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You’re Better Than AI with Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg returns to chat about Apple's Foundation Models framework and what changed in OS 27. We get into using AI only where it's appropriate, experimenting with #Playground, falling back gracefully when the model isn't there, when Private Cloud Compute is worth the trip, sessions, instructions and @Generable, tools and dynamic profiles, testing with the new Evaluations framework, and why AI should learn to say "I don't know." Guest Dim Sum Thinking The Editor's Cut - Books by Daniel Steinberg The Puzzle of the Perfectly Paved Path: An Introduction to App Intents Top Tracks Daniel Steinberg on X (@dimsumthinking) Daniel Steinberg on Mastodon (@dimsumthinking@mastodon.social) Related Links What's new in the Foundation Models framework (WWDC26) Build agentic app experiences (WWDC26) Build AI-powered scripts with the fm CLI and Python SDK (WWDC26) Meet the Evaluations framework (WWDC26) Build with the new Apple Foundation Model on Private Cloud Compute (WWDC26) Bring an LLM provider to the Foundation Models framework (WWDC26) Foundation Models - Apple Developer Documentation Image Playground - Apple Developer Documentation Ship the Fallback First - Jeroen Leenarts Do iOS 2026 - Intro to Foundation Models workshop Bushel - macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers Related Episodes Functional Programming with Daniel Steinberg Do the Wrong Thing Much Faster with Graham Lee We Don't Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich Chapters (00:00) - Stage Three: Using AI Where Appropriate (05:19) - Experimenting with #Playground (07:36) - What's New in OS 27 (13:33) - Fallbacks and Private Cloud Compute (21:12) - Sessions, Instructions, and @Generable (28:26) - Tools, Dynamic Profiles, and Streaming (37:12) - Images and Testing with Evaluations (43:21) - Platforms, Privacy, and the Cost of Tokens Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Do the Wrong Thing Much Faster with Graham Lee

Graham Lee returns to chat about what it takes to become a software centaur: using AI to get better at the craft, not just faster. We get into why the job was never about typing code, meat proxies and Jevons paradox, his catalog of interaction patterns for AI-augmented development, why a model shouldn't mark its own homework, and Axminster, his UML-based macOS app that gives LLMs a design to follow. Guest Chiron Codex Chiron Codex Patreon Chiron Codex Agent Skills - GitHub Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers podcast Software Craftsmanship's Consulting Detective Related Links Axminster: AI-Augmented Software Design Axminister - Mac App Store Patterns in AI Augmented Software Development - iOSDevUK Software Centaurs white paper (PDF) Reasons to dislike AI coding Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools Is spec-driven development the end of agile? Episode 64: Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs Object-Oriented Programming the Easy Way Related Episodes The More You Know with Stewart Lynch Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich Actually Really Useful Objective-C Today with Graham Lee Chapters Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Then 20 Years Later with Georg Tuparev

Georg Tuparev stops by to chat about software that outlives its plans: projects scoped for a few months that are still in development 20 years later. We get into running a small team of physicists and astronomers, why WebObjects and EOF are still in production, where AI helps and where it falls short, server-side Swift with SwiftNIO, and storing exabytes of telescope data from observatories no cable can keep up with. Guest Georg Tuparev - Tuparev Technologies @tuparev@mstdn.social - Mastodon Georg Tuparev - LinkedIn tuparev (Georg Tuparev) - GitHub Georg Tuparev (@tuparev) - X SkyObserver Related Links Exabyte Data Storage - Georg Tuparev - ServerSide.swift Exabyte Data Infrastructure - Tuparev Technologies Astronomy & Space - Tuparev Technologies SwiftNIO - GitHub ServerSide.swift Related Episodes We Don't Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon The More You Know with Stewart Lynch Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko Objective-C Today with Graham Lee Chapters Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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We Don’t Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon

