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62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?
Dec 18, 2025
47m 43s
61: People have been working on it for ten years
Aug 28, 2025
44m 07s
60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes
Aug 7, 2025
42m 47s
59: At least mine was related to Swift
Jul 10, 2025
34m 01s
58: People used to hand code assembly
Jun 12, 2025
47m 31s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/18/25 | 62: What's the plan for transitioning CocoaPods into maintenance mode?✨ | CocoaPodsmaintenance mode+4 | Orta Therox | CocoaPodsPuzzmo+3 | — | CocoaPodsmaintenance mode+3 | — | 47m 43s | |
| 8/28/25 | 61: People have been working on it for ten years✨ | Swift on Androidcross-platform app development+2 | Marc Prud'hommeaux | skip.toolsAndroid Working Group+2 | — | SwiftAndroid+5 | — | 44m 07s | |
| 8/7/25 | 60: Filename suffixes in Swift package prefixes✨ | Swift packagesbuild system+3 | — | CadovaSwiftQC+1 | — | Swiftpackages+7 | — | 42m 47s | |
| 7/10/25 | 59: At least mine was related to Swift✨ | Swift EcosystemCodeEdit+4 | — | CodeEditWelcomeWindow+2 | — | SwiftCodeEdit+5 | — | 34m 01s | |
| 6/12/25 | 58: People used to hand code assembly✨ | Swift Package IndexWasm support+4 | — | ClaudeZed editor+3 | — | Swift Package IndexWasm+6 | — | 47m 31s | |
| 5/19/25 | 57: How many of the same packages can we pick?✨ | Swift 6.1 compatibilityReady for Swift 6+3 | — | Swift 6.1xtool+4 | — | Swift 6.1xtool+3 | — | 45m 57s | |
| 4/24/25 | 56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there…✨ | Swift 6.1 supportSwift Fundraising+3 | — | SwiftRegex.comSwift AST Explorer+8 | — | Swift 6.1Swift Package Index+4 | — | 38m 35s | |
| 4/3/25 | 55: The solution is always to write more tests✨ | testingopen-source funding+4 | — | CocoaPodsAether+1 | — | Swift TestingCocoaPods+3 | — | 46m 04s | |
| 3/13/25 | 54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there✨ | Swift teamsocial media+3 | — | SwiftBluesky+2 | — | SwiftBluesky+5 | — | 38m 27s | |
| 2/13/25 | 53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are✨ | SwiftAndroid+5 | — | swift-buildZip+6 | — | SwiftAndroid+5 | — | 47m 48s | |
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| 12/5/24 | 52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem | Join us as we talk about the Python package ecosystem, the prospective vision to improve the approachability of data-race safety, and give our usual package recommendations.NewsConstraints are Good: Python's Metadata DilemmaProspective Vision: Improving the approachability of data-race safetyAnnouncement post on MastodonThe forum thread and Tim Condon’s commentPackagesSocial media post about LMDBSwift Package Index search for LMDBQuickLMDBRapidLMDBSwiftLMDBEmpireFuzi fork by DimensionDevFuzi by Ce ZhengOrb by Siddhant MehtaSoulverCore by Zac CohanQueue by Matt Massicotte | 46m 52s | ||||||
| 11/7/24 | 51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed | Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsNew sample: Tiny Swing program mixing Java and Swiftcelsius-converteriOS Dev Weekly Issue 685 on the current state of SwiftPackagesSwiftClaude by George LyonJSONPatch by Peter RingsetSingaporeKit by Jia Chenswift-glob by Tuist, forked from David BeckGestureButton by Daniel SaidiStarCraftKit by Marcus Ziadé | 40m 00s | ||||||
| 10/17/24 | 50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall | Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsServer-Side Swift ConferenceSwift and Interoperability by Tony Parker and Ben CohenWhen to Make a Macro by Daniel SteinbergLeveraging structured concurrency in your applications by Franz BuschStop worrying about routes with OpenAPI Generator by Babeth VelgheSo You Think You Know Swift? by Nick LockwoodDave’s thoughts about Swift formattingChip8KitPackagesLocationRadiusPicker by Eman BasicRecap by Joe FabisevichTinyStorage by Christian Seligswift-async-operations by matsuji | 35m 14s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 | 49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness | Join us as we talk about The Server Side Swift meetup, the Server Side Swift conference, Wasm, new features in Swift Package Index, Hummingbird 2, Vapor 5, and hear our regular package recommendations.NewsSSWG Meetup #3SwiftWasmWasmKitServer Side Swift ConferenceWhy was there a lifesize printout of Dave at AltConf 2019?Contributions to Swift Package IndexAdd a "forked from" featureAdd "first_activity" as a search filter optionHummingbirdWhat’s new in Hummingbird 2VaporThe future of VaporSwift HTTP TypesPackagesswift-snowflake by Jaehong KangVersionator by Sam DeaneGameControllerKit by Wesley de Grootswift-export by Frank LefebvreChip8iEmulationCore by Danijel StracenskiSpectreKit by Patrik Svensson | 42m 19s | ||||||
