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This post argues that Apple has lost its legendary attention to detail, pointing to endless UX bugs, privacy permission nags, inconsistent layouts and broken design patterns across macOS and iOS 26 in apps like Reminders, Files, Safari, and Messages.
blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...
blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...
What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail?
A long rant about Apple's design choices.
blog.johnozbay.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This post argues that Apple has lost its legendary attention to detail, pointing to endless UX bugs, privacy permission nags, inconsistent layouts and broken design patterns across macOS and iOS 26 in apps like Reminders, Files, Safari, and Messages.
blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...
blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...
Emotional, very honest post about how awful Xcode is to use: from useless SwiftUI compiler errors and unreadable project files to flaky simulators, opaque tooling and a private bug tracker that keeps developers in the dark.
holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...
holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...
Xcode is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used | Hold The Robot
The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions
holdtherobot.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Emotional, very honest post about how awful Xcode is to use: from useless SwiftUI compiler errors and unreadable project files to flaky simulators, opaque tooling and a private bug tracker that keeps developers in the dark.
holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...
holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...
Meet the 2025 App Store Awards finalists - 49 standout apps and games across 14 App Store categories.
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developer.apple.com/app-store/ap...
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Meet the 2025 App Store Awards finalists - 49 standout apps and games across 14 App Store categories.
developer.apple.com/app-store/ap...
developer.apple.com/app-store/ap...
Swift 6.3 brings big upgrades to Embedded Swift: float printing, new EmbeddedRestrictions warnings, Swift MMIO codegen, nicer LLDB support, smoother C interop via @c. New linking features make MCU apps easier to build and debug.
www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded S...
www.swift.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Swift 6.3 brings big upgrades to Embedded Swift: float printing, new EmbeddedRestrictions warnings, Swift MMIO codegen, nicer LLDB support, smoother C interop via @c. New linking features make MCU apps easier to build and debug.
www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
Zettelkasten for Programmers
The post shows how a programmer uses a Zettelkasten workflow to turn Matt Massicotte’s Swift actor advice into small linked notes, clarifying when actors are overkill and which simpler tools to use instead.
christiantietze.de/posts/2025/p...
The post shows how a programmer uses a Zettelkasten workflow to turn Matt Massicotte’s Swift actor advice into small linked notes, clarifying when actors are overkill and which simpler tools to use instead.
christiantietze.de/posts/2025/p...
Zettelkasten for Programmers: Processing Swift Actor Usage Advice in Depth
Let us read an article by Matt Massicotte about Swift actor use and abuse, and extract from it as much as we can learn.
christiantietze.de
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Zettelkasten for Programmers
The post shows how a programmer uses a Zettelkasten workflow to turn Matt Massicotte’s Swift actor advice into small linked notes, clarifying when actors are overkill and which simpler tools to use instead.
christiantietze.de/posts/2025/p...
The post shows how a programmer uses a Zettelkasten workflow to turn Matt Massicotte’s Swift actor advice into small linked notes, clarifying when actors are overkill and which simpler tools to use instead.
christiantietze.de/posts/2025/p...
This article provides a high-level, conceptual overview of how an AVFoundation camera capture session is structured - inputs, the central AVCaptureSession, outputs, the live preview layer and the difference between capture settings and stream settings.
mfaani.com/posts/ios/sw...
mfaani.com/posts/ios/sw...
High Level Anatomy of a Camera Capturing Session
I used the following tutorial series from Apple on ‘Capturing and Displaying Photos’. They’re great. Just that it took me a bit to be able to piece together how components from AVFoundation work toget...
mfaani.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This article provides a high-level, conceptual overview of how an AVFoundation camera capture session is structured - inputs, the central AVCaptureSession, outputs, the live preview layer and the difference between capture settings and stream settings.
mfaani.com/posts/ios/sw...
mfaani.com/posts/ios/sw...
GSoC 2025 project overhauls Swift Testing’s console output with a hierarchical test tree, clearer failure details, and a new serialized event-based reporter.
It makes large test suites much easier to scan, debug, and use in future out-of-process harnesses.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
It makes large test suites much easier to scan, debug, and use in future out-of-process harnesses.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing
The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplished here on the Swift blog. You can learn more by following the...
www.swift.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
GSoC 2025 project overhauls Swift Testing’s console output with a hierarchical test tree, clearer failure details, and a new serialized event-based reporter.
