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Jeroen Leenarts: As you may notice, in my podcast episode, this time around, I might sound like I have a little bit less energy. It's been a really rough day today, we had a big announcement by the Dutch government, we're going to go into a lockdown from tonight for four and a half weeks and severe restrictions. It's the biggest lockdown that we've had in the Netherlands. So I imagine everybody will hang in there. But I do want to mention for everybody out there to just stay strong. And make sure that you get through this. But also, everything is what we make of it. So have a look at Def con.com. There's not much there yet. But there's more to come. Hi, and welcome to the ninth episode of my podcast. My name is Leenarts and I've been developing iOS apps for over eight years. I've been running with that cokehead for over seven years. If you are an iOS app developer, you should listen to my podcast because I will keep you updated on interesting articles, conferences and events you might might not have heard about. In this episode, I'm going to talk about John sandals 200 weeks of Swift practical core data by Donnie walls, a new Xcode release. Peter Steinberger writes about using Apple silicon in continuous integration. Keith Harrison talks about showing maps in widgets and creating dynamic dark mode images at runtime. Eureka battles book and leak Assange talks about the large title unification bar glitches and ways that you can actually fix these. So let's get started. Swift by sundal has finished his 200 weeks of Swift every week for 200 Weeks. John sundal has released an article on his blog. He says he will continue writing articles on his blog. But most of all, John, a big shout out to you. Thank you so much for providing this content. And I know you will do great things in the future on your blog and on other venues. Donnie vos has released the practical Core Data Book in a preview version, I had to look through the first version first five chapters really already. And it's it's what I expected. It's really good. And if you want to know and learn more about Core Data, definitely have a look at his book. And Danny has promised that he will soon have the entire book finished his deadline is January 4 2021. So that's going to be very soon and very interesting. Please use the link in the show notes. And she will help support my podcast. Also, we can download a new Xcode version, version 12.3 download through the App Store or get it from developer portal from Apple. Peter Steinberg has a nice write up about using the Mac Mini M one for continuous integration with pspdfkit. They've been using Mac Minis for their continuous integration setup. They use actual hardware, and not some cloud based instance. What's interesting is that this is the first write up that I found that actually talks about using the Apple M one system for continuous integration in a in a more scaled up environment. Peter talks about the different aspects and details that you need to get right on your Apple M one hardware to make sure that you can actually run your builds on this system. Keith Harrison on his usual love.com blog writes about using Apple Maps in which is of course you can use map kit directly in which it kits. But with this little write up, he can actually tell you how you can use map kit as a basis for artwork that you can actually send over to your widget so that you can show something that's actually looking like a somewhat of a map. And just stick with the usual of the comm blog by Keith Harrison. He has also written a nice write up on how you can create dark mode images at runtime from assets that you already have available within your app. It's basically an inversion of colors I think. And it's it's a great little write up that details some intricacies that you have to deal with if you want to dynamically convert images at runtime Leka sang over at swift senpai has a nice article on the details of UI navigation bar, large titles. He notes that they glitch quite often if you do something incorrectly, and he has a long form article going into all the details that could actually be glitching and how we can fix these unwanted behaviors. Again, I wanted to do a shout out to you Ricardo betaF is writing a book junior to senior how to level up as a software engineer it's going to be available on demand Number 21st. Please have a look at his book. It's only $15. And you will really help him get his book launched. If you do. I think it will be a great read. I haven't read it yet. But I will interview him on the 23rd of December to really dig into what he has written and what his thoughts were when he was writing it. So very interesting. And talking about everything is what we make of it. As I mentioned earlier, Danny's Monday morning tweet. It's a real good one this week. Daniel Steinberg is working on his book. He's processing comments, and he sent Chapter Two to his reviews. And then he's going to continue on to chapter three. Rob Elliot has been working on replacing a network layer with the Combine approach based off his book. So that's the book by Donnie. He's asking an intelligent question, and Dan is there to help him. George Holtz is trying to figure out how to be a debt Gaku Japanese note writing app is been trying to improve the UI of its collection few to mimic delays grid that isn't available in UI kit. So they want to move from three columns to two. Aaron Cleveland has been working on going over the Swift language is shortly the one to three minute clips on his YouTube channel. And the developer is working on an existing project. And he made plan for plans for the weekend. And then he'll do some practice in Swift UI and learn Python. Demeter jacket off, it's the first day of his Christmas break. So he's trying to enjoy not working. And he's continuing on advent of code. So why is What do you mean not working? Roll pop. He's doing some fun stuff. This week. He's shipping iOS and Android VR apps. The boring stuff is running handle documentation, and some continuous integration and continuous deployment documentation. Parama de is having continuous progress with his project and he's trying to make his combined skills better. Matteo Vila is slowly porting his Twitter client to Mac OS by using catalyst. And he's posting some really nice screenshots already. And Scott Smith is recording a new iOS building blocks podcast, I definitely have to check that one out. And Nick Hayward has just launched version 2,020.4 have seen cuts which adds some of the most requested features. And that's it for this week. I wanted to keep it nice and tight and nice and short. 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