🚨 PIZZA ALERT 🚨
Deep Dish Swift is BACK for 2027! April 4-6 in Chicago.
Early bird tickets are live right now — and they won't stick around. 🍕
A supreme Swift developer conference being served in Chicago, Illinois • April 4th to 6th of 2027
🚨 PIZZA ALERT 🚨
Deep Dish Swift is BACK for 2027! April 4-6 in Chicago.
Early bird tickets are live right now — and they won't stick around. 🍕
The closing keynote at Deep Dish Swift 2026 🍕
@mb@xoxo.zone takes the stage with "Transitions"
Are you ready for the next iteration of Deep Dish Swift?
DDS 2027 is going back in time (again). Back to 8-bit games and MIDI sounds. Back to when a handful of tokens meant a full day of fun.
Join us April 4-6, 2027!
🎟️ Early Bird tickets available now at https://deepdishswift.com
📣 We're live! Deep Dish Swift 2026 is officially underway!
@cassidoo@notacult.social is kicking us off with the opening keynote 🍕
📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement
We’re thrilled to have @cassidoo@notacult.social at Deep Dish 26 🎉
Chicago native & Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, passionate about education and building the developer community.
She’s giving an opening keynote you won’t want to miss 😁
📣 Speaker Announcement
From “down under” (according to everyone but Devin) New Zealand to Chicago, we’re very excited to welcome @JustMeDevin@mastodon.social 🎉
Apple Design Award winner Devin will show us how Good Interface Design helps solve novel UI problems 😍
Up next at Deep Dish Swift 2026!
@jazzychad@definitely.social is on stage with "Reverse Engineering the macOS Genie Animation: The Beauty of Bezier Curves" 🍕
Up next at Deep Dish Swift 2026!
@ikenndac@mastodon.social is on stage with "Betting the Farm on Swift: Adventures in Extreme Crossplatforming" 🍕
The Deep Dish Swift website got some MUCH needed love today 😊
We _finally_ got some of our speakers up and the design is feeling leathery smooth!
Up next at Deep Dish Swift 2026!
@david@tnku.co is on stage with "Surviving in low connectivity: how to eat an entire pizza one bite at a time" 🍕
What's your favorite Deep Dish Swift memory?
Part ticket-sales trap, sure. But honestly, I just love hearing them 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
It's fun to write Swift! But... have you ever wanted to experience what it's like to _write_ Swift? As in committing to Swift Compiler?
@simanerush@iosdev.space will take the stage with "Contributing to the Swift Compiler: My Journey" 💪
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome @peterfriese@iosdev.space 🎉
Peter will take us on a deep dive into AsyncStream and how async APIs have evolved — from callback delegates to closures to modern Swift concurrency 🔄
Don't call us - we'll call you 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome Alaina Kafkes 🎉
Senior iOS engineer at Calm, writing her first lines of code right here in Chicagoland 🏠
Smoke and mirrors: on humans, agents, and speedier smoke tests 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome Ben Rosen 🎉
Ben will show how SongShift went from cooking everything on-device to running a fully serverless Swift backend in the cloud ☁️
From Food Truck to Deep-Dish Kitchen 🍕
Extra Saucy Swift Audio APIs is coming to Deep Dish Swift 2026!
Carlos Mbendera — former Apple engineer, WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winner, and indie dev — is bringing a practical tour of the latest audio and speech ML APIs on Apple platforms.
Transcription, diarization, on-device models... this one's going to be good.
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome Jon Shier 🎉
25 years on Apple platforms, Alamofire maintainer for over a decade, and board member of the Alamofire Foundation 🔥
Mistakes I Made In Alamofire 5 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome @atow@mastodon.social 🎉
Three decades of building on Apple platforms and now a full-time indie shipping MixEffect, ActionPhrase, and more 🛠️
Playing the Long Game 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome @ioloro@mastodon.social 🎉
John Marc will share how to validate your indie app idea before writing production code — taste the sauce before you serve the pizza 🧑🍳
Before the Code: Testing & Building a Business 🍕
📣 Speaker Announcement
Oh Bother, are you struggling with your app designs too? Up Ahead at Deep Dish Swift 2025 we have someone that can help you...
@danielmgauthier@mastodon.social will be taking the stage with "Make Nice Things: An Engineer's Made-Up Guide to App Design" 🤩
Have you seen... er... heard this yet?!
"Slices: The Deep Dish Swift Podcast" is back 🎉
Listen to some episodes and get to know the speakers before the event!
And huuggeee thanks to @malinsundberg and @kaidombrowski@mastodon.social for the hours/days they put into these 🫶
🍕It’s almost time to signup for the most highly requested event…
The Deep Dish Swift Happy Hour hosted by @revenuecat@mastodon.social 🎉
It’s after sessions on Monday, April 13 from 6pm-9pm
The invite link will be going out via email and Discord tomorrow so… GET YOUR TICKET BEFORE THEN 🎟️
🚨 Super Cool Ticket Alert
If you haven't gotten a 2026 ticket yet, go check out the Appfigures newsletter 👀
Theres a special link in there that'll get you a free private ASO teardown by Ariel Michaeli 📈
Only 5 available (for now)
🎟️ Go sub to https://appfigures.com/newsletter now
📣 Speaker Announcement
We're thrilled to welcome @ProjectEmbers@mastodon.social 🎉
Raj will explore why the most meaningful projects are sometimes the ones that never get published — and how hobbies make us better developers ✈️
Slices of Life: How Hobbies Make Us Better Developers 🍕