective-C

Special Cut Our 2020 Apple Purchases - https://youtu.be/0GSKcO18XPs
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App Store Revenue Changes

Make less than a million, cut reduced from 30% to 15%
How it helps indie developers
Alternative App Stores

Setting Up a New Dev Machine

Using Instruments
Power of Accessibility Inspector
Favorite Text Editor
GitHub App
Shell Configuration
Web Development Tools
Dev Application Compatibility on M1?

Working from Home in 2020

Benefits of a Co-Working Space
Keeping kids busy while working
Trying to keep focus in development
Co-working in 2020
Having boundaries with kids
Having "me-time" and being working parents in 2020

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Maintaining & Migrating with Antoine van der Lee - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Antoine van der Lee

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/AedW0Da37KQ

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Upgrading Older Projects

Migrating from older versions of Swift
Migrating to SwiftUI
Upgrading piecemeal with new features
Continue supporting older OSes

Bugs and Logging

Understanding OSLog
Finding a Bug Tracker
Using Diagnostics

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Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:00] Thank you for joining me for another episode of empower apps. I'm your host, Leo Dion joining us again is Antoine Vander Lee. Hey Antoine. Thanks for coming back. Yeah, glad to be back. So I've actually worked on projects that were written in Swift 1. And in the last year or two, have you, have you worked on any of those?

[00:00:26] Antoine v.d. SwiftLee (Guest): [00:00:26] I was honored to be at WWDC the, when Swift was announced and you know, you're at the enthusiastic when it's announced, but if you're there, I guess you're even more enthusiastic to get started with it because you're there in that week. You have your MacBook open all the time and you try out a few things.

[00:00:44] And yeah, I was at a point where I had to convince kind of my project manager to rewrite the project or not. So, yeah, I know. I knew at that point, Switch was the future. So I had a really good statement to make there and I convinced them and we started writing the project is Swift one.one, which was kind of like the first really public version you could use, I guess if I recall correctly.

[00:01:09] Yeah. Yeah. So we, we started using that and the first week, two weeks, it was all fine and it worked nicely and we continue that we continued and a project grew. And then we realized that you know what is it called again? Incremental bills. Sorry, I couldn't get to the word because we didn't have incremental building at the time, which meant that the project builds times where like, like eight minutes, nine minutes at the certain point, just for a really small change, it didn't work at all.

[00:01:42] Up until I think introduced incremental building, which was a lot better already, but yeah. Then three arrives with forest grades, but for existing projects, it was definitely not great. I'm not sure if you experienced the sa...

Maintaining & Migrating with Antoine van der Lee - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Antoine van der Lee

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/bnAzZo3-N4g

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Intro

Latest BrightDigit newsletter on Apple Event
Fan or no Fan?
Memory Limits?
Trying to get Speculid out in the App Store
Back to the Mac 2020 Videos
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On Simulators

RocketSim
Managing Multiple Simulators
Creating Movies and Gifs from Simulator
Preparing RocketSim for Big Sur

Dealing with Old Code

Your old code vs Someone else's old code
When do you need to rewrite the app?
How do you convince a manager?
Differences between agency and product work

Early Project Decisions

Dealing with Third-Party Dependencies
Refactoring by Unit Tests
Keeping File Size Down
Splitting Types with Extensions

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Credits

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Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:00] Hello folks. Welcome to another episode of EmpowerApps. I am your host Leo Dion. Before we began the interview with Antonie, I wanted to cover a few things. We just finished the Apple event, revealing the new Apple Silicon Macs. And I wanted to talk about that. We recorded the episode the morning of today of the Apple event.

[00:00:20] So obviously Antonie and I didn't really cover these new Macs, but I figured I would just give you a quick, quick thoughts on the event today. So this was our last event from Apple last hardware event. It's been pretty quick. This year. We've had three events in two months, like Tim said, and we got the reveal of the chip, which will be used in the Mac book pro, Mac book air, and Mac mini, which can be ordered today.

[00:00:48] I don't know when they're going to be out. Exactly. I haven't been able to check that out. I don't know which I'm really interested in. I'm kind of. Not really up for buying a...

App Store Review Guidelines with Paweł Madej

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Paweł Madej

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/NmFHkLlxhL8

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New competitor's report in the Appfigures dashboard where you are able to view competitor downloads, build performance benchmarks, and see the new trends as they happen. Check it out here.
Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
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Also speaking at...

Pharmacist to iOS Dev

Learning Resources
Challenges with Documentation
Making CodeConf for Conference Videos
Using CoreML for CodeConf Subscriptions Bonus Clip
Building the Twitter Text Library Bonus Clip

Getting into the App Store

CodeConf - Do you have the right to the IP you're using?
- Rule 5.2 Intellectual Property
CodeConf - Are you using official libraries?
- Rule 5.2.2 Third-Party Sites/Services
CodeConf - Do you provide ongoing value to the customer?
- Rule 3.1.2(a) Permissible uses
Hey - Does your provide some functionality?
- Rule 4.2 Minimum Functionality
- Rule 3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps
Wordpress - Are you avoiding in-app purchases accidentally?
- Rule 3.1.1 In-App Purchase
- Aaron Talking about the Automatic Wordpress Issue
xCloud - Are you providing additional content?
- Rule 4.2.7 Remote Desktop Clients
- Rule 4.9 Streaming games
Fortnite - Are you avoiding in-app purchases purposefully?
- Rule 3.2 Other Business Model Issues
- Rule 3.2.2 Unacceptable

Other App Store Tips

Avoid Bugs!
TestFlight Reviews vs App Store Review
You can be rejected later!

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Leo Dion (Host): Thank you for joining me for another episode EmpowerApps. I'm your host, Leo Dion. Today we have with us. how you doing? Hello?

[00:00:12] Paweł Madej (guest): I'm fine. Thank you.

[00:00:14] Leo Dion (Host): Thank you so much for comi...

Documenting Your Code with Bas Broek

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Bas Broek
- GitHub @BasThomas
- Twitter @basthomas
- Contravariance - a Podcast by Bas Broek and Benedikt Terhechte
- Goodbye Swift Weekly by Bas Broek
- Swift Weekly maintained by Kristaps Grinbergs

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/4T25oqyXBLw

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Brand new teardowns of specific apps, like Spotify for instance or indie apps like Fotmob.
New competitor's report in the Appfigures dashboard where you are able to view competitor downloads, build performance benchmarks, and see the new trends as they happen. Check it out here.
Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
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Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:
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Nov 17 - 20, 2020

One of the most known conferences about Apple platforms development is going remote this year!
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Apple Event Stuff

iPhone 12 Upgrades
Apple Watch Series 6
HomePod mini

Documentation Challenges

What are some challenges with documentation?
How to keep documentation updated
How to make documentation innovative and clear
Building documentation for open-source projects
Ways to consume documentation
Avoiding jargon in your documentation
How to be thorough

Documentation Process and Tooling

Automating documentation via CI
Keeping tests, docs, and code in sync
Jazzy vs SourceDocs
Testing Your documentation

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UI Design for Developers with Heidi Helen Pilypas

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Heidi Helen Pilypas (web site)
- Twitter @heidi_helen

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/NTvljGAha_E

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What has Changed in iOS
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100 Days of SwiftUI

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I will be speaking at NSSpain 2020...
Nov 17 - 20, 2020

One of the most known conferences about Apple platforms development is going remote this year!
NSSpain 2020 is an online, continuous 36 hours conference, carefully crafted by the community for the community.
Guests of the show Paul Hudson and Donny Wals will be speaking as well as others

Go to NSSpain.com and use promo code empowerapps to get 10% off

Also speaking at...

UI Design

What has changed in iOS Design?
What's the difference between skeuomorphic vs flat?
Differences with Android and material design
Differences between web design
What's changed in iOS 14 design?
Differences on the iPad
How to design for Widgets

Design and Developer Teams

How developers should communicate with designers?
Best Tools for Getting Started
Best Guides and Courses for Getting Started
Common Mistakes
Pattern Libraries and Design Systems
Impact of SwiftUI

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Leo Dion (Host): Welcome to another episode of empower apps. I'm your host. Leo Dion with us today is Heidi Helen. Hey, Heidi, how's it going? Hey, not too bad. So glad to have you on. We've had a lot of requests for having someone who can talk about UI design, because a lot of developers have a hard time. With UI design and designing their iOS app, or just talking to a designer.

