43. Jason Brennan on Beach

Jason Brennan joins Chris and Soroush to discuss his new project, Beach.

• Jason Brennan (@jasonbrennan)
  • Blog
• Beach landing page
• Alan Kay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
• HyperCard.org
  • HyperCard on Wikipedia
• Guerrillas in the Myst (WIRED, 1994)
• Emergent Behavior
• Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams by Mitchel Resnick
• HSL
• Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad (2012)
• iBooks Author
• Hopscotch
• A LEGO Mindstorms program
• Bret Victor: Stop Drawing Dead Fish
• Sketch
• Jason’s fork of Prototope
• Swift Playgrounds
• “I think I’m more excited by people’s shitty versions of things (sketches, prototypes, etc) than the finished, polished thing” — @jasonbrennan
• Brian Lee O’Malley on Instagram
• On the Beach
• Thread from Jason: “Teachers have to worry about ‘how to graduate from Scratch to text languages’ because there’s nothing else to graduate to”

Teaser: 42. Actors

Chris and Soroush discuss the Actor model from Chris Lattner's concurrency manifesto.

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41. Talking Swift-Evolution with Kelvin

• Karlie Kloss
  • Kode with Klossy
• Xcode 9’s new editor is written in Swift (WWDC 2017 Initial Impressions)
• swift-evolution mailing list
• swift-evolution GitHub repository
• Kelvin’s proposal to improve Swift’s pointer types
• Andy Trick on Twitter
• Swift 5: start your engines announced the new evolution process changes
• Soroush’s guard-catch proposal (see also Episode 37: Soroush’s Swift Evolution Proposal)
  • Chris Lattner: “Because proposals must be implemented before review, the core team is pre-reviewing proposals to provide guidance of whether they are conceptually plausible for inclusion in swift. This is to avoid the problem of someone spending a bunch of time implementing something, then the core team saying ‘no, that's a bad idea’”
  • David Hart: “To be clear: proposals need an implementation but its not important who implements it. The core team has also implied that they might help pair proposal authors with implementors, so I wouldn't worry about that part.”
• [swift-evolution] [RFC] Definitive Initialization and Incompatibilities with Fixed-size Arrays
• [swift-evolution] Plan to move swift-evolution and swift-users mailing lists to Discourse
• kelvin13 · GitHub
  • noise: Generate and combine commonly used procedural noises and distributions, in pure Swift
  • maxpng: A pure swift PNG decoder and encoder for accessing the raw pixel data of a PNG file
• Unified libc import
  • March 2016 (Brian Gesiak): [swift-evolution] [Draft] Unify "import Darwin/Glibc" to simply "Libc"
  • August 2017 (Kelvin): [swift-evolution] pitch: Unified libc import (again)
• SwiftGL/Image
• Readings on procedural noise
  • Noise Functions and Map Generation (the end of this post includes a bunch of other interesting links)
  • Textbooks: Texturing and Modeling, A Procedural Approach; GPU Gems
• Atom with Swift: swift-language-89; linter-swiftc

Teaser: 40. Async/Await

This week, Chris and Soroush chat about async/await in Swift!

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39. Our First Apps

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This week, Soroush and Chris revisit their first iOS apps.

• 360|iDev
• Andrew Sardone
• cdzombak/CAENLabStatus-iOS
  • Initial commits
  • "I’m an asshole”
  • CDZTableViewSplitDelegate.m was used so that a separate, reusable object could handle the parallax scrolling effect used on maps in the app.
  • DZCLabStatusHelper.m
  • Screenshots
• Arizona Daylight Saving Time
• Episode 6: Singletons
• Transitioning to ARC Release Notes

Added August 23: Chris also gave a Git intro talk for a student group in 2012. That talk is archived here: Collaborating with Git.

Teaser: 38. Third-Party Dependencies

This week, Chris and Soroush revisit the topic of third-party dependencies. Should you bring them into your project? Why or why not?

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37. Soroush’s Swift Evolution Proposal

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• Richy Adem, Caleb Davenport, Erica Sadun, Tim Vermeulen
• swift-evolution pull request #734: Add a proposal for guard-catch
  • The proposal: Introducing guard-catch
  • swift-evolution discussion: [Pitch] Guard/Catch
• Chris Lattner’s comment on let/catch
• The “monads are like burritos” joke
  • Brent Yorgey: Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”
  • Mark Dominus: Monads Are Like Burritos
• Ben Cohen (airspeedswift)
  • Open PR since April 8: removeAll Proposal
• Swift Evolution Process

Teaser: 36. Conferences & Talks (& Blogging)

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss speaking at conferences, attending them, and coming up with ideas for blog posts.

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