Upgrading Your Skills in 2020 with Paul Hudson

In this episode, Leo is joined by Paul Hudson of hackingwithswift.com about how to upgrade your skills and your team’s skills in 2020.

Show Notes

Guest

• Paul Hudson 
  • Hacking With Swift
  • Twitter @twostraws
  • Reddit /u/twostraws
  • StackOverflow twostraws

Related Episodes

• Episode 23: Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson
• Episode 24: Continuous Integration with Kyle Newsome
• Episode 32: Training Your Team with Steve Lipton
• Episode 33: 2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush

Related Links

• Conferences
  • iOS Conf SG
    • Nice Waterfall Tweet
  • CodeMash
    • Playing at CodeMash
  • dotSwift
  • SwiftAlps
  • SwiftAvero
  • Swift Island
  • PyCon
  • Swift TO Transparency Report
• Sean Allen and Paul Hudson talk about Connie, the young coder
• SwiftTO - Paul Hudson - The Evolution of Swift

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Conference Thoughts

• Cultural Differences 
• Why Speakers Should Be Available To Attendees
• The Challenges of Putting On Conferences
• Organizers Making Attendees Happy
• Having Really Nice Venue
• Workshops vs Talks
• Where Does the Community Fall Short with Inclusivity and Accessibility
• Having Children-Friendly and Budget-Friendly Events

What to Upgrade Skills and Why

• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?
• Ask People In Those Positions
• The Technology Field Demands Continuing Education
• Continuing Education means New APIs but also...
  • Older APIs - UIKit, Networking, Unit Testing, etc...
  • Swift Syntax
  • Patterns and Practice

Dealing with Updates to Swift 

• The hedonic treadmill of Swift Development
• Key Path Expressions as Functions by Stephen Celis and Greg Titus
• Objective-C Cruft
• When to Upgrade Your Old Swift Projects? (spoiler... Yesterday!)

Upgrading Your Core Skills

• Why it's important to have Core Skills and not just Coding Skills?
• The Importance of Good Internal Presentation 
• Why Senior Developers need Good Communication Skills
• Picking Up on Impromptu Speaking Skills
• Don't Feel Obligated Into a Role such as Public Speaker

Upgrading Your Swift Skills

• Paul's Thoughts on SwiftUI
• Understanding The New Patterns of SwiftUI
• The Importance of Unit Testing
• Ash Farrow on JS vs Swift
• The Complexity of Xcode

Upgrading Other Tech Skills

• Git and Version Control
• Learning New and Different Tools
• Terminal and Bash Scripting
• Regular Expressions
• Try Swift on other Devices
• Be curious about other languages and platforms

Recommended Courses and books

• Testing With Swift
• Swift Design Patterns
• Swift For Good

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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Creators & Guests

Host

Leo Dion

Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids

Guest

Paul Hudson

Learning and sharing at Hacking with Swift, author of Swift, SwiftUI, and iOS books, speaker, Rubik's cube enthusiast, and herder of my kids. 🏳️‍🌈 (He/him)

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