Tim Condon stops by to chat about Vapor 5, the biggest Vapor release in six and a half years. We get into dropping futures and promises for Swift concurrency all the way down the stack, Span and strict memory safety, and the new shared Swift HTTP server. Guest Tim Condon Tim Condon (@0xTim@hachyderm.io) - Mastodon Tim Condon (@0xtim.bsky.social) - Bluesky 0xTim (Tim Condon) Vapor Related Links Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor Blog What's New in Vapor 5 Beta - Vapor Blog Announcing the Networking Workgroup - Swift.org swift-http-server - GitHub Swift OpenAPI Generator - GitHub Related Episodes Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1 Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2 Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos Chapters (00:00) - Server-Side Swift Today (02:29) - Vapor 5, Span & Memory Safety (13:38) - Package Flags & Dropping EventLoopFutures (18:36) - Streaming & the Swift HTTP Server (24:21) - VaporTesting & Macros (33:18) - OpenAPI & the Future of Fluent (38:48) - AI, Open Source & the New Networking APIs Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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The More You Know with Stewart Lynch

Stewart Lynch stops by to chat about using AI to learn faster instead of just letting it write your code. We get into planning in stages before you build, why Markdown is the universal language of AI, and the tiny "donkey work" tools he vibe codes for himself. Guest Stewart Lynch Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦 (@StewartLynch@iosdev.space) - Mastodon Stewart Lynch (@stewartlynch.bsky.social) - Bluesky Stewart Lynch - YouTube Stewart Lynch | LinkedIn Stewart Lynch - All Social Links Createch Solutions Blog Related Links How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills - Anthropic Sosumi.ai - Apple docs as Markdown Typora - Markdown editor Related Episodes How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 1 How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 2 Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich Chapters (00:00) - Xcode 27 & the New Device Hub (03:36) - Why YouTube Teaching Is Changing & Using AI to Synthesize New APIs (11:24) - Why Learn When AI Can Build It? Staged Plans & PRDs (16:29) - Markdown as the Universal Language of AI (22:07) - AI Costs, Hallucinations & Learning Smarter (27:48) - Xcode + Claude Code Workflow (30:53) - "Donkey Work": Building Small Tools With AI (35:55) - What to Delegate to AI vs. Control Yourself (40:22) - OS 27 Support, the iPhone Dual & Side-Project Playgrounds Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge

Jared Sorge stops by to chat about Arborist, his native Mac command center for Git work trees. We get into running agents in parallel with work trees, when to drop from SwiftUI down to AppKit, and selling a Mac app outside the App Store with Sparkle, Stripe, and RevenueCat, and somehow end up talking about the iPhone Duo. Guest Jared Sorge Jared Sorge (@jsorge@mastodon.social) - Mastodon jsorge (Jared Sorge) Jared Sorge | LinkedIn Jared Sorge (@jsorge) • Threads Arborist - A native macOS command center for Git repositories and worktrees Taphouse Software Related Links Arborist Baseplate - Track your LEGO collection Tower - Git client Nova - Panic mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner just - a handy way to save and run project-specific commands swift-subprocess - GitHub Sparkle - Software update framework for macOS RevenueCat Managed Payments - Stripe Documentation SQLiteData - Point-Free - GitHub Sharing - Point-Free - GitHub Swift Navigation - Point-Free - GitHub Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs - Anthropic Mac-Assed Mac Apps - Daring Fireball Tuist XcodeGen - GitHub Shipaton 2026 - RevenueCat SwiftCon iOSDevUK Bushel - Mac virtualization for developers Related Episodes Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 2 with Ben Scheirman The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 1 with Ben Scheirman macOS Indie Deep Cuts with Aaron Vegh Mac Dev in 2021 with Daniel Jalkut How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 1 Automation Fun with Jared Sorge Chapters (00:00) - Why Work Trees (06:56) - The Idea Behind Arborist (11:14) - SwiftUI vs. AppKit (17:05) - Picking the Right Tool for the Job (21:27) - From Problem to Product (25:30) - Shipping Outside the Mac App Store (29:59) - Licensing, Sandboxing & Subprocess (36:30) - Agentic Coding & the Product Engineer (45:17) - What's Next for Arborist Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Swift on Windows with Saleem Abdulrasool

