An interactive Git Status client, written in C

A discussion on how we recently refactored our networking stack at XING, from planning to implementation. And emoji.

An interview with Paul Hudson about his career, talking about journalism, books, Venn diagrams, conference speaking and diversity.

A general discussion around iOS conferences: Why you should go there, what you should do there, and what to do if you want to give a talk. Also a short report on two conferences we just attended: NSSpain and Try Swift.

Bas and Benedikt discuss what a 'Pro' device represents at Apple, what a Mac Mini Pro could be, and why the Touchbar should not be in a Pro device.

Where Bas and Benedikt discuss iPad, our awful static site engine, Swift scripting, Strings in Swift and Zelda.

Where Bas and Benedikt discuss MacBook Keyboards, Swift's eighth birthday, Swift conferences, Mac Development, and Peanut-Butter Pizza.

How can we as a community help expanding the reach of Swift

Taming SourceKitService for less Xcode memory consumption

Utilize value types to quickly determine a differences between two sets of data

Swift 3 replaces NSData with the Data value type. Implement a Doom Wad file parser with the new Data type to understand the differences.

Introducing SwiftWatch, a place to share links to interesting Swift resources like tutorials, blog posts, GitHub projects or more.

Once you add associated types to an enum the task of creating instances quickly becomes very repetitive. See how a simple trick can greatly simplify this

Mixing optional and non-optional functions in a guard is impossible and requires breaking up the lines. Here's a neat solution on how to circumvent this.

A quick hack to prevent you from accidentally commiting test code

Three quick examples for how you can use guard to write shorter and simpler code

Hirundo is a Mac App for reading the Swift mailing lists like Swift-Evolution or Swift-Dev. You can even bookmark messages of threads because they contain important information

A tutorial on how to create a Swift Package for X11 on Linux and use it to write a simple X11 app

This quickly explains how you use private apis from Swift in order to figure out the manufacturer of your fancy new iPhone 6S CPU

Swift 2.0 includes a new way of handling exceptions via the try? keyword. This is a quick post to explain the basics, and why this is cool.

CoreValue is a lightweight wrapper framework around Core Data. It takes care of boxing value types into Core Data objects and unboxing Core Data objects into value types. It also contains simple abstractions for easy querying, updating, saving, and deleting.

Swift's try / catch error handling is great. However, you can't use it in an async context. This article briefly explains which options you have if you intend to use Error Handling asynchronously

See how you can even overload methods in a generic manner by using protocols

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