AppForce1 Worklog
Episodes
AppForce1 Worklog: Refactoring an 8-Year-Old iOS App is Like Restoring a Classic Car
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJeroen shares his real-world iOS development journey working on a legacy app at Dawn Technologies. He details his systematic approach to...
AppForce1 Worklog: When Your Volume Slider Has a Mind of Its Own
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMake sure to let me know what you think of this episode.I completely refactored an audio system for a work app, splitting a single AVAud...
AppForce1 Worklog: Real Developer, Real Problems: No More Polished Perfection
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJeroen returns to AppForce One with a pivot to a new format focused on his journey back to iOS development after working in developer re...
Do iOS Retrospective
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJoin me in Amsterdam for Do iOS 2025, tickets and details available now. Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a g...
Do iOS Speaker: Drew McCormack, founder of The Mental Faculty, talking about SwiftData
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textDrew is founder of The Mental Faculty, developer of Mental Case and the Ensembles sync framework. He works on Agenda. Agenda is an Apple...
Rudrank Ryam on his trip to Amsterdam and his talk at Do iOS
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textRudrank and I talk about the things leading up to Do iOS, our failed attempt to get him to Amsterdam in 2022 and our second attempt this...
Josh Holtz about his Do iOS talk: Become a Shipshape Shipping Engineer
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJosh Holtz is back on my podcast to talk about his talk for Do iOS.Join me in Amsterdam for Do iOS 2025, tickets and details available n...
Donny Wals about his Swift Concurrency workshop
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textDonny Wals joins me on my podcast to talk about Do iOS. Why he's there and what he hopes to get from Do iOS.More information on his...
SwiftDev
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn this episode I talk with SwiftDev. Someone who got into iOS development because he just likes programming and the apple platform seem...
Do iOS Speaker: Monika Mateska
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMonika Mateska is a speaker at Do iOS. Listen in to learn more about her.You can find Monika on LinkedIN and on Twitter/X.More info on h...
Conference Organizing Panel
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textAdam, Filip, Monika and me dive into some of the aspects of organizing a conference. You will probably be left with plenty of questions ...
This is the AppForce1 conference primer: Do iOS History
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWelcome to my new format. I will mention the occasional news item if it is amazing. But I don't want to add to your burden during W...
iOS Developer Conference Season 2023
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis episode's articles:Spinning Up a Feature Request Screen with SupabaseSecurity in iOS ApplicationsSwiftUI: Using a Repository a...
It was a content launch week...
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLinks in this episode:Build your own TwitterReal-World Xcode Project Using TuistLinting Documentation with Vale to Increase Quality &...
Ok that happened... Good and bad.
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLinks:Comparing Operators of Combine for iOSPlanning Animations in SwiftUISwiftUI ToolbarAutomating Swift CLI releases with GitHub Actio...
My delayed regular episode 100 with loads of Swift concurrency
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLinksTaskGroup error handlingFilter debugger outputPasskeys for iOS@available attributeSwift 5.9: Network reqs in Swift package pluginsU...
Shaun Donnelly, developer turned manager turned developer with Indie apps on the side.
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textShaun took me up on a request on Mastodon to come on my podcast.We had a great conversation about how he ventured into management as a s...
A book, an article, loads of SwiftUI
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textI've been scheduling a few interviews again. It's interesting to see that people are often quite self-deprecating about being ...
Natalia Panferova, business owner, book author, and ex-member of the SwiftUI team at Apple.
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textNatalia worked in companies in Europe and in New Zealand building web and mobile applications. Before joining Nil Coalescing she was des...
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMeet my friend. ChatGPT. I interviewed him. It's an idea I got from another podcast. Enjoy. :)Join me in Amsterdam for Do iOS 2025,...
Fake hardware, Makefiles, protocols and churn... Lots of iOS and Swift content too.
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIt has been a while since my last episode. But no worries, I am not gone. January has been a super busy month and I have been working on...
New year, new microphone.
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:A new microphone for podcasting, the Shure 87A2022 in reviewHow to Run Stream’s Docs on a M...
Azam Sharp on his Aggregate Model Architecture
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textAzam and I discus some architectural ideas Azam has developed over the course of over a hundred sample codebases.Azam's blogAzam&ap...
Marin Todorov on 2022 and "dataTile"
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMarin and I discus how 2022 went for him and what his plans are for early 2023.(It is dataTile, a smart developer tool that reads your a...
