Swift System Metrics 1.0 has been announced. It's a Swift package for process-level monitoring (CPU time, memory usage, file descriptors, start time) on Linux and macOS.
www.swift.org/blog/swift-s...
RIP CocoaPods (2011-2026): What Every iOS Developer Must Do NOW
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Anthropic has published a catalog of free AI courses through Anthropic Academy, hosted on Skilljar.
It includes training on Claude basics, Claude Code, AI Fluency, the Claude API, and the Model Context Protocol.
anthropic.skilljar.com
Server-Driven UI vs Native: Data Sync Speed
The article contrasts Server-Driven UI (SDUI) with traditional native architectures, focusing on how quickly UI/feature changes reach users
www.digia.tech/post/server-...
Quotio is a native macOS menu bar app that unifies your Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Qwen, and Antigravity subscriptions – with real-time quota tracking and smart auto-failover for AI coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Droid.
github.com/nguyenphutro...
Apply now to the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy
Applications are now open for the Apple Developer Academy in Naples (University of Naples Federico II) for the 2026/2027 academic year.
www.developeracademy.unina.it/en/enrollment/
Swift Student Challenge submissions are now open
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Modular at Scale: Structuring 250+ Modules Across the adidas iOS App Ecosystem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc-S...
Chris Eidhof explains SwiftUI’s Attribute Graph - how state/environment changes invalidate nodes so SwiftUI recomputes only what’s needed, including relayout without re-running body and why AG warnings like preference loops happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6F...
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
Skip is now free and open source. Skip - a Swift/SwiftUI-based cross-platform tool for building native iOS & Android apps. Skip 1.7 drops licensing and the “skipstone” engine is on GitHub. It’s moving to skip.dev and is funded via GitHub Sponsors and corporate sponsorships skip.dev/blog/skip-is...
Debugging Strange CALayers in ChatGPT
An article explains a macOS Core Animation race condition that can flip SwiftUI text upside-down.
oskargroth.com/blog/debuggi...
Major iOS/Swift developer conferences in 2026 (dates confirmed)
The full list is on my LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/dima-i...
SwiftUI: Group Activity for REMOTE Synchronized Media Playback
The article shows how to build SharePlay-style synced video playback in SwiftUI using GroupActivities and AVPlayer.
levelup.gitconnected.com/swiftui-grou...
Deterministic Unit Tests in Swift Concurrency
The article explains why unit tests become flaky when a synchronous Swift method starts an unstructured Task and how to make tests deterministic by injecting a TaskProvider abstraction instead of calling Task directly.
dev.to/abeldemoz/de...
Saving $4000+/month with self-hosted runners
The article explains how the author cut macOS CI costs by switching from GitHub-hosted runners to a small self-hosted Mac build cluster, breaking down real build minutes and monthly pricing comparisons.
jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2025/10...
How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit
The post explains how to use Claude Code for large, complex coding tasks without turning your codebase into a mess.
holdtherobot.com/blog/how-to-...
Interesting security research article about a new class of vulnerabilities in AI IDEs (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc.).
maccarita.com/posts/idesas...
This article is a practical guide for iOS developers and content creators on how to optimize videos for iOS, from capture to playback.
www.fastpix.io/blog/how-to-...
Advent of Code 2025 starts today - a series of daily coding puzzles from December 1 to 25.
The Swift community is joining in with a shared leaderboard and a starter template for those who want it. Check out the details here:
forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-...
The sacred secret behind our App's speed
Two Bear app devs share how extreme user edge cases (pastors with 90k+ notes) exposed hidden performance bugs, and how fixing them with better SQL and Swift profiling made the app faster for everyone.
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This post argues that Apple has lost its legendary attention to detail, pointing to endless UX bugs, privacy permission nags, inconsistent layouts and broken design patterns across macOS and iOS 26 in apps like Reminders, Files, Safari, and Messages.
blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...
Emotional, very honest post about how awful Xcode is to use: from useless SwiftUI compiler errors and unreadable project files to flaky simulators, opaque tooling and a private bug tracker that keeps developers in the dark.
holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...
Meet the 2025 App Store Awards finalists - 49 standout apps and games across 14 App Store categories.
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Swift 6.3 brings big upgrades to Embedded Swift: float printing, new EmbeddedRestrictions warnings, Swift MMIO codegen, nicer LLDB support, smoother C interop via @c. New linking features make MCU apps easier to build and debug.
www.swift.org/blog/embedde...
Zettelkasten for Programmers
The post shows how a programmer uses a Zettelkasten workflow to turn Matt Massicotte’s Swift actor advice into small linked notes, clarifying when actors are overkill and which simpler tools to use instead.
christiantietze.de/posts/2025/p...
This article provides a high-level, conceptual overview of how an AVFoundation camera capture session is structured - inputs, the central AVCaptureSession, outputs, the live preview layer and the difference between capture settings and stream settings.
mfaani.com/posts/ios/sw...
GSoC 2025 project overhauls Swift Testing’s console output with a hierarchical test tree, clearer failure details, and a new serialized event-based reporter.
It makes large test suites much easier to scan, debug, and use in future out-of-process harnesses.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
Improvements to SourceKit-LSP boost Swift code completion and signature help so IDEs like VS Code can show full docs and detailed overload/argument info. Already merged, coming in a future Swift toolchain - try it with a main dev snapshot.
www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...