[00:00:29] And so I'm really glad to have you on, I've looked at a lot of your work especially, Capsicum and some of the other stuff that you've done. Just awesome. Awesome stuff. I'm really excited to have you on today.

Understanding Git with Ben Chatelain

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Ben Chatelain (@phatblat)
- Github @phatblat - for great commit message examples!
- 😎Some Cool DJ Sets 😎

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/C0Ymu7vx_ko

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mas - A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store
Dangit, Git!?!
`git log -g` (a better reflog)
Tip: always delete topic branches after merging a PR (or have GitHub do it for you)
Ben’s git shortcuts as fish shell functions
- amendne - amend the last commit, reusing the existing commit message
- bundle-pull - transports a dirty working copy from one machine to another.
- git_bundle_create - creates a git bundle by stashing a dirty working copy
- ignore - adds file paths to .gitignore file
- lg, lga - minimal yet pimped out history graph
- new - show new commits received after a pull
- pop - remove the last commit, but keep the changes in the working copy
- publish - push a new branch to a remote
- review - inspect the last commit
- rewrite - uses filter-repo to correct an author email typo (destructive)
- scrub - uses filter-branch to delete files from history (destructive)
- root - prints the path to the root of the local repo
- stash, stsave, stlist, stshow, stpop, stdrop - functions for working with stashes
- suri - submodule update recursive init

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A Very Remote Year with Jacob Gorban

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Jacob Gorban - Twitter @jacobgorban
- Apparent Software

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/wKGEc-9YFGs

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Brand new teardowns of specific apps, like Spotify for instance or indie apps like Fotmob.
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Remote Work Guidelines

Dealing with Communication
Slack Guidelines for Channels and DMs
How to stay in touch
Scheduling Meetings

Remote Work and Software Development

Mentoring Junior Developers
Encouraging Communication
Doing Code Reviews and Pull-Requests
Organizing Testing on Devices
Using the right tool for Project Management

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Credits

Transcript

Leo Dion (Host): Thank you for joining me for another episode, a empower apps. I'm your host, Leo Dion I'm with Brightdigit specializing in development in the Swift space and Apple space as well. Today we have with us, Jacob Corban. Hey Jacob, how are you doing?

Jacob Gorban (guest): Good. Thank you.

Leo Dion (Host): So Jacob, I've known you for, I wanna say like the first time we met would have been like release notes, maybe. Did you go to Release Notes?

Jacob Gorban (guest): I've been to all of them. Yes.

Leo Dion (Host): Yeah. That's probably the first time I met you back in 2015 back in the good old days when we actually like travel and go to conferences and stuff. I miss those days. I've done. Gosh, two conferences this year that have been I've spoken at that have been remote.

I've got. Three more conferences actually, by the end of the year that I'll be speaking at all remote, all from the convenience of this wonderful home office here, which has its advantages. Assuming nobody's home along with me, who's little and requires a lot of attention. I think we're kind of in the same boat actually.

There's there's been an adjustment for me, certainly because I have a lot of family members who live in this house. I don't know about you, but like I've worked for mostly for 12 years now. 10 years almost. So what's, what's new to me this year has just been dealing with like me and my wife scheduling and taking care of the kids while we're working, which you know, that's the big curve ball this year with COVID and everything with 2020.

How about you? Has there been any big adjustments working remotely this year? Well,

Jacob Gorban (guest): I was in this like a situation kind of as your, that I was already working remotely. I've been an Indie since 2009, like full-time Indie. So like on this front it was fine. Like I didn't have to adjust to working remotely.

But as you, as you have, like, I have like my kids and there's like a school age. They're not very small, so like it's easier, but. No, they were at home and most of the time I have my, one of my kids at home right now. And I could ask him to be quiet. It's like for the next door. Well, while we're your core is not bothering me with anything.

So there's none of that. It was like, it was fine.

Leo Dion (Host): Yeah. How long have you been an indie and kind of tell us a little bit about some of the stuff that you've been making over the last 15, 10 years.

Jacob Gorban (guest): Like I started dabbling in Mac development on the side, like how did t...

Apple Watch 2020 with Steve Lipton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:05:02 -0400

Guest

Steve Lipton- Twitter @Steve_Lipton

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Apple September Event

Is your app ready for iOS 14?!?! 🤯
Why Blood Oxygen? What is VO2 max?
Family Setup
Series 6 vs Series 3 vs new SE?

State of Apple Watch Development

Building Complications in SwiftUI
Custom Watch Faces?
When will the Apple Watch be fully independent?
Why build an Apple Watch app?
When should you build a companion watchOS app?
Is Touch ID coming back?

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Local Database Storage on iOS with Aaron Douglas

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0400

Bonus! We talked about Automattic and Apple here...

Guest

Aaron Douglas (@astralbodies)
- The Dangling Pointer (homepage)
- Core Data by Tutorials

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Hibernate
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Tools
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Alternatives
- Realm
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Why Local Storage?

Local cache is import for speed and being off-line
Benefits of a flat file vs local database
Why not run a server on your iPhone?

Why SQLite

How SQLite works?
What's missing from SQLite as opposed to a relational database server?
How to get started with SQLite in Swift?
Dealing with data types in SQLite
What is Journaling and Why not use it?

Why CoreData

What is Object Relational Mapping?
What is an Object Graph?
What is a Context?
Why use Core Data vs SQLite?
Challenges in Dealing with Migrations

CoreData Tips and Tricks

Optimizations in CoreData
How to Debug CoreData
Building for Cross-Platform
Testing Different Versions
How Syncing to makes your app more tolerant based on API changes
Dealing with CloudKit
Dealing with SwiftUI

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Machine Learning and Core ML with Jameson Toole

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Jameson Toole (@jamesonthecrow)
- Fritz AI - Twitter (@fritzlabs)
- Heartbeat - Fritz AI Development Blog and Tutorials

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New competitor's report in the Appfigures dashboard where you are able to view competitor downloads, build performance benchmarks, and see the new trends as they happen. Check it out here.
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Preparing for Machine Learning

What does it mean to build a Model?
What tasks are you trying to perform?
How do you prep data for a model?
How do you collect data for a model?

Deciding the Machine Learning Task

What types of task can ML do?
What's the difference between recommendation and recognition?
What is supervised learning?
What does Apple provide for building models?
How does the Vision framework work?
Why should you consider Machine Learning on Device?
How can you process Speech?
How does choosing the processor affect training?

Making ML Part of the Project

How to iterate over models?
How do you acquire that first set of data?
What is synthetic data?
How do you implement unit testing in Machine Learning?

ML and WWDC 2020

How does Apple Silicon on the Mac affect Machine Learning?
What advances in Machine Learning came out of WWDC 2020?
How WWDC 2020 reveals how ML continues to evolve?

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The Future of Mac Development with Lucas Derraugh - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0400

Guest

Lucas Derraugh

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Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

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Apple Silicon

Are you getting a DTK?
What the future of Windows on the Mac?
Running Virtual Machines and Docker on Apple Silicon
What are the battery life improvements with Apple Silicon?
Migrating Apps using C and C++ Libraries

macOS Big Sur

Challenges running on older machines
New UI Updates
Building UI by staying with Apple's APIs
Ensuring Keyboard Support
Ensuring Discoverability for "Pros"

Distributing Mac Apps

App Store vs Selling Your Self
Challenges with Sandboxing
Dealing with Notarization
Dealing with Permissions Dialogs

Social Media

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GitHub - @brightdigit

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The Future of Mac Development with Lucas Derraugh - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Lucas Derraugh

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New competitor's report in the Appfigures dashboard where you are able to view competitor downloads, build performance benchmarks, and see the new trends as they happen. Check it out here.
Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

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WWDC and Mac

Emphasis on Mac Development
Why should iOS developers get into Mac development?
iPad Pro Apps vs Mac Pro Apps
Challenges of SwiftUI vs AppKit
Improvements to AppKit
Widgets on macOS
SwiftUI Updates for Document-Based Apps
Electron vs Native

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GitHub - @brightdigit

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Big Bad Bluetooth with Leah Vogel

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Leah Vogel - Twitter: @leah_m_vogel

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Bluetooth 101

Origins of Bluetooth
Where Bluetooth is a good fit?
What is Peripheral?
Profiles, Services and Characteristics
What's the difference between Classic and BLE?
How to measure signal strength?
How to pull extra information from a Characteristic?

