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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 5h

Daily iOS Remote Openings & Interview Prep

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 22h

It also covers the history, practical applications (functions, layers, microservices), pros/cons, examples, and comparisons with SRP, DRY, OCP, DIP, and SSOT.

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 22h

Separation of Concerns (SoC)

The article explains Separation of Concerns (SoC): splitting software into parts so each handles a single concern to improve modularity, maintainability, scalability, and reuse.

www.geeksforgeeks.org/software-eng...

Separation of Concerns (SoC) - GeeksforGeeks

Your All-in-One Learning Portal: GeeksforGeeks is a comprehensive educational platform that empowers learners across domains-spanning computer science and programming, school education, upskilling, co...

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Massicotte explains Swift’s @ isolated(any): it records a function’s actor isolation and exposes it via an isolation property.

He shows how Task/TaskGroup use it for smarter scheduling and MainActor ordering, and says most callers can ignore it.

nshipster.com/isolated-any/

@isolated(any)

There are cases where just a little more visibility and control over how to schedule asynchronous work can make all the difference.

nshipster.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 3d

Highlights: $100k for a Gatekeeper bypass, $1M for broad iCloud access, up to $1M for wireless-proximity exploits, plus 2026 initiatives - 1000 iPhone 17s for at-risk users and an expanded Security Research Device program.

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 3d

Apple is overhauling its Security Bounty effective Nov 2025: the top payout doubles to $2M (bonuses can exceed $5M), categories expand, and new “Target Flags” speed objective awards

security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...

A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research

Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards — up to $2 million and a maximum payout in excess of $5 million — expanded research ca...

security.apple.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 5d

Implementing a Refractive Glass Shader in Metal

The article explains how to build a realistic refractive glass shader in Metal for SwiftUI, covering refraction, center-weighted falloff, shadow/occlusion, edge lighting, and subtle chromatic aberration.

medium.com/@victorbaro/...

Implementing a Refractive Glass Shader in Metal

This post explores how to build a simple but convincing refractive glass material in Metal. It assumes you have some familiarity with…

medium.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 5d

How to Work with SwiftData in the Background in Swift6

It explains how to update SwiftData models safely in the background in Swift 6 using a ModelActor, proxy structs, and PersistentIdentifier.

www.natashatherobot.com/p/swiftdata-...

How to Work with SwiftData in the Background in Swift 6

Especially when working with LLM APIs, there are many use-cases where we want to save the returned data from the API into existing SwiftData models. Here is how you do this in Swift 6!

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 7d

Code along with the Foundation Models framework

An Apple code-along showing how to use the Foundation Models framework to add on-device AI to a SwiftUI app (generation, @ Generable, streaming, tool calling, performance)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5F1...

Code along with the Foundation Models framework | Meet with Apple

YouTube video by Apple Developer

www.youtube.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 9d

A cheat-sheet repo on Architecture Decision Records: how to capture what you decided, why, in what context, with what consequences.

It explains why ADRs matter, how to name and store them and how to write them well + templates, examples, team practices.

github.com/joelparkerhe...

GitHub - joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record: Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation

Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation - joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 12d

Logging Privacy Shenanigans

This article explains why macOS unified logging redacts runtime values as and why sudo can’t recover them (redaction happens at write time).

steipete.me/posts/2025/l...

Logging Privacy Shenanigans | Peter Steinberger

Apple's logs redact your debugging data as <private>. Here's what actually gets hidden, why old tricks don't work anymore, and the only reliable way to see your logs again.

steipete.me

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 13d

iOS & macOS Clean Architecture. Unit Testing

The article continues Part 1, framing unit tests as insurance that should target core business logic rather than UI.

medium.com/@rayleefx/io...

iOS & macOS Clean Architecture. Part 2 — Unit Testing

Introduction

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 13d

iOS & macOS Clean Architecture: From Chaos to Clarity

The article explains moving from ad-hoc MVC to MVVM combined with Clean Architecture, defining four layers and their responsibilities.

medium.com/@rayleefx/io...

iOS & macOS Clean Architecture: Part 1 — From Chaos to Clarity

Introduction

medium.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 14d

Learn to make Swift code only available for certain language versions or platforms

A concise guide to Swift’s @available: what it is, how to declare platform/Swift-version availability, and how to use if #available at runtime.

tanaschita.com/swift-availa...

