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Jonathan Ruiz, podcaster and iOS App Developer.

30 Dec 2021

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Send me a textJonathan is a fellow podcaster. Together with Mark Fransen he creates the podcast Everyday Robots. In his spare time he created the iOS ...

Happy Holidays

26 Dec 2021

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Send me a textHappy Holidays.Final regular episode of 2022.Building an asynchronous SwiftUI button | Swift by SundellSupporting async/await as a modul...

Frank Foster, iOS Dev Happy hour, self taught iOS Developer

23 Dec 2021

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Send me a textFrank is one of the people currently running iOS Dev Happy Hour. I’ve had several people from that community on my podcast before.Fran...

So it is lockdown again... lots of adjusting and finding a new groove, yet again…

21 Dec 2021

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Send me a textIt is a bit of everything this week.Links if this weekHow to change UIImage color in Swift | SarunwAttempting SonarQube Analysis on Xcod...

Tim Condon, Vapor Core Team Member and Swift Server Group Member.

16 Dec 2021

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Send me a textTim worked in cyber security, ended up at the BBC and started working on server-side Swift fulltime in 2019.He is also the server-side S...

Always good te review_

14 Dec 2021

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Send me a textHere are this weeks links.Implementing and testing Universal LinksMake rounding specific corners easier with extension | Filip Němeček...

Michael Flarup, The iOS App Icon Book and Northplay CEO

08 Dec 2021

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Send me a textMichael wrote a book on App Icons. The Kickstarter on this book ends on December 10. So get in there if there’s still time. He also ru...

Swift on Lambda while creating feature flags on CloudKit

07 Dec 2021

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Send me a textSome nice articles that might get you to think out of the box this week. Backpressure is a concept I pretty much have not thought about ...

Ulf Schwekendiek, Founder & CEO at Centered.app

02 Dec 2021

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Send me a textUlf started Centered app. Before that he did tons of other things. Mostly he was involved with being part of or starting start-ups.It is...

Some SwiftUI and mostly boilerplate style code

30 Nov 2021

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Send me a textThis week’s episode is mostly about SwiftUI.Adding DocC to an existing swift package – RhonabwyHow to Digitally Sign a PDF Using a Y...

Denise Nepraunig, working at Volkswagen to keep you connected to your car at all times

23 Nov 2021

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Send me a textDenise worked at SAP before joining CARIAD, a company within the Volkswagen Group. She works on the iOS app related to their ID line of ...

Just a quick one this week

23 Nov 2021

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Send me a textA really quick recording this week, enjoy this week’s articles.Checking if a SwiftUI View is in PreviewHow to make a macOS menu bar ap...

Tim Oliver, working on Bluetooth hardware integration at DriveMode

16 Nov 2021

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Send me a textTim Oliver works on DriveMode, an interesting app with a Bluetooth hardware component. He also worked at Realm, yes the Core Data and SQ...

SwiftUI first impressions, happy birthdays, speaking at a conference

15 Nov 2021

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Send me a textFirst impressions and presenting at a conference. How cool is that? NSSpain is happening this week, and I am part of that. Now that&apos...

Bobby Bobak, creator of coffee app Filtru

11 Nov 2021

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Send me a textBobby created Filtru. A coffee app for iOS that helps you brew the perfect cup. Bobby sheds some light into what it takes to create an a...

SwiftUI Environments with curves and surfaces

09 Nov 2021

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Send me a textA bit later then usual, I’ll explain why in this episode. Just was unable to finish the last bits of processing last night and only ju...

Tunde Adegoroye, Lead Software Developer and YouTuber

02 Nov 2021

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Send me a textTunde was suggested to me by one of my previous guests. And boy was he right. It is amazing to just see what Tunde has achieved in such ...

Some handy steps on installing RBEnv and friends.

02 Nov 2021

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Send me a textHad a big day today. But Josh released a big video with blog post as well. So lots of good stuff again this week.This week's links:...

Dmitry Bespalov, technical lead for Gnosis Safe

28 Oct 2021

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Send me a textDmitry works on iOS and blockchain. An interesting combination if you ask me. He works as the tech lead on Gnosis Safe for iOS and also ...

