131: The Dumpster Fire Keeps Rolling Down the Hill

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 131! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Preshow: - Dimitri made a clone. - Notifications always get in the way. - Dimitri finally found out why you sometimes can’t click in Notes. - Swift Evolution Updates: - Freestanding Declaration Macros (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0397-freestanding-declaration-macros.md) - Allow Generic Types to Abstract over Packs (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0398-variadic-types.md) - Conform Never to Codable (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0396-never-codable.md) - Ford is happy GM is being stupid: - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/video/ford-ceo-on-apple-google-and-elon-musk/B6D8BC45-1C4A-45D3-97AC-933A57B76E31.html) - Twitter threatens to re-assign handles: - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/02/npr-musk-handle) - Rapid Security Responses are here to make updates faster: - The Eclectic Light Company (https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/06/did-that-update-just-break-something-how-bad-updates-are-getting-less-likely/) - New Version Numbering (https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/07/last-week-on-my-mac-all-in-the-numbers/) - Swift Foundation Package now available as a preview: - Swift Blog (https://www.swift.org/blog/foundation-preview-now-available/) - StateObject initialization now has better documentation: - Swiftjective-C (https://www.swiftjectivec.com/dependency-injection-with-state-object-swiftui/) - Registering Domains is possible directly in iOS Settings: - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/02/icloud-plus-domain-name-registration) - Apple wins against Epic Games, for realz this time: - Michael Tsai’s blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/25/apple-wins-antitrust-battle-with-epic-games/) - Slideloading might be coming in iOS 17: - Michael Tsai’s Blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/24/sideloading-rumored-for-ios-17/) - countryd (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/27/countryd/) - Code Completion Tip: - Relative paths in Xcode (https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2234244) - Mini Review Corner: 5G Internet - AT&T Fiber (https://www.att.com/internet/fiber/) - Commented Out: - Tears of the Kingdom is 3 days away. Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Not Phở. Search for Not Phở on the iOS and macOS App Stores today to give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1525104124?pt=14724&ct=CodeCompletion1&mt=8