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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to the July update.

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It's been a half a year, but I wanted
to give you updates since the last

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episode back in 204 about what I've been
working on and how things are going.

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So WWDC has come and gone, and the one app
I'm working on that is heavily into the

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foundation model stuff is my app Celestra.

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I started building it after last year's
WWDC and really haven't picked it back up

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because, I just wasn't really satisfied
with the suggestions I was getting.

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So it's a RSS reader, and one of the
key parts about it is suggesting RSS

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feeds, and it tended to be kind of very
repetitive about what it suggested.

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So I'm gonna go through that again and
see what I can do to improve that now that

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we have a lot more tools in foundation
models and core AI and all of those APIs.

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I want an app that somebody who's kind
of a novice when it comes to RSS can pick

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it up and start reading articles from
feeds that they don't even know about.

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So that's kind of the gist of what
I'm gonna be doing this summer.

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There's a few things with VM stuff and
virtualization I wanna pick up with Bushel

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and some new, new stuff with workouts.

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But otherwise, yeah, Celestra's gonna
be the main focus as far as things

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I'm gonna do that involve WWDC.

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So be on the lookout for that.

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Swift Build.

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is my open source GitHub action for
building Swift packages on multiple

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operating systems and platforms.

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Recently done some fixes to the
way the caching works, added

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support for nightly Swift versions.

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So if you wanna go on Ubuntu and build
it for what is currently nightly is

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6.4, which will be coming out probably
sometime in September or October.

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So you can start building off
of beta versions of Swift, 6.4.

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Let's see, what else have I done?

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We've auto-calculating Xcode schemes.

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You had to put in the scheme
for building a Swift package.

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If you're doing anything Swift packages
and you wanna test it on WASM or Android

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or Windows, definitely check that out.

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It's pretty solid there.

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The big app I've been working
on lately has been At Least.

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At Least is what I like
to call a reverse timer.

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It's for folks who do meditations
or exercises and don't wanna be

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notified when the timer has gone off.

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They wanna be notified when to keep
going and when not to keep going.

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For instance, like, I like to
just have, like, a breathing

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exercise that I do, and we'll do it

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I'll say, "I wanna do it for at least
five minutes." I don't want to have

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the buzzer to go off at five minutes.

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I just wanna know that
I need to keep going.

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And the way I do that is I use haptics.

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So it taps your wrist when to
keep going every minute or so.

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And once it stops tapping you,
you know you've met that minimum

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time and can either stop or
just keep going if you want to.

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The big feature I'm working on is
iPhone to Apple Watch communication.

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I've been doing that a lot.

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And what I've ended up building is a new
package product called SundialKitContext.

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And if you know anything about my
suite of libraries when it comes to

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SundialKit, they're specially for
iPhone to Apple Watch communication

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as well as network awareness.

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And SundialKitContext has really
improved the experience as far as

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communicating between watch and phone.

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It does a lot of stuff with, like,
revisions, stale windows, and

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things like that, so that way it's
a much more cleaner experience.

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So now you can go on the phone, you
can pick, you know, your minimum time.

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The watch will update, and then you
just tap start on the watch to begin.

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Eventually I'll be adding stuff like
being able to do the timer with just the

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phone or being able to use the HealthKit
workout API to just be able to start

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the timer right on the phone itself.

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But for now that's what will
be coming out in the next beta.

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And then after that, I'm
gonna really work on haptics.

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I've had some feedback about
haptics being too subtle, so be

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on the lookout for that as well.

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The other big project I've been
working on is updating the website.

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It shouldn't look any different,
but behind the scenes I'm

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working on doing a major upgrade.

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It uses, Publish by John
Sundell, a fantastic library.

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But I'm in the process of upgrading it.

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I created a fork, and then I'm upgrading
it, and then I'm removing a lot

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of third-party libraries in favor
of first-party ones, for instance.

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So like migrating from Shellout
to Subprocess, Ink to Swift

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Markdown, and things like that.

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A lot of upgrades to my
own open source libraries.

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I'm trying to upgrade to Swift 6.4,
which is still obviously in beta, or

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Swift 6.3, and I'm working on that.

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It's been working pretty smoothly.

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The next step, I'm gonna try to see
if I can work with the Swift-Node

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Interop stuff there to get NPM to work.

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So you wanna run like a node
module or like some sort of

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post-processing stuff with node.

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You can do that as well.

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I currently do that with
the website with Tailwind.

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Yeah, you can check out
the brightdigit.com repo.

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It's open source.

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I'll put a link in the show notes.

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So be on the lookout for that.

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Part of the like the big thing that I've
been doing lately is working on open

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source libraries within certain products.

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So brightdigit.com at least, and some
of the other work I've been doing

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I use what's called, Git subrepo.

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So you probably heard of submodules
and a few other ways of working on

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multiple repos at the same time.

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Ben Sherman got me into Git
subrepo, so you can check that out.

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And what is really great
about it is it works.

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It's like a lot better than submodules.

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And so what I'll have is like a
directory of packages, and each

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will have been a subrepo clone.

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And subrepo has its set of commands to
do up pulls and pushes and dealing with

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that, and sometimes I run into conflicts.

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Thankfully, we live in a AI-assisted
age that can help with that.

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I use, local packages to
refer to other dependencies.

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So you can check out brightdigit.com
for an example of how I do that.

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If this is a topic you're interested
and wanna hear more about, let me know.

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I'd love to talk about how I can
develop, say, a closed source product

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with open source packages or
multiple open source Swift packages

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at the same time using subrepo.

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Let me know if that's
something you're interested in.

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Before I go I wanted to let you know
I'm still available for consultation.

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Again, if you need help with Swift
automation, AI-assisted development,

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or just career coaching you can
reach out to me, on my ZCal link and

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just reserve a spot, and I'd love
to see what I can do to help you.

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I've had some really great meetings with
some awesome developers who are just

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wanting to know what's the next steps
in their career, so check that out.

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And, I can't go without saying thank
you to my Patreon supporters, like

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Steve Lipton, thank you so much.

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It's been providing me a lot of the
momentum that I need to keep going.

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There's a lot of exclusives as far as
things I'm working on and stuff like that.

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Let me know also if you have
any suggestions about topics you

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want me to talk about as well.

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I'll be posting the episode for Donny
pretty soon, and then I'll be doing an

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interview with Saleem who is basically
the person behind Swift for Windows.

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So I'll be setting up Windows sometime
in the next, week so I can play

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around with that before I talk to him.

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So check that out.

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