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s_dev
Looks useful, reminds me of Swift Toolbox and Cocoa Controls.

I would add two resources to the blogs list: NatashaTheRobot and Dave Verwer's NewsLetters. Both are excellent newsletters for iOS devs.

nimeshneema
I'll add a few of my favourites:

- iOS Dev Weekly (https://iosdevweekly.com/)

- Little Bites of Cocoa (https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/)

- objc (https://www.objc.io/)

- NSHipster (http://nshipster.com/)

- NSBlog / Friday Q&A from Mike Ash (https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/)

- This Week in Swift (https://swiftnews.curated.co/)

- Erica Sadun (http://ericasadun.com/)

- Quality Coding (http://qualitycoding.org/)

- Use Your Loaf (http://useyourloaf.com/)

- Swift Monthly (http://swiftmonthly.com/)

- Cocoa, Objective-C and Swift programming News aggregator (https://twitter.com/cocoadevblogs)

morbidhawk
objc.io and nshipster were my two favorite iOS dev blogs. It's a bummer there haven't been new posts for a while. They still have years worth of really high quality content though

Edit: Another blog worth following is the Swift Blog (https://swift.org/blog/) and the old Swift Blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/) by Apple/Swift engineers

cballard
The author of NSHipster works for Apple now and typically, Apple employees don't blog about work - possibly a policy?
michaelmior
I was surprised to see the mention of Rollout which I hadn't heard of which claims to allow you to push hot fixes to native iOS apps. Although I've been out of the iOS game for a while, I recalled this being against Apple's ToS. Apparently this is is still true to some degree, but they have an interesting blog post about how they can work around these restrictions.

https://blog.rollout.io/2016/01/updating-apps-without-app-st...

pearlsteinj
TLDR; it's because they're not pushing new features but rather bug fixing through the proper channels (Webkit framework or JavascriptCore).
michaelmior
The interesting bit being that they can patch native methods using JS. You have to write a specific patch in JS though and still fix the original native code before pushing out the next version.
kybernetyk
Wow, really extensive site (I sent you a suggestion btw).

Something you could improve: Screenshots (where applicable). The lists have that "wall of text" feeling without any graphics.

Camillo
BTW, what is the best Git GUI on Mac? I don't care about price. I have always used the command line, but many operations would be faster with a mouse.
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cballard
GitX is my favorite, despite being quite buggy, because the others I've seen are all way too complicated.

I really just want visual log and visual add -p and GitX nails that.

funkaster
not mac specific, but magit[1] is just extremely useful and fast/easy to use. Some times even if I'm not using emacs to code, I just open it to commit/work on git.

[1]: https://magit.vc/

VPrime
Shameless plug.. I think our app hyperPad fits the list https://www.hyperpad.com

Great for mobile games and other interactive apps. Also awesome for prototyping UI and animations. :)

IamFermat
Which SDKs are being used by what mobile apps. So devs can get a sense of what SDKs to use and also what SDKs major apps use.

- AppSight.co (http://www.appsight.co/)

joeblau
A few things on that list which seem useful, but there are a lot more services on that list than actual tools.