| 8/29/24 | 48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down? | Join us as we talk about the CocoaPods maintenance plans and Swift macro expansions in Visual Studio Code, as well as hear our regular package recommendations.NewsCocoaPods Support & Maintenance PlansExpansion of Swift Macros in Visual Studio CodeConfiguring Emacs for Swift DevelopmentConfiguring Neovim for Swift DevelopmentPackagesSVGPath by Nick LockwoodPaintCodeswift-cloud by Andrew BarbaPhraseKit by Mark BattistellaEditValueView by p-x9UserDefaultsEditor by RyuConfettiKit by Simon B. StøvringRecreating iMessage Confetti | 40m 52s | ||||||
| 8/8/24 | 47: There are no open-source license police | Join us as we discuss the latest Ready for Swift 6 results, and how we represent them on the site. We also chat about Open Source Software funding, homomorphic encryption, and of course, we include our regular package recommendations.NewsIssue with Swift 6 error countsGeomys project announcementAcknowList by Vincent TourraineLicensePlist by Masayuki OnoPackagesEasing by Pavel Sharandaswift-homomorphic-encryption by AppleAnnouncing Swift Homomorphic EncryptionHomomorphic encryption in plain englishswift-argument-parser by Appleswiftmacro-cloaked-string by Lukas GergelKeyColor by Anton HeestandLightpack by Daniel Noskin | 44m 24s | ||||||
| 7/11/24 | 46: A concept born and explored in recent decades | Join us as we talk about our build system move to an Orka cluster consisting of 8 Mac Studios, our ongoing "Ready for Swift 6" project, to get an update on documentation coverage across the package ecosystem, and to hear our regular package recommendations. NewsPlotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race ErrorsSwitching to ephemeral macOS build runnersMacStadium FOSS programPackagesswift-testing-revolutionary by Kohki MikiSoto by Adam Fowler and the release blog postSwiftSessions by Alessio RubiciniTabular by António Pedro MarquesCoreXLSX by Max Desiatov | 49m 13s | ||||||
| 6/20/24 | 45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics | This week we talk about WWDC, our Ready for Swift 6 project that tracks data race safety errors across the whole package ecosystem, the Swift 6 migration guide, and more. Of course, we also make our regular package recommendations!NewsSwift 6 Migration GuideMatt Massicotte’s Swift 6 blog seriesPackagesBlurHashViews by Dale Pricehttps://blurha.shDeclarativeTextKit by Christian Tietzeswiftly by Patrick FreedHummingbird by Adam FowlerSwift Server Side Meetup #2ContrastKit by Mark Battistella | 33m 34s | ||||||
| 5/23/24 | 44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet? | This week we follow up on Swift 6 news, talk about Swift in unusual places, performance benchmarks, give a sneak peek at our new Mac build infrastructure, and of course make package recommendations.NewsSE-0435 Swift Language Version Per TargetSwift on Flipper Zero — A Proof of Concept by Samar SunkariaYou can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrociousSwift Tooling: Windows Editionswift-inspectJuice Sucking Servers by Axel Roest‘Standard’ vapor website drops 1.5% of requests, even at concurrency of 100! on the Swift ForumsPackagesswift-chess-neo by Navan Chauhan Sage by Nikolai Vazquezswift-security by Dmitriy Zharovswift-glob by David BeckAnyCodingKey by Rob Napier | 42m 31s | ||||||
