136: There Are Dozens Of Us Windows

Code Completion

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 136! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code!

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Today, we discuss:

• Subreddits are boycotting Reddit:
  • Apollo shutting down
  • Reddit management are bullies
  • Snazzy Labs Interview
  • The AMA
  • Reddark
  • Pixel Pals
  • Reddit down as well
  • Oh Crap screens
  • Steve Troughton-Smith
• New Mac Reviews:
  • Six Colors on 15” MacBook Air
  • Six Colors on Mac Studio
• Missing Mac Pro Reviews?
  • PCIe is on a switch
  • Game porting toolkit
• Could Vision Pro launch on January 24th?
  • Steve Troughton-Smith
  • Supports dozens of windows
  • [iPhone could capture 3D moments soon? https://mastodon.social/@dimitribouniol/110510594056732229)
• Live from WWDC:
  • Under the Radar
  • Talk Show
  • Upgrade
• Optimistic outlooks for Stage Manager?
  • Federico Viticci
• Read text on Vision Pro!
  • Dynamic Content Scaling
• Swift Evolution Updates:
  • Observability
• Swift Package Index supports 5.9
  • Swift Package Index Blog
• Macros implemented in libraries in Xcode, but your own are simple tools that get run:
  • Helge Hess
• Xcode Code Completion is significantly improved:
  • Natalia Panferova
• Xcode Logging is as well, though be careful with tests:
  • Kishikawa Katsumi
  • Use OSLog
• Xcode Bookmarks are awesome:
  • Dimitri on Mastodon
• Developer Disk Images got an upgrade:
  • Riley Testut
• Device Debugging is much faster:
  • Gui Rambo
• Documentation in 2023:
  • David Smith
• Custom video decoders are back for the Mac:
  • MediaExtensions
  • Perian
• macOS menus are finally Cocoa-native:
  • Rosyna Keller
  • Split views are also nicer
• iCloud Passwords are sharable with many groups:
  • Ricky Mondello
  • Security code autofill is better too
• CloudKit got some updates:
  • Sync now happens even if iCloud Drive is disabled
  • Tim Mahoney on CKSyncEngine
  • FoundationDB
• Indirect input events are now implicitly supported:
  • Steve Moseley
  • More
• iOS Keyboard is now rendered out of process:
  • Sean Heber
• Shaders in SwiftUI:
  • Miguel de Icaza
  • Adam Bell
• Code Completion Tip:
  • @_disfavoredOverload in SwiftUI
  • #if compiler
• Commented Out:
  • Dimitri hates KeyPaths

Your hosts for this week:

• Spencer Curtis
• Dimitri Bouniol

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