Pol Piella Abadia, Senior software engineer at the BBC
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textPol, a senior iOS developer working on the iPlayer app by the BBC. He loves sharing content and writing about all things mobile developm...
Alexander Griekspoor, co-creator of Agenda.com
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis is Alexander, he and Drew created the note taking app Agenda. A Mac and iOS focussed App.Learn more about Alexander, how he got to ...
Recovering after a conference
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:When does a SwiftUI Environment get retained?Animated Launch Screen in SwiftUIA Guided Tour f...
Time constraints are big the last couple weeks
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:Introducing Rollouts by RunwayA menu bar only macOS app using AppKitHow to check for network ...
Do iOS home stretch and I am trying to get back on my regular schedule again
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textCounting down to Do iOS. At the time of this recording, I have almost two weeks to go, but it sure feels like it is happening tomorrow. ...
SwiftLeeds, ready or not...
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a text...here I come. KLM permitting.Getting ready to go to Swift Leeds.Finally received that Model-100 keyboard I kept on talking about. Th...
Do iOS sold all its conference tickets
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textFull on prep mode for Do iOS by now. What is it. Just 5 or 6 weeks remaining. When I am preparing this episode, there were just 2 ticket...
I talk a bit about some hardware and a conference
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textI share my thoughts about a piece of hardware. Progress on the Do iOS conference and my anxiety about a delivery.In this episode I’m g...
Preparing my own conference now, Do iOS, tickets available
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIt is already two weeks since my previous episode. The one I did in the hotel room in Denver. It really feels like a distant memory alre...
Recorded from a hotel room in Denver
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a text360iDev has been an enjoyable experience thus far. I still have the final day of the conference ahead of me when I record this. But I mu...
David Barnhard, co-host of SubClub by RevenueCat
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis episode I am talking to David Barnhard from the SubClub podcast.Interviewing a fellow podcaster is always a blast. Not much audio c...
Full on trip prep mode
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textTwo weeks since my previous episode. I had my reasons. My family and I went on a trip visiting family in Luxemburg. We slept over monday...
RevenueCat and Josh Holtz
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textI have a talk with Josh Holtz about his work at RevenueCat and what RevenueCat can do for you as an iOS app developer.In-App Subscriptio...
Building team boards (in Notion)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textRight after my vacation it was heads down mode again. At my work, we had a sort of restructuring of the group I am a part of. And this m...
Obsessing over Obsidian
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textObsidian note takingArticles of this week:Slicing Environment ObjectGlobal Routing Using Navigation StackAsset Catalog and Dark ModeDela...
Gabriel Savit, co-founder at Runway after working as iOS developer
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLearn about why Gabriel and his co-founders got started with Runway. He started out as an iOS developer, but things quickly progressed f...
Third party dependencies
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textShoutout to Jason Zurita for his article https://jasonzurita.com/the-hidden-cost-of-dependencies/What are third party dependencies? Exp...
Jeroen Leenarts, podcaster, self published author and CocoaHeadsNL chairman
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWait, what is going on here? Kim Arnett as a host? Interviewing Jeroen? What is going on here? Listen to Kim interview me. Enjoy!Have a ...
Tools of podcasting, well atleast what I use
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWelcome to my podcast. Different one again. Today I'll tell you what I use for podcasting and why I use these.Hindenburg Journalist...
Shane Zilinskas, president of ClearSummit
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textShane owns and runs ClearSummit an agency with a clear focus on React and ReactNative development.He started in aviation and got into iO...
10x all the engineers? Or maybe not. Swift Charts and cool CoreMotion
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textSomething a bit different this week.A big shout out to Benoit for his article.Articles of this week:What Are Vanity Metrics? - And How t...
WWDC Aftermath or Blues
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWith over a week to inspect and reflect @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblos and me look back and share what we think thusfar.Join me in Amsterdam...
Come join me at AppDevCon or BuyMeACoffee
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textHonestly, exciting week for me. A presentation at AppDevCon this week. I also put together a BuymeaCoffee page. And on top of that there...
So much new goodness due to WWDC
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textSwift and SwiftUI received big updates last week. Yes, only available on beta releases. But give it a few months and we are living and b...
WWDC Afterthoughts with Stefan and Amos
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textAmos travelled to Cupertino for WWDC, and all three of use really enjoyed WWDC. So enough to look back on.With @amos_gyamfi, @stefanjblo...
WWDC 2022 first impressions
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textStefan and I reflect a bit on the past 24 hours. We've been frantically working on our keynote and state of the union articles. Goo...