It makes large test suites much easier to scan, debug, and use in future out-of-process harnesses.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
It makes large test suites much easier to scan, debug, and use in future out-of-process harnesses.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
Improvements to SourceKit-LSP boost Swift code completion and signature help so IDEs like VS Code can show full docs and detailed overload/argument info. Already merged, coming in a future Swift toolchain - try it with a main dev snapshot.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
Swift GSoC 2025 highlight: Improved code completion for Swift
Our blog post series showcasing the Swift community’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025 continues with our third update. Learn more about the projects and work accomplished:
www.swift.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Improvements to SourceKit-LSP boost Swift code completion and signature help so IDEs like VS Code can show full docs and detailed overload/argument info. Already merged, coming in a future Swift toolchain - try it with a main dev snapshot.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
Temporal Swift SDK is now open source: durable workflows for Swift (async/await, structured concurrency, strong typing, macros), resume-on-failure, deterministic workflows + idempotent activities, with docs, examples, and an open invite to contribute.
www.swift.org/blog/swift-t...
www.swift.org/blog/swift-t...
Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows
The Temporal Swift SDK is now available as an open source project.
www.swift.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Temporal Swift SDK is now open source: durable workflows for Swift (async/await, structured concurrency, strong typing, macros), resume-on-failure, deterministic workflows + idempotent activities, with docs, examples, and an open invite to contribute.
www.swift.org/blog/swift-t...
www.swift.org/blog/swift-t...
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner discusses his journey from creating LLVM and Swift to building Mojo and Modular’s AI stack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3...
Chris Lattner discusses his journey from creating LLVM and Swift to building Mojo and Modular’s AI stack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3...
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner discusses his journey from creating LLVM and Swift to building Mojo and Modular’s AI stack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3...
Chris Lattner discusses his journey from creating LLVM and Swift to building Mojo and Modular’s AI stack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
This post announces Swiftly integration in the VS Code Swift extension, adding one-click toolchain switching, in-editor installs with live progress, .swift-version auto-detection, and macOS support.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
This post announces Swiftly integration in the VS Code Swift extension, adding one-click toolchain switching, in-editor installs with live progress, .swift-version auto-detection, and macOS support.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
Another successful year of Swift participation in Google Summer of Code recently came to an end, and we’d like to shine some light on the projects and work accomplished!
www.swift.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
GSoC 2025 Showcase: Swiftly support in VS Code
This post announces Swiftly integration in the VS Code Swift extension, adding one-click toolchain switching, in-editor installs with live progress, .swift-version auto-detection, and macOS support.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
This post announces Swiftly integration in the VS Code Swift extension, adding one-click toolchain switching, in-editor installs with live progress, .swift-version auto-detection, and macOS support.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
The post explains how to add camera features to SwiftUI by bridging UIKit with AVFoundation.
The author builds a CameraManager, a UIViewRepresentable preview, and SwiftUI views using ObservableObject and delegate patterns.
www.createwithswift.com/integrating-...
The author builds a CameraManager, a UIViewRepresentable preview, and SwiftUI views using ObservableObject and delegate patterns.
www.createwithswift.com/integrating-...
Integrating Device Camera in SwiftUI Apps
Learn how to bridge UIKit and AVFoundation with SwiftUI to integrate camera functionality.
www.createwithswift.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The post explains how to add camera features to SwiftUI by bridging UIKit with AVFoundation.
The author builds a CameraManager, a UIViewRepresentable preview, and SwiftUI views using ObservableObject and delegate patterns.
www.createwithswift.com/integrating-...
The author builds a CameraManager, a UIViewRepresentable preview, and SwiftUI views using ObservableObject and delegate patterns.
www.createwithswift.com/integrating-...
This post explains Big O - O(1), O(log n), O(n), O(n²) - with clear examples (sum, bubble sort, binary search) and visual demos of runtime growth.
It focuses on algorithmic complexity - how an algorithm’s running time grows as input size increases.
samwho.dev/big-o/
It focuses on algorithmic complexity - how an algorithm’s running time grows as input size increases.
samwho.dev/big-o/
Big O
A visual introduction to big O notation.
samwho.dev
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This post explains Big O - O(1), O(log n), O(n), O(n²) - with clear examples (sum, bubble sort, binary search) and visual demos of runtime growth.
It focuses on algorithmic complexity - how an algorithm’s running time grows as input size increases.
samwho.dev/big-o/
It focuses on algorithmic complexity - how an algorithm’s running time grows as input size increases.
samwho.dev/big-o/
How Duolingo used macros to promote mvvm architecture adoption
The post shows how an iOS team used Swift Macros to strip MVVM boilerplate - starting with DataSources - standardize code, and boost velocity.
blog.duolingo.com/ios-mvvm-swi...
The post shows how an iOS team used Swift Macros to strip MVVM boilerplate - starting with DataSources - standardize code, and boost velocity.
blog.duolingo.com/ios-mvvm-swi...
Scaling MVVM in iOS with Swift Macros
Learn how Duolingo's iOS team used Swift Macros to cut boilerplate and streamline MVVM architecture adoption in a growing codebase.
blog.duolingo.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
How Duolingo used macros to promote mvvm architecture adoption
The post shows how an iOS team used Swift Macros to strip MVVM boilerplate - starting with DataSources - standardize code, and boost velocity.
blog.duolingo.com/ios-mvvm-swi...
