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Empower Apps

Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit www.empowerapps.show
An exploration of Apple business news and technology. We talk about how businesses can use new technology to empower their business and employees, from Leo Dion, founder of BrightDigit.

Episodes

Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux

Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM. Guest Marc Prud'hommeaux (@[email protected]) - Mastodon Marc Prud'hommeaux | LinkedIn @marcprux.bsky.social — Bluesky marcprux (Marc Prud'hommeaux) | GitHub Announcements Join Bushel Beta Join our Patreon! Newsletters | BrightDigit Links skip.tools (@[email protected]) - mas.to skipapp-showcase skiptools/skipapp-showcase: Sample Sk...

Feb 12, 202556 minEp. 196

Moving Forward 2025

What a wild ride 2024 was - from big life changes to surprising shifts in Apple development, I'm sharing the story of what went down this year. After navigating job hunts, tech trends, and some unexpected wins (and losses), I've got some insights about where we're headed in 2025, plus some exciting opportunities for you Swift folks! Announcements Join Bushel Beta Join our Patreon! Newsletters | BrightDigit Now Hiring! macOS, watchOS, HealthKit and more...! Links Being Sendable with SwiftData Usi...

Jan 25, 202517 minEp. 195

Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte

Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑 Guest Matt Massicotte - @[email protected] massicotte.org | I write stuff here. Matt Massicotte (@massicotte.org) — Bluesky mattmassicotte (Matt Massicotte) Matt Massicotte | LinkedIn Matt Massicotte (@mattie) / X Announcements BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals 50% off first year of Bushel Pro 25% off Patreon Membership - Use Code 64632 Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreo...

Dec 31, 202443 minEp. 194

Practical Year - Part 2 with Donny Wals

Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI. Guest Donny Wals Donny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky Donny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / X donny wals - YouTube Donny Wals (@[email protected]) - chaos.social Donny Wals | LinkedIn Announcements BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals 50% off first year of Bushel Pro 25% off Patreon Membership - Use Code 64632 Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Newsletters | BrightDi...

Dec 24, 202423 minEp. 193

Practical Year - Part 1 with Donny Wals

Donny comes on yet again to give his thoughts on 2024 - Swift Data, Swift Testing and Swift Macros while we mourn the death of Combine. Guest Donny Wals Donny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky Donny Wals 👾 (@DonnyWals) / X donny wals - YouTube Donny Wals (@[email protected]) - chaos.social Donny Wals | LinkedIn Announcements BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals 50% off first year of Bushel Pro 25% off Patreon Membership - Use Code 64632 Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New...

Dec 19, 202432 minEp. 192

Swift, Server Side, Serverless with Sébastien Stormacq

Sébastien Stormacq joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Swift - what does "Serverless" mean, how deployment works, and how to get started. Guest Sébastien ☁ Stormacq 🇺🇦 (@sebsto) / X Seb @ AWS (@sebsto.bsky.social) — Bluesky Sébastien ☁ (Seb) Stormacq | LinkedIn Github - sebsto (Sébastien Stormacq) Sebastien Stormacq (@sebstormacq) • Threads, Say more Sebastien Stormacq (@[email protected]) - AWSCommunity.social Announcements BrightDigit 103 - 🎁 Early Black Friday Deals 50% off firs...

Dec 02, 202444 minEp. 191

Swift Toolkit with Natan Rolnik

Natan Rolnik from swifttoolkit.dev and I chatted about building tools in Swift, ArgumentParser, Swift Package Manager, and more. Guest Natan Rolnik Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) / X Natan Rolnik (@[email protected]) - Mastodon Natan Rolnik | Kodeco Natan Rolnik | LinkedIn Natan Rolnik (@natanrolnik) • Instagram photos and videos natanrolnik (Natan Rolnik) | Github Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon P...

Nov 22, 202440 minEp. 190

Full Stack Lyriq with Adegboyega Olusunmade

Adegboyega Olusunmade joins to talk about building his Full Stack Swift app Lyriq and what did he learn along the way: the differences between building an iOS app and a server app to deploying a server application. Guest Adegboyega Olusunmade (@AdeOlusunmade) / X Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon Page! BrightDigit #100 - Top 10 Emails Ever! 🎉🚀 Newsletters | BrightDigit Swift LiveCoding - Adding Screen Rec...

Nov 15, 202431 minEp. 189

Ludicrous Types with Nick Lockwood

Nick Lockwood of SwiftFormat (not dash) joins the show to talk about the server side Swift conference, quirks of Swift you didn't know about, language design, and the future of Swift. Guest Nick Lockwood @nicklockwood (Github) Nick Lockwood (@[email protected]) Nick Lockwood | LinkedIn Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon Page! BrightDigit #100 - Top 10 Emails Ever! 🎉🚀 Newsletters | BrightDigit Sw...

Nov 08, 202457 minEp. 188

Debugging Your Job Search with Jaim Zuber

Jaim Zuber returns after over 5 years to give us an overview of looking for a job in iOS development in 2024, how has it changed, what are some things you can do now, and when becoming a manager is the right call. Guest Jaim Zuber @sharpfive (GitHub) Jaim Zuber (LinkedIn ) @[email protected] (Mastodon) Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon Page! BrightDigit #100 - Top 10 Emails Ever! 🎉🚀 Newsletters | Br...

