June 5th, 2026

As you may have seen, I recently joined the team at Bitrig (from the co-creators of SwiftUI at Apple). My role there is a mix of content and engineering, but mostly content to help teach developers how to get the most out of the platform. This also means Swift News will be more regular for the foreseeable future. It will be released (roughly) once every two weeks.

I'm pumped for this next chapter 😀.

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

​WWDC​

It's the best time of year! WWDC is just a couple days away. The big rumor is that we'll finally get the big Siri overhaul. Let's see how they do. What are you most hopeful for from WWDC?

​Bitrig Hackathon at WWDC​

Join me at the Y Combinator offices in Mountain View on Wednesday, June 10th to hack on the new APIs announced at WWDC. Awesome judges and prizes that include $20K in OpenAI API credits (split between the winners), a guaranteed Y Combinator interview, and tickets to Startup School. This is gonna be good.

​2026 Apple Design Award Winners​

I share this article every year and say the same thing every year. If you're trying to build the best iOS app you can, download these ADA winners, play around with them, and take inspiration. They won an Apple Design Award for a reason. Learn from them.

​Swift Mentorship Program​

If you've never contributed to open source, but want to, the Swift Mentorship Program is for you. If accepted you'll be paired with a senior developer as a mentor to help you craft your first submission to an Apple open source project. Deadline for mentee's to apply is June 15th.

​Slow the F Down​

I'm sure many of us have become slightly addicted to coding agents and have maybe outsourced a little too much of our thinking to them. This article does a great job discussing that and showing how to properly use agents so we don't rely on them too much.

​Talking Liquid Glass with Apple​

Danny sat down with Apple’s Developer Relations and Design Evangelists team in NYC as part of a workshop to discuss Liquid Glass and it's future on Apple platforms. Check it out to learn more about Liquid Glass and where it's heading.

​New App Store Connect Analytics​

The new analytics in App Store Connect that were announced at last year's WWDC are finally live (as of about a month ago). There are over 100 new metrics to check out for your app's performance. I'm very happy with this addition.

​Eraser: Cleaner for Xcode​

Xcode builds up gigabytes of storage over time. Eraser saves you time and easily cleans up Derived Data, Project Archives, and Device support. You can manually delete these from a convenient menu bar app, or you can set up intelligent automations so you don't even have to think about it.

Till next time,

Sean