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Guests Dave Verwer - daveverwer.com Mastodon @daveverwer@mastodon.social Twitter @daveverwer iOS Dev Weekly - Twitter @iOSDevWeekly iOS Dev Jobs - Twitter @iOSDevJobsHQ iOS Dev Directory Sven A. Schmidt - finestructure.co Mastodon @finestructure@mastodon.social Twitter - @_sa_s LinkedIn - Sven A. Schmidt Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DjgtYTEI7xQ Related Episodes Episode 45 - Developer Community (Part 1) with Dave Verwer Episode 46 - Developer Community (Part 2) with Dave Verwer Episode 77 - Swift Package Index with Sven A. Schmidt Episode 75 - Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2 Episode 74 - Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1 Related Links Swift Package Index Consider Supporting the Swift Package Index Recognising Package Authors Versioned DocC Documentation We talked about (00:00) - Introduction (02:37) - Running the Largest open-source Vapor site (09:49) - Implementing DocC (13:57) - SPI YAML File (21:44) - Search Improvements (30:23) - Swift Package Registries (36:18) - Growth of SPI (46:56) - Supporting Swift Package Index Social Media Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit</a

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management, composing libraries, deploying server-side Swift in production, and much more. Sponsors NordVPN : Make your Internet connection private and secure, no matter which network that you’re on. Get 50% off their one-year plan at nordvpn.com/sundell , or when using offer code SUNDELL . Bitrise : Fast, stable and highly customizable continuous integration. Automatically build, test and distribute your app on every single commit that you make. Get started for free at bitrise.io/swift , and also check out their new podcast “Mobile DevOps is a Thing!” . Links Dave on Twitter Sven on Twitter John on Twitter iOS Dev Weekly The Swift Package Index Hummingbird Revisor Plot Arena Vapor Docker Orka The GitHub package registry pitch on the Swift forums Flask Django Dave’s website Sven’s website Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave Verwer is the curator of iOS Dev Weekly. He also runs several other projects around the iOS community including the iOS Dev Directory. The show starts out talking about how Dave find the links he adds to the newsletter. He actually came to talk about building discoverable apps, meaning making your applications easy to navigate and feel more natural on iOS devices. We also discuss accessibility and the built in features that Apple provides in iOS. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Dave Verwer Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! Links iOS Dev Directory Picks Dave Verwer: Core Data Lab Charles Max Wood: The Expanse Gridsome

Guest Dave Verwer - daveverwer.com Twitter @daveverwer iOS Dev Weekly - Twitter @iOSDevWeekly iOS Developer Community Survey SwiftPM Library - Twitter @SwiftPMLibrary iOS Dev Jobs - Twitter @iOSDevJobsHQ iOS Dev Directory Related Episodes Episode 31: Future Proofing Your Apps with Gui Rambo Episode 37: Machine Learning with Kevin Scott Episode 42: Patterns and Practices for Scalable Apps Episode 45: Developer Community (Part 1) with Dave Verwer Related Links My Appearance on Responder Chain with Lucas Derraugh iOS Dev Directory Projects Swift News by Tibor Bödecs iOS Dev Blogs by Andrew Yates Sponsors BrightDigit Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift Contact me if you need help today. Swift Packages What's the future of Swift Packages Cocoapods vs Carthage vs Packages vs Submodules Limitations of Swift Packages SwiftPM Library How SwiftPM.co began? What does it provide to the community? Issues with older packages Issues with other dependency management systems (NPM, RubyGems, etc...) Open Source Data How to use pull-requests for contributing information? How iOS Dev Directory works

Guest Dave Verwer - daveverwer.com Twitter @daveverwer iOS Dev Weekly - Twitter @iOSDevWeekly iOS Developer Community Survey SwiftPM Library - Twitter @SwiftPMLibrary iOS Dev Jobs - Twitter @iOSDevJobsHQ iOS Dev Directory Related Episodes Episode 31: Future Proofing Your Apps with Gui Rambo Episode 37: Machine Learning with Kevin Scott Episode 42: Patterns and Practices for Scalable Apps Related Links Ruby on Rails Demo BrightDigit - What You Should Know About iOS Software Architecture ( My Boring Article 😆) Sponsors Transistor.Fm Your podcast's publishing platform Transistor not only hosts your podcast but also: Help distribute your podcast with integrations to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Mailchimp Deep analytics including average downloads per episode, popular podcast apps, number of subscribers, trends Professional support for creatives, businesses, and professional podcasters when it comes to hosting and analytics Try it today with this special link: https://transistor.fm/?via=empowerapps iOS Developer Community Survey How Dave started iOS Dev Weekly Why we love macOS over Windows How the community loves Swift Community and AR (and ML) How big is Swift development outside of iOS? What the big backend technologies for iOS devs? iOS Developer Community History Mobile Development before iOS Democratization of the Internet and the iPhone Challenges using Desktops Objective-C vs. Swift Architecture and Programming Fads Social Media Email leo@brightdigit.com <a href="https:/

