29: “Flexing your learning muscle”, with special guest Niels van Hoorn

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29: “Flexing your learning muscle”, with special guest Niels van Hoorn

FromSwift by Sundell

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59 minutes

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Aug 3, 2018

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Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping,
experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use
prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building
your own tools and much more.

Released:

Aug 3, 2018

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Podcast episode

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In-depth conversations about Swift and software development in general, hosted by John Sundell.

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4: "Fake Canadian", with special guest Ash Furrow: Ash Furrow from Artsy joins John to answer questions about being inspired by other languages, asynchronous programming, doing test driven development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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44: “Pull up the time profiler”, with special guest Janina Kutyn: Janina Kutyn, former Apple Music developer and now an iOS developer in Amsterdam, joins John for a UI development special! Topics include various techniques for building UIs and layouts, measuring and fixing performance problems, and supporting different screen sizes and devices. by Swift by Sundell
69 min listen
26: "Bootstrap our way there", with special guest David Hart: David Hart, regular contributor to the Swift Package Manager, joins John to discuss the present and future of the SwiftPM project - how to get started both using and contributing to it, and how it lets the community build tools on top of it. by Swift by Sundell
60 min listen
13: "My DNA is on GitHub", with special guest Orta Therox: Orta Therox from Artsy joins John to talk about building developer tools, working on and maintaining open source projects, React Native, balancing coding time with personal time and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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5: “Escape into the open source world”, with special guest Louis D'hauwe: Louis D'hauwe joins John to answer questions about architecture, UI design, compilers, creating a programming language and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
7: "Spelunking the firmware", with special guest Gui Rambo: Gui Rambo joins John to talk about reverse engineering, finding product details in leaked Apple firmware & SDKs, getting started with Mac development & open source, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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20: "A dependency injection kind of guy", with special guest Radek Pietruszewski: Radek Pietruszewski, software writer at Nozbe and creator of SwiftyUserDefaults, joins John to talk about developer seniority, being inspired by the React paradigm, singletons & dependency injection, micro features and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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8: "Time traveling is always cool", with special guests Marin Todorov & Florent Pillet: Marin Todorov and Florent Pillet, two of the four authors of Ray Wenderlich's RxSwift book, join John to talk about Rx, reactive programming, debugging, learning new technologies and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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37: "The test of time", with special guest Ellen Shapiro: Ellen Shapiro joins John to talk about all sorts of automated testing - unit tests, integration tests, UI test, you name it! The two also discuss Ellen's recent adventures into Kotlin and whether Kotlin Native could become a nice cross-platform solution for mobile apps. by Swift by Sundell
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2: “It’s a lot like cleaning your house”, with special guest Roy Marmelstein: Roy Marmelstein from Spotify joins John to answer questions about getting started with open source, expressive code, working in a large development team, using RxSwift at scale and more. by Swift by Sundell
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1: "Hello world": The first episode of the show! John gives an introduction and answers the first questions. by Swift by Sundell
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11: "Don't use this for evil", with special guest Mike Ash: Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
47 min listen
10: “Boy, I have a lot of thoughts on this”, with special guest Soroush Khanlou: Soroush Khanlou joins John to talk about blogging, MVVM and other iOS architecture patterns, unit testing, new features in iOS 11 & Xcode 9 and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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29: "Flexing your learning muscle", with special guest Niels van Hoorn: Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping, experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building your own tools and much more. by Swift by Sundell
59 min listen
17: "Squirrel Syndrome", with special guest Janie Clayton: Janie Clayton, author of the Metal Programming Guide, joins John to talk about Metal, GPU & graphics programming, shaders, when to dive into lower levels of abstraction, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
48 min listen
27: "Exponential open source effect", with special guest Ryan Nystrom: Ryan Nystrom of Instagram joins John to talk about data-driven UI development, working on open source, how to optimize performance, becoming an engineering manager and much more. by Swift by Sundell
74 min listen
30: "Do you wanna be my mentee?", with special guest Sean Allen: Sean Allen, YouTuber and host of Swift News, joins John to talk about sharing, creating content for the Swift community, mentoring and giving feedback, teaching new technologies, interviewing and much more. by Swift by Sundell
71 min listen
16: "Better than accessible", with special guest Sommer Panage: Sommer Panage joins John to talk about all things accessibility, adaptive UIs, learning new APIs, UI testing, her secret (well, not so secret) life as a circus artist, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
51 min listen
6: "Somewhere between the view and the model", with special guest Agnes Vasarhelyi: Agnes Vasarhelyi of Topology Eyewear joins John to talk about moving to San Francisco, AR, architecture, getting started with iOS development and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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12: "A pretty good job for a view controller", with special guest Matthias Tretter: Matthias Tretter of MindNode joins John to talk about Auto Layout, working on the iPad, refactoring Massive View Controllers, dealing with old code and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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15: “My interpretation of functional programming”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof, founder of objc.io and co-host of Swift Talk, joins John to talk about app architecture, functional programming, the "rockstar developer culture", picking database solutions and much more! by Swift by Sundell
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19: "Proposal tour", with special guest Erica Sadun: Erica Sadun joins John to talk about Swift Evolution and its proposal process, civility in the community, the state of Apple's developer tools, protocol extensions, Swift Foundation vs Objective-C Foundation and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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18: "It's like The Matrix", with special guest Tanner Nelson: Tanner Nelson, creator of the Vapor web framework, joins John to talk about the present & future of server-side Swift, designing Vapor's API, Apple's new SwiftNIO project, marrying the concepts of Swift with the web, and much more. by Swift by Sundell
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14: "Holiday Special", with special guests Tobias Due Munk, Nataliya Patsovska & Patrick Balestra: Tobias Due Munk, creator of Slør, Nataliya Patsovska from iZettle and Patrick Balestra, co-organizer of the Swift Alps & AppBuilders conferences, join John on this special holiday episode of the show! by Swift by Sundell
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36: "Promises everywhere", with special guest Max Howell: Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and PromiseKit, joins John to talk about package manager design, asynchronous programming, interview processes, and also to tell some stories of how the Swift Package Manager was born. by Swift by Sundell
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22: "A path for learning", with special guest Meghan Kane: Meghan Kane joins John for a special Machine Learning episode of the show - talking about how to get started with tools like CoreML and TensorFlow, what they can be used for, deciphering the terminology, how Swift might be used for ML tooling in the future, and much more! by Swift by Sundell
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34: "Pure functions", with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis: Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis, formerly iOS developers at Kickstarter and now hosts of Point-Free, join John to talk about functional programming in Swift, and how it can be used to build apps, websites, and even control the world. by Swift by Sundell
82 min listen

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118: “What’s new in SwiftUI in iOS 16?”, with special guest Natalia Panferova: Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her experience working on SwiftUI at Apple. by Swift by Sundell
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116: “The evolution of SwiftUI”, with special guest Chris Eidhof: Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from using it over the past few years, and to discuss concepts like app architecture and state management. by Swift by Sundell
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114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage: Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like being an engineering manager at Apple. by Swift by Sundell
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29: “Flexing your learning muscle”, with special guest Niels van Hoorn

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