Empower Apps
An exploration of Apple business news and technology. We talk about how businesses can use new technology to empower their business and employees, from Leo Dion, founder of BrightDigit.
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Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps.
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- macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel
- SyntaxKit - More Friendly SwiftSyntax API
- Post Show Discussion with Kabir on Patreon
- BrightDigit Newsletter
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Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025.
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Before Leo heads to California, Peter joins to discuss Apple's crazy year and what we expect from WWDC 2025.
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- Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer
- CompileSwift Podcast
- Peter Witham | LinkedIn
- Peter Witham - YouTube
- CompileDev - Twitch
- Peter Witham (@compileswift) • Instagram photos and videos
- CompileSwift | Facebook
- GrfxGuru - Github (Peter Witham)
- Peter Witham (@Compileswift@iosdev.space) - C.IM
- Peter Witham - Comp...
Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko from Cultured Code talk about their migration of Things Cloud to Server Side with Swift and what they learned along the way.
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Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals.
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- Newsletters | BrightDigit
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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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- Join Bushel Beta
- Join our Patreon!
- Newsletters | BrightDigit
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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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Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑
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- BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals
- 50% off first year of Bushel ...
Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI.
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- BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals
- 50% off first year of Bushel Pro
- 25% off Patreon Membership ...
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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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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Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more.
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- Natan Rolnik
- Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) / X
- Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
- Natan Rolnik | Kodeco
- Natan Rolnik | LinkedIn
- Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) • Instagram photos and videos
- natanrolnik (Natan Rolnik) | Github
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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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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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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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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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- Ben Scheirman | Ben is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust.
- Ben Scheirman (@bens@mastodon.xyz) - Mastodon
- subdigital (Ben Scheirman)
- NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development
- Combine Swift
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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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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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- Dim Sum Thinking
- dimsumthinking (@dimsumthinking@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
- Daniel Steinberg | LinkedIn
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- Come see me and Daniel at Server-Side Swift Conference. 26th-27th September 2024. London, UK
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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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- Damian Mehers’ blog | Swift, SwiftUI and .NET from Switzerland
- Damian Mehers (@dmehers@fosstodon.org) - Fosstodon
- Damian Mehers (@DamianMehers) / X
- Damian Mehers - YouTube
- DamianMehers (Github)
- Damian Mehers | LinkedIn
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- Come see me at Server-Side Swift Conf...
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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