In this newsletter: the biggest ever update to SwiftUI by Example, a special one-day Hacking with Swift event in January, last-minute Black Friday offers, and more!

Black Friday sale: last chance!

My Black Friday event officially ended yesterday, but I’m leaving the link live a few more days because some folks always forget. This is your last chance to save up to 50% on all my books and bundles!

Last chance Black Friday offers

Unwrap Live: a new Hacking with Swift event

Save the date, folks: on Saturday January 28th I’m running a special one-day Swift conference entirely online! It will be a whole day of workshops with live coding and Q&A, focusing on SwiftUI, networking, testing, and performance. The event runs from 9am to 4pm US Eastern time.

Tickets for the whole-day event are $100, but I’ve added a Diversity Sponsor ticket – for every ticket you buy, I’ll give one more away to someone from an underrepresented group in our community.

Best of all, Hacking with Swift+ members can attend for free – see hackingwithswift.com/plus for more information.

If you aren’t a Hacking with Swift+ subscriber, you can buy your ticket here: https://ti.to/hacking-with-swift/unwrap-live-2023

Free birthday livestream – SwiftUI for charity

December 22nd is my birthday, and once again I’ll be live-streaming a SwiftUI tutorial to help raise money for folks experiencing homelessness this winter.

These events are always a lot of fun and I know many people benefit – not only from learning something new, but also thanks to the very generous donations from around our community.

The event starts at 5pm UK time / 9 am Pacific, and will be streamed live on YouTube here.

You can find my donations page here – all donations are welcome, and go to support a really important cause.

Hacking with Swift+ news

Alongside your free ticket to Unwrap Live, over on Hacking with Swift+ you’ll now find the latest editions of Hacking with macOS, Hacking with watchOS, and Swift Design Patterns – updated for Ventura, watchOS 9, and Swift 5.7 respectively, but also including hundreds of new screenshots taken by the indefatigable Elijah Yap.

You can also find our monthly livestream schedule there, covering December, January, February, and March so you can plan ahead.

Last but not least, I just released a new 45-minute video there teaching you how to fully recreate Apple’s Clock design in SwiftUI – you can find it here.

Not already a Hacking with Swift+ subscriber? Try a free three-day trial here, with no credit card needed.

Thanks to sponsors!

Last month Hacking with Swift was sponsored by RevenueCat, who help make in-app subscriptions a cinch so you can focus on building the rest of your app. Find out more here.

SwiftUI by Example update

Last month I published the biggest ever update to SwiftUI by Example, adding lots of new sample code plus 100 more Xcode projects to download.

The initial goal was to update the book for iOS 16, but I ended up going back and adding coverage of functionality introduced in iOS 15 and even 14 – this update is just packed with extra code, improved examples, and more.

To save you having to dig through and look for what’s new, I published an article detailing the biggest changes – read it here.

News from friends

In the next few months we have two amazing conferences coming up, and I hope to see you at one of them!

First is iOS Conf SG in Singapore. They won Best Conference at last year’s Swift Community Awards, so you can be sure you’ll learn something new and have a great time too.

The second is Deep Dish Swift from Josh Holtz of Fastlane fame, and is doing wonders to revive the conference scene in the US. Josh has been telling us all how Chicago has the best pizza in the world, so come and find out for yourself! (And learn some Swift too.)

Discounts on books

Normally I’d write something here about the discounts on my books, but as I said above if you’re quick you can still use my Black Friday offer – that’s the biggest discount I run all year!

Click here for the Black Friday sale

One more thing…

For a long time Twitter was the place to be for iOS developers, and so many friendships started and flourished there.

Recently, though, a lot of our community has been moving over to Mastodon. I don’t judge folks for moving, or for not moving; everyone needs to find their own path. But I have started posting on both Twitter and Mastodon, so you’re able to use whichever you prefer:

If you use Twitter, I’m @twostraws.
If you use Mastodon, I’m @twostraws@mastodon.social

Whichever you choose, please remember to be kind. Programming languages come and go, but how we treat people is forever. As Bryant McGill once said, “how we treat other people changes them, but it changes us more.”

Paul

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