Nov 01, 202438 minEp. 187

The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 2 with Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman is back for part 2 of our interview on SwiftUI Migration. In this episode we focus on navigation, data handling and Swift packages. Guest Ben Scheirman | Ben is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust. Ben Scheirman (@[email protected]) - Mastodon subdigital (Ben Scheirman) NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development Combine Swift Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. J...

Sep 30, 202423 minEp. 186

The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 1 with Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman of NSScreenCast comes on to talk about migrating apps such as a Nike's Sneakers app from UIKit to SwiftUI and all the little things you don't think about. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview. Guest Ben Scheirman | Ben is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust. Ben Scheirman (@[email protected]) - Mastodon subdigital (Ben Scheirman) NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development Combine Swift Announcements Need h...

Sep 24, 202443 minEp. 185

The Case of the Crimson Test Suite with Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg comes in the podcast to talk about his latest book on Swift Testing as well as the state of Swift development in 2024. Guest Dim Sum Thinking dimsumthinking (@[email protected]) - Mastodon Daniel Steinberg | LinkedIn Announcements Come see me and Daniel at Server-Side Swift Conference. 26th-27th September 2024. London, UK use EMPOWERAPPS to get 15% off Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta Join our Brand New Patreon Page!...

Sep 10, 202446 minEp. 184

Voice in a Can with Damian Mehers

Damian Mehers shares the story of his app Voice in a Can from inception to shutdown. We talk customer stories and the future of voice assistants. Guest Damian Mehers’ blog | Swift, SwiftUI and .NET from Switzerland Damian Mehers (@[email protected]) - Fosstodon Damian Mehers (@DamianMehers) / X Damian Mehers - YouTube DamianMehers (Github) Damian Mehers | LinkedIn Announcements Come see me at Server-Side Swift Conference. 26th-27th September 2024. London, UK use EMPOWERAPPS to get 15% off Ne...

Sep 03, 202436 minEp. 183

SwiftUI Field Guide with Chris Eidhof

I had a great time chatting with Chris Eidhof about his work with objc.io and his latest project, the SwiftUI Field Guide. We discussed SwiftUI's layout system and the exciting new features from WWDC 2024. Guest Chris Eidhof Chris Eidhof (@[email protected]) - objc.io Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta LiveStreaming on YouTube Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Links SwiftUI Field Guide objc.io Create custom visual effects with SwiftUI - ...

Jul 19, 202442 minEp. 182

Can you Vision Pro in Objective-C with Danielle Lewis

I had great time chatting with Danielle Lewis about her experience becoming a Swift developer, learning to develop for the Vision Pro, and getting the Magical world of Objective-C. Guest Danielle Lewis Danielle (@dlewisdev) / X Danielle Lewis - YouTube Danielle Lewis - DEV Community Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta LiveStreaming on YouTube Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes Swift Student Challenge with Dezmond Blair |...

Jul 12, 202428 minEp. 181

Swift Student Challenge with Dezmond Blair

I'm excited to have on the show Michigan's own Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winner Dezmond Blair on to talk about everything from his learning and mentoring experience at the Apple Developer Academy to his experience at WWDC 2024. Guest Dezmond Blair (@dezdoesiOS) / X Dezmond (Dez) Blair  | LinkedIn dezdoesit (Dezmond Blair) - GitHub dezdoesit/MTBXTREME: Swift Student Challenge - Distinguished Winner - Mountain Biking App I made so eveyone can experience MTB! Announcements Need help wi...

Jul 05, 202428 minEp. 180

WWDC Notes with Cihat Gündüz

Cihat Gündüz comes on to talk about how his WWDC 2024 wish list went, Multilingual Apps, and more. Guest Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut) / X Cihat Gündüz (@[email protected]) - iOS Dev Space Cihat Gündüz (@jeehut) on Threads FlineDev Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta LiveStreaming on YouTube Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Links BrightDigit #96 - From California to Keynotes: My WWDC 2024 Journey My Top 10 Wishes for WWDC24 onScroll...

Jun 30, 202446 minEp. 179

SOTU 2024 with Peter Witham

Peter comes on and we use our Apple Intelligence to speak about the greatness of the WWDC 2024 Platforms State of the Union. Guest Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter Related Episodes Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham CompileSwift - Apple WWDC23 Keynote reactions and analysis with Leo G. Dion Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham We talked about (00:00) - Privacy and User Control in A...

Jun 11, 202444 minEp. 178

Plinky with Joe Fabisevich

Joe Fabisevich is back on the show to talk about his new app Plinky from developing and designing as well as advice on 💍 choosing your next spouse for better marketing advice. 💒📈 Guest Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@[email protected]) - Macaw-Social Github (@mergesort) https://www.threads.net/@mergesort fabisevi.ch Build.ms Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta LiveStreaming on YouTube Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Links ...