| 4/25/24 | 43: Now I’m worried our metrics aren’t correct! with special guest Holly Borla | This week we had the opportunity to talk to Holly Borla who manages the Swift Compiler Team at Apple. We chat about upcoming Swift 6 changes and why they're a big deal, but also why you shouldn’t worry too much. Of course, all three of us pick packages, too!Interview with HollySE-0414: Region isolation SE-0431: Dynamically isolated function typesPackagesGRDB by Gwendal RouéGwendal's forum thread about adding Sendable annotationsPack by Matt CoxGeoURI by Jeff JohnstonConcurrencyRecipes by Matt Massicottegenerative-ai-swift by GoogleFit by Oleh Korchytskyi | 1h 06m 11s | ||||||
| 4/11/24 | 42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect | Join us for another episode as Dave and Sven talk open-source security vulnerabilities and how all package ecosystems are at risk, why it won't be possible to give meaningful "package size" stats on package pages, yet more talk of interfacing with Swift from other languages, and a one-question quiz! Plus package recommendations, of course!Follow upDead code stripping / Link time optimisationhttps://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-lto-for-swift/67379https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/110362NewsThe Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor MastermindCalling Haskell from Swift by Rodrigo MesquitaProposal Monitor by Victor MartinsPackageswhisperkit by Zach NagengastMacWhisper by Jordi BruinAsync-Channels by Brian FloerschPerformance discussion on the Swift Forumsswift-async-algorithms by AppleKeyCodes by Matt MassicotteSFSafeSymbols by Frederick PietschmannIgnite by Paul HudsonPublish and Plot by John Sundell | 49m 31s | ||||||
| 3/21/24 | 41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak | This week Dave and Sven break their streak of skipping recording to find Swift in exciting new places, like on ARM Windows and the Playdate, and learn new tricks like interoperating with C#. And as usual, there are package recommendations, with a good sprinkling of descents into various rabbit holes. NewsCombining Swift and C# on Windows with SwiftToCLRSwift on ARM Windows 11Swift Tooling: Windows EditionSwift on the PlaydatePanic PodcastPackagesThreadcrumb by Alexander CohenFlyingFox by Simon WhittyExpectToEventuallyEqual by Jon Reidswift-package-info by Felipe Marino | 53m 41s | ||||||
| 1/25/24 | 40: This downtime was a joint effort | This week, Dave and Sven take a look at the Flutter ecosystem, discuss Dave's blogging system rewrite, review their collaboration on a production crash, and, as usual, highlight some community packages.NewsProgress of the Flutter and Dart Package Ecosystem by Ander DoboPackagesVortex by Paul HudsonLanguageDetector by Ali Sheikhizadeh and Hadi SharghiGraceLanguage by Kevin MullinsVersionedCodable by Jonathan Rothwell | 40m 53s | ||||||
| 1/11/24 | 39: Stress testing dependency management | It's 2024, and Dave and Sven are back to talk plans for the Swift Package Index development over the coming year. They also talk about a light-hearted but also accidentally disastrous recent event in the npm package ecosystem, plans around how the Swift Package Index will approach Swift 6 support, and of course more package recommendations! NewsWhen "Everything" Becomes Too Much by Feross AboukhadijehPackagesswift-gopher by Navan ChauhanThe Web Before the WebWikipedia: Gopher (protocol)package-benchmark by Joakim HassilaOn percentiles: Wikipedia: Seven-number summaryGil Tene: Dispelling standard deviationPlusNightMode by Daniel Lyonswebsocket-actor-system by Stuart A. Malone | 49m 19s | ||||||
| 12/7/23 | 38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting | Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dave should have answered a question about adding a package into the Swift Package Index!NewsSwift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace pageGetting Started with Swift on AndroidMore Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackagesModel3DView by FreekPow by Robb BöhnkeGestures by Mikhail VospennikovScintillaLib by danielleNSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers RichString by Stefan van den Oord NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan HuangSwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood | 42m 51s | ||||||
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