Development Challenges

Similarities with Networking
Decoding and Encoding Data from Bluetooth
Why Mocking is Important in iOS Development
Using the Mac for Testing APIs
Dealing with Connectivity Issues
Connection Peculiarities
How can Bluetooth be misused?

Social Media

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SwiftUI with Majid Jabrayilov - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Majid Jabrayilov

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Brand new teardowns of specific apps, like Spotify for instance.
Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

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New Property Wrappers

How the new State Property Wrappers Works
Managing the Life Cycle of Your App
New @StateObject
Benefits of @EnvironmentObject in the View Hierarchy

Maintaining SwiftUI Apps

Testing Your State
Using @StateObject with @EnvironmentObject
Storing Your State with @AppStorage and @SceneStorage
Handing Errors with SwiftUI
Migrating Older Apps to SwiftUI
Bridging UIKit to SwiftUI

New SwiftUI Features

Document-Based Apps
Improvements to Xcode Previews
Widgets and Complications
Animatable
More Frameworks Views Moving to SwiftUI (i.e. Maps, AVFoundation, etc...)

SwiftUI Challenges and Workarounds

Multi-line Text and Text Formatting
Using Lazy Stacks for Large Lists
Dealing with Animations
Lists vs ForEach

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SwiftUI with Majid Jabrayilov - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0400

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Majid Jabrayilov
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WWDC 2020 and Xcode 12 with Vadim Shpakovski - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

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Apple Silicon

Migrating Apps to Apple Silicon
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Windows on Apple Silicon
Xcode 12 vs Xcode 12 Universal

Xcode 12

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WWDC 2020 from Home

Big Mac Year After So Many Years
The Slow Unification of Apple Operating Systems
The Slow Unification of User Interface
Our Thoughts on the Format
The Excitement of Speaking with Apple Engineers Remotely
Tight Video Content

iOS 14, watchOS 7, iPadOS

Widgets similarity to watchOS complications
Similarities to Android
The New App Library
App Clips might encourage businesses
SwiftUI Complications on the Apple Watch
More Mobility metrics on the watch
Improvements to Spotlight
Minimize Full-Screen Overtaking - Phone Calls, Siri, Spotlight
Is touch coming to the Mac?
The Power of Scribble on the iPad
Default Apps on iOS

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WWDC 2020 - Quick Thoughts

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0400

https://youtu.be/wDpNBXItVLo

iOS 14

Widgets
App Clips
Default Apps Allowed
Clearer Privacy Policies

iPadOS 14

Scribble for Apple Pencil
Shape Parsing(?) for Apple Pencil
New UI Elements like Sidebar

macOS 11 - Big Sur

Big UI Changes and Refresh
Improved Catalyst Look
New Icons
Improvements to Safari Web Extensions

Apple Silicon on the Mac

More Performance Per Watt
$500 Developer Tool Kit (Mac mini) for Rent
Major Software and Tools All Ready
- Unity, Microsoft, Adobe, Homebrew, etc...
Virtualization available for Server-Side Development
- VAPOR DEMOED!
Building for Universal Apps in Xcode for both CPU Architectures
Rosetta 2 for Emulation
Can Run iOS Apps Natively

More Thoughts

🕵️‍♀️Find My _ (i.e. Apple Tags) is a certification similar to HomeKit
⌚️Wish there was more watchOS improvements
🌊Want to try Big Sur
🛠Looking forward to try Xcode 12 and talking about it next week with Vadim Shpakovski

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Haikus of Code with Erica Sadun - Part 2

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

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Erica Sadun (website)

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What folks find challenging with it?
How we are using the new library?
How to run asynchronously with command line tools?
How log and write to stdout and stderr?
Dealing with errors
Future of Swift

... also Leo wants to waste time porting SwiftUI into terminal apps

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Haikus of Code with Erica Sadun - Part 1

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:30:00 -0400

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Erica Sadun (website)

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SwiftArgumentParser

Bringing Swifty-ness to the Command Line Parser
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Graphics Support in Xcode

Why isn't SVG supported?
UIImage with SVG?
Does Android support SVG?
Bézier curve support

Being a Mac User in 2020

Catalina Support
Subscription Services
Adobe vs Apple
Native UI and UX on the Mac
Writing Books for Publishers

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50th Episode Extravaganza

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

https://youtu.be/9rxLjwqID2U

Current Interests and Products

Big 5 Topics

Career and Getting Hiring
Future Technology
Architecture, TDD, and Code Quality
Backends and Server-Side Swift
Swift UI

Also...

Questions and Answers
Future Plans

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Vapor 4 with Tibor Bödecs

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Tibor Bödecs (website)

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WWDC 2020?

What are you most excited about?
Will there be new hardware or IDE?

Vapor 4 Changes

Updates to the Command API
New Service Layer
Updates with HTTP 2 with SwiftNIO 2
How SwiftNIO2 does Futures and Promises
Using PropertyWrappers with Fluent ORM
Making Swift Package Manager work with you

Getting Started with Vapor

Requires Linux or macOS with Swift 5.2
Recent Support for Ubuntu 20, Amazon Linux, CentOS
Using Vapor Toolbox vs just SPM
Unit Testing with Separate Package
Structure of the App
Getting Your Database Models Setup
Using Push Notifications on Vapor and Sign-In With Apple
Why Should You Consider Vapor?
Where to Host Your App?

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Alternative Backends with Kristaps Grinbergs

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 07 May 2020 23:00:00 -0400

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Kristaps Grinbergs (website)

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Why GraphQL?

Greater Flexibility
Less Data Usage
REST API is more strict but easy to implement
Big Learning Curve with GraphQL
Fewer Requests Needed with GraphQL
Challenges with accessing in Swift
How Apollo Works
Starting with both REST API and GraphQL
Using Subscriptions WebSockets with GraphQL for Syncing

WebSockets

Perfect for Gaming, Chat, and Financial Applications
Why Long Polling Might Be Better
How to keep a URL Session open
How to stay organized with WebSockets
How to support and test WebSockets?

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Practical Combine with Donny Wals

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:40:00 -0400

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Donny Wals - donnywals.com
- Twitter @donnywals
- Practical Combine (25% Off Link!!!) - An introduction to Combine with real examples

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Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift by Leo Dion
Preventing strong reference cycles - using assign with self
Heartwitch for the Apple Watch (uses Combine, SwiftUI, and Vapor)
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Promise Libraries
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- OpenCombine
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Practical Combine

What is Functional Reactive Programming?
What is a Publisher and it's relationship with time
How Publishers can simplify data tasks and JSON decoding
The advantages of functional programming
Why it's important to keep track of Cancellables?
How to store and remove Cancellables in your ObservedObject
Differences between Threads and Schedulers
Why Type-Erasure is important in Combine

Lifecycle of a Stream

Sink vs. Assign
Differences between Combine and other Reactive Programming
Differences between Combine and MVC
Differences between Combine and Promises
Builtin Publishers with Notifications, Timers, and Data Tasks
How to work with Delegates and Callbacks
When to use @Published vs PassthroughSubject vs CurrentSubject
How easy is it to use Combine with UIKit
How do you build your own Publisher and Subscriber

Projects and Combine

How does Combine fit with current or future projects
Where would Combine not be a good fit
Is Combine production ready for new apps
How to do Unit Testing with Combine
How to debug with Combine
Are there alternatives for older OSes or Linux?

Writing Practical Combine

How Donny got started
How he tested the idea
What questions he asked when getting started
Using questions to organize content
How he got outsiders to edit and beta test the book
What topic is Donny is interested in next?

