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Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit
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Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham
Peter Witham joins us to talk about today's Platforms State of the Union. Is Apple Intelligence here? Is Liquid Glass here? Where's John Ternus? GuestPeter Witham - Developer, Podcaster,…
Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos
Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi…
Actually Really Useful
After ten months away, Leo's back. He covers Swift Craft 2026, the rest of his speaking year (Beer City Code, iOSDevUK), and his honest take on AI dev tooling. Plus updates on MistKit, SyntaxKit,…
Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas
Kaya Thomas (kayathomas.is) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary (milkdiary.com). She talks about using new APIs like Foundation Models,…
Swift Testing with Rachel Brindle
Rachel Brindle, maintainer of Nimble and Quick, comes on to talk about what's new in Swift Testing and what the future of Swift Testing may hold.GuestRachel BrindleRachel Brindle…
Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai
Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps.GuestKabir OberaiKabir Oberai (@[email protected]) -…
Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025.GuestMatt Massicotte - @[email protected] | I write stuff here.Matt…
v26.0 with Peter Witham
Before Leo heads to California, Peter joins to discuss Apple's crazy year and what we expect from WWDC 2025.GuestPeter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, StreamerCompileSwift PodcastPeter Witham |…
Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko
Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko from Cultured Code talk about their migration of Things Cloud to Server Side with Swift and what they learned along the way.GuestThings - To-Do List for Mac &…
SwiftUI Fundamentals with Natalia Panferova
Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals.GuestNil CoalescingNatalia Panferova (@natpanferova) / XNatalia Panferova…
Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM.GuestMarc Prud'hommeaux…
Moving Forward 2025
What a wild ride 2024 was - from big life changes to surprising shifts in Apple development, I'm sharing the story of what went down this year. After navigating job hunts, tech trends, and some…
Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte
Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑GuestMatt Massicotte - @[email protected] | I write stuff here.Matt Massicotte…
Practical Year - Part 2 with Donny Wals
Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI.GuestDonny WalsDonny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — BlueskyDonny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / Xdonny wals…
Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals
Donny comes on yet again to give his thoughts on 2024 - Swift Data, Swift Testing and Swift Macros while we mourn the death of Combine.GuestDonny WalsDonny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) —…
Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq
Sébastien Stormacq joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Swift - what does "Serverless" mean, how deployment works, and how to get started.GuestSébastien ☁ Stormacq 🇺🇦 (@sebsto) / XSeb @ AWS…
Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik
Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more.GuestNatan RolnikNatan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) / XNatan Rolnik…
Full Stack Lyriq with Adegboyega Olusunmade
Adegboyega Olusunmade joins to talk about building his Full Stack Swift app Lyriq and what did he learn along the way: the differences between building an iOS app and a server app to deploying a…
Ludicrous Types with Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood of SwiftFormat (not dash) joins the show to talk about the server side Swift conference, quirks of Swift you didn't know about, language design, and the future of Swift.GuestNick…
Debugging Your Job Search with Jaim Zuber
Jaim Zuber returns after over 5 years to give us an overview of looking for a job in iOS development in 2024, how has it changed, what are some things you can do now, and when becoming a manager is…
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Empower Apps has published 206 episodes since August 2018, covering topics in Business, Technology.
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