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SwiftLee Weekly by Antoine van der Lee

SwiftLee Weekly - Issue 315

Published 7 months ago • 5 min read

This week's SwiftLee Weekly covers:

  • 7 (!!) Swift Evolution Proposal changes
  • Xcode 26 Compilation Caching
  • Spacer side effects in SwiftUI

Enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!

THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST

​Agentic Development: Multi-Project Challenges​

Using agents for development is great, but I've also learned the hard way that it can cause trouble: goals not reached, mentally overloaded, and the feeling of endless possibilities.

If you don't manage your agents well, you'll regret in only weeks from now.

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CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

​iOS Dev Directory​

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​Avoid Spacers in SwiftUI Stacks​

Did you know this side effect of using a Spacer inside a SwiftUI stack? Pavel Zak explains what I mean.
​nerdyak.tech​

​Learning to develop more accessible iOS games​

It’s funny how someone that I see as an accessibility expert mentions “learn from actual experts”. Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats describes his first approach to making his game more accessible.
​accessibilityupto11.com​

​SwiftUI transitions with distortion effect and Metal Shaders​

You know you’re in for a treat if you combine metal shaders and distortion effects for a SwiftUI transition. Pavel Zak created an article with videos for each step. While it's an older article, I still found it an interesting read!
​nerdyak.tech​

​Xcode 26 Compilation Cache​

Did you know Xcode 26 introduced Compilation caching? Artem Mirzabekian explains how it works and how you can benefit.
​livsycode.com​

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  • Meeting developers from the community
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WHAT I'M WORKING ON

Conference Season

It's the time of the year before summer where many conferences take place. Last Friday, I spoke at AppDevCon, and next week I'll by flying to speak in Shanghai for Let's Vision 2026. (Let me know if you want to go, I can give you a ticket discount!)

Towards those conferences, it's busier than normal. I need to prepare my talks, while also doing normal day-to-day tasks I set for myself. Normally, I'd reuse talks at multiple conferences, but I'll be giving a brand new talk at Let's Vision: What 15 Years of Coding Didn’t Prepare Me For: Agent-Driven Development.

I aim to bundle all my learnings so far in a journey-telling talk format. This week's article shows a sneak peek into what I'll share. It's an exciting topic, highly relevant to my daily development.

At the same time, I've been updating my Agent Skills:

Both skills are full of knowledge and they're now optimized for much better token usage. The net result is ~4,000+ fewer tokens read per typical agent query through smarter routing, with zero loss in knowledge depth. You can read more about this change on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Enjoy!

UNTIL NEXT TIME

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Antoine

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