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Developer Community (Part 2) with Dave Verwer

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400

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Dave Verwer - daveverwer.com

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Swift Packages

What's the future of Swift Packages
Cocoapods vs Carthage vs Packages vs Submodules
Limitations of Swift Packages

SwiftPM Library

How SwiftPM.co began?
What does it provide to the community?
Issues with older packages
Issues with other dependency management systems (NPM, RubyGems, etc...)

Open Source Data

How to use pull-requests for contributing information?
How iOS Dev Directory works
How it helps prevent spam
Allowing for others to build on top of

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Developer Community (Part 1) with Dave Verwer

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:00:00 -0400

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Dave Verwer - daveverwer.com

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How the community loves Swift
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What the big backend technologies for iOS devs?

iOS Developer Community History

Mobile Development before iOS
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Challenges using Desktops
Objective-C vs. Swift
Architecture and Programming Fads

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WWDC Spectacular (Part 2) with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:00:00 -0400

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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Why prefer iPad over Mac Book
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Portrait vs Landscape
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The limitations of touch for interaction
Will voice controls and Siri continue to improve?
Does age matter in how we expect to interact with technology?
Does LidAR help VR supplant AR?
What LidAR means for developers?

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WWDC Spectacular (Part 1) with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:00:00 -0400

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Remote Working From Home

Having to work home with everyone at home
Having a dedicated office
Livestreaming vs. Conference Calls
Having a schedule
Sharing your work schedule on the family calendar

WWDC 2020?

Will WWDC be cancelled this year?
How can they produce video for the conference?
How does a remote conference?
Does this year have a Marzipan?
Refinements for iOS, macOS, etc...?
Any opening of other services (messaging)?
What happened to Apple TV+?
Where is Apple in the server or cloud?
What's going to be the plan for the iPhone?

SDK Updates?

Swift UI 2.0?
What's the future of Catalyst?
More Independence for the watchOS?
more Independence for iPadOS 😄
More Machine Learning ...
What's the ARKit Demo? AR Conference?
Swift Playgrounds on the Mac
Xcode on the iPad?

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Patterns and Practices for Scalable Apps

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400

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Why Good Patterns and Practices Matter

Bug fixes and code upgrades become more difficult to execute
Adding new features can be a real challenge if there's a lack of organization.
Without breaking each layer and functionality apart, it makes testing excruciating.
Without consistency, new developers will have a hard time understanding how the code works.
By using the right patterns, modularizing your code, and maintaining good code quality; you can keep your app development project running smoothly and save money in the long run.

Architectural Patterns

Understand the legacy of Objective-C
How Model View Controller is intrinsic to UIKit
How do Delegation Pattern fits
Why Protocol Oriented Programming works so well with Swift and Testing?
Why Functional Programming makes it easier to build complex functionality?
Why the shift to Model-View-ViewModel?
How Reactive Programming, the Subscriber-Publisher model, and Combine makes sense for UI development?

Modularizing Layers of Functionality

Modularity ensures individual pieces of functionality can work independently.
While each piece of code and functionality remains simple, it is their multitude and integration which is complex.
Each module is an Interchangeable Part.
Modularity allows for use in multiple operating systems and devices.
How does Xcode and Swift allow for modularity
Why Framework Targets are the most mature way still to create independent
Where Workspaces and Projects fit with with Independent Apps and Products
Why Swift Packages are the future

Maintaining Quality Code

Good Architectural Patterns means Easy Testing
Code Coverage is a good metric but not the only one.
Reduce Complexity in your code for easier maintenance
Consistent Styling makes version control and team management easier
Code Reviews Help get an additional set of eyes even though they may be your own.
Continuous Integration of components and apps are the best way to ensure quality code

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Notifications with Kaya Thomas

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Kaya Thomas (Twitter @kthomas901)
- kayathomas.info

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Why Notifications Are Important

Can encourage user engagement
Notify of updates and messages
Need to be trustworthy and needless
Onboarding helps make Notifications more welcoming

What are the different types of Notifications?

Local vs Remote Push Notifications
Remote Notifications are ideal for complex logic and messaging
How Rich Notifications Work

What are the challenges in implementation of Notifications?

Using Enums to Implement Notifications
How Categories and Actions Work
Using NWPusher to Test Remote Notifications
Big Improvement Coming to Xcode 11.4
How to Unit Test with Abstractions and Mocking

How Push Notifications Work?

Implementing Remote Notifications on the Server
Using Cloud Based Services for Push Notifications such as Firebase
Using Beams for Testing Push Notifications
How APNS works
Dealing with APNS Issues
Understanding APNS Throttling

How to making Notifications part of the design process?

How would Notification make the app more useful?
Would it help the user engage more?
Keep complex actions in the app as opposed to the Notification UI
Being responsible with how Notifications are used
Stay up-to-date with Apple's guidelines

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Handling Errors Correctly with Jeff Kelley

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400

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Jeff Kelley (Twitter @SlaunchaMan)

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What is special about errors in Swift

The history of Objective-C and Swift errors
The strong-typed nature of Swift
fatalError vs assert vs precondition
How to test fatalError in unit tests

What are some ways to handle errors?

User initiated errors and dialogs
Chaining logging and error tracking
Differentiating release and debug build
Using proxy server to listen to requests in debug
When to purposely crash with fatalError
Dealing with asynchronous callbacks and Combine
What is the Never type?
Dealing with permission prompts like HealthKit

What can teams do to design and develop for errors

Use a service to track errors for developers
Showing the user the correct information
Dealing with issues which aren't errors
Designers should show how errors are handled
Design the write localized messages for errors
With agile development, make sure each error path is handled in your story card

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Managing Code Quality with Anne Cahalan

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Anne Cahalan
- Twitter @northofnormal
- Github northofnormal

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What is Code Quality

Making Code that's easy to maintain
Low Cyclomatic Complexity
Making your code easily testable
Your code should read like sentences
Avoid fancy short code for more wordy code
Messy code is easier to fix then over-engineered code
While the integration may be complex, keep your code separated into simple parts

Why is Code Quality Important

Saving Time = Saving Money
Easy to Maintain and Easy to Update
Shorter Onramp for New Developers
Code Rots over Time (Delegation Patters vs Subscriber/Publisher Model)
Addresses Tech Debt

When should you upgrade your code

When it makes sense
Use Interoperability (bridge headers, HostingControllers, ViewRepresentable, etc...) to slowly bridge the gap
Be careful leaving too much old code behind

Good Swift Code Quality

Use argument labels and parameter name correctly
Avoid ternary operators
Avoid switch statements with too much logic and cases
Use Generics judiciously
Extensions are great for separating Protocol implementation

Good Code Reviews and Pull Requests

Clear your mind
Use pull requests and templates
Add context and details to the pull requests
Use screen shots to show what the result is
Communicate clearly what is going on
Let them know what to look at and what is a work-in-progress

What Can Managers Do

Set a great example
Provide enough time to the team for quality code
Have some background and experience with quality code
Be attentive and open to what your developers say
Allow time for unit testing

Code Quality Tools

SwiftLint and SwiftFormat
Codecov - for code coverage
CodeFactor and CodeClimate - for code quality
Having a human look at code is always best
Be thoughtful and considerate for each decision
Leo's Swift Package Automated CI Template - WIP

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Accessibility with Kim Arnett

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

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Kim Arnett (kimarnett.com)
- Twitter @kaydacode
- DEV.TO @kaydacode

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What is Accessibility

Accessibility is more than just permanent disabilities
Considering text size, color blindness, screen readers, touch issues

What Can Developers Do Now?

Making fonts scalable with Dynamic Text
Consider text size based on other languages
Apple makes it simple to include accessibility
Using built-in controls over third-party tools
Using accessibility labels
Don't forget Dark Mode

Why Accessibility is important?

Includes a larger audience which depends on it
20% report having disabilities
Fear of Lawsuit 😱
Make Sure Everyone Has A Voice
The Curb Cut Effect: How Making Public Spaces Accessible to People With Disabilities Helps Everyone

What can managers do?

