John and Rambo reflect on what they’ve been learning and how they’ve been aiming to improve as developers during 2023. Also, tips for getting better at debugging, deploying generative AI within existing apps, and are view models really such a good fit for SwiftUI views?

Links

• ChibiStudio
• OpenAI’s APIs

Reactions to Apple’s “Scary fast” event, Rambo’s review of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and under the hood of CleanupBuddy.

Links

• Behind the scenes of Apple’s “Scary fast” event
• Carrot Weather
• CleanupBuddy
• CGEventTapCreate
• Halide

Will this year’s iPhones switch to USB-C instead of Lightning, what could an Apple Watch Ultra-style action button be used for on a phone, and will Apple give us another look at the Vision Pro at their upcoming “Wanderlust” event?

Links

• Pillow
• NSSpain
• Pragma Conference
• Rambo’s “Fast and Fluid” conference talk

Rambo’s custom implementation of macOS desktop widgets and how they relate to Apple’s new built-in system feature, why the experience of using SwiftUI depends so much on the environment it’s being used in, and a mini-review of the ASUS ROG Ally.

Links

• App Intents
• Building interactive widgets
• SwiftData
• NSScreencast
• Episode number 192: “Sundell Silicon”
• SteamDeck
• Proton
• WWDC video about Apple’s Game porting toolkit
• ASUS ROG Ally

John and Rambo start diving into the new announcements from WWDC23 — including the Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, the new Apple Silicon-powered Mac Pro, as well as many of the updates to Apple’s various operating systems.

Links

• NSView’s clipsToBounds property
• UIViewController’s viewIsAppearing method
• The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023
• Game porting toolkit
• SwiftUI’s new Shader API
• MKBHD’s “Apple’s Forbidden Words” video
• Prompt

With the start of WWDC23 just around the corner, John and Rambo share their predictions, hopes, and dreams as to what Apple might introduce during this year’s edition of the conference. It’s Keynote Poker time!

Links

• Steve Troughton-Smith’s xrOS binary submission
• Distributed actors in Swift
• John on Mastodon
• Rambo on Mastodon

Reducing UI flickering, designing in-app purchase and signup flows, and how adding delays can interestingly make a UI feel more smooth and stable.

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Integrating AI-powered features into an iOS app, using high refresh rate monitors with a Mac, the advantages of simple abstractions, and how the M1 and M2 Max compare in terms of Xcode work.

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Links

• Viticci’s S-GPT shortcut
• ChibiStudio
• Carrot Weather
• The Turing test
• The OpenAI API
• David Smith’s post about upgrading to an M2 Max
• Sony Inzone M9

John and Rambo celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the show by looking back at how their work and the technology they use have changed since the beginning of the show. Also, how might things change during the next 5 years, specifically when it comes to machine learning, AR, and the openness of Apple’s platforms?

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Links

• Declarative programming
• Discover SwiftUI
• Unit testing code that uses async/await
• Swift’s guard statement
• Symbian

How game controllers communicate with a Mac, handling asynchronous data and actions in SwiftUI, and various ways to use view models within a code base.

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Links

• Rambo’s Mastodon post about adding game controller support to AirBuddy
• DualSenseM
• John’s “Advanced SwiftUI” workshop
• Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView
• Building an asynchronous SwiftUI button
• The SwiftUI accessibility representation API
• Sagrada Família
• Chocolate Salami
• Tonkatsu

Thoughts on the most recent Mac Pro rumors, building custom layouts for SwiftUI views in a backward-compatible manner, and the mechanics of making a UI interaction feel responsive and fluid.

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Links

• John on Mastodon
• Rambo on Mastodon
• Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter
• UICollectionViewFlowLayout
• SwiftUI’s new Layout protocol
• GeometryReader
• UIViewPropertyAnimator
• UIScrollViewDelegate
• UIViewControllerInteractiveTransitioning
• UIPanGestureRecognizer
• Deceleration mechanics of UIScrollView