Podcast Episodes
Back to Search41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak
This week Dave and Sven break their streak of skipping recording to find Swift in exciting new places, like on ARM Windows and the Playdate, and learn new tricks like interoperating with C#. And as u…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
40: This downtime was a joint effort
This week, Dave and Sven take a look at the Flutter ecosystem, discuss Dave's blogging system rewrite, review their collaboration on a production crash, and, as usual, highlight some community packag…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
39: Stress testing dependency management
It's 2024, and Dave and Sven are back to talk plans for the Swift Package Index development over the coming year. They also talk about a light-hearted but also accidentally disastrous recent event in…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting
Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dav…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave
Dave and Sven talk about the work that Cyndi Chin shipped as part of this year’s Swift Mentorship Program, and then dive into the details of some of the metrics, and answer a couple of listener quest…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!
Join us for talk of bugs and how we've either fixed or worked around them, why creating sustainable developer tools is so hard, and the story of which indie Mac app made Dave buy his first app!
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35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy
This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations!
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SwiftGodot by Mig…Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things
What even is a recommendation? Join Dave and Sven as they talk about the tricky business of recommending, endorsing, or showcasing packages before diving into a review of dependencies in other packag…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day
Join us as we talk about the disastrous week we had last week, where we had system failures, failed podcast recordings, and lumbago problems! We also talk about the upcoming Swift.org Package page an…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?
Do we understand how to add a package dependency after three years of creating the package index? No, we do not! We also discuss adding macro targets to Package pages, GitHub’s CodeQL analysis for Sw…
Published on 2 years ago