The importance of diversity in your team
Practice using the app without sight and only screen readers
Using iPhone Accessibility settings to test your app

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Machine Learning with Kevin Scott

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Kevin Scott

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What is Machine Learning

Teaching Machines to Predict Based On Data
Having Machines Mimic Behavior
Subgroup with Artificial Intelligence

How Developers and Companies Can Get Started

Data Preparation
“There's the joke that 80 percent of data science is cleaning the data and 20 percent is complaining about cleaning the data”
Using Pre-Trained Models
Using AWS SageMaker
JS vs Python vs R vs Julia vs Swift
The Advent of Server-Side Swift in ML
Preparing Enough Data or Using Synthetic Data
Using Augmented Data

What are the different types of Machine Learning?

Statistical Learning using Structured Data
Transfer Learning with Neural Networks
Model Training

Examples and Usage of Machine Learning

Predictions Based On Structured Data
Sound Filtering
Computational Photography
Image Classification and Enhancement
Health Care (while respecting Privacy)
Augmented Reality
Audio Transcription

Where And How To Implement ML

Any Apps which use Rich Media (i.e. Image, Audio, etc...)
Server-Side vs Client-Side
Future of using ML with Text
What's the future of Machine Learning

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Upgrading Your Skills in 2020 with Paul Hudson

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Paul Hudson

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Conference Thoughts

Cultural Differences
Why Speakers Should Be Available To Attendees
The Challenges of Putting On Conferences
Organizers Making Attendees Happy
Having Really Nice Venue
Workshops vs Talks
Where Does the Community Fall Short with Inclusivity and Accessibility
Having Children-Friendly and Budget-Friendly Events

What to Upgrade Skills and Why

Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?
Ask People In Those Positions
The Technology Field Demands Continuing Education
Continuing Education means New APIs but also...
- Older APIs - UIKit, Networking, Unit Testing, etc...
- Swift Syntax
- Patterns and Practice

Dealing with Updates to Swift

The hedonic treadmill of Swift Development
Key Path Expressions as Functions by Stephen Celis and Greg Titus
Objective-C Cruft
When to Upgrade Your Old Swift Projects? (spoiler... Yesterday!)

Upgrading Your Core Skills

Why it's important to have Core Skills and not just Coding Skills?
The Importance of Good Internal Presentation
Why Senior Developers need Good Communication Skills
Picking Up on Impromptu Speaking Skills
Don't Feel Obligated Into a Role such as Public Speaker

Upgrading Your Swift Skills

Paul's Thoughts on SwiftUI
Understanding The New Patterns of SwiftUI
The Importance of Unit Testing
Ash Farrow on JS vs Swift
The Complexity of Xcode

Upgrading Other Tech Skills

Git and Version Control
Learning New and Different Tools
Terminal and Bash Scripting
Regular Expressions
Try Swift on other Devices
Be curious about other languages and platforms

Recommended Courses and books

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SwiftUI - The Good, the Bad, and the Benefits

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:00:00 -0500

Video

https://youtu.be/8X2GVqg2lUI

Full Article

SwiftUI: Everything is possible if you think like Apple

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Experience and Example Projects

Why SwiftUI Now?

Single Source of Truth
Declarative vs Imperative Programming
Functional Reactive Programming
Terminology of SwiftUI and Apple

Why not SwiftUI?

Older Operating Systems
Using Special UIKit Views and Controls
Requires Very Stable App with Good Documentation

Workarounds for SwiftUI

Preprocessor Directives and Attributes
UIViewRepresentable and UIViewControllerRepresentable

When SwiftUI is Ideal

Simple UI
Apple Watch
Cutting Edge Audience
Internal Projects
Brand New Apps
Cross Apple Platform

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Leo Dion (Host): Welcome again to another episode of empowerapps.Show. Thank you for joining me. I'm the host, Leo Dion. This is the BrightDigit podcast where I talk about Swift development, development in the Apple ecosystem, and just overall updates, changes in ways that managers, CTOs and developers can stay current and up to date with new things coming out when it comes to Swift and Apple products.

[00:00:36] Today, I'm going to be talking a little bit more about SwiftUI - the good, the bad, and the benefits. Specifically, I want to talk about my experience and examples of work that I've been doing in SwiftUI over the last few months, and then we'll be getting into why Swift UI is here, why Apple introduced it in 2019 we'll then be talking about why SwiftUI is not really a good use case in a lot of examples. I'll be talking about some workarounds about how to get around that if you still want to use Swift UI. And then we're getting into when and where Swift UI is the ideal use and what apps or maybe devices, where Swift UI really makes a lot of sense.

[00:01:21] So I want to talk a little bit about my experience and examples of where I've been using Swift UI.

[00:01:27] So back in June, I actually did a workshop, and while it was the same month as WWDC, a couple of weeks actually afterwards, I ended up using UI kit for it. I called it PeoPart because that's the random name generator - what it came up with. Essentially, it's a list of blog posts and comments that you can see on an iOS app.

[00:01:50] I use UIKit for this example. Because at the time I really didn't want to jump into SwiftUI with new developers and risk that. But I will say that with this application I am slowly migrating over to SwiftUI. So the sample app actually available for you on GitHub and they will share a link for folks later in the show notes.

[00:02:16] But this is a example that I want to see what it'll do and what it will take to convert a UIKit app over to Swift UI and see what exactly happens when I do that.

[00:02:29] he other example is a app that I'm using or a building for my local coding community. Lansing codes where people in Lansing can see what events and what meetups are taking place.

[00:02:43] It uses the Firebase backend and Web API that Eric, my colleague had built for the local community and uses combine, obviously along with Firebase. It uses Swift UI and I think it's a really great example of where I'm taking a fairly simple app, brand new, basically new app and building it into a iPhone app in this case.

[00:03:09] Lastly, you probably heard, I've been working on an app called HeartTwitch ,an independent watch app. They use a Swift UI and Vapor as the backend, and the idea of this app is that live streamers can share their heart rate right from their Apple watch and then take that sharing to a web browser window.

Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Tim Condon - Twitter @0xTim

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How does Vapor compare With other backends?

Why not use CloudKit or Firebase?
How does it compare to NodeJS, Ruby, .Net or PHP?
Limitation of various programming languages
Preferred Database Backend
What's the difference between Vapor and other Server-Side Swift backend frameworks?
What is the Server-Side Group and SwiftNIO?

Using Vapor Today

Is it ready for production?
What are some considerations a dev team should make?
What's the best way to get started?
What plugins are available? (Database, Authentication, Leaf, etc...)
What are differences with Swift on the server vs. the client?
How can you share code correctly between iOS and the server?

The Future of Vapor 4

What improvements are being made in Vapor 4?
How does SwiftNIO2 affect Vapor?
How does Swift 5 change the way database models work?
How has SwiftUI and Combine affected Vapor and the way HTML is rendered?

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2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Alex Bush - Twitter @alex_v_bush

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Podcast Update in 2020

EmpowerApps is Moving to 3 episodes per month
About the Inside iOS Dev Podcast

Xcode Wish List

Leo

Improvements to Auto Completion and SourceKit
Improvements to Playgrounds
Brand New IDE (similar to Objective-C, iTunes, UIKit, etc...)
XcodeGen - Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
Better Support for Modularization and Swift Packages
Fastlane - App Automation
swift-sh - Swift Scripting
Speculid - Asset Management and Using SVGs

Alex

Fix Look Up References in Xcode
Vim Support - XVim2
Buck - A high-performance build tool
Guard - automate testing
More Command Line Tools and Automation

Swift Wish List

Leo

Add More UI to SwiftUI
More Guidance on Complex Data Binding
Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift - Add Async and Await
Better Asynchronous Unit Testing
In-App Purchases for the Watch

Alex

Alex's thoughts on SwiftUI
Combine and Reactive Programming vs RxSwift
SwiftUI and UIKit interop
Alex's thoughts on Protocol Extensions
Instant apps?

Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
Learn Once and Code Everywhere
Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
Perfect for the Apple Watch
Likely to Change in the Future
Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
UIActivityIndicatorView

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Training Your Team with Steve Lipton

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Steve Lipton- Twitter @Steve_Lipton

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Why Training Is Important

What is the Red Queen Dilemma?
What's the difference between Coding and Programming
Why knowing your customer's needs helps your training be better focused
The significance of Soft Skills too
Why you should invest in your current employees rather than hiring new employees
When consultants and trainers make the most sense
Building Good Documentation

What Makes For Good Training Material

Make sure the pattern and style matches yours
Good production quality
Make sure it's readable!
Make sure your audience understands - Bloom's Taxonomy
Make sure it sticks

Creating Good Training Videos

Steve Lipton - No Biz Like Show Biz: Video Recording Your App for Marketing and Instruction
Have a decent microphone
Have a quiet room
Font Size 20 and up
Balance Size, Resolution and File Size - 16:9 HD Resolution
Have a script to follow

How to Judge Good Training Material Online

How many video do they have?
Watch the welcome video
Good series of tracks
Good organization

Specific Challenges with Xcode and Swift

Dealing with constant changes and updates (i.e. Xcode)
Understand updates are part of the workflow
Patterns are more stable then APIs (i.e. Reactive Programming vs Combine)
Apple's Character Arcs

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Future Proofing Your Apps with Gui Rambo

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Gui Rambo - Twitter @_inside

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Developer Apps and WWDC

New Apple Developer App!
Apple keeping in contact with developers
Streamlining getting started as a developer
Apple Business bureaucracy and DUNS number fun!
Cocoahub App for Swift Developers
WWDC Mac App by Gui
Lack of Apple Documentation

Supporting Future Hardware

Adam Bell (@b3ll) - Getting ahead of the curve - NSSpain 2015
Don't deviate from what Apple expects
Random iOS Architecture Names
The Multi-Threaded Asynchronous World of Swift from 360iDev by Leo
Will ARM matter when they switch from Intel?
GitHub? Remember SourceForge

Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
Learn Once and Code Everywhere
Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
Perfect for the Apple Watch
Likely to Change in the Future
Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
UIActivityIndicatorView

Where is AR Headed with Apple?

Gui Rambo: Why an AR skeptic is excited about RealityKit and Reality Composer
Measurement App
Are AirPods Pro a step towards Augment Reality?
Google Translate and Wordlens
Being Able to Connect to Third-Part AR Similar to CarPlay

Tinkering with Raspberry PI and HomeKit

Graphical Swift Development with GTK
Developing with the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi Zero
Homebridge
Developing a HomeKit device in Swift

What's Missing on the Apple Watch

Faster Processor and Better Battery
Lack of In-App Purchases
Lack of Biometric Authentication (i.e. Finger Print Reader)

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Quickie: Swift UI and 2020 Trends

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

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Maturity for the iPhone

Unlikely to see any big hardware innovations at this point
Maybe foldable
Great time to get an app on here, because it’s a mature product
11 not a huge change from the 10 (but definite upgrade from the 8)

Apple Watch Innovation

Waiting for some improvements to battery and processor, but this is about to become an amazing product
Great time to think about developing an app, esp. in the health & fitness sector

iPads and the Pro App Market

Apple Arcade shows Apple is interested in a subscription/bundle for games
Highlighted new iPad but where are the serious pro apps
Why having a subscription for app/games is great
Hardware is great, but software needs to improve app ecosystem
The App store eco system is still setup for “casual” apps for there is potent

Swift UI

SwiftUI is changing the way UI is developed but slowly
First Swift-only API (no Objective-C compatibility)
Maybe not be ideal for some companies with different design patterns but it’s a better starting place then Storyboards and UIKit
Cross-Platform compatible with iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS

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Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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Release Cycles

Should Apple keep releasing on a yearly cycle?
Rough 2019 Release with iOS and macOS
How iOS 13 is the first significant release since iOS 7

iPad vs MacBook

Improvements to iPadOS 13
What's missing from the iPad for pro-use?
Canopy by Studio Neat

Dealing with App Store and Teams

Certificates and Profiles
Working with Source Control
Agreeing on Xcode Version

Is Swift UI Ready For New Projects?

Depends on Audience and User Base
Lack of Documentation
Dealing with New Technical Hurdles
Big Improvement over UIKit
How to deal with UI Development right now?

Changes Over The Years for Teams

Better Handling of Remote Teams
Xcode Improvements
How Apple's culture affects the developer experience?
How to Deal with Decisions as Team Lead
Dealing with Third-Party Dependencies
Source Control Improvements
Using Gitolite for Local Hosted Git
Introducing New Technologies With Tomorrow in Mind
Realizing the Soft in Software

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Apple Hardware 2019 with Paul J Schmidt

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Guest

Paul J Schmidt - UnoDeuce Multimedia

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AirPods Pro

Improved Sound Quality and Battery
Noise Cancellation and Transparency Mode
Possibly A First Attempt at Audio Augmented Reality

iPhone 11

Video Recording Updates
Filmic Pro
Frame Rate Improvements
What's the advantage for Max Vs. Plus?
Night Mode, Deep Fusion, and other camera improvements

iPads and Macs for Professionals

Are iPads ready for Profession Video Editing?
Adobe Premier vs Adobe Rush
iMac Pro vs Mac Pro
Intel vs ARM

iOS 13 and Catalina

Is there a need to upgrade for non-developers?
When will iOS 13 be ready?
Issues with 64-bit only on Catalina

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Media Outreach with Jeff Gamet

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Jeff Gamet - Text Expander Evangelist
- TextExpander - @textexpander
- Twitter @jgamet
- Instagram @jgamet

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Episode 26 - App Search Optimization with Ariel Mitcheli

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Importance of Reaching the Press

Clear messaging prevents uncertainty and ambiguity
Pay attention and communicate with users
Get insight from the users by scheduling calls
Cater your messaging to your audience
Using PR Services (ex. PRLog) are helpful but personal relationships are important

Going to the Right Audience

Based on the target device (Android vs iOS) and industry, pitch to right journalists
Talk to developers who have done apps in that space
Make sure the press release service aligns with your app

The Email - Important Components

What is it - Software, Hardware, etc...
What does it do - Email Client, Music Player, iPhone Case, etc...
Who is it for - for the iPhone, for the Apple Watch, for Windows PCs, etc...
Why should I care/What makes it special/What need does it fill
- Email Client - AI based Spam Filter for Administrative Assistant

The Email - Subject Line Mistakes

Ambiguous or Unclear Subject Line
Being Too Clever
Pretending Like You're Looping Back
Timing is Important
Keeping It Fresh
When to Actually Follow-Up

How to build a Media Kit

High Resolution Screenshots - PNG or JPEG
Logos - SVG and PNG or JPEG
Product Information - PDF - not Microsoft Word
Reviewers Guide
- Walkthrough Documentation
- FAQ - Addresses questions the media will have
- Required Files or Info - Example Files, Logins, etc...
Contact Info - email address, social media, home page
Videos optional - Youtube Link (for in-use) or GIF (for screenshots)

How Can Companies Integrate the Messaging Early On

Think About the Messaging Early In the Development Process
Think About How It's Presented As It's Developed
Mom Test - Rope In Friends and Family
Look at Other PR Pages such as TextExpander's
Live Stream or Schedule Live Presentations Usage of the App
Using the Press for Recruiting Beta Testing

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App Store Optimization with Ariel Michaeli

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Ariel Michaeli - Twitter @arielmichaeli

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App Store Optimization Basics

The Importance of Marketing
Why not depend on Today, Category, or Featured by Apple
How it helps established business as well as startups
60% of downloads are directly from the App Store
You only have 20 seconds to capture your audience
AppFigures App Store Optimization Checklist

Key Differences between SEO and ASO

Backwards Engineering the Play Store/App Store vs. Google
ASO is restricted by the fields and parameters Apple or Google Play Store provides
People Search for Solutions on Google vs People Search for Apps on the App Store

What are the Components For Successful ASO?

Research for Correct Keywords
Apply Keywords based on Solutions the App Provides
- Breakdown Keywords
- Use the Correct Title and Subtitle Correctly
- Title and Subtitle in the Apple App Store Are Rendered As One Sentence
- How to Optimize Your Keywords List in App Store Connect
- Optimizing Your App’s Name to Get More Downloads
- How to Choose the Right Keywords for App Store Optimization
Make Visuals Compelling Which Encourage Downloads
- Videos Are Very Helpful
- Give Your Screenshots Context and Use the Design of the App Page
  - User Jump
Monitoring Keywords and Algorithm Changes
Experiment with Emulated App Store Pages and A/B Testing

What are Common Mistakes For Successful ASO?

