Starting my move to weekly podcast 2.0

Jeroen Leenarts: Hi, and welcome to another episode of my podcast. This is actually the 31st episode that I record regularly. There is something different actually today, I'm actually switching from my online recording platform from remotely to riverside.fm. And I'm really testing it out right now, and seeing how it works. And my plan is from now on to be online, live at nine on every Monday. So I'm now live online, but I will also publish this on my podcast feed and take you as listener through the last week's news that has been going on a lot last week. Because everybody is focused on next week on WWDC, which is going to be awesome. Of course, a lot of people are publishing articles on their wish lists for WWDC, or best practices to actually get the most out of the WWDC week. Also, I've been invited to the WWDC community events, and I'm still looking into what I can exactly add to that event to help people along with maybe podcasting or maybe with writing a book or iOS development in general or career development. Not sure yet what exactly, but I'm sure I'll figure out what the best approach would be just to get things started. I'm going to talk about a number of articles this week, this episode, and not a lot really, but a few important ones. What's new in Swift 5.5. The iOS developers guide to WWDC 2021 and Antoine Falaise Swift jobs.com. So to get things started, first articles what's new in Swift 5.5 by Paul Hudson, it's, it's a huge article. And it's very well written and it takes you through all the new features that will be coming in Swift 5.5. So while everybody is excited about WWDC, and Paul Hudson is really excited about Swift 5.5. So he start he starts his article with WWDC 21, being less than two weeks away, means the first Swift 5.5 Better is almost here. And it comes with a massive set of improvements async await actor strong properties and many more. For the first time, it's probably easy to ask what isn't new in Swift 5.5 Because so much is changing. In his article, Paul is going to walk you through each of the changes with code samples, so you can see how each of them work in practice. So this is an article that you want to read top to bottom, maybe in a few separate settings, because there's so much in there but it's so well didn't so much valuable content in there. It's very, it's very much a good idea to actually have a look at this article. And then there's an article of my good friend Donnie wall's the iOS developers guide to WWDC 2021. WWDC is always an exciting time for iOS engineer. It's one week a year where we're all newcomers to a whole range of features and API's that Apple has just unleashed upon the world through the latest Xcode, Mac OS, iOS, TV, iOS, iPad, iOS, Android watch you as bad as the entire iOS community comes out of hiding. And we all come together to share our thoughts, experiences, opinions, and findings for a whole week, Apple releases dozens of sessions on different topics, and we all scramble to watch them as soon as possible to make sure we're all up to date with whatever the latest and grid stays as a newcomer or a person with a regular sleeping schedule. This can be quite intimidating. So in this article, Donnie tries to help you along by figuring out on what things you should focus your attention on. So he wrote a little guide that helps you make the most out of WWDC, without being completely overwhelmed and intimidated by the sheer volume of content that Apple is about to unleash on us all. He has a number of tips six to be exact. I think every single tip can be a failure if you try to get the most out of WWDC, so have a read of Tony's article as well. And finally, Antoine les has created a new website, Steve jobs.com. But he also has an accompanying article on that in which he tries to address how he can make the right career move. So we've been all hearing a lot about developers trying to break into the iOS developer ecosystem. So people who tried to find a first job as an iOS developer. But an important aspect of becoming an iOS developer is also how you can develop your career further, once you are actively developing iOS code every day as your day job. So after having addressed this first topic on picking your first swift job at Amazon goes right into details, what you should have in your environment to allow yourself to to grow as much and as efficient as possible without running into any major roadblocks. So Antoine draws a lot of things from his own experience. And he also has a nice anecdote. So he actually got started that we transfer by doing a talk at a Dutch conference. And a fun little fact is that this conference was actually in Part organised by me. And I was actually the person that made the call to Antoine, to ask if he could step in as a speaker very last minute. And we all know what happened from there. In his article, he gives you a lot of insight into what are things you should be considering when you are considering joining a company for for a job. And one of the most important things that's in there is also that you should not only go for money, because you can go for the position that gives you the highest salary, but you should try and find a position that allows you to grow as much as possible. And that also allows you to work at a sustainable pace. One of the things that aren't on also addresses is the topic of, let's say, sort of like side hustles, or things you do on the side hobbies. And Antoine is is an outlier there, in my opinion, because he has his website, he has his newsletter, he has his job site now and he has a rocket sim. And that's all stuff he does next to a day job. And there is some value in doing all kinds