• 52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem
    Dec 5 2024

    Join us as we talk about the Python package ecosystem, the prospective vision to improve the approachability of data-race safety, and give our usual package recommendations.

    News

    • Constraints are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma
    • Prospective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safety
      • Announcement post on Mastodon
      • The forum thread and Tim Condon’s comment

    Packages

    • Social media post about LMDB
    • Swift Package Index search for LMDB
      • QuickLMDB
      • RapidLMDB
      • SwiftLMDB
      • Empire
    • Fuzi fork by DimensionDev
    • Fuzi by Ce Zheng
    • Orb by Siddhant Mehta
    • SoulverCore by Zac Cohan
    • Queue by Matt Massicotte
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    47 mins
  • 51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed
    Nov 7 2024

    Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.


    News

    • New sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swift
      • celsius-converter
    • iOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of Swift

    Packages

    • SwiftClaude by George Lyon
    • JSONPatch by Peter Ringset
    • SingaporeKit by Jia Chen
    • swift-glob by Tuist, forked from David Beck
    • GestureButton by Daniel Saidi
    • StarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé


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    40 mins
  • 50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall
    Oct 17 2024

    Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.


    News

    • Server-Side Swift Conference
      • Swift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben Cohen
      • When to Make a Macro by Daniel Steinberg
      • Leveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz Busch
      • Stop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth Velghe
      • So You Think You Know Swift? by Nick Lockwood
    • Dave’s thoughts about Swift formatting
    • Chip8Kit

    Packages

    • LocationRadiusPicker by Eman Basic
    • Recap by Joe Fabisevich
    • TinyStorage by Christian Selig
    • swift-async-operations by matsuji


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    35 mins
  • 49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness
    Sep 30 2024

    Join us as we talk about The Server Side Swift meetup, the Server Side Swift conference, Wasm, new features in Swift Package Index, Hummingbird 2, Vapor 5, and hear our regular package recommendations.

    News

    • SSWG Meetup #3
      • SwiftWasm
      • WasmKit
    • Server Side Swift Conference
      • Why was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019?
    • Contributions to Swift Package Index
      • Add a "forked from" feature
      • Add "first_activity" as a search filter option
    • Hummingbird
      • What’s new in Hummingbird 2
    • Vapor
      • The future of Vapor
      • Swift HTTP Types

    Packages

    • swift-snowflake by Jaehong Kang
    • Versionator by Sam Deane
    • GameControllerKit by Wesley de Groot
    • swift-export by Frank Lefebvre
    • Chip8iEmulationCore by Danijel Stracenski
    • SpectreKit by Patrik Svensson


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    42 mins
  • 48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down?
    Aug 29 2024

    Join us as we talk about the CocoaPods maintenance plans and Swift macro expansions in Visual Studio Code, as well as hear our regular package recommendations.


    News

    • CocoaPods Support & Maintenance Plans
    • Expansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio Code
      • Configuring Emacs for Swift Development
      • Configuring Neovim for Swift Development

    Packages

    • SVGPath by Nick Lockwood
      • PaintCode
    • swift-cloud by Andrew Barba
    • PhraseKit by Mark Battistella
    • EditValueView by p-x9
    • UserDefaultsEditor by Ryu
    • ConfettiKit by Simon B. Støvring
      • Recreating iMessage Confetti
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    41 mins
  • 47: There are no open-source license police
    Aug 8 2024

    Join us as we discuss the latest Ready for Swift 6 results, and how we represent them on the site. We also chat about Open Source Software funding, homomorphic encryption, and of course, we include our regular package recommendations.


    News

    • Issue with Swift 6 error counts
    • Geomys project announcement
      • AcknowList by Vincent Tourraine
      • LicensePlist by Masayuki Ono

    Packages

    • Easing by Pavel Sharanda
    • swift-homomorphic-encryption by Apple
      • Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption
      • Homomorphic encryption in plain english
      • swift-argument-parser by Apple
    • swiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas Gergel
    • KeyColor by Anton Heestand
    • Lightpack by Daniel Noskin
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    44 mins
  • 46: A concept born and explored in recent decades
    Jul 11 2024

    Join us as we talk about our build system move to an Orka cluster consisting of 8 Mac Studios, our ongoing "Ready for Swift 6" project, to get an update on documentation coverage across the package ecosystem, and to hear our regular package recommendations.

    News

    • Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors
    • Switching to ephemeral macOS build runners
      • MacStadium FOSS program

    Packages

    • swift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki Miki
    • Soto by Adam Fowler and the release blog post
    • SwiftSessions by Alessio Rubicini
    • Tabular by António Pedro Marques
    • CoreXLSX by Max Desiatov


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    49 mins
  • 45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
    Jun 20 2024

    This week we talk about WWDC, our Ready for Swift 6 project that tracks data race safety errors across the whole package ecosystem, the Swift 6 migration guide, and more. Of course, we also make our regular package recommendations!


    News

    • Swift 6 Migration Guide
    • Matt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog series

    Packages

    • BlurHashViews by Dale Price
      • https://blurha.sh
    • DeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietze
    • swiftly by Patrick Freed
    • Hummingbird by Adam Fowler
      • Swift Server Side Meetup #2
    • ContrastKit by Mark Battistella


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    34 mins