Software engineer with a growing passion for iOS and watchOS.
Do any of you guys work at any companies that could use some design services for a project? Like, needing an app icon, a new logo, an advertisement, a website? Big or small is fine - @Iconfactory has some of the best designers around sitting idle and waiting for something to do! They can get started on new stuff basically right away if you email.
(Please help spread the word! Maybe someone you know needs it? We can do whatever! Get in touch. https://iconfactory.com/services)
I like this take by @kentbeck on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important
From this interview with @gergelyorosz https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agents-and-coding-with-kent
And now the code! This is the code I used to make all of these examples. Pass in the color, icon string, effect, and speed:
Last Call on Silicon Inside Stickers
Sales pause after May 12 due to a possible Canada Post strike starting May 22.
Order by May 13 to avoid shipping delays. Sales will reopen once a Canada Post deal is in place. Thanks for your support!
A very limited number of pins (~20) also remain available until May 13.
Once you enable the Swift 6 language mode, the compiler will start complaining about your static var and static let declarations. This effectively makes it look like Swift 6 wants to tell you to not use Singletons anymore.
In this week's post, I look at what the errors really mean, and how you can continue defining singletons and shared instances: https://www.donnywals.com/using-singletons-in-swift-6/
Launching an app turns out to be a pretty good way of celebrating my birthday 😄
Get Smash Smash at https://smashsmash.app 🔨💥
If you heard about that hacking of the voices of traffic light crosswalks in the US recently, the root cause is the devices all had the password '1234' and an app to reprogram the devices was on the Apple app store.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_crosswalk_button_hacking/
Just dropped a new episode of Launched! 🚀
Had an absolute blast, as always, hanging out with the delightful @klemensstrasser 😁
https://mastodon.social/@Launched/114381910741872294
I've opened my schedule to additional work. Could you benefit from a Senior iOS Developer helping with your projects? Need some advice or mentoring?
Book an hour with me or reach out for larger projects if you think I'd be useful.
Reminder to people heading to conferences in the upcoming weeks.
If you temporarily share your location with friends the Find My app is *AMAZING* for finding people in crowded areas, restaurants, etc.
@theevo @DeepDishSwift definitely feel you there about life interrupting the Deep Dish Swift promises! But that’s great about the job and life! We won’t be there but doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the hype! 😎
I’m unable to fly out and attend Deep Dish Swift this year, but I am super excited for those who are going! 🤗 It’s such a great conference and experience!! #iosdev
It’s my birthday weekend 🥳 and I’m running a special sale on my #Swift and #SwiftUI books - just for my followers, and just for the next 48 hours!
📚 Use the code BDWK25 at checkout to get 20% off any book or bundle:
https://books.nilcoalescing.com/
I need a marketing landing page for my now in private #TestFlight iOS app #Village. I’d like it to have some basic support for content and a way to collect email addresses. I’d also like to not fall into a hole of customization, especially avoiding building something myself.
What do #indiedev typically folks use for this?
I just opened up enrollment for the third pilot run of my App Performance and Instruments Virtuoso course!
The full-length, in-depth, online course starts in May and, as the third pilot, it is 33.33% off the regular price.
This will be the last run of the course until Fall 2025.
So click on through to learn more, read testimonials, and enroll!
And we’re back! See you at #iOSDevHappyHour THIS SATURDAY!!
April 19, 2025, 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC
Do I know anyone hiring iOS engineers?
We can set a custom background for a window on macOS in #SwiftUI using the containerBackground() modifier. And to extend it to the toolbar, we need to apply toolbarBackgroundVisibility(.hidden, for: .windowToolbar) to the window’s content.
Learn more: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/CustomizingMacOSWindowBackgroundInSwiftUI/
“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/
Special event!
Join @swiftlee and me as we discuss how to build better apps with RocketSim!
Tune in to the livestream to learn the hottest tips and tricks from the creator of RocketSim itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MtostISJTY
Tuesday, April 15th, at 20:00 CEST
