SwiftLee Weekly

Conference mode turned on!

In a few hours, I'll fly to Buenos Aires to speak at BA: Swiftable. I'm excited to visit Argentina for the first time (it's even my first time below the equator!).

Most of the 2023 conferences are behind us, but 2024 conferences are already planning ahead. You can submit CFPs for:

And probably many more that I haven't listed yet! If you're considering giving a talk, I highly recommend my article Presentation tips for performing professional Swift talks. It's based on all my previous talks and full of tips I'm still using today.

In fact, this week, I've been reading it again to ensure I'm fully prepared for my BA: Swiftable talk.

All the best and enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!

THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST

Swift Evolution: Reading and learning from proposals

Every Swift language update contains many changes and potentially impactful new language features. A process behind these changes is available for you to follow. You can even propose a change yourself or share your opinion on a potential new language improvement.

Why you should read this: It's not the proposals that excites me the most

The Best Pair Programming Tool for Xcode

Pair programming in Xcode is difficult. Stop struggling to describe which line of code to change or dancing around who’s screen sharing. With Multi, simply point, draw, or even take control of your teammate’s Xcode. Multi just launched into early access, so be the first to try it out!

CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

SWIFT

Stretching an audio file using Swift

I always enjoy Mathijs Kadijk’s articles as they cover niece topics with related background stories of their journey. This time, it’s about stretching audio files to keep audio and video in sync.

Scoped animations in SwiftUI

Majid Jabrayilov greatly describes how you can benefit from a new SwiftUI animation view modifier to manage stepped animations.

Observable Architecture Beta!

The popular Composable Architecture by Point-Free comes with a significant update after integrating Swift’s Observation framework.

SWIFTUI

Create an AsyncStream from withObservationTracking() function

Both this article and last week’s article about using the Observation framework outside of SwiftUI are an exciting look into how you can use the technique behind @Observable in other places than SwiftUI.

INTERVIEWS

Finding a new job as a software engineer in 2023

$twitter shares advice to candidates and employers for hiring software engineers in 2023. You might find this helpful if you want a (new) job. Note: this link got included last week with the wrong URL, which is why it reappears this week!

OPTIMIZATION

Pair Programming with AI

What if you could work together with AI? It’s quite a hot topic, and Fatbobman decided to dive into it for his blog.

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Issue 195
Nov 28, 2023