What’s cool about this is it’s not a proxy, so you don’t have to futz with certificates, proxy settings, and the like. As long as the iOS device and your Mac are on the same local network, you can view the network traffic of your apps.
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Avoid migrating your Swift scripts to packages and using swift build just to include a dependency. Change #!/usr/bin/swift to #!/usr/bin/swift sh and you’re good to go: #!/usr/bin/swift sh import PromiseKit // @mxcl ~> 6.5 firstly { after(.seconds(2)) }.done { print("Scripts with package dependencies!") exit(0) } RunLoop.main.run()
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Whether you are writing yet another one task tracker or calendar app, or simply want to offer the users to skip the joy of using UIDatePicker and let them quickly and efficiently select dates — CrispyCalendar is the calendar UI framework you need.
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Mobile apps were one of the big discussion points when we talked Mastodon on episode #315 of The Changelog. Here’s one thing Eugen had to say about the subject: Oh, yeah, for some reason I get a lot of questions like “Why isn’t Mastodon on the app store?” and it’s really weird, because there are like a million apps for Mastodon on every app store… They’re just not called Mastodon, because they are developed by third-party developers. Mastodon has a principle - API first, and… Yeah, that’s essentially it - API first. [laughter] Add Mast to the ever-growing list of third-party developers making iOS apps for Mastodon.
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When Apple open sourced Swift, it was only a matter of time before the server-side frameworks started rolling out. Perhaps that time is now? Amazon’s entry is called Smoke, and InfoQ has the deets: Amazon Smoke framework is a new open-source light-weight server-side framework written in Swift and aimed to build REST-like or RPC-like services. Its architecture stresses ease of use and favours a pure-functional programming style for request handlers. Click through for some code snippets and to learn exactly how Smoke is built (hint: they’re using SwiftNIO)
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Straight outta Cupertino: a low-level tool for building high-performance networking applications in Swift. It particularly targets those use-cases where using a “thread-per-connection” model of concurrency is inefficient or untenable. This is a common limitation when building servers that use a large number of relatively low-utilization connections, such as HTTP servers. Could this be a first step toward Swift-powered servers running all around the globe? Maybe Apple will finally be able to ditch WebObjects… 😉
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Adding Bitcoin-related functions to your iOS/macOS apps has never been easier.
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Now you can subscribe to playgrounds from your favorite third-party creators, then browse and download their content directly within Swift Playgrounds. This is quickly becoming one of the most compelling ways to learn how to code. It’ll be quite the master stroke if Apple can get the next generation learning Swift as their first programming language.
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Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.
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