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Simulator Camera Testing · A goodbye to a long running conference · Optimize the performance of your SwiftUI app
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A goodbye to #Pragma Conference
Pragma has been an amazing conference, with many impressive talks. One stood out: Arkadiusz Świętnicki is a sightless coder and delivered an amazing talk. If that's not enough, he also did a shoutout to Helm and RocketSim for making app development more approachable.
However — It's a sad way to end this newsletter issue — but I've been part of the last edition of #Pragma Mark Conference in Bologna. It's harder than ever to organize conferences. Costs are raising, sponsorships are more challenging to get, tickets no longer sell as fast as before.
I'm on a personal mission to find out how we can keep conferences alive. They're super important for the community, they bring us together. If you are a conference organizer or if you once tried to organize one, reply and let me know the hardest challenges.
p.s. my talk on Approachable Concurrency will be available on my YouTube channel in two weeks.
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