Explore every episode of the podcast Swift Package Indexing
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| 58: People used to hand code assembly | 12 juin 2025 | 00:47:31 | |
Join us to talk about our five year anniversary of launching the Swift Package Index, adding Wasm and Android support to our compatibility testing matrix, WWDC 2025, and a rather lengthy (but interesting!) discussion of LLM-based coding tools. There's also a couple of package picks, as always! News
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| 57: How many of the same packages can we pick? | 19 mai 2025 | 00:45:57 | |
Join us for another episode of Swift Package Indexing where we cover the status of Swift 6.1 compatibility and the latest "Ready for Swift 6" results, discuss xtool, and of course pick some packages to talk about! News Packages
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| 56: By the next time we record, it'll definitely be there… | 24 avr. 2025 | 00:38:35 | |
Join us for another episode where we cover our slightly unusual rollout of Swift 6.1 support on the Swift Package Index, the Swift Fundraising cooperative, the multiple fabulous projects written by Kashikawa Katsumi, and of course, give our regular package picks. News Packages
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| 55: The solution is always to write more tests | 03 avr. 2025 | 00:46:04 | |
Join us as we chat about enabling parallelising our tests with Swift Testing, what your plan should be for any CocoaPods projects you still work on, more thoughts on open-source funding based on a recently published paper, and of course the usual package picks! News
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| 54: Pick a test that you know is complicated and start there | 13 mars 2025 | 00:38:27 | |
Join us as we chat about the Swift team joining Bluesky and Mastodon, data race safety numbers on Swift Package Index Package pages, Swift on Raspberry Pi, and of course our usual package picks! News
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| 53: It's not a topic I thought many people would care about, but here we are | 13 févr. 2025 | 00:47:48 | |
Join us for our first episode in 2025 with news of a community Swift on Android working group, the announcement of swift-build at FOSDEM, a discussion of making open source funding easier, how to get feedback on Swift Evolution proposals from people outside the Swift forums, and of course our usual package picks! News
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| 52: In the next episode we'll fix the NPM ecosystem | 05 déc. 2024 | 00:46:52 | |
Join us as we talk about the Python package ecosystem, the prospective vision to improve the approachability of data-race safety, and give our usual package recommendations. News
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| 51: The skill of not picking of dependencies should also be honed | 07 nov. 2024 | 00:40:00 | |
Join us as we talk about the current state of Swift, Swift 6 concurrency, Swift-Java interoperability, and hear our regular package recommendations. News
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| 50: It has a learning curve like a brick wall | 17 oct. 2024 | 00:35:14 | |
Join us as we talk about the Server-side Swift Conference, Swift formatting, and hear our regular package recommendations.
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| 49: 64 bytes of guaranteed uniqueness | 30 sept. 2024 | 00:42:19 | |
Join us as we talk about The Server Side Swift meetup, the Server Side Swift conference, Wasm, new features in Swift Package Index, Hummingbird 2, Vapor 5, and hear our regular package recommendations. News
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| 48: It’s not just CGPaths all the way down? | 29 août 2024 | 00:40:52 | |
Join us as we talk about the CocoaPods maintenance plans and Swift macro expansions in Visual Studio Code, as well as hear our regular package recommendations. News Packages | |||
| 47: There are no open-source license police | 08 août 2024 | 00:44:24 | |
Join us as we discuss the latest Ready for Swift 6 results, and how we represent them on the site. We also chat about Open Source Software funding, homomorphic encryption, and of course, we include our regular package recommendations. News Packages | |||
| 46: A concept born and explored in recent decades | 11 juil. 2024 | 00:49:13 | |
Join us as we talk about our build system move to an Orka cluster consisting of 8 Mac Studios, our ongoing "Ready for Swift 6" project, to get an update on documentation coverage across the package ecosystem, and to hear our regular package recommendations. News
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| 45: Lies, damned lies, and statistics | 20 juin 2024 | 00:33:34 | |
This week we talk about WWDC, our Ready for Swift 6 project that tracks data race safety errors across the whole package ecosystem, the Swift 6 migration guide, and more. Of course, we also make our regular package recommendations!
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| 44: Does Swift run on gut bacteria yet? | 23 mai 2024 | 00:42:31 | |
This week we follow up on Swift 6 news, talk about Swift in unusual places, performance benchmarks, give a sneak peek at our new Mac build infrastructure, and of course make package recommendations.
