LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

The new CoreDevice stack talks directly to your watch, so app installs finish in seconds and debugging sessions work reliably. (Yes, full debugging sessions! Breakpoints and logging!) I‘ve done dozens of deployments and each one has worked perfectly. No more restarts!

It’s like testing in the simulator, except it’s on your actual watch. During WWDC week I woke up for a morning lab, fired up Xcode, and attached a debugger to a complication to reproduce the bug while talking to the engineers. It’s *that* reliable.

I was expecting a bit more noise about this but I’ve been doing watchOS debugging in Xcode 15 for the last couple days and here’s what I have to say:

It.
Works.

If you work on Apple Watch, you should get on this *now*. I am 100% serious: it will change your entire workflow.

Sometimes, you know something exists (like Xcode Playgrounds) and how to use it, and yet fail to see the possibilities in terms of how you can integrate that thing with your regular workflow 🙂

The “Prototype with Xcode Playgrounds” session was such an experience for me 😛 I watched the session and immediately realized that there were so many ways that I could have used Xcode Playgrounds in the past to make my work easier!

Give it a watch, I’m certain you won’t be disappointed …

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10250/

#Apple #WWDC #WWDC2023 #XcodePlaygrounds #Prototyping

Another periodic reminder that my opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer, and I’m also not a spokesperson for my employer ✌️

If you’ve been filing feedback on watchOS 10 we’re collecting it in the watchos WWDC slack channel. Feel free to jump in with your reports! #WWDC23

Hey check it out! My session is up!
Check out Elevate your windowed app for spatial computing to learn how to make sure your SwiftUI apps look and feel awesome on visionOS! #WWDC23

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10110

In What's new in Swift I mention the performance improvements from the new Swift implementation of Foundation. Performance came up a lot when we first put the open source package live, but wasn't easy to talk about until the new OS betas were available.

One common trope at the time was “it isn't faster than using Objective-C, this is just to reduce Swift bridging costs” and while that's true, it's important to note Swift is _just plain faster_, as seen even when calling into it from ObjC.

The #wwdc talk “Bring Widgets To Life” discusses the concept of progressive 🥐 consumption.

Before you leave #WWDC23 behind, please take just 5 minutes to fill out this anonymous survey! https://essentials.applesurveys.com/jfe/form/SV_5ssgxgWFVl2n1Ea
Whether you joined us in person, asked a ton of questions in Slack or in labs, or just lurked activities (❤️ the lurkers) we want to know about your experiences! We truly want to know what worked well and what we can do better for you!

SF Symbols continues to be one of the best things Apple has added to its developer toolbox in years

#WWDC23

Check out my team's talk for this year: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10103
We introduce a TON of new feature in App Intents. One huge one is the ability to build user-configurable Widgets with App Intents instead of SiriKit! No more definition files, just pure, beautiful code. It's super slick and _so much_ easier than it was before. Please give it a shot! It pairs really well with interactive buttons in Widgets, which are also built with App Intents.