In this episode of The iPhreaks Show the panel interviews Dave Verwer about his new SwiftPM Library. Dave is an iOS developer from the UK, he’s been working with iOS since the beginning. He is mostly known for his weekly email newsletter, iOS Dev Weekly, which is released every Friday afternoon. SwiftPM Library is a site that aims to make it easy for people to find quality packages that support the Swift Package Manager to integrate into their project. It is a repository of all the packages he can find and anyone can contribute packages to it. The CocoaPods Quality Index was his inspiration for this library. The CocoaPods Quality Index gives a quality score based on a few metrics, Dave wanted to do this but specifically for packages that support SwiftPM. The panel considers what this means for SwiftPM, which unlike most package managers it does not have a library of packages to use. Dave sees two outcomes for the SwiftPM Library, either it becomes the go-to place for people to discover new packages or Github package registry will come along and kill it. The Github package registry is a multiplatform, multilanguage tool for registering packages. Daves explains the features that SwiftPM Library has that gives it a fighting chance against the Github package registry. First, the SwiftPM Library was built with speed in mind. The Github package registry piggybacks on Github search which therefore will take longer. Also, Github is likely to list its packages in a way that he take those packages and include them in his library as well, so Github will not have more Swift supporting packages than the SwiftPM Library. Another thing that sets apart SwiftPM Library is that it is all about Swift. The Github package registry also supports other languages like Ruby and Java. It is doubtful that Github will have very many Swift specific features and metadata on their site, where at the SwiftPM Library Dave already has many of those in place. The panel asks Dave about SwiftPM and how it compares to CocoaPods and Carthage. He explains that SwiftPM is very similar to using Cocoapods, however, you can create a library using X code and also include other libraries as dependencies. He gives a brief walkthrough of how to replace CocoaPods with SwiftPM in a project. SwiftPM has a couple of limitations that the SwiftPM team is currently working on. Right now in SwiftPM, it does not support resources, such as zip files and images, in packages. Another major limitation of SwiftPM is that you cannot switch between languages in a Swift package. The panel considers these limitations and shares how they affect whether or not they choose SwiftPM. Once these problems are solved, Dave hopes that everyone will transition to SwiftPM. SwiftPM is managed by Apple, therefore, is a cleaner and better option even though the transition may be painful. The panel shares the things they like about SwiftPM, including how easy it is to use. It becomes so easy to update packages and dependencies after the transition. Back to the SwiftPM Library, the panel asks Dave more about it works. Dave explains how the quality index works, giving each package a score based on a few quality metrics. The value of a quality index comes from the need to be careful when adding a dependency. The search results on his site are based on the quality score of each package. The metrics Dave is currently using to measure are: Does it support the latest version of Swift? How many versions of the package have been released? How many stars does it have on its Github repository? Does the license file exist and is it an open source license that is unencumbered? The panel takes a look at what the s

Dave Verwer joins John to take a look behind the scenes of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, to talk about working as an indie and how to increase your chances of success as an indie creator or developer, juggling multiple projects, as well as iOS development trends. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Instabug: A complete solution for beta testing, bug & crash reporting, and user feedback. Install their SDK in just a minute and get a free t-shirt by going to instabug.com/sundell . Bitrise: A fast, stable and easy to use continuous integration service. Automatically build, test and distribute your app on every single commit that you make. Get started for free at bitrise.io/swift . Links Dave on Twitter John on Twitter iOS Dev Weekly Ruby Weekly Mailchimp Functional networking in Swift Time traveling in Swift unit tests Ulysses John’s game engine Curated Episode with Ben Sandofsky Swift Weekly Brief NextDraft newsletter Hacker Newsletter Dave’s website Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk

01:44 - Dave Verwer Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 02:30 - iOS Dev Weekly Ruby Weekly 05:29 - Curating Process Twitter RSS Feeds Submissions 07:17 - Editing 08:39 - Feedback 09:51 - Curation (Cont’d) 10:52 - Sponsorship 15:24 - Curated and Email Marketing Customers Remotive Spam 21:21 - Avoiding Spam Filters Litmus 24:54 - A/B Testing 26:07 - Dave and iOS Development Picks Russ Bishop: More Swift Attributes (Andrew) Silicon Labs Microcontrollers (Andrew) DigiKey (Andrew) ASCIIwwdc (Mike) Lifeline... (Dave) Pink Floyd on Vinyl on YouTube (Jaim)

Dave Verwer's story is unique to say the least. With just one tweet dave received over 600 signups for iOS Dev Weekly before he sent the first weekly email. Then based on his own need for a better solution than MailChimp, he created Curated to streamline his workflow and save time each week. Based on the massive success of iOS Dev Weekly, Dave decided to open up Curated to the world; but the way he went about the launch was unconventional, yet extremely effective. Listen now to learn why his launch strategy worked so well.