iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 517 - Jul 23rd 2021

Comment I’m determined to write something more positive today! I’ve been far too negative recently, so let’s fix that. First of all, one of the iOS Dev Weekly Insiders brought up a great point during the latest discussion call. It’s worth remembering that not all feedback on the new releases has been as negative as the...

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 516 - Jul 16th 2021

Comment You might have seen that Apple rolled back the fairly radical new Safari tab design in the latest beta releases of macOS and iPad OS this week. I love Safari, and I’ll admit that drastically changing such a core feature made me draw in my breath when I first saw how it looked, but I was interested to see how it felt...

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 515 - Jul 9th 2021

Comment While we wait to see what, if any, changes Apple will make to the App Store due to increasing pressure from legal cases and government legislation, it’s interesting to watch what the other companies are doing. Microsoft is ready to show its hand, with the updated Microsoft Store for Windows announced this week....

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 514 - Jul 2nd 2021

Comment It’s always a good signal to write about something when I get several emails saying “Have you seen this?” along with a link. I’ve received more of those emails this week about GitHub Copilot than for anything else I can remember recently. If you’ve been reading for a while, you won’t be surprised to hear that I...

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 513 - Jun 25th 2021

Comment Sometimes I sit down to write my comment for this newsletter, and there are so many things I want to write about, it’s tough to pick one. Sometimes I sit here, and no matter how hard I try, nothing that I’d be happy to publish comes out. I could force myself to sit here for another few hours and squeeze out a few...

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 512 - Jun 18th 2021

Comment I didn’t know quite how to feel as I watched Kieran Senior talk about reviewing code and dealing with pull requests inside Xcode this week. At first, I was nothing but impressed when I realised Xcode now integrates with both GitHub and BitBucket pull requests natively inside Xcode. I want to review code this way! The...

Jun 2021

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 511 - Jun 11th 2021

Comment I didn’t think I’d ever get to see anything I had worked on in a WWDC session presentation. That’s a privilege even if you work inside Apple. It’s pretty much unheard of if you don’t. And yet, this week, it happened. 🤯 It began when I started receiving messages and DMs from people saying, “Did you just see the...

Jun 2021

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 510 - Jun 4th 2021

Comment It’s almost WWDC time! 🚀😍🎉 Looking around Twitter and the web this week, I see two very different narratives from the community about this year’s conference. On the one hand, I see the usual excitement, anticipation, and hope for Xcode to be better at understanding Swift. On the other, I see more unrest and frustration...

Jun 2021

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 509 - May 28th 2021

Comment I still (just about! 👴) remember the first time I came across asynchronous programming. I assumed, incorrectly, that when I called into the concurrent code, execution would continue in my calling function after it had completed. Of course, I was as wrong then as I often am now! I feel like programming languages...

May 2021

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 508 - May 21st 2021

Comment A couple of weeks ago, I apologised for talking about the Swift Package Index too much. After the newsletter went out, someone replied via email saying: Keep talking about the Swift Package Index! I only visited it for the first time after this newsletter. It’s a great reminder that if you’re trying to promote...

May 2021