134: Contacts Suck

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 134! 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: - Swift Evolution Updates: - Observability (https://forums.swift.org/t/second-review-se-0395-observability/65261) - Using C++ from Swift (https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-a-vision-for-using-c-from-swift/65274) - Mac 14,13 and Mac 14,14 are reportedly rev-ing up for announcement next week? - 9to5mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/31/apple-first-mac-m2-ultra-chip/) - Reddit pulls a Twitter and puts app developers out of a job: - Christian Selig (https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/) - Apple Classical launches on Android before Mac and even iPad: - Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/05/apple-classical-launches-on-android-before-mac-and-ipad/) - WKWebViews on iOS are no longer inspectable by default: - Michael Brown (https://techhub.social/@mluisbrown/110457588780877974) - Apple open sourced their anti-strobe detection they use on Apple TV: - Steve Troughton-Smith (https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/110454416000663103) - Receipt Validation signatures are being upgraded to SHA-256: - Michael Tsai (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/05/29/receipt-validation-with-sha-256/) - Drobo and Retrospect filing for bankruptcy: - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/drobo-reportedly-files-ch-7-bankruptcy-signaling-the-end-of-a-simpler-nas/) - Code Completion Tip: - Reflecting Swift types with Mirror (https://www.avanderlee.com/swift/reflection-how-mirror-works/) - NSHipster (https://nshipster.com/mirror/) - We predict what will be announced at WWDC next week! - Commented Out: - Coding with a baby - Our post-Zelda life - ZFG’s Playthrough (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfRdnMpgdhE) - Yuzu (https://yuzu-emu.org) 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 Weekly Swift Exercises. Go to https://twitter.com/swiftexercises today to check it out!