Saleem Abdulrasool joins us to chat about bringing Swift to Windows. We get into server-side Swift, SwiftWin32, Swift's C++ interop, and how to get started yourself. Guest Saleem Abdulrasool compnerd (Saleem Abdulrasool) Saleem Abdulrasool (@compnerd) - Fosstodon Saleem Abdulrasool (@compnerd) / X Related Links Porting by a 1000 Patches: Bringing Swift to Windows (2019 LLVM Developers' Meeting) - YouTube Swift/Win32 - A Windows application framework for Swift - GitHub Swift/COM+ - GitHub Swift/WinMD - Windows Metadata Parser in Swift - GitHub Swift/WinRT - Swift Projections for WinRT - GitHub DXSample - Sample Program for DirectX 12 + Swift - GitHub vigil - A caffeinate-inspired power management tool for Windows - GitHub swift-winrt - Swift Language Projection for WinRT - The Browser Company swift-winui - Swift Language Bindings for WinUI3 - The Browser Company Install Swift on Windows - Swift.org Related Episodes Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos Swift Package Index with Dave Verwer and Sven Schmidt Backend Decisions with Mikaela Caron Chapters (00:00) - Why Swift on Windows (08:40) - Command Line Tools, PowerShell & WSL (16:35) - Server-Side Swift & Building Desktop Apps (24:46) - The History of Windows UI Frameworks (33:15) - Getting Started with Swift on Windows (41:32) - Interop, SwiftUI & Future Plans Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Practical Agents with Donny Wals

Donny Wals returns to talk through a year of agentic coding. We go through how it's changed his architecture decisions, reviewing PRs he didn't write himself, managing tasks and context across parallel agents, and the gym-workout crash he fixed from his phone mid-set — plus where he still doesn't trust the agent: SwiftData migrations. Guest Donny Wals Donny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky Donny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / X Donny Wals (@donnywalsdev) • Instagram photos and videos donny wals - YouTube Donny Wals (@donnywals@chaos.social) - chaos.social Donny Wals | LinkedIn Related Links Cursor - https://cursor.com Bitrise - https://bitrise.io Notion - https://notion.so Raycast - https://raycast.com Grill with Docs - https://www.aihero.dev/grill-with-docs Maxine - One Rep Max Tracker (Donny's workout app) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maxine-one-rep-max-tracker/id6615073254 GRDB.swift - https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift SundialKit (Leo's watch communication library) - https://github.com/brightdigit/SundialKit Fluent (Vapor's ORM) - https://docs.vapor.codes/fluent/overview/ NSPersistentCloudKitContainer - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata/nspersistentcloudkitcontainer Practical Core Data - https://practicalcoredata.com Practical Combine - https://practicalcombine.com Practical Swift Concurrency - https://practicalswiftconcurrency.com Related Episodes Independence Update Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich 120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham Actually Really Useful Practical Year - Part 2 with Donny Wals Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals Practical Entrepreneur with Donny Wals Practical Combine with Donny Wals Chapters (00:00) - The Agentic Coding Shift (15:55) - The Gym Crash Story (20:54) - Architecting for Agents (34:04) - Task & Issue Tracking (37:40) - Core Data vs. SwiftData Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Independence Update

After almost 250 episodes, Leo gives an update on what he's working on and what he's interested in. From passive timer apps, static site generation, to sub repos and RSS feeds. Related Links WWDC 2026 & Celestra Celestra WWDC26: What's new in the Foundation Models framework WWDC26: Meet Core AI Bushel swift-build brightdigit/swift-build Introducing swift-build (blog post) Swift.org Nightly Toolchains At Least At Least brightdigit/SundialKit brightdigit/SundialKitStream brightdigit.com Website Upgrade brightdigit.com repo JohnSundell/Publish JohnSundell/ShellOut JohnSundell/Ink swiftlang/swift-subprocess swiftlang/swift-markdown kabiroberai/node-swift (NodeSwift) Tailwind CSS git-subrepo ingydotnet/git-subrepo Ben Scheirman Community & Outro Consultation (ZCal) Patreon Newsletter Donny Wals Saleem Abdulrasool (@compnerd) Swift on Windows Related Episodes Actually Really Useful 120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 2 with Ben Scheirman The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 1 with Ben Scheirman Hacking with Ignite with Paul Hudson Now You Know What I'm Doing This Summer Chapters (00:00) - WWDC 2026 and Celestra (01:35) - swift-build (02:23) - AtLeast (05:26) - brightdigit.com (05:45) - git-subrepo (06:47) - Join the Community Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich

