Issue 241
Oct 15, 2024

Monitor your app’s health with real-time insights into crash-free rates, start times, and more. Optimize performance and prevent user churn by addressing critical issues like app hangs, and ANRs. Learn how to keep your iOS app running smoothly across all devices by downloading this eBook.

While the conference has already sold out, you can still win a ticket through this month's giveaway! The conference takes place from 11 - 14 November (including a workshop day). I'll be giving a talk there, so I'd love to see you there. Joining the giveaway is free.

Sean Allen has just updated his courses for iOS 18, offering a 30% discount to celebrate. His content covers SwiftUI, Charts, HealthKit, and even includes an updated portfolio project course featuring Swift 6 and Swift Testing. If you’re looking to level up your skills, this is the perfect time to dive in!

For transparency: I’m both an affiliate and a good friend of Sean — we help each other grow.

I’ve been following Jordan Morgan’s Elite Hoops journey and was super excited to see this lessons-learned article. This is full of experience-based tips you can apply to your side projects. Of course, followed by joining the going indie course.

Visual effects controlled by scrolling feel like magic and can be done quite easily in SwiftUI following this tutorial by Antonella Giugliano.

Now that we all migrate to Swift 6, it might be tempting to just use @preconcurrency everywhere. But what does it do? And when should you use it? Matt explains.

Should you join a startup, medium, or large-size company? Bruno shares his thoughts and aims to give you the pros and cons to make a good decision.

This week's submitted question is from Vienn:

As developers, we continuously need to improve. There are new APIs to learn and new challenges to face. How do we stay motivated?

It all starts with passion. If you’re working on an exciting project, passion will follow. Passion results in motivation, and motivation results in energy to learn and grow. 

The real challenges surface when you’re working on a less exciting project. You might need to refactor an old codebase or work on an app for a digital agency that just doesn’t excite you.

Altogether, I’d argue it’s essential to work on your environment. Whenever I found myself in a situation of less exciting work, I tried to see if I could make that clear to my manager or, worst case, see if I needed to consider a new job.

Now, I know this is quite extreme, so I want to mention that it’s not always possible to escape our challenges. Therefore, it’s also good to push through in difficult times and make yourself aware that better times will follow! You know you’ll be working on an exciting feature again after the refactor. Right? If not, then it’s becoming a real problem.

In my experience, asking, “Can I work on this feature next?” is okay to create refreshing opportunities. You’ll regain your passion, motivation, and energy to learn and become a better developer.

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