July 17th, 2026 Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. Shipaton - $700K in prizes mobile hackathon It's Shipaton time! Every year RevenueCat hosts the largest online hackathon for mobile apps. The whole point is to encourage you to finally ship that side project or finally build that app you can't get out of your head. There are tons of prizes including your app on a digital billboard in Time Square in New York City. Bitrig: Build Native Swift Apps with AI Bitrig...
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July 2nd, 2026 Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. iOS 27, Your App, and Siri Early reports suggest the new SiriAI is finally good enough to use in iOS 27. That means it's finally time to take App Intents and Siri support seriously in your app. My guess is that a lot of your users will be using the new SiriAI this fall, so your app needs to be ready. This article is a great starting point for getting started with SiriAI support in your app. Is...
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June 17th, 2026 Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. WWDC Another WWDC has come and gone and I'm really happy with what was announced. We got some new stuff, but seems like a good year for stability and Siri finally works as advertised. I do a rapid fire recap in the video version of Swift News so check that out and see a bunch of links to cool stuff in the Swift News Repo. SwiftUI Group Lab - Beginner Q&A Apple held a few different group labs where they took...
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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...
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March 28th, 2026 I recently launched a small menu bar app that cleans up all the storage that Xcode builds up over time. I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think. More details at the bottom of this email. Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. App Store Connect CLI The App Store Connect CLI by Rudrank Riyam allows you to avoid using the website and do everything from the command line. But the bigger win is that AI agents can now use it for...
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February 13th, 2026 I recently launched a small menu bar app that cleans up all the storage that Xcode builds up over time. I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think. More details at the bottom of this email. Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. Xcode 26.3 includes agentic coding With the release of Xcode 26.3 (Currently a Release Candidate and not official yet), you can now use Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex directly in Xcode. The best...
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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 🥂 Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. 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...
8 months ago • 1 min read
December 16th, 2025 🤕 Life has been kicking my ass lately. That's why you haven't seen much of me the past couple months. I'm changing that and trying to build momentum into the new year. It's been tough, but you should start seeing a lot more of my content (if you're into that sort of thing). Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below. The Year SwiftUI Died This article from Jacob Bartlett is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it made me think. A huge advantage of SwiftUI...
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October 8th, 2025 👋 It's been a few weeks since the last edition of Swift News and that's because I was in the iOS 26 release crunch with my apps and course updates. Speaking of course updates, I've completed my biggest update ever with the Portfolio Project course (SwiftUI, HealthKit, Swift Charts, Source Control). I've added 10 new videos updating the app for Liquid Glass and adding an AI fitness coach feature using Foundation Models. 🥳 It's on sale now for 30% off until October 14th. Get...
11 months ago • 1 min read