Cool stuff going on, recorded this one super quickly

25 Oct 2021

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Send me a textI promised a double helping of links this week. And turns out there was a lot of things going on over the last two weeks. I specifically...

Peter Friese, Developer Advocate at Google on the Firebase team

21 Oct 2021

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Send me a textPeter works as a Developer Advocate for Google’s Firebase platform. His focus is the iOS/Mac side of things. It is a role that has him...

One year in review

18 Oct 2021

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Send me a textListen in on me reflecting on the past year of podcasting. I share some of my thoughts on how I think things are going. As always feedba...

Matteo Manferdini, teaches advanced iOS concepts.

14 Oct 2021

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Send me a textListen in on my conversation with Matteo. He creates advances iOS courses. Being self employed teaching people is what he wanted to do. ...

A Kaleidoscope of topics this week

12 Oct 2021

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Send me a textA bit of a reflective episode. Some cringeworthy content even. Lots of people working hard in our community. Stuff about Actors, ifs and...

Mihaela Mihaljevic Jakic, she loves to code and loves to go in depth on coding topics

07 Oct 2021

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Send me a textMihaela and I got introduces on Clubhouse. I loved how she respectfully was able to tell people if they were wrong on many topics. Somet...

Note taking, presenting and then solving crashes…

04 Oct 2021

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Send me a textSome deeper articles this month, but I am sure we will manage.Here are this week's links:Writing Effective Software Development Not...

Mechanical keyboards

28 Sep 2021

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Send me a textJust for the heck of it and because this is upload 101, I talk about mechanical keyboards with Josh, Franklin and Tommy. A special celeb...

This is my iOS podcast Centennial

27 Sep 2021

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Send me a textA little bit less on the news articles. A little more on the personal news.This week's links:Going open-source | Daniel SaidiPowerf...

Daniel Jilg co-founder of TelemetryDeck, analytics with a native mac and iOS dashboard

23 Sep 2021

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Send me a textTelemetryDeck is bootstrapping when we record this. On the verge of signing up its first paying customers. Listen in on why Daniel creat...

Stack view and micro app architectures…

20 Sep 2021

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Send me a textThis week I wanted to make a big announcement, but I still have to sit on it for one more week. Monday will also be my 100th episode. St...

Austin Blake, ready to take on the world with Mitynote

16 Sep 2021

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Send me a textThis is Austin, and he has big plans. Currently has Mitynotes and achvmnts on the App Store, with more apps on the way.More info on Aust...

Actors, Swift Regrets and some other subjects

13 Sep 2021

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Send me a textI am working on a Dutch presentation about Tuist but I also hope to perform the same presentation in English somewhere sometime this mon...

Jordan Morgan writer of Best in Class iOS app

08 Sep 2021

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Send me a textMeet Jordan, I got famliar with him through his book called “Best in Class iOS app”. Turns out he works at Buffer and does a lot of ...

The quest for SwiftUI knowledge continues along with an awesome Xcode tip…

06 Sep 2021

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Send me a textOne Swift and a few more SwiftUI articles this week. Also a nice keyboard combo for Xcode and how to get started with doc comments in yo...

Danijela Vrzan, 1st a civil engineer then a software engineer

02 Sep 2021

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Send me a textDanijela is from Croatia, she recently moved to Canada and is now starting her career as a software developer.You might know her from an...

SwiftUI week it seems, and a great debugging tip too…

30 Aug 2021

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Send me a textI’m starting to notice I’m using more and more SwiftUI in my dayjob. The SwiftUI articles really draw my attention. Next week I’ll...

Mohammad Azam, trainer and teacher

26 Aug 2021

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Send me a textMohammad Azam is a trainer/teacher and active on Udemy and YouTube. He moved to the US for his education and with his side income he is ...

Switching switches and considering my pitches

23 Aug 2021

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Send me a textThe keyboard rabbit hole has deepened. A book recommendation. And schools are about to start.This week's links:Handling links with ...

Johan Delgado, a circus artist turned language teacher turned iOS developer

19 Aug 2021

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Send me a textJohan originally is from Venezuela. He now lives in Moscow with his wife.He took an interesting journey. The Corona crisis made him swit...