May 20, 202436 minEp. 177

Hacking with Ignite with Paul Hudson

After a major pandemic and 3 iOS releases later, Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift comes on to talk about his new open-source project Ignite . Ignite is a static site builder for Swift developers, offering an expressive, powerful API to build beautiful websites that work great on all devices. We chat about his use Result Builders, the future of Macros, and what it takes to get started on your own open-source project or website. Guest Paul Hudson (@twostraws) / X Paul Hudson - @twostraws (Github)...

Apr 03, 202446 minEp. 176

SwiftUI Tips and Tricks with Craig Clayton

Craig Clayton from the DesignToSwiftUI Youtube channel comes on to talk about his favorite tips as as designer when it comes to SwiftUI as well as previews his upcoming talk on testing at Deep Dish Swift. Guest Craig Clayton (YouTube @DesigntoSwiftUI) Craig Clayton (@[email protected]) - mastodon.cloud mastodon.cloud/@thedevme (@thedevme) / X Craig Clayton | LinkedIn Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join Bushel Beta LiveStreaming on YouTube Jo...

Mar 22, 202449 minEp. 175

Triple Glazed Apple Development with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

Malin and Kai from Triple Glazed Studios join us for a discussion on building their indie app Orbit and Mercury from prototype to feature enhancement and working in the Apple ecosystem. Guest Kai Dombrowski (@airkai) / X Kai (@[email protected]) - Mastodon Kai Dombrowski (@kaidombrowski) on Threads Malin Sundberg (@malinsundberg) / X Malin (@[email protected]) - Mastodon @malinsundberg on Threads Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Join...

Mar 08, 202456 minEp. 174

What's Next with Adam Rush

Adam Rush from SwiftLeeds comes on the show to prognosticate and dream with me the possibilities of WWDC 2024 and how advancements in AI as well as the new Vision Pro will affect this year's developer conference. Guest Adam Rush (@Adam9Rush) / X SwiftlyRush - Xcode Tips and Tricks, Building apps with Swift & SwiftUI Adam Rush (@[email protected]) - C.IM Adam Rush | LinkedIn Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Subscribe to our newsletter Join...

Feb 23, 202439 minEp. 173

Apple's App Vision with Kyle Lee

Kyle Lee (Kilo Loco) comes on to talk about the EU changes to the App Store, the future of Apps and Apple, and what it means for the Vision Pro. Guest Kilo Loco Twitter Youtube LinkedIn Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Bushel on Sale Come to NYSwifty April 23 & 24 - Get 10% Off using Promo Code Leo Subscribe to our newsletter Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss macOS Indie Deep Cuts with Aaro...

Feb 08, 202456 minEp. 172

ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski

Indie Developer, Kris Slazinski comes on to talk about App Store localization, UX, and his favorite intern/mentor - ChatGPT. Guest Kris Slazinski Apps Twitter LinkedIn Mastodon Threads Announcements Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Bushel on Sale Come to NYSwifty April 23 & 24 - Get 10% Off using Promo Code Leo Subscribe to our newsletter Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes Yak Shaving with Tim Mitra PixelBlitz in Public with Martin Lasek The Bu...

Jan 28, 202450 minEp. 171

PixelBlitz in Public with Martin Lasek

Martin Lasek comes on to talk about what's it's like building in public WishKit and his multiplayer game PixelBlitz and when feature creep can ruin an MVP. Guest Martin Lasek Twitter (@martinlasek) Twitch (@martinlasek) YouTube (@martinlasek) Need help with your projects this year? BrightDigit has openings. Bushel on Sale Come to NYSwifty April 23 & 24 - Get 10% Off using Promo Code Leo Subscribe to our newsletter Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes The Bushel Holiday Special S...

Jan 15, 202440 minEp. 170

The Bushel Holiday Special

Join us by the virtual fireplace this Christmas Eve for 'The Bushel Holiday Special' podcast episode! Unwrap the enchanting tale of Bushel's journey, filled with the warmth of festive storytelling and the magic of app development. Gather 'round for a holiday story like no other! 🎄🎁 Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15! Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes We Have All The Heroes with Stefano Mondino It Depends with Brandon Williams Now You Know What I'm Doing This Summe...

Dec 15, 202346 minEp. 169

We Have All The Heroes with Stefano Mondino

Stefano Mondino from Synesthesia comes on to talk doing not product work at Synesthesia as opposed to building a product and working with multiple projects across various teams. We also talk about his favorite dev tools including his own tool Murray. Guest Stefano Mondino Twitter @puntoste Mastodon @[email protected] LinkedIn @stefanomondino Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15! Join our Brand New Patreon Page! Related Episodes Swiftly Tooling with Pol Piella Abadia Supe...

Dec 08, 202345 minEp. 168

Calm Intentions with Alaina Kafkes

Alaina Kafkes from Calm joins us to talk about implementing App Intents and what she learning about her experience. Also special announcement regarding a certain app I've been working on. Guest Alaina Kafkes (@alainakafkes) / X Alaina Kafkes | LinkedIn Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15! Related Episodes The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss My Taylor Deep Dish Swift Heroes World Tour App Clips with Jon Bauer Posture Island with Jordi Bruin Open and Extensible with Matt Massicott...

Dec 03, 202326 minEp. 167