December 30th, 2025

This is the last Swift News of 2025. I dunno about you, but I'm ready for the year to be over and start fresh. Here's to a prosperous 2026 🥂

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​Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below.

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​Shipping at Inference-Speed​

Peter Steinberger is in the top 10 Codex users in the world and in this article he shares an update to his current AI work flow. I wanted to share this to give you some motivation to up your AI game. But don't get too discouraged and compare yourself to Peter. Unless you're trying to be top 10 in the word of Codex usage.

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​What's new in Swift: December 2025​

I wanted to let you know this new initiative from the official Swift website exists. Each month they release a "What's New in Swift" to keep the community updated on the latest and greatest with the language.

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​F**king Approachable Swift Concurrency​

We have a new addition into the family of "F'ing" websites to help simplify complex topics in iOS Dev. This is a great resource that will give you the big picture understandings of the foundational concepts for Swift Concurrency.

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​My Journey to Swift 6 and Strict Concurrency​

If the previous article was a big picture overview of Swift Concurrency, this will help you if you're already deep into the weeds of a migration. This article walks through all the headaches, pitfalls, and lessons learned after migrating an app to Swift 6 Strict Concurrency. If you're in that process, this is a must read.

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​New Apple Ads Placement​

Starting in 2026, Apple will now show ads for apps further down in the search results on the App Store. Currently, the only ad spot is at the very top, but that's soon there will be more spots further down the search results list. Is this a money grab or Apple? Or more opportunity for devs to get their apps discovered?

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​Book a Call with Me​

I'm offering a new service where you can book a 1 hour call with me to pick my brain on anything iOS dev related. This can be career advice, code review, project feedback, content creation, how I use AI, etc... If you think I can help you can book my time here.

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Till next time,

Sean