Working on the basics

16 Aug 2021

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Send me a textGoing back to basics a bit. A smaller set of articles, but ebery link is very much worth your while. Just like every week…Links from t...

Rob Whitaker accessibilty author and workshop host

12 Aug 2021

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Send me a textRob is an iOS mobile developer currently working for Capital One in the UK. Rob is passionate about making great mobile experiences that...

We stepped on the brake, now let us accelerate again…

09 Aug 2021

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Send me a textA lot of people went on vacation already. And it sure looks things are speeding up again. Last 2 weeks the rate of new articles started ...

Sam McGarry, an iOS software developer origin story

05 Aug 2021

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Send me a textSam McGarry, college dropout, cook and now an iOS software developer. If you need a dose of inspritation, connect to Sam in Twitter and ...

Big cudly bear hugs to all iOS developers out there

02 Aug 2021

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Send me a textI went on vacation and I got hugged by a bear only to find lots of great content when I got home. I reduced it to 22 links and picked 13...

Samuël Maljaars, lead developer at Donkey Mobile

29 Jul 2021

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Send me a textMeet Samuel, he is an old colleague of mine. We worked together on, you guessed it, the ING App. I knew a few things of his backstory. I...

Tools of podcasting, well at least what I use

26 Jul 2021

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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...

Kim Arnett, senior iOS developer and public speaker

22 Jul 2021

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Send me a textThis is Kim. And I must say I am a fan. She has worked hard to get to where she is at right now. She works as a senior iOS developer and...

Thoughts on dependencies

19 Jul 2021

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Send me a textA pre-recorded episode. Some thoughts on dependencies in your codebase. Food for thought.Swift Package IndexJoin me in Amsterdam for Do ...

Mustafa Yusuf, creator of Tasks app

14 Jul 2021

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Send me a textYou might have seen Mustafa's app on Twitter. It is called Tasks. By his own admission, not the most SEO friendly name. But it is a...

Getting async and having to await using it

12 Jul 2021

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Send me a textIt seems to be party time on my Twitter timeline. People are releasing Testflights and launched left and right. Upping their game by sup...

Anna Zharkova, mobile developer and Woman Techmakers Ambassador

08 Jul 2021

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Send me a textAnna lives in Barnaul in Russia. She is a lead mobile developer for over 7 years. We met through a session for WWDC Community. She is an...

Book update and learning about new and existing iOS features

05 Jul 2021

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Send me a textA new week, an new update. An update of my book and great new articles from the iOS community. Enjoy. Preparing loads of content here. A...

Oscar Gorog, a WWDC 2020 Student Challenge Winner

30 Jun 2021

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Send me a textOscar was one of the WWDC 2020 student challenge winners. Learn how Oscar got started on software development and his path to being a st...

Summer break is happening

28 Jun 2021

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Send me a textHussle time after WWDC before some well deserved R&R. Join me in finding a couple of great articles to add to your reading list.Xcod...

Reinder de Vries, the person behind learnappmaking.com

23 Jun 2021

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Send me a textReinder helps people play with code. He does this through learnappmaking.com. Hear how he got started by game modding as a kid and how i...

Looking for my new rythm.

21 Jun 2021

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Send me a textWWDC21 is now over and finished, but things are not back to normal just yet. People are still discovering great little bits and pieces i...

Dominic Williams, creator of Moderation app

17 Jun 2021

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Send me a textDominic Williams is an independent iOS developer from Wales, UK. In his spare time he work on the app Moderation.More on Dominic:His web...

After WWDC, I'll keep it Short and sweet

14 Jun 2021

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Send me a textKeeping it short this week. So much content. It is amazing. :)Async/Await vs. Combine articles:Async/Await and the Future of CombineThou...

Filip Nemecek, creator of iOSfeeds.com and SwitchBuddy

10 Jun 2021

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Send me a textFilip likes to keep himzelf busy with all kinds of websites, Django development and iOS development. Learn more about all the things Fil...

WWDC Keynote with special guest Donny Wals

07 Jun 2021

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Send me a textDonny Wals and I share our initial impressions about the Apple Keynote. Afterwards we take a look at last week's news articles.Oh C...