of things next to your day job. But also, what I would like to add to Antoine's article is that finding challenges outside of your day job is very helpful and very useful. But you should always be able to, to gauge how much load you put on your day to day life so that you are able to keep up the pace and not burn yourself out. Because burning yourself out is one of the worst things that you can do as a working professional. And lastly, Antoine pitch says swiftly jobs, which is a new website that he created swiftly jobs.com, where you can post a job for free for 30 days. Or if you want to get your job posted, they're a bit more spin you can be a feature job. But if you are an software developer looking for a new position that's just free and you get direct contact with the companies that you are actually applying for. So that's a really good thing. Because there's no in between party you're directly talking to the company that is looking for a new engineer so swiftly jobs, a side hustle idea from Antoine formula, but I hope a lot of us are able to find new great opportunities through this platform. So to close things off, let's pull the lever on the iOS feeds slot machine. And we have an article here with Swift print in depth by Andy eveness. Print probably the most known the most used the most popular debugging tool and probably the most loved line of code of all time, you have undoubtedly used print before, if not in Swift. In other languages, the vast majority of programs have started their software building skills with a print or equivalent somewhere. We have all used print before, but it's an initial. But in a short article, Andy is about using the function to the max to the max, it actually has a secret or two you might not know about in his article and he goes in depth on the print statements. And there are actually other useful functions for printing text in Swift, such as Debug Print. But this article is not about us. It's strictly about print. It's strictly about print a lot of in depth information on the print statements, or print function, I should say. It's a fun read. And that's actually crazy ton of things you can do with the print statements in Swift. So have a look at this article by Andy and it's it's a nice surprising random article to get from iOS feeds by Philip Nemecek. So thanks for that, Philip. Now let's move on to Danny's Monday morning tweet. Eugene Belgian, combined has finally clicked so he's getting combined. And he's about to do a live stream with a superduper simple MVVM for UI kit with combined. I myself I'm enjoying my new workspace and I'm preparing for WWDC week, and I'm thinking about my podcast format. Well, there was this morning what I'm doing right now is the results of my thinking. And we'll see how things progress from here. Daniel Steinberg them some thinking is playing with a Newton's method example in hopes of starting to understand some of the async features coming to Swift step one, get a sink version working. Eric Lippman is preparing for WWDC week as well since he's joining the Swift org mentorship program for the first time and there will be presumably a lot of questions from his mentee if he gets one. So he's starting to plan how to keep up with things from European timezones. 10 staff manage to release new Swift UI tutorial focusing on building a dynamic form with complete validation and he also got to enjoy the sun a bit. He hopes everybody had a good weekend with a lot of sunshine. Paul Hudson also jumps in to indicate that he is celebrating the one year anniversary of hacking with Swift plus. So that'll be tomorrow and he's busy planning something special for that. And koa had a blast during the combined workshop. I don't know who else and he learned some new combined tricks. Besides that he also launched WWE together and he usually doesn't work on the weekends and spends time with his baby and his friends. which is, I think a very healthy thing to do. David stepping back has raised MC clockface. Last Thursday, a timepiece widgets app already had some ideas for more widgets. Richard Robinson was so bored, he decided to make an app again. And Ben Booker is doing the biggest update to the bookmarks iOS app that will be out tomorrow. He's been working on it for several months now. And he's really excited to share it with the world. So let's bookmark to though, how Roger Oba is finishing reading practical combine and continue reading practical core data is also excited to prepare some new hire onboarding docs for some reason. So he's indicating that this onboarding new iOS developers soon so the list goes on and on. And a lot of people are really preparing for WWDC, we can try to get into the flow, and see how things actually work out next week. Because once WWDC starts, then it'll be like a really exciting times, but also very hectic. So looking forward to that, and it's gonna be a busy week. That's, that's for sure. So if you like my podcast, please subscribe in your favorite podcast app of choice, but also hit me on Apple podcast, it really helps a lot. And if you want to support my podcast further, then have a look at pod dot fan slash app Force One. If you have any feedback, please leave it at speakpipe.com/app Force One. And also have a look at my links in the show notes because there's some interesting stuff in there as well. So thanks for your time. And looking forward to next week. Also a bit like nervous about next week because it will be my first time podcasting about WWDC, and who knows how things go. Exciting times, and I'm looking forward to see what the entire community for iOS development is going to do. With all the stuff that Apple is going to announce. Talk to you next week.