Software development has changed a lot. On today's episode, Joe Fabisevich talks about building with AI without falling into the trap of "work slop," why prompting is a communication skill, where Apple fits in, and Broadcast — his new Swift logging library for developers and AI agents. Guest Build.ms Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social) - Macaw-Social Joe Fabisevich (@mergesort.me) — Bluesky Github (@mergesort) https://www.threads.net/@mergesort fabisevi.ch Related Links Artifacts | Fabisevi.ch Supporting Markdown Search For LLMs AI (Without the Hype) Workslop Being A 1.5-10x Developer mergesort/Broadcast: Simple and composable logging for Swift apps, servers, and coding agents. AtLeast — Passive Timer for Apple Watch MonthBar - Track your month's progress Related Episodes 120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos Actually Really Useful Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals Plinky with Joe Fabisevich ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski Chapters (00:00) - Work Slop (13:02) - Verifiable Tasks (25:51) - Building Agents (32:06) - Careers & Hiring (43:31) - Daily Setup (53:00) - WWDC 2026 (01:09:07) - AI Economics (01:20:33) - Broadcast Logging Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz

Cihat Gündüz returns to break down everything from WWDC 2026. We go through Swift 6.4's quality-of-life wins, Apple turning Foundation Models into a full agentic harness, Xcode 27's agent and built-in skills, Device Hub, and where we land on the iPhone Fold. Guest Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut) / X Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut@iosdev.space) - iOS Dev Space Cihat Gündüz (@jeehut) on Threads FlineDev Related Links WWDCNotes My Top 5 AI Wishes for WWDC26 – FlineDev FlineDev/SiteKit: AI-first static site generator written in Swift QwenLM/Qwen3.6: Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group. Related Episodes Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham Actually Really Useful Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz Hacking with Ignite with Paul Hudson Chapters (00:00) - What's New in Swift & SwiftUI (09:09) - SwiftData (14:09) - Foundation Models (28:29) - Xcode 27 (38:09) - AI Costs & the "AI Apocalypse" (48:09) - iPhone Fold Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham

Peter Witham joins us to talk about today's Platforms State of the Union. Is Apple Intelligence here? Is Liquid Glass here? Where's John Ternus? Guest Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer CompileSwift Podcast Peter Witham | LinkedIn Peter Witham - YouTube CompileDev - Twitch Peter Witham (@compileswift) • Instagram photos and videos CompileSwift | Facebook Peter Witham (@Compileswift@iosdev.space) - C.IM Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter Related Episode Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos Actually Really Useful Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte v26.0 with Peter Witham Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz Chapters Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos

Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi hardware, the future of cross-platform Swift across Android, Windows, and Wasm, and somehow end up arguing about whether you should let LLMs format your code at all. Guest Joannis Orlandos Joannis Orlandos (@joannis@fosstodon.org) - Mastodon Joannis (Joannis Orlandos) Joannis Orlandos | LinkedIn Joannis Orlandos (@joanniso.bsky.social) • Bluesky WendyOS — The open-source OS for Physical AI Related Links Wendy Labs Inc. — GitHub WendyOS Documentation Swift on Server — Joannis Orlandos Hummingbird — Lightweight Swift web framework MLX — Apple's array framework for machine learning Swift Android Working Group — Swift Forums Build and Packaging Workgroup — Swift.org Swift Evolution Bringing Swift to Android — Goodnotes Related Episodes Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq Chapters (00:00) - What Is WendyOS (05:15) - Swift, Hardware & Getting Started (16:18) - Swift Everywhere: Multi-Platform Future (21:24) - Swift on Windows, SQL Server & WWDC Preview (30:19) - AI, Skill Files & LLM Workflows (42:30) - Swift 6.4 & Wrap-Up Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Actually Really Useful