Don't Optimize for Competitor Name
Don't Leave Your App Page Alone But Constantly Monitor
Don't Optimize for Only Your Competitor

Apple Watch App Store and Heartwitch App Feedback

Understand Your Audience
Use Branding with Browser Window
Selling on the Apple Watch Store Makes the App Unique
Ask Apple to Feature
Reach Out To The Community

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Hiring an iOS Developer with John Knox

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

John Knox - Twitter @windaddict - LinkedIn
- Hiring An App Developer - Twitter @hireanappdev

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Business of Software Highlights

iOS Hiring Challenges

Lack of Experience and Understand of iOS Development
Cargo Cult Interview Style (and Burying Dead Bodies😱?)
Lack of Training Resources for Employees
Not Oppurtunities for Growth
Lack of Organization Skills in HR/Recruiting

Getting Hired

Dealing with HR Automation
Finding the Right Person at the Company?
LinkedIn vs Twitter

What Companies Should Look For?

How John Does Coding Challenges
Finding Coding Style
Have Little to No Complex Dependencies
Seeing Actual Experience

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Continuous Integration with Kyle Newsome

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Kyle Newsome - (Twitter @kylnew)
- Continuous Integration - What, Why & How feat. Bitrise - SwiftTO

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New iPhone 11 Thoughts

Camera Improvements
Max vs Not-Max Size
DSL vs iPhone
Night Mode

Continuous Integration Issues with iOS

Deployment Issues
Cache Issues
Continuous Integration 101

How to Get Started

Removing Dependencies on People and Files
Reproducible Anywhere
Using Pull Requests or Code Reviews As Triggers
Having Tests to Address Pain Points
Dealing with Certificates and Provisioning Profiles
HashiCorp
Using Tools Like Fastlane

Comparing Services

Cloud Services
- Bitrise - Focused on Mobile Development (Android and iOS)
- Travis-CI - Free Open Source (includes macOS)
- Circle-CI - Free Open Source (includes macOS)
Self-Hosting
- Jenkins
- Xcode Server
- Running Your Own Mac Virtual Machine
Hybrid Solutions
- MacStadium
Differences between macOS and iOS building Speculid
- Tutorial Setting Up Speculid and macOS on Travis-CI

Feedback Loops and CI

Having Healthy Unit Tests
Rapid Results through Automation
Proofing Builds Before QA

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Transcription

Leo Dion (Host): Hey, Kyle, how are you doing?

[00:00:01] Kyle Newsome (Guest): I'm doing great. Thanks very much. It's unfortunately a slightly rainy day in Toronto here, but otherwise, a good mood.

[00:00:07] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, same here. It's been a weird, cause. I don't know what Ontario's like, but Michigan. It's like one day was 80 degrees and then the next day dropped down to like 50 or 60

[00:00:18] Oh, sorry. That's Fahrenheit. But you get what I mean.

[00:00:20] Kyle Newsome (Guest): It's okay. I lived a little bit in the States, so I like can do the conversion. I know that like 70 is nice and comfortable. Eighties getting to hot sixties like not too bad.

[00:00:30] Leo Dion (Host): I think fall's finally here. Yeah, so another sign of fall is the new iPhones. Did you get anyone iPhone?

[00:00:38] Kyle Newsome (Guest): I got the new iPhone 11 pro max. Which I've been waiting to upgrade for a few years. So this is like my first experience with like the X, you know, edge to edge screen as well.

[00:00:49] Leo Dion (Host): What do you think of it?

[00:00:51] Kyle Newsome (Guest): Honestly, so far I'm pretty impressed with it and as much as people have complained about how the three lenses look, I actually think it looks pretty nice.

[00:00:58] They've done something good with the glass backing, so it looks pretty refined, so I can't really complain about that. I've played around with the camera and the night photography a little bit and it's pretty cool to see how much it can capture in low light.

[00:01:11] Leo Dion (Host): What did you have previously?

[00:01:13] Kyle Newsome (Guest): Previously I had the iPhone seven plus.

[00:01:17] Leo Dion (Host): Okay. And do you really like the max size?

[00:01:19] Kyle Newsome (Guest): You know, like I'm used to it in my hand now, so I can't complain. You know, for the longest time I didn't think that I would like it, but I believe when the seven plus was the only one that had the two cameras, and I was really interested in that functionality.

[00:01:32] So I upgraded to the largest one, and now I'm kind of used to it. But I think that both the regular size and the max size are both pretty good in terms of screen size you got. I'm just sort of used to this in my hand and I liked that when they at least made the change from the old ones to the new ones, they kept the size of the same and then just you got more screen space so it feels exactly the same as my old phone in my hand.

[00:01:56] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, I was a plus size user and I loved that. And then I went to the 10s, not max. And I don't feel like I miss the size because the screen size is pretty much the same. But I was just curious, like if you see like a big advantage with the max.

[00:02:12] Kyle Newsome (Guest): No, I don't really think so. I guess it gets a little bit longer battery life, which is always nice, but otherwise, yeah, they both look pretty nice.

[00:02:20] I was sort of on the fence whether to go with one or the other, but I think ultimately it was kind of like hand feel that I just like, I was used to the weight and everything, so I just wanted to make a seamless transition like that.

[00:02:30] And the big selling point for me with the plus was the extra lens. And like now we don't have that.

[00:02:35] Leo Dion (Host): Like the extra selling point isn't there because he can pretty much get that with the regular pro. So like that was my big thing was I just want a really good camera. Like I don't have cameras anymore. Like I think I sold my DSLR and my other digital cameras a couple of years ago cause I wasn't really using them.

[00:02:54] And like the convenience of having an iPhone was always worthwhile to me. And like the dual came...

Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Abbey Jackson - (Twitter @earthabbey)
- Modularize All the Things - Abbey Jackson

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Themes from Conferences

The Importance with Meeting New People
Learning Old Features
Trying to Deep Dive into SwiftUI and its Future
The Benefits of SwiftUI for Designers
Comparing HTML and SwiftUI

Breaking Down How Xcode Works

How Different Components in Xcode Can Help Organize Your Code
How an Xcode Project Works
How Files result in Targets
Differences between Targets and Build Configuration
Dealing with Target Dependencies
Testing with Targets and Xcode
How Workspaces Differ from Projects

Modularizing Components

What are the best ways to organize your product?
Modularizing Your Persistence Layer
Importance of TDD and Protocol Oriented Programming
Other examples of modularizing: Network, Feature-cased, Authentication, User Profile, Location
Following Apple's SDK Framework Example

Dealing with Source Control

Using Git Submodules
Dependency Management Tools (i.e. SPM, Cocoapods, Carthage)
Using SDK Targets
Swift Package Manager

The Benefits of Modularizing

Decrease Build Times
Share Code and Functionality
Optimize Your Build Pipelines

Post-September Purchasing Choices

Apple Watch Series 5
iTunes vs App Store Gift Cards
iMac Backpack

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September 2019 Event

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400

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Apple Arcade and Apple TV+

Can there be a subscription service for apps similar to Arcade for games?
Was the pricing reasonable for most

iPad (7th Generation)

Is the iPad ready to be a laptop replacement?
Is the app ecosystem ready for professional apps on the iPad?

