mastodon 4.7.3An international Swift Developer's conference in the UK, by the sea - putting the craft back into developing with the Swift Programming Language
NOW LIVE: Doug Gregor on Progressive Disclosure
The full keynote from SwiftCraft 2025 is now available. Doug dives deep into the philosophy of Swift API design—balancing approachability with power.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/opqKGgJavkw
Want to be in the room for 2026? We have just released a limited batch of Super Early Bird Tickets for next May in Folkestone.
🎟️ Save ~30% here: https://swiftcraft.uk
#SwiftLang #iOSDev #SwiftCraft26
SwiftCraft 2026 Call for Speakers is NOW OPEN!
We're looking for talks on the *craft* of Swift development - from iOS to server-side, architecture to testing, and everything in between.
Submit by: Jan 30, 2026 (midnight GMT)
Conference: May 18-20, 2026 in Folkestone, UK
Building a bridge for UK & European Swift developers
✨ What we offer:
- Travel & accommodation covered
- Conference dinner ticket
- Anonymous review process
- Support for first-time speakers
Don't wait - submit early! 👉 https://swiftcraft.uk/callforspeakers
Announcing Swift Craft 2025!
The full schedule is here!
We have keynotes from Doug Gregor, Caitlin Steel and Paul Hudson!
May 19-21 2025
All the details:
Great engineering teams share their knowledge. 🧠
We just released the full talk from Joseph El Mallah on one of the trickiest transitions in iOS right now: Moving to Swift 6 Concurrency without breaking your SwiftUI flow.
It is great to see companies like GetYourGuide supporting their engineers in sharing deep technical insights.
📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/yyZneBt-4kQ
🎟️ SwiftCraft 2026 SEB Tickets (Ends Feb 13): https://swiftcraft.uk
You can't fix what you don't measure.
We just released a deep dive on iOS Observability and Performance Metrics with Batuhan Arslan and Beyza İnce. They cover how to move beyond basic crash reporting to actual performance health.
📺 Watch here: https://youtu.be/Y4368CNKP_A
🎟️ SwiftCraft 2026 SEB (Ends Feb 13): https://swiftcraft.uk
Is your team deleting snapshot tests just to avoid the maintenance?
Arnold Noronha (Founder of @screenshotbot@qa.social gave a fantastic talk on how to keep the value of visual regression testing without the scaling friction. He covers storage, flakiness, and better workflows for growing teams.
Catch the full video here: https://youtu.be/XR4XrVvHUQo
Announcing Swift Craft 2025!
https://swiftcraft.uk/news/dates-for-swiftcraft-2025
Yes we're back for a second year. We've also opened the call for speakers:
https://swiftcraft.uk/news/the-swift-craft-2025-call-for-speakers-is-now-open
And super-early bird tickets are available now - for a limited time:
Come and put the craft back into Swift development with us.
Lightning Talk: How to Beat the Interview Process – Keegan Rush – SwiftCraft 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kuNpV6bHvE
#coding #interview #programming #softwareengineering #swiftlang
Build a Binary – The Key to Efficient and Elegant Code – by @acbdev@fosstodon.org – SwiftCraft 2024
Keynote: Experimenting in a Sociotechnical System in Software Engineering – Jessica Kerr – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: Swift in Higher Education – Steven Van Impe – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: Swift in Higher Education – Steven Van Impe – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: How to Beat the Interview Process – Keegan Rush – SwiftCraft 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kuNpV6bHvE
#coding #interview #programming #softwareengineering #swiftlang
Lightning Talk: Embracing Diversity to Overcome Imposter Syndrome – Nara Morrison – SwiftCraft 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFF5GXX7aE
#coding #Diversity #impostersyndrome #programming #softwareengineering
Lightning Talk: How Long is a Piece of String? – by @nicklockwood@mastodon.social – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: Swift in Higher Education – Steven Van Impe – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: Life Lessons from The Tortoise and the Hare – Mohammad Azam – SwiftCraft 2024
Lightning Talk: Embracing Diversity to Overcome Imposter Syndrome – Nara Morrison – SwiftCraft 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFF5GXX7aE
#coding #Diversity #impostersyndrome #programming #softwareengineering
Lightning Talk: How Long is a Piece of String? – by @nicklockwood@mastodon.social – SwiftCraft 2024
Swift Macros – Ibrahima Ciss – SwiftCraft 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYtB8ayEUY
#coding #macros #programming #softwareengineering #swiftlang