Dave Verwer, creator of iOS Dev Weekly, Swift Package Index, iOS Dev Jobs, iOS Dev Directory and more...

02 Jun 2021

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Send me a textDave became a thing in my inbox through his iOS Dev Weekly newsletter. But there is so much more what he does. There is also so much mor...

Starting my move to weekly podcast 2.0

31 May 2021

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Send me a textDoing a new style of recording, with potential audience. From now on every week on Monday evening at 21:00 CEST I will be online, record...

Jordi Bruin, an indie iOS developer with two awesome products.

26 May 2021

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Send me a textJordi Bruin, indie iOS developer with two awesome products called Soosee and Unmute. He switched to being self employed relatively recen...

Counting down the dubdub

24 May 2021

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Send me a textCounting down the days to WWDC21. Just a couple more weeks and we're there. I do notice this in the articles of last week. On top o...

Everybody switches sometime

20 May 2021

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Send me a textSo it is not Monday. I had some challenges getting a suitable room for recording. So here is what was supposed to go live a few days ago...

Stewart Lynch, an iOS development Youtuber who got started with Fortran

17 May 2021

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Send me a textSay hi to Stewart Lynch, since january 2020 he produces iOS development videos on YouTube. He's been doing great. But his aspiratio...

Tim Isenman, creator of Pocket Rocket a product that allows him to stay in Japan

12 May 2021

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Send me a textTim is an interesting fellow. Worked at Riot Games. An entirely self taught software developer. He created Pocket Rocket with a purpose ...

Monday Media Monitoring Machine

10 May 2021

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Send me a textAnother week, another episode. WWDC21 is about a month away. Looking forward to another event by Apple.I enjoy finding ways to incorpora...

Jeroen Leenarts, podcaster, self published author and CocoaHeadsNL chairman

05 May 2021

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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!I will ...

Playing two week catch-up

03 May 2021

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Send me a textIt's been 2 weeks since my previous regular episode. I hope you liked my Indie Panel of last week.Some great articles over the past...

Roxana Jula, on a journey to learn about ARKit at Monstarlab

28 Apr 2021

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Send me a textRoxana is amazing. She's having loads of fun developing iOS apps for Monstarlab. In Dubai. It has been a while since she's see...

Indie panel discussion

26 Apr 2021

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Send me a textIt is King's Day tomorrow in the Netherlands. So national holidays, time for something completely different. A panel discussion. 6 ...

Ting Becker, a CPA turned iOS developer

21 Apr 2021

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Send me a textTing from China, moved through Arkansas to California. With the support of her parents, she made a huge leap of faith. And it does seem ...

Counting down the days

19 Apr 2021

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Send me a textThe end is in sight. Roof is almost done. Meanwhile things keep on progressing. CocoaHeadsNL, Core Data workshop, new articles. An Apple...

Stephanie Chiu, self-taught iOS Software Engineer with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.

15 Apr 2021

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Send me a text"Chemical Engineering?! Then how did you become a Software Engineer?"I asked Stephanie the above question. It involves shampoo...

Double framing things

12 Apr 2021

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Send me a textLots going on, skipped a week but published something cool. Some reflections on me, my home and other things.And lots of cool articles. ...

Malin and Kai, creators of Orbit.

05 Apr 2021

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Send me a textMalin and Kai, work and live together in Vancouver Canada. Their company is called Triple Glazed Studios. Their main product is called O...

Charlie Chapman, creator of Dark Noise app and Launched podcast.

01 Apr 2021

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Send me a textCharlie is from a .net background. He switched into iOS app development and needed a practice project to work on. Dark Noise was born. T...

Monday evening recording monster

29 Mar 2021

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Send me a textHey there, the more I think about my podcast pivot, the more it grows on me. I look forward to starting work on it and see how it turns ...

Allen Whearry, self taught iOS developer working at Yelp.

24 Mar 2021

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Send me a textAllen Whearry is the person organizing #iOSDevHappyhour. You should look that one up on Twitter if you haven't. Allen had an intere...

CLI, oh my...