Apple Watch Series 6

What the continuing trend of the Apple Watch battery improvement?
Is the Apple Watch the device of the future?

iPhone 11

A continuing trend of maturity in the smartphone market?
Is the iPhone a phone or a camera?

iOS 13

Thoughts on if Apple bit off too much on the OS upgrades to deliver everything on time? - @tonydehnke

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Developing for Multiple Platforms with Manton Reece

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 23:55:00 -0400

Guest

Manton Reece

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Micro.blog

Self-Hosted and Indie Web Focus
Dealing with Twitter Issues
- Developer-Friendly
- Privacy
- Community Issues

Marketing to an Audience

Reach Out and Let People Know
Starting a Mailing List and Blog to Reach Out
Slow Growth Allows For Intermittent Improves Based On Audience Feedback
Maintaining Engagement
Using Automation with Mailchimp and other Mailing Lists
Using Kickstarter for Funding a New Project
Finding the right niche or niches
Providing value outside of comparing yourself

Developing for Multiple Apple Platform

Hosting through Linode using Sinatra + Ruby
How Micro.blog works behind the scenes
Having a Public API and Dealing with Third-Party APIs
Adopting standards
Dealing with Multiple Different UIs
Building Frameworks for other Developers
Differences between developing for the Mac vs. iPhone
Catalyst vs SwiftUI on the Mac
Constantly Releasing Updates

Apple September Event

What the new iPhone might mean for developers?
Maturity of the iPhone
Emphasis on Photography with third lens
Independence of the Watch App

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WWDC 2019 - Mac Development with Daniel Jalkut

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:05:00 -0400

Guest

Daniel Jalkut

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WWDC 2019

SwiftUI is the Future but is it Ready?
SwiftUI and Pragmatic Adoption and Migration

How has Apple changed over the years?

Apple conservative approach towards change
Not Releasing First

What happened to Marzipan?

Project Catalyst vs. SwiftUI
Using SwiftUI with AppKit
Artisanal vs Cross-Platform
Why would a company develop using Catalyst?
- When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
- Is Slack in the business of writing exemplary apps?
Pragmatism vs Art in Product Development
- How does Apple develop products?
- Leading by Design
Would you use SwiftUI in a Brand New App?

Future of macOS

Locking Down of macOS
- Talk Show with John Gruber - Episode 257 - A Real Sandwich
Mac App Store vs. Distributing Yourself
How does Notarization work?
How does Gatekeeper work?
- Daniel's Article - A Real Gatekeeper
Apple - Making macOS more secure or more annoying
Is Sandboxing and the 30% cut worth it for the Mac App Store?
Speculid - Easily Manage Graphics in Xcode Projects
FastScripts - Powerful script management utility
Non-Consensual Software

Running an App Business

Limits of the App Store as a Business
How to be a successful business and build great apps?
Build Your Saas - Hosting Costs
Stratechery - The First Post-iPhone Keynote
Find Where the Market Is

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WWDC 2019 - SwiftUI with Jason Anderson

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:20:00 -0400

Guest

Jason Anderson
- (@_jasonranderson) | Twitter
- jasonranderson GitHub

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Functional Reactive Programming

Understanding Declarative Programming

Better for Multiple Devices
Improved Team Collaboration
Xcode LivePreview
Keep View Model and Data Model Separate
Faster Iterative Development Long-Term

Drawbacks of using Swift UI

Limited to latest OS (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS)
Lack of Documentation and Support
Collection Views (i.e. Grids)
Good Support of Communication Between of UIKit and SwiftUI
Not Best for New Recent Releases
Do Need To Use It Now
Leo’s Swift UI Stream

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WWDC 2019 - Apple Watch with Gary Sabo

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Gary Sabo
- ‎MyndArc, LLC Apps on the App Store
- HealthKit Slack

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Thoughts on WWDC

SwiftUI and the slow demise of Storyboards
- Gruber’s rumor about Declarite Programming
- Swift and the slow demise of Objective-C
Github Repo on Talks
Github Repo on SwiftUI
You’ve been sherlocked - Operating systems
- ‎HockeyTracker on the App Store
- Gear Towards Your Specific Audience
- Specific Activities with specific metrics

Independent Apple Watch Apps

Why does Apple Watch apps need iPhone app counterparts?
iPhone Counterparts of Apple Watch workout apps are for visualization
Slow Deprecation of WatchConnectivity
How do you syncing certain data between Apple Watch and iPhone?
- HealthKit ,StoreKit, etc…
What’s the position of the iPhone in the future with AR and the Apple Watch?
SwiftUI on the Apple Watch
The new Apple Watch App Store

Where’s the Focus of the Apple Watch

Health and Fitness - Niche Fitness
Advanced Notifications
Location Tracking - GPS and Indoor Positioning System (Indoor GPS)
Accessibility and Haptic Feedback
More Sensors in the Future?

Maturity of HealthKit

Lacking Inability to Edit
Apple Partnering with Health Companies
Allowing HealthKit on iPad and macOS?

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Complete Transcription

Leo Dion (Host): Hey Gary, how's it going?

[00:00:01] Gary Sabo (Guest): Doing well, Leo, how are you doing?

[00:00:02] Leo Dion (Host): Good. Good. So what were your thoughts from WWDC?

[00:00:07] Gary Sabo (Guest): Boy, so much. I think like a lot of people, just my immediate reaction was this with UI. I didn't hear rumors. I mean, I heard maybe I heard something about, you know, declarative framework, but I didn't expect that.

[00:00:18] And sort of the, what seems to be the eventual abandonment of the storyboard. So yeah, that was the biggest shock to me.

[00:00:26] Leo Dion (Host): We had some rumors about like declarative programming. I think Gruber had talked about that, but people were just kind of like, not making it as big of a deal about it because I think everybody was like marzipan, marzipan, marzipan.

[00:00:38] Right. And then it's like the project catalyst is kind of an afterthought. It's like, Holy crap, they're replacing the entire UI. Framework UI kit. I think it's still vibrant. I don't think it's dead by any means, because they've made some major improvements. It looks like to the way table views and even more so collection views are done, but you can kind of see the writings on the

[00:01:01] Gary Sabo (Guest): wall.

[00:01:02] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, it's like Swift. It's like Swift four years or a . It's like, yeah, I mean objective is going to be here for awhile. It's going to be forever, quite frankly. But like that's called Swift UI. It's not called objective-C UI for specific reason.

[00:01:18] Gary Sabo (Guest): Right. And obviously companies have existing code bases, and if you were just starting out today, I still don't think I'd dive into Swift UI yet.

[00:01:27] You know, companies are going to need to support their existing projects for years,

[00:01:31] Leo Dion (Host): and somebody who's been playing around with it for two weeks. Yeah. Don't. I don't suggest jumping into it right now.

[00:01:38] Gary Sabo (Guest): Yeah. And it's still in beta, so keep that in mind as well.

[00:01:42] Leo Dion (Host): Very much so. Yeah. It was a big year. It's probably the biggest WWDC since Swift was introduced.

[00:01:49] We can safely say.

[00:01:50] Gary Sabo (Guest): I haven't gotten through all the talks. There's a github repo that I found or came across that kind of lists bullet points of the talks just so you don't have to invest the full 40 minutes. You can kind of just see if it's what you're interested in. So I've been going through that and just, I've been starting with obviously the ones that are most near and dear to me, like the WatchKit the Healthkit.

[00:02:11] But yeah, it seems like there's a lot to unpack. The combine is another thing there. Their foundation API. I didn't have a cha...

Subcontracting with Joe Cieplinski

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Guest

Joe Cieplinski

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Thoughts on WWDC

Business + Developer Conferences

Why Should You Be A Subcontractor?

An Agency needs flexibility and an extra developer for a project
An Agency needs a special expertise (i.e. HealthKit, WatchKit, etc…)
Fill a need for a particular platform and expertise (i.e. iOS) on team with other platform developers

Things to Consider for iOS Developers

Have a portfolio and resume - help the agency sell you to other companies
Be a T-shaped developer - know the how to build an iOS app but also have a special expertise in an area
Consider being a consultant - help build iOS development teams for companies while also making more money
Know developers of other platforms - such as Android - if you can work with them then this provides even more value to the agency

Challenges of Being a Subcontractor

Giving up Flexibility - you can be dropped at anytime because you only filling a role till a full-time employee is hired
Communication and Management - Understood Your Role Within the Structure
Don't Talk Money with Client Directly - Discussions on Money and Time should go though the agency always not directly with the client
Don’t Sell Yourself as an Individual - remember you represent the agency
Listen to the Team - Follow the agency and client’s protocols and guidelines such as their coding style, etc…

Speaking at 360|iDev

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