After ten months away, Leo's back. He covers Swift Craft 2026, the rest of his speaking year (Beer City Code, iOSDevUK), and his honest take on AI dev tooling. Plus updates on MistKit, SyntaxKit, swift-build, MonthBar, and a new watchOS app called AtLeast (in TestFlight now). He's open to work, offering free 30-minute consultations, and a live WWDC 2026 episode is coming. Subscribe so you don't miss it. Related Links Free 30-min consultation — Zcal Swift Craft 2026 — Folkestone, May 2026 Beer City Code — Grand Rapids, Aug 14–15, 2026 iOSDevUK — Wales, September 2026 AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It AI-assisted development talk (Boston) — YouTube MistKit — GitHub SyntaxKit — GitHub swift-build — GitHub MonthBar — month.bar AtLeast — atleast.app (TestFlight) Bushel — getbushel.app Related Episodes Ep 200 — Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte Ep 199 — v26.0 with Peter Witham Ep 178 — SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham Ep 196 — Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux Ep 203 — Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas Chapters (00:00) - I'm Back (00:43) - Conferences 2026 (03:54) - AI in 2026 (05:59) - Swift Automation (07:34) - Projects 2026 (12:02) - Free Consultation (14:37) - Thank you Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas

Kaya Thomas (kayathomas.is) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary (milkdiary.com). She talks about using new APIs like Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, and AlarmKit to handle the complex stuff other feeding apps miss: intelligent scheduling and reminders, combo feeding that's actually easy to track, hassle-free tracking for twins and smart milk management. Guest Kaya Thomas Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas@mastodon.social) - Mastodon Kaya (@kayathomas.is) — Bluesky kmt901 (Kaya Thomas) Kaya Thomas | LinkedIn Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas.is) • Threads, Say more Milk Diary App Related Links Rob Napier - TIL:AI. Thoughts on AI AI Code Reviews | CodeRabbit | Try for Free Related Episodes Notifications with Kaya Thomas Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte Plinky with Joe Fabisevich ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss Apples, Glasses, and HAL, Oh My! Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) - What is Milk Diary (04:20) - Foundation Models (10:56) - The Feeding App Market (13:59) - Liquid Glass (17:01) - AlarmKit (19:34) - Local and Server Side Storage (22:28) - SpeechAnalyzer (25:13) - Developing with AI Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Swift Testing with Rachel Brindle

Rachel Brindle, maintainer of Nimble and Quick, comes on to talk about what's new in Swift Testing and what the future of Swift Testing may hold. Guest Rachel Brindle Rachel Brindle (@younata@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io younata (Rachel Brindle) Rachel Brindle (@rachelbrindle) • Instagram photos and videos Related Links What's new in Testing, 2025 Edition nalexn/ViewInspector: Runtime introspection and unit testing of SwiftUI views Quick/Nimble: A Matcher Framework for Swift and Objective-C Quick/Quick: The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework. pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing: 📸 Delightful Swift snapshot testing. swift-evolution/proposals/testing/NNNN-polling-confirmations.md at younata/testing-polling-expectations · younata/swift-evolution Related Episodes Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte The Case of the Crimson Test Suite with Daniel Steinberg Empowering Accessibility with Via Fairchild It Depends with Brandon Williams Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals SwiftUI Tips and Tricks with Craig Clayton Mobile System Design with Tjeerd in 't Veen Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) - Comparing Swift Testing and XCTest (11:08) - SwiftUI Testing (17:37) - Advanced Testing Techniques and Tips (23:47) - Future of Swift Testing Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai

Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps. Guest Kabir Oberai Kabir Oberai (@kabiroberai@mastodon.social) - Mastodon https://x.com/kabiroberai Announcements macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel SyntaxKit - More Friendly SwiftSyntax API Post Show Discussion with Kabir on Patreon BrightDigit Newsletter Related Links xtool | Documentation xtool-org/xtool: Cross-platform Xcode replacement. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, macOS. cirruslabs/tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations kabiroberai/node-swift: Create Node modules in Swift Kabir Oberai - Batteries Not Included: Beyond Xcode - YouTube Related Episodes Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte v26.0 with Peter Witham Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik Swift Student Challenge with Dezmond Blair WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz We Have All The Heroes with Stefano Mondino The Bushel Holiday Special Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) - Introduction and Announcements (00:53) - Kabir Oberai and WWDC (06:20) - What is xTool (19:48) - Mastering iOS App Signing (35:57) - Future Plans and Community Contributions Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte

Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025. Guest Matt Massicotte - @mattiem@mastodon.social massicotte.org | I write stuff here. Matt Massicotte (@massicotte.org) — Bluesky mattmassicotte (Matt Massicotte) Matt Massicotte | LinkedIn Matt Massicotte (@mattie) / X Announcements BrightDigit #110 - WWDC 2025 = EmpowerApps 200th Episode + Bushel Sale! 🙌 macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel Related Episodes v26.0 with Peter Witham Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) -  Keynote Highlights and Initial Reactions (12:06) - Exploring Machine Learning and App Intents (15:55) - Swift 6.2 and Concurrency Enhancements Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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v26.0 with Peter Witham

Before Leo heads to California, Peter joins to discuss Apple's crazy year and what we expect from WWDC 2025. Guest Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer CompileSwift Podcast Peter Witham | LinkedIn Peter Witham - YouTube CompileDev - Twitch Peter Witham (@compileswift) • Instagram photos and videos CompileSwift | Facebook GrfxGuru - Github (Peter Witham) Peter Witham (@Compileswift@iosdev.space) - C.IM Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter Announcements BrightDigit #110 - WWDC 2025 = EmpowerApps 200th Episode + Bushel Sale! 🙌 EmpowerApps.Show LIVE with Leo Dion · Luma macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel One More Thing Conference – OMTConf CommunityKit | WWDC | June 9th to 11th in Cupertino Related Episodes Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz Swift Server Workgroup with Joannis Orlandos Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) - WWDC Announcements (02:48) - Apple Intellegence (08:16) - iPad (12:52) - New Version Numbering and New Design (19:40) - Swift Everywhere (22:45) - Future of the iPhone (30:23) - Vision Pro (35:43) - App Store (45:14) - Peter and Game Development Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko

Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko from Cultured Code talk about their migration of Things Cloud to Server Side with Swift and what they learned along the way. Guest Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS Things (@things.app) — Bluesky Things (@culturedcode) Things (@things@mastodon.online) Werner Jainek (@jainek@mastodon.social) Vojtěch Rylko Vojtech Rylko (@vry@mastodon.social) Vojtěch Rylko | LinkedIn Vojtěch Rylko (@vojtechrylko) vojtarylko (Vojtech Rylko) Announcements Join Bushel Beta Join our Patreon! Newsletters | BrightDigit Links Swift.org - How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud The Success Story of Server-Side Swift at Cultured Code - Vojtech Rylko - YouTube Related Episodes Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq Full Stack Lyriq with Adegboyega Olusunmade PixelBlitz in Public with Martin Lasek Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia Backend Decisions with Mikaela Caron What is Firebase with Peter Friese AWS and SOTO with Adam Fowler Social Media Email leo@brightdigit.com GitHub - @brightdigit Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Leo - @leogdion LinkedIn BrightDigit Leo Patreon - brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (00:00) - Overview of Cultured Code and Things App (02:19) - Migrating to Server-Side Swift (09:07) - Technical Challenges and Solutions (27:56) - Background Workers and Swift (32:11) - Swift 6 Adoption (36:34) - Chaos Testing and Deployment Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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