Ask HN: Great iOS / Swift Blogs?

32 points by rayascott 7y ago ↗ HN

I’m getting back into iOS development after a 3 year break, which means I’ve missed Swift 2 & 3. Can anyone recommend blogs that publish regularly on Swift and iOS development besides the official Apple Swift blog, Ray Wenderlich and NSHipster? Thanks.

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fakeElonMusk 7y ago ↗

I subscribe to https://talk.objc.io/. Highly recommend it.

chrishannah 7y ago ↗

Here are my favourites: https://www.natashatherobot.com https://www.swiftbysundell.com http://whatsnewinswift.com https://rambo.codes

And sporadically, I'll write a few myself: http://blog.chrishannah.me/category/swift-tips/

josv 7y ago ↗

We don’t lack for wonderful writers in the Apple ecosystem. Along with objc.io I’d heartily suggest:

https://oleb.net (Ole Begemann) https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ (Mike Ash)

wool_gather 7y ago ↗

Can't beat Mike Ash. His Friday Q&A series is just fantastic: plenty of people tell you about what to do, others will explain the why, but read those and you'll get the what behind the why, and why it is that way.

wool_gather 7y ago ↗

Not mentioned yet: Souroush Khanlou http://khanlou.com is always at the top of my list. Thoughtful and very practical material. Also Dave DeLong: https://davedelong.com/blog/

> I’ve missed Swift 2 & 3

In some ways this is an advantage to you. There was a fair bit of churn in that time period. Things have settled reasonably well now.

rayascott 7y ago ↗

Thanks for the recommendations and it’s encouraging to hear things have settled down in Swift 4.

Gardinero 7y ago ↗

I love the weekly iOS newsletter https://ios-goodies.com/

daveverwer 7y ago ↗

I maintain a directory of people writing about iOS development here: https://iosdevdirectory.com. Might be useful!

rayascott 7y ago ↗

Ohhhh the motherload :-) (bows with hands in a prayer position)

daveverwer 7y ago ↗

Yes, it may even be too overwhelming :) If so, those feeds are what I use as my main sources for writing iOS Dev Weekly, here: https://iosdevweekly.com/ which will give you a slightly cut down list of the best of the week in iOS development.

rayascott 7y ago ↗

Overwhelming is good. One or two points. I’ll DM you on Twitter with a list of RSS feeds that are no longer responsive (I think one has switched to feed burner).

Also, for an improved experience when importing an OPML, please consider nesting all outline elements inside another outline element that is treated as a folder when importing. I imported an OPML to Feedly, and have to manually move them individually into a “iOS Developer Blogs” folder.

rayascott 7y ago ↗

Coincidentally I do something similar for Rust, but in not nearly as grand a fashion... https://github.com/rayascott/fearless-rust-bloggers

tialys 7y ago ↗

I write reference-style articles on confusing/underused areas of iOS development, and maintain links to hard to find documentation over at https://www.iosdev.recipes