In this week's #ExploringUncut, @twostraws new open-source project ShipShape, SwiftCraft conference, #EmbeddedSwift documentation and loads of tech announcements...
https://www.ericbariaux.com/posts/exploring-uncut-20250526
Exploring Uncut - May 26th, 2025
HWS+ livestream Saturday, May 17th marked another Hacking with Swift+ subscriber livestream. This time, Paul walked us through building a macOS application that uses the AppStoreConnect API to retrieve information about our published apps.
It was the longest session I ever attended but was super interesting, both from a coding perspective and in terms of the resulting app.
In fact, it was so compelling that Paul decided to open source the app, called ShipShape.
In this week #ExploringUncut, not much about Embedded Swift but I talk about my move to #HomeAssistant for my home automation needs and computer history.
https://www.ericbariaux.com/posts/exploring-uncut-20250428/
Exploring Uncut - April 28th, 2025
It’s been a while since the last “Exploring Uncut” post, so without further ado, here’s a recap of some of the fun and important things from the past few weeks.
Home Assistant I’ve been interested in home automation for a very (very) long time, nearly 40 years.
As a teenager, I had seen an article on how to control your home using some custom electronics on your Commodore 64. That piqued my curiosity and I started researching the available products and technologies.
Swiftly and Swift 6.1 released
Introduction End of March was a busy time for Apple, with the release of swiftly 1.0 and a few days later Swift 6.1.
Let’s explore what this means for toolchain selection, mostly when doing Embedded Swift development on macOS.
Xcode toolchain Xcode 16.3 comes bundled with Swift 6.1. If you don’t install anything else, open a terminal and check the current version of swift
swift -print-target-info { "compilerVersion": "Apple Swift version 6.
Last week I skipped #ExploringUncut, I just did not have the energy to write.
Back this week with a new edition of Embedded Swift community hour, my first time attending #iOSDevHappyHour and some BLE in #EmbeddedSwift examples.
https://www.ericbariaux.com/posts/exploring-uncut-20250407/
Exploring Uncut - April 7th, 2025
Battery low As you might have noticed, there was no post last week. I had a couple of bullet points in my note but come Sunday evening, I had not started writing any draft. I was also contemplating writing a more in-depth article on a particular topic, as I did before, but I could not decide on which one and commit to it.
I just needed to disconnect and relax and did not have the energy for it.
Eric Bariaux