The post shows how an iOS team used Swift Macros to strip MVVM boilerplate - starting with DataSources - standardize code, and boost velocity.
blog.duolingo.com/ios-mvvm-swi...
The first monthly Swift digest: Server-Side Swift (performance), observability (swift-otel 1.0, async-http-client 1.29, Valkey tracing), Android SDK preview, VS Code Swift 2.12, new packaging workgroup, refreshed SPM docs, SE-0497/0495/0496
www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
What's new in Swift: October 2025 Edition
Editor Note: This is the first of a new series, What’s new in Swift, a monthly digest featuring what’s new in the Swift project and ecosystem, with insights and perspectives from across the Swift worl...
www.swift.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The first monthly Swift digest: Server-Side Swift (performance), observability (swift-otel 1.0, async-http-client 1.29, Valkey tracing), Android SDK preview, VS Code Swift 2.12, new packaging workgroup, refreshed SPM docs, SE-0497/0495/0496
www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
OpenAI introduced Aardvark, a GPT-5–powered autonomous security researcher.
The agent continuously analyzes code repositories to identify, validate, and help fix vulnerabilities using LLM-based reasoning and Codex-generated patches.
openai.com/index/introd...
The agent continuously analyzes code repositories to identify, validate, and help fix vulnerabilities using LLM-based reasoning and Codex-generated patches.
openai.com/index/introd...
Introducing Aardvark: OpenAI’s agentic security researcher
Now in private beta: an AI agent that thinks like a security researcher and scales to meet the demands of modern software.
openai.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
OpenAI introduced Aardvark, a GPT-5–powered autonomous security researcher.
The agent continuously analyzes code repositories to identify, validate, and help fix vulnerabilities using LLM-based reasoning and Codex-generated patches.
openai.com/index/introd...
The agent continuously analyzes code repositories to identify, validate, and help fix vulnerabilities using LLM-based reasoning and Codex-generated patches.
openai.com/index/introd...
Enhancements to help you submit and market your apps and games
Apple announces App Store changes: submit extra items during review, create up to 70 custom product pages with keywords, and use offer codes for all IAP types.
developer.apple.com/news/?id=gf6...
Apple announces App Store changes: submit extra items during review, create up to 70 custom product pages with keywords, and use offer codes for all IAP types.
developer.apple.com/news/?id=gf6...
Enhancements to help you submit and market your apps and games - Latest News - Apple Developer
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping developers succeed on the App Store, we’re introducing new options for submitting content and updates while your app is in review, double the number of cus...
developer.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Enhancements to help you submit and market your apps and games
Apple announces App Store changes: submit extra items during review, create up to 70 custom product pages with keywords, and use offer codes for all IAP types.
developer.apple.com/news/?id=gf6...
Apple announces App Store changes: submit extra items during review, create up to 70 custom product pages with keywords, and use offer codes for all IAP types.
developer.apple.com/news/?id=gf6...
Secure your app with Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) where hardware, OS, and compiler add pointer/heap tags to block buffer overflows and use-after-free by aborting on tag mismatches.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUM...
Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) where hardware, OS, and compiler add pointer/heap tags to block buffer overflows and use-after-free by aborting on tag mismatches.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUM...
Secure your app with Memory Integrity Enforcement | Meet with Apple
YouTube video by Apple Developer
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Secure your app with Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) where hardware, OS, and compiler add pointer/heap tags to block buffer overflows and use-after-free by aborting on tag mismatches.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUM...
Apple introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) where hardware, OS, and compiler add pointer/heap tags to block buffer overflows and use-after-free by aborting on tag mismatches.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUM...
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
Swift.org announces nightly previews of the Swift SDK for Android, enabling native Android development in Swift with a Getting Started guide, examples, and swift-java for Swift–Java interop.
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
Swift.org announces nightly previews of the Swift SDK for Android, enabling native Android development in Swift with a Getting Started guide, examples, and swift-java for Swift–Java interop.
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
Swift.org
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Swift.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
Swift.org announces nightly previews of the Swift SDK for Android, enabling native Android development in Swift with a Getting Started guide, examples, and swift-java for Swift–Java interop.
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
Swift.org announces nightly previews of the Swift SDK for Android, enabling native Android development in Swift with a Getting Started guide, examples, and swift-java for Swift–Java interop.
www.swift.org/blog/nightly...