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| 43: Now I’m worried our metrics aren’t correct! with special guest Holly Borla | 25 avr. 2024 | 01:06:11 | |
This week we had the opportunity to talk to Holly Borla who manages the Swift Compiler Team at Apple. We chat about upcoming Swift 6 changes and why they're a big deal, but also why you shouldn’t worry too much. Of course, all three of us pick packages, too! Interview with Holly Packages
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| 42: We need a “No one expects the Spanish inquisition“ sound effect | 11 avr. 2024 | 00:49:31 | |
Join us for another episode as Dave and Sven talk open-source security vulnerabilities and how all package ecosystems are at risk, why it won't be possible to give meaningful "package size" stats on package pages, yet more talk of interfacing with Swift from other languages, and a one-question quiz! Plus package recommendations, of course! Follow up
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| 41: Breaking our “skipping episodes” streak | 21 mars 2024 | 00:53:41 | |
This week Dave and Sven break their streak of skipping recording to find Swift in exciting new places, like on ARM Windows and the Playdate, and learn new tricks like interoperating with C#. And as usual, there are package recommendations, with a good sprinkling of descents into various rabbit holes. News
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| 40: This downtime was a joint effort | 25 janv. 2024 | 00:40:53 | |
This week, Dave and Sven take a look at the Flutter ecosystem, discuss Dave's blogging system rewrite, review their collaboration on a production crash, and, as usual, highlight some community packages. News Packages
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| 39: Stress testing dependency management | 11 janv. 2024 | 00:49:19 | |
It's 2024, and Dave and Sven are back to talk plans for the Swift Package Index development over the coming year. They also talk about a light-hearted but also accidentally disastrous recent event in the npm package ecosystem, plans around how the Swift Package Index will approach Swift 6 support, and of course more package recommendations! News
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| 38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting | 07 déc. 2023 | 00:42:51 | |
Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dave should have answered a question about adding a package into the Swift Package Index! News
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| 37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave | 16 nov. 2023 | 00:50:13 | |
Dave and Sven talk about the work that Cyndi Chin shipped as part of this year’s Swift Mentorship Program, and then dive into the details of some of the metrics, and answer a couple of listener questions about the feature. Plus six package recommendations, as always! News Packages | |||
| 36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over! | 26 oct. 2023 | 00:43:42 | |
Join us for talk of bugs and how we've either fixed or worked around them, why creating sustainable developer tools is so hard, and the story of which indie Mac app made Dave buy his first app! News Packages
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| 35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy | 05 oct. 2023 | 00:43:43 | |
This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations! News Packages | |||
| 34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things | 21 sept. 2023 | 00:45:24 | |
What even is a recommendation? Join Dave and Sven as they talk about the tricky business of recommending, endorsing, or showcasing packages before diving into a review of dependencies in other package ecosystems, and how the Swift package ecosystem compares. Then we showcase some packages, as usual! News Packages
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| 33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day | 31 août 2023 | 00:39:42 | |
Join us as we talk about the disastrous week we had last week, where we had system failures, failed podcast recordings, and lumbago problems! We also talk about the upcoming Swift.org Package page and how we will curate the packages that get featured in the Community Showcase section. Plus, of course, community package recommendations. News Packages
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| 32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing? | 10 août 2023 | 00:48:30 | |
Do we understand how to add a package dependency after three years of creating the package index? No, we do not! We also discuss adding macro targets to Package pages, GitHub’s CodeQL analysis for Swift, and automating updating our package dependencies. Of course, we have six new package recommendations too! Follow up
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| 31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?" | 27 juil. 2023 | 00:42:22 | |
| 30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it | 13 juil. 2023 | 00:33:19 | |
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| 29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap? | 29 juin 2023 | 00:45:01 | |
| 28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately! | 15 juin 2023 | 00:42:32 | |
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| 27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations | 01 juin 2023 | 00:47:11 | |
| 26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations | 18 mai 2023 | 00:40:10 | |
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| 25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations | 04 mai 2023 | 00:45:40 | |
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| 24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations | 20 avr. 2023 | 00:27:46 | |
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| 23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations | 23 mars 2023 | 00:28:52 | |
| 22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations | 09 mars 2023 | 00:40:14 | |
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| 21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations | 23 févr. 2023 | 00:37:19 | |
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| 20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription | 09 févr. 2023 | 00:42:02 | |
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| 19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet? | 27 janv. 2023 | 00:47:09 | |
| Episode 18 | 12 janv. 2023 | 00:43:54 | |
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| Episode 17 | 22 déc. 2022 | 00:48:04 | |
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| Episode 16 | 08 déc. 2022 | 00:44:00 | |
| Episode 15 | 28 nov. 2022 | 00:44:37 | |
| Episode 14 | 10 nov. 2022 | 00:53:08 | |
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| Episode 13 | 20 oct. 2022 | 00:35:01 | |
| Episode 12 | 06 oct. 2022 | 00:40:18 | |
| Episode 11 | 15 sept. 2022 | 00:35:16 | |
| Episode 10 | 01 sept. 2022 | 00:36:18 | |
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| Episode 9 | 18 août 2022 | 00:39:49 | |
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