How to use the @available attribute in Swift

Swift provides the @available attribute which we can use to make our code only available for certain Swift language versions or platforms. Learn about the arguments unavailable, introduced, deprecated...

tanaschita.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 15d

Uncertain⟨T⟩

The article promotes encoding uncertainty in code with Uncertain, a probabilistic type adapted to Swift from a 2014 paper.

nshipster.com/uncertainty/

Uncertain⟨T⟩

GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean...

nshipster.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 16d

From Massive SwiftUI Views to Reusable Components: The Root MVVM Approach to Modular Interfaces

The article explains that “massive” SwiftUI views cause testing, preview, and maintenance pain, and suggests a Root MVVM split into root views and content views.

matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-mass...

From Massive SwiftUI Views to Reusable Components: The Root MVVM Approach to Modular Interfaces

On the Internet, you can find plenty of SwiftUI tutorials that dive straight into building user interfaces without much consideration for underlying architectural principles. While these examples can ...

matteomanferdini.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 16d

Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports another XCSSET macOS variant that infects Xcode projects.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...

www.microsoft.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 18d

A new code-along session from Apple shows how to use the Foundation Models framework to add on-device LLM features to a SwiftUI app - text generation, structured output with @ Generable, streaming, tool calling, and performance tweaks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8X6...

Code along with the Foundation Models framework | Meet with Apple

YouTube video by Apple Developer

www.youtube.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 18d

Implementing advanced speech-to-text in your SwiftUI app

Learn how to integrate real-time voice transcription into your app using SpeechAnalyzer.

A tutorial on integrating Apple’s new SpeechAnalyzer API for real-time speech-to-text in a SwiftUI app.

www.createwithswift.com/implementing...

Implementing advanced speech-to-text in your SwiftUI app

Learn how to integrate real-time voice transcription into your application using SpeechAnalyzer.

www.createwithswift.com

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 19d

It contrasts this with the “stable” GCD/NSOperation/FRP era and concludes the abstractions are leaky, docs thin, and confidence still requires lots of field testing.

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 19d

The article describes three Swift Concurrency pains - forcing @MainActor for UNNotificationCenter callbacks, wrapping CMMotionActivityManager with continuations/timeouts, and fighting actor reentrancy by building a SerialProcessor.

twocentstudios.com/2025/08/12/3...

3 Swift Concurrency Challenges from the Last 2 Weeks

twocentstudios.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 20d

How to Detect Text Truncation in SwiftUI?

It explains how to detect text truncation in SwiftUI by measuring sizes with fixedSize + GeometryReader and passing the result via PreferenceKey.

fatbobman.com/en/posts/how...

How to Detect Text Truncation in SwiftUI?

Learn how to detect text truncation in SwiftUI using fixedSize and GeometryReader, and dynamically select adaptive layouts with ZStack and layoutPriority to ensure text content displays fully without ...

fatbobman.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 22d

Large Swift projects hit walls: slow builds, flaky tests, complex graphs. The bottleneck is the toolchain & project design.
Paths: React Native (speed vs debt), Bazel (power vs cost), or native/Xcode-adjacent.
Make deps explicit, measure, optimize.

tuist.dev/blog/2025/09...

Why Large Swift Projects Hit a Wall (And How to Break Through)

Large Swift codebases hit walls: slow builds, flaky tests, complex graphs. We dive into why Apple's toolchain struggles at scale and how teams can overcome these challenges without React Native or Baz...

tuist.dev

Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 22d

Learn how to display web content in a SwiftUI with new WebView.

It shows SwiftUI’s new native WebView, load with a URL/control via WebPage. The author shares code for state, async JS and gesture/modifier tweaks to build web UIs without UIKit bridges.

www.createwithswift.com/displaying-w...

Displaying web content in SwiftUI

Learn how to display web content in a SwiftUI with new WebView.

www.createwithswift.com

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Dmitry iOS Suomi @dimaiosdev.bsky.social · 23d

Build, run and debug iOS and Mac apps in Zed instead of Xcode

This article shows how to build, run, and debug iOS/Mac apps in Zed by combining xcode-build-server with the author’s xcede/xcede-dap tools and Zed tasks/global configs

luxmentis.org/blog/ios-and...

Build, run and debug iOS and Mac apps in Zed instead of Xcode

luxmentis.org

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