Liquid Glass Resources is a curated directory of UI assets and code for translucent, glossy, blurred “glass” effects in apps and on the web.
www.liquidglassresources.com
www.liquidglassresources.com
Liquid Glass Resources
Everything you need to elevate your UI with Liquid Glass effects
www.liquidglassresources.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Liquid Glass Resources is a curated directory of UI assets and code for translucent, glossy, blurred “glass” effects in apps and on the web.
www.liquidglassresources.com
www.liquidglassresources.com
Official Apple repository for FastVLM (CVPR 2025), an efficient vision–language stack built around the FastViTHD encoder to reduce visual tokens and latency.
Designed for on-device, real-time multimodal applications.
github.com/apple/ml-fas...
Designed for on-device, real-time multimodal applications.
github.com/apple/ml-fas...
GitHub - apple/ml-fastvlm: This repository contains the official implementation of "FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models" - CVPR 2025
This repository contains the official implementation of "FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models" - CVPR 2025 - apple/ml-fastvlm
github.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Official Apple repository for FastVLM (CVPR 2025), an efficient vision–language stack built around the FastViTHD encoder to reduce visual tokens and latency.
Designed for on-device, real-time multimodal applications.
github.com/apple/ml-fas...
Designed for on-device, real-time multimodal applications.
github.com/apple/ml-fas...
From 47s to 3s: An Unofficial Gym Wallet Pass
A fascinating story in which the author reverse-engineers the API, skewers the ancient 8-digit PIN vs rotating QR, and builds a Swift/Vapor backend + PassKit auto-updates that sync to Apple Watch - so the gate opens in 3s.
drobinin.com/posts/how-i-...
A fascinating story in which the author reverse-engineers the API, skewers the ancient 8-digit PIN vs rotating QR, and builds a Swift/Vapor backend + PassKit auto-updates that sync to Apple Watch - so the gate opens in 3s.
drobinin.com/posts/how-i-...
How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
Tired of fumbling with the PureGym app for 47 seconds every morning, I reverse-engineered their API to build an Apple Wallet pass that gets me in with a quick wrist scan. Along the way, I discovered t...
drobinin.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
From 47s to 3s: An Unofficial Gym Wallet Pass
A fascinating story in which the author reverse-engineers the API, skewers the ancient 8-digit PIN vs rotating QR, and builds a Swift/Vapor backend + PassKit auto-updates that sync to Apple Watch - so the gate opens in 3s.
drobinin.com/posts/how-i-...
A fascinating story in which the author reverse-engineers the API, skewers the ancient 8-digit PIN vs rotating QR, and builds a Swift/Vapor backend + PassKit auto-updates that sync to Apple Watch - so the gate opens in 3s.
drobinin.com/posts/how-i-...
Inspect & optimize Image Decoding timing in iOS
The article explains that image decoding often happens on the main thread during the Core Animation commit phase, causing hitches, and shows how to move this work off the main thread.
juniperphoton.substack.com/p/inspect-an...
The article explains that image decoding often happens on the main thread during the Core Animation commit phase, causing hitches, and shows how to move this work off the main thread.
juniperphoton.substack.com/p/inspect-an...
Inspect & optimize Image Decoding timing in iOS
Displaying images in iOS is both easy and challenging.
juniperphoton.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Inspect & optimize Image Decoding timing in iOS
The article explains that image decoding often happens on the main thread during the Core Animation commit phase, causing hitches, and shows how to move this work off the main thread.
juniperphoton.substack.com/p/inspect-an...
The article explains that image decoding often happens on the main thread during the Core Animation commit phase, causing hitches, and shows how to move this work off the main thread.
juniperphoton.substack.com/p/inspect-an...
@ ViewConfigurable - A better way to build SwiftUI components
Max Roche shows a Swift macro, @ ViewConfigurable, that auto-generates modifier-style APIs from a ViewConfiguration struct so SwiftUI components stay flexible without bloated initializers.
medium.com/grindr-engin...
Max Roche shows a Swift macro, @ ViewConfigurable, that auto-generates modifier-style APIs from a ViewConfiguration struct so SwiftUI components stay flexible without bloated initializers.
medium.com/grindr-engin...
@ViewConfigurable — A better way to build SwiftUI components
Try out the @ViewConfigurable macro via SPM
medium.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@ ViewConfigurable - A better way to build SwiftUI components
Max Roche shows a Swift macro, @ ViewConfigurable, that auto-generates modifier-style APIs from a ViewConfiguration struct so SwiftUI components stay flexible without bloated initializers.
medium.com/grindr-engin...
Max Roche shows a Swift macro, @ ViewConfigurable, that auto-generates modifier-style APIs from a ViewConfiguration struct so SwiftUI components stay flexible without bloated initializers.
medium.com/grindr-engin...
Daily iOS Remote Openings & Interview Prep
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October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Daily iOS Remote Openings & Interview Prep
If you're actively looking for a job and want to get daily remote iOS job updates, subscribe to the private Patreon page:
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“iOS (Swift) Jobs” → patreon.com/iOSjobs
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