WWDC expectations and predictions Twitter Space
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis is a quick edit of the proceedings. There can very well be audio mishaps in this.We had a MEGA-PRE-WWDC Twitter space on June 1 tal...
Marina Gornostaeva, writing iOS Code Review Newsletter and Away App
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMarina is a software developer and engineering leader focusing on development for Apple platforms. She's been working in tech since...
Getting ready for WWDC with a special guest
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis week I decided to do things different a little bit. I have no clue how exactly next week will look. I know it will be busy, I know ...
Lea Marolt Sonnenschein, coach and creator of Jrny app
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textSeems I made a muting mistake on my part of my episode with Lea. Please re download the episode if you have issues. It should be fixed n...
WWDC prep, talks, and a bunch of articles…
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLet's get ready for some conferences. Techorama, AppDevCon and 360iDev. Ready or not…Articles of this week:Fold/Unfold | Xcode Ti...
Twitter space about a lot of NON iOS things
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn a recent Twitter Space, Stefan and I decided to dig into a log of things that interest us beyond just iOS development.Some links:Audi...
Hey my voice is back, sort of…
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLost my voice there for a bit. It wasn't that i was unable to speak, but I was sounding so raspy and just horrible. I couldn't...
Alexei and me at the Enginears podcast
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textHear my totally business voice. Alexei and me representing the Stream team. I really liked how it turned out. It is a bit of an oddball ...
Third party dependencies
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textShoutout to Jason Zurita for his article https://jasonzurita.com/the-hidden-cost-of-dependencies/What are third party dependencies? Exp...
Mark Moeykens, aka Big Mountain Studios
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMark created Big Mountain Studios with a reason. A lifestyle business. At some point he discovered his lifestyle and his business didn&a...
It feels good being able to travel again
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIt is amazing to get back to in person events again. Totally worth all the hassle of arranging hotels, travel and family life at home. A...
Twitter Space: Motion Scape
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textNotes based on Stefan's companion blog postKindly share and like this to support us and the project:Release tweetGithub repositoryS...
King's day and some nice content
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIt is the day before King's day. So party time in the Netherlands.The difference between checked and unsafe continuations in SwiftC...
Hidde van der ploeg, app creator and designer
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textHidde started out as a designer, but realized he wanted to build what he was designing too. His sense of design stuck with him while l...
Easter weekend was awesome
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textEaster weekend, so I was offline a lot the last four days. Including my regular recording evening. Sometimes personal life takes priorit...
Twitter Space on our Swift Heroes experience
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textAwesome space on Swift Heroes with Adam, Amos, Martin, Stefan and me. I am still figuring out who the other speakers during the space we...
Keep everybody happy and the voyage home after Swift Heroes
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textI have been late publishing my regular episide. I am making it up by having a whole bunch of extra content. Also, lots of info on some c...
Twitter Space on Storage options on iOS
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis Twitter Space Stefan and I share some thoughts on what options you have in storing data on a device and in the cloud on/from iOS.1....
Rudrank Riyam, developer relations engineer at Codemagic
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMeet Rudrank. He's a developer relations engineer. He is an Apple WWDC Scholarship Winner in 2019 and had an internship with Apple ...
Swift in the cloud, Swift as function, Swift now has async Algorithms
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJust a quick rundown of articles I noticed this week. Getting ready for Swift Heroes in the meantime. Hope to see you there.Consistent S...
Jonny Klemmer, iOS developer at Nike
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJonny has been developing iOS apps for over 8 year. Since 2019 it is at Nike as a Senior Software Engineer. Listen in on Jonny’s journ...
New Xcode and Swift, Async Await is also still a thing
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThe Swift ecosystem is maturing every month. And with the latest releases by Apple containing Swift 5.6 is a big one in this regard.But ...
Twitter Space: Xcode 13.3 and Swift 5.6
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textApple recently released Xcode 13.3 and Swift 5.6. In this Twitter Space Stefan and I discus the latest releases with Adam.https://www.ha...
Frank Courville, coach and iOS teacher
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textFrank does many things. Organize meetups, present at conferences, coach and teach through https://ioscoachfrank.com/ and more recently h...
Conference challenges, and kid illness
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textFun times this week. Workshop hardware trouble, kids with illness, and Swift Heroes announced their first speakers on their line-up.How ...
