But that’s all the other work that determines whether anyone actually discovers your app, and that’s also the problem my new Mac app is designed to solve.
It’s called Kickstart
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But that’s all the other work that determines whether anyone actually discovers your app, and that’s also the problem my new Mac app is designed to solve.
It’s called Kickstart
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But some of you have asked me to go further, so today I’m releasing a powerful new AGENTS.md file that takes AI coding to the next level: it fully encapsulates the very essence of Paul Hudson and Hacking with Swift right in your LLM, as if I were inside your computer writing the code personally.
Hacking with SwiftTeach your AI to write Swift the Hacking with Swift wayA hands-on AGENTS.md for Claude, Codex, and other AI tools that need firmer opinions about SwiftUI, Core Data, and particles.
We’ll look at how to install and use these agent skills in Xcode, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and more. We’ll to look at where to find great agent skills for app development using my new Swift Agent Skills GitHub repository, and how to evaluate which agents
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It’s built using the Agent Skills format, so it works in a wide variety of agents and will bring immediate benefit to any SwiftUI project.
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As a result, tools like Claude, Codex, and Gemini often make unhelpful choices you should watch out for. Sometimes you’ll come across deprecated API, sometimes it’s
Hacking with SwiftWhat to fix in AI-generated Swift codeAs AI-assisted coding increases in popularity, here are a handful of things I would suggest you look out for – and what to replace them with instead.
I don’t believe in making folks wait, so here’s the simple answer: if you’re using the
String method replacingOccurrences(of:with)
Hacking with SwiftOne Swift mistake everyone should stop making todayTL;DR: You should use replacing(_:with:) rather than replacingOccurrences(of:with:)
It's something I’ve run at several conferences worldwide, and the feedback is always very positive: it's clear, practical, and packed with takeaways you can use immediately.
We focus on issues such as:
- Smarter code architecture
- Clearer Swift and SwiftUI
- Updating deprecated code
- Internationalizing layouts
- Creating consistent designs
- Better UI and UX
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This year the two biggest changes are:*
Hacking with SwiftWhat's new in SwiftUI for iOS 26WebView, rich text editing for TextEditor, section index list titles, and more
Many changes are small, such as the addition of raw identifiers, default values in string interpolation, or
enumerated() conforming to Collection, but these are all likely to spread quickly across projects because they are just so darned useful.It's
Hacking with SwiftWhat's new in Swift 6.2?Raw identifiers, backtraces, task naming, and more.
Things like support for trailing commas in lists have been on many people's wish lists for some time, and the extended use of
nonisolated helps work around one of the pain points folks encounter with Swift concurrency, but ultimately these changes are mostly minor and provide a neat run up to larger changes that will come in Swift
Hacking with SwiftWhat's new in Swift 6.1?Trailing commas in lists, metatype key paths, diagnostic groups, and more.
There are a number of tiers on offer right now, but this might change over time – keep an eye on the project for updates.
The launch
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Once again, it's a full-day, online-only workshop event aimed at intermediate to advanced developers, and everyone who attends will have ample chance to learn new approaches, tackle coding challenges, and of course ask lots of questions.
This year we'll be focusing on three key areas of AI:
- Getting deep integration with AppIntents
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- Pro Swift helps you develop a deeper knowledge of the Swift language, and is packed with videos demonstrating all the techniques.
- Pro SwiftUI explores advanced techniques in SwiftUI, including optimization, debugging, complex layouts and animations, and more.
- Swift Design Patterns
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A few weeks ago I received an email, which I'm sharing below with permission.
Hacking with SwiftMaking mistakes while learning SwiftTired of making mistakes while learning to code? You're not alone.
But there's also one major architectural change you need to be aware of, so let's start with that…
View is now on the main actor
For a long time, theHacking with SwiftWhat’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18We got new API for colors and gradients, more scrollview improvements, tab improvements, and more.
This is more common than you might think. In fact, several major programming languages have some kind of release that takes significantly longer than all others: Python 3 took years to arrive, PHP 6 took so long the team bailed out and jumped straight to PHP 7, and Perl 6 dragged on so much that it ended up evolving into
Hacking with SwiftWhat's new in Swift 6.0?When fully enabled, Swift 6 is likely to require changes in pretty much every project.
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Let's take a look at what's changing…
- Tip: You can also download this as an Xcode playground if you want to try the code samples yourself.
Data races are now clearly diagnosed
Swift concurrency was
Hacking with SwiftWhat's new in Swift 5.10?Important concurrency clean ups ahead of Swift 6.
Let's get to it…
Starting from scratch
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