Sep. 4, 2022
When Swift was newer, there was a bunch of podcasts about it - in early episodes of Fireside Swift the existence of a Swift Podcast Network is often mentioned, but now it’s more of an established language there’s a bit less current content to listen to, and what there is, is less focused on learning Swift and more about what’s happening in the community.
Being firmly in the camp of needing to learn more about the language, I’ve listen to a number of older podcasts, or even current ones (such as Fireside) but their older episodes. It is sort of an odd experience traveling on several slightly out of sync timelines, but quite a joy to see what happens to predictions - like the occasion when Paul Hudson predicts that an “Xcode lite” on iPad is unlikely to be able to write apps until a more swift like framework for developing interfaces exists.
Jul. 22, 2022
One of the iOS development podcasts in my current rotation is “Swift Over Coffee”, it’s blurb is:
Swift over Coffee is a podcast that helps you keep your Swift skills up to date the easy way, hosted by Paul Hudson and Erica Sadun. Each episode has news, our picks of the week, plus an open ballot where you can share your views on important topics.
And that is about how it goes. In Season One, it’s actually Paul and Sean Allen at the mic, they chat about news and topics related to Swift and iOS development, and each week there’s a Twitter question that people have chipped in on and the hosts go over these different views in some detail.
Jul. 17, 2022
One of the ways I keep engaged in a topic is to listen to podcasts about it. Currently Fireside Swift is one of the Swift/SwiftUI/iOS Development podcasts that I have in the rotation.
The blurb for the show is:
“Fireside Swift is a popular iOS Development podcast where four buddies discuss a new Swift programming topic each week. They try to stay informal while also conveying the information they know about each topic with bits of humor sprinkled throughout. Have a seat by the fire, and enjoy some nerdy discussion with friends!”
Jul. 14, 2022
I was looking for some more podcasts with Swift fundamentals content when I came across this great community built awesome list.
There’s a few podcasts on the list I have not come across, so I’ll check them out.
Jul. 9, 2022
I’m loving Swift Playgrounds - it’s getting daily use switching back and forwards between the iPad and MacBook. It’s sort of amazing that a tool to support education - it seems designed for primary school students, and is certainly being used that way - scales right up to “commercial” level app production.
iPad Pros is a podcast about iPads (unsurprisingly) by Tim Chaten and I listened to a 2017 episode about the launch of Playgrounds 4 with guest Frank Foster. The focus was more about using the iPad as a serious development tool - a la XCode for iPad - than the education possibilities. I’m all for XCode (or something closer) on iPad, but I’d be disappointed if Playgrounds was changed in any way that made it more intimidating for children.