Emilio Peláez, iOS Developer
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textEmilio has been developing iOS apps for over 10 years. He is from Mexico, and now works at Modus Create.You can learn more about Emilio ...
Preparing for Try Swift
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWorkload is high this week, I need to get ready and give a workshop on Tuesday. Try Swift WorldArticles of this weekWhat’s new in Swif...
Twitter Space: Attending a conf as attendee or speaker
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis week we talk about conferences. There’s a whole lot going on again in that space. Martin and I discus how we prepare ourselves fo...
Manuel Carrasco Molina, aka Stuff MC, politician, activist and iOS developer
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textManuel has been programming since he got his C64 in 1987. He also has been a local politician in Germany and an activist for many years....
Conference talk and some DocC follow-up
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textEpisode 70 already, and what a week it has been this time round. Loads of stuff going on and then there’s the elephant in te room. I a...
Twitter Space: Getting into iOS Developer Relations
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textIn this Twitter Space, Rudrank and I talk about our respective journey of going from software engineering to Developer Relations.We talk...
Gabriel Savit, co-founder at Runway after working as iOS developer
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLearn about why Gabriel and his co-founders got started with Runway. He started out as an iOS developer, but things quickly progressed f...
I have a cold, a CFP accepted and a newsletter mention.
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWeird week for me. I will share more in the future. But it is pretty much a couple days of me keeping my head down. Keeping on working a...
Twitter Space: SwiftUI versus UIKit
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis time Stefan and I share our thoughts on the topic of choosing SwiftUI or UIKit for your next iOS project.Fortunatly things are very...
Benedikt Terhechte, a Rust and iOS Developer located Hamburg.
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textYou might know about Benedikt through one of his confernce talks, or the podcast he did with Bas Broek. Anyways, he has done some intere...
DocC and SwiftUI error handling
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textSome cool articles again. I made a quick recording because I am super busy at the moment.Links of this episodeDeep linking and URL schem...
Twitter Space: Everyday Leadership as a software developer
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textWe dive into some of the content of the book by Jeroen. Jeroen wrote a book with the title “Being a Lead Developer”. But many of the...
Jon Reid, book author and iOS Unit Testing Champion
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textJon and I share some memories before we dive into his history. Jon is one of those mellow friendly persons who will just wait for you to...
WiFi needs to be easier, but gradients are always cool
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textSome WiFi stuff going on at home. Some really cool articles and releases this week from the iOS community.Twitter Space:Leadership as a ...
Twitter Space: iOS Coffee Chat: How to Learn New Things?
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textAnother Twitter Spaces recording. Was a lot of fun with Stefan again.Soon we will begin deep diving into some very much iOS related topi...
Juanpe Catalán, senior iOS developer, creator of SkeletonView.
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMeet Juanpe, he is from Spain, studied at the University of Sevilla. He got started as an iOS developer right at the start of his career...
We have been using Xcode for such a long time…
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textHow about that, some primordial version of what we now call Xcode has been released 20 years ago. That is just epic. Find out more on th...
Twitter Space: iOS Coffee Chat: Staying up to date with iOS development
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis is a Twitter Space recording, so my audio sounds way worse compared to normal. But hey. It is good content regardless.On January 26...
Emin Grbo, App Developer at Tidal, creator of un:safe
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textEmin has quite some experience working in tech. First as a designer and later he switched into iOS. He now works at Tidal, a large music...
Doing all kinds of new things, learning as you go…
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textOne awesome announcement this week. My regular news articles, and loads of info about the articles I mention.Here are this week's a...
Marin Todorov, independent iOS developer, book author, trainer, and speaker
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textMeet Marin, if you visit a conference or two, there is a good chance you have met Marin in person.Marin joins me on my podcast and we di...
Sometimes things go haywire, like the first recording of this episode
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThat was a bit of a setback. First recording of this episode... lost. I don't know yet what exactly happened. But hey, rerecording ...
Xcode is our playground and let's meet at conferences this year.
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textLast week I mentioned I wanted to get myself at more conferences this year. And already I have 3 opportunities lined up. That’s amazin...
Adam Rush, SwiftLeeds organizer, RayWenderlich author and my colleague at Stream
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textThis time I have my colleague Adam Rush as a guest. He organized Swift Leeds, creates content for RayWenderlich.com.He has a fun origin ...
Happy New Year, let's dive right in.
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a textFirst episode of the new year. Happy new year everyone. Enjoy this week’s articles and as always, please reach out on Twitter. I love ...