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When I say 'Sparkle,' for some, it will immediately ring a bell. It's an open-source framework that's available since 2006 (!!) and the most used framework for macOS updates out of the App Store.
Read the articleDespite our best efforts, sometimes issues slip through the cracks. That's why having an amazing observability tool in your corner is important to keep your app humming. Bitdrift gives you on-demand observability that's custom-built for mobile teams: no log limits, no overage fees, and no waiting on your next app release.
Learn morePrompt engineering is a skill to train nowadays, and why not do it while focusing on Apple’s Foundation Model?
The new design with Liquid Glass is great for native apps, but a real challenge for hybrid platforms like Flutter. In fact, the question is whether they’ll even survive this redesign!
A new iOS version also means reconsidering supported versions. David Smith works on Widgetsmith and has a large user base. He discusses why dropping, e.g., iOS 14, isn’t a simple decision from a business perspective.
This article by Airbnb is a must-read. The performance optimizations might be extreme for some simple apps, but the approach and learnings are worth reading!
If you think iOS conference tickets are expensive, think again. We’re incredibly fortunate to have access to amazing conferences at relatively affordable prices. Don’t get me wrong—they still cost money. But this article by Tim Condon gives a background story that might make you realize what it means to organize a conference.
Last week's Swift proposal state changes. Review-stage proposals are your chance to influence Swift's future.
It's been a week of fun with camera simulation and Sparkle support. Especially the latter has been challenging (as you can read in this week's article), but it does mean we're now able to offer RocketSim out of the App Store.
You might wonder—are you leaving the Mac App Store?
I'm definitely not! We just found out that many companies don't allow to install apps from the Mac App Store, if only after an exception. To get RocketSim in the hands of larger companies, we had to take this step. This already resulted in continued conversations with teams of 50+ app developers (!!). Feel free to reply to this email if you want to use RocketSim with this new distribution channel.
My second priority is finishing the core of my Swift Concurrency Course. I'm currently writing the final module on migration, but I can't just simply write those lessons. I truly want to eat my own dogfood, so I'm using the contents of the lessons to migrate several open-source projects like Diagnostics. Such migration results in unexpected challenges and real-world examples that I can use to optimize my course.
One of the challenges I faced is writing logs, lock-free, but concurrency safe, into a file. I've encountered interesting resources like NIOFileSystem and this thread on the Swift Forums. It shows that a migration to Swift Concurrency isn't only about rewriting some code—it can also mean going back to the drawing table to optimze and guard performance.
Have a great week!
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