22 Mar 2021

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Send me a textI launched. Wow! Also created a sweet little CLI util I am going to use on the next Swift Weekly Brief. After my book launch it is time ...

Nedim Fakic, a very young aspiring developer.

18 Mar 2021

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Send me a textNedim is intresting. He is young. Only 17 years old when I interviewed him. He still has to properly start his career as a software deve...

To pivot or not to pivot

15 Mar 2021

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Send me a textA bit more personal stuff in this episode. Besides the regular articles I want to share with you my thoughts on a book launch, Swift Wee...

Jeroen Willemsen, principal security consultant at Xebia

11 Mar 2021

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Send me a textJeroen Willemsen and I worked together on a security related mobile networking SDK. Based on that working history and Jeroen's work...

Tearing the house down…

08 Mar 2021

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Send me a textHome remodel is upon my family. A lot of stuff planned, did some pre-recording. So no worries. There will be fresh content while this pl...

Vincent Pradeilles, Worldline employee by day, rising YouTube star by night.

05 Mar 2021

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Send me a textHere's to Vincent, he started a YouTube channel right about when I uploaded my very first episode. March 3 2021, he passed 2000 sub...

Daniel Jalkut, podcast host and business owner.

04 Mar 2021

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Send me a textDaniel Jalkut owns and runs Red Sweater Software. He also hosts the Core Intuition podcast together with Manton Reece.Daniel was an Appl...

You get to launch, you get to launch, everybody gets to launch!

01 Mar 2021

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Send me a textAn announcement about another newsletter this week. A few interesting articles. Lets not forget aSync/aWait. But most of all… a whole ...

Anastasiia Voitova, Vixentael, security software engineer at Cossack Labs.

24 Feb 2021

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Send me a textAnastasiia and I had an awesome chat about her work as a head of customer solutions and security software engineer at Cossack Labs. The ...

Say you know you don't know…

23 Feb 2021

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Send me a textNews of the week, an update from Sam about the second round in his first interview experience. Some great new stuff on Donny Wals' ...

Chris Vasselli, creator of Nihongo app, a modern Japanese dictionary and study tool

18 Feb 2021

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Send me a textChris Vasselli is the perfect example of the one thousand fans principle. A subscription based income from a niche product. How cool is ...

Dig into coding.

15 Feb 2021

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Send me a textMuch info on Swift and SwiftUI basics this week. I am writing lots and lots of code again over the last view days. It feels good to be b...

Nandini Chauhan and Pim Stolk of Finn: Banking of Things

10 Feb 2021

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Send me a textNandini and Pim are old colleagues of mine. I learned iOS development on the project the three of us worked on together. It has been yea...

Am I getting podcasting? You let me know…

08 Feb 2021

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Send me a textAnother week, another weekly news episode. Extra content around Sam's journey to becoming a paid iOS developer. Great updates from ...

Chris Liscio, owner of SuperMegaUltraGroovy, creator of Capo

04 Feb 2021

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Send me a textChris is the sole developer of SuperMegaUltraGroovy. Maker of Capo. A utility to learn music by ear, without tabs or sheet music.2 month...

Long monday coding and recording

01 Feb 2021

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Send me a textThis monday has been a long day with a start that set me back the entire day. With minutes to spare I was able to record and publish thi...

Yuri Karabatov, iOS developer and book author of Junior to Senior: How to level up as a Software Engineer

27 Jan 2021

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Send me a textYuri Karabatov, author of "Junior to Senior, how to level up as a software engineer". We had a blast recording this. We even h...

hashtag iOSDevHappyWhatTheHackHour

25 Jan 2021

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Send me a textGreat news, great community, great things for Sam. I am doing coaching with Sam, but he has been working hard. Not much left for me to d...

Josh Holtz, maintainer of FastLane.tools and creator of AnOtterRSS and Indie Dev Monday

21 Jan 2021

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Send me a textMost people know Josh as the maintainer of Fastlane tools. But there is a lot more to him. Indie Dev Monday and ConnectKit for example. ...

Reach out and reach back

18 Jan 2021

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Send me a textA lot in this episode. Sam, workshop, news and Donny monday. I'm getting closer to finding my true podcasting voice. So any feedbac...