Sean != Erica

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

When Swift was newer, there was a bunch of podcasts about it - in early episodes of Fireside Swift the existence of a Swift Podcast Network is often mentioned, but now it’s more of an established language there’s a bit less current content to listen to, and what there is, is less focused on learning Swift and more about what’s happening in the community.

Being firmly in the camp of needing to learn more about the language, I’ve listen to a number of older podcasts, or even current ones (such as Fireside) but their older episodes. It is sort of an odd experience traveling on several slightly out of sync timelines, but quite a joy to see what happens to predictions - like the occasion when Paul Hudson predicts that an “Xcode lite” on iPad is unlikely to be able to write apps until a more swift like framework for developing interfaces exists.

One of the podcasts I’m working through by every episode is Paul’s Swift Over Coffee. The first season he was paired up with Sean Allen, but I’ve just started the second season with Erica Sadun. When I first came across Sean it took me a while to warm to his enthusiastic voice, but what I loved about him was he was never reluctant to ask Paul to explain something - usually something I needed explained as well. The dynamic of an expert (and expert teacher) co-hosting with a relative newbie was a great combination for me.

Erica is a giant in the Swift community, and she has a deep understanding and an wide knowledge of Swift topics, so she’s going to be great. In the first episode she and Paul riffed on a heap of interesting topics with great enthusiasm and clear enjoyment, but I did miss Sean asking for explanations!

Swift Over Coffee

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the iOS development podcasts in my current rotation is “Swift Over Coffee”, it’s blurb is:

Swift over Coffee is a podcast that helps you keep your Swift skills up to date the easy way, hosted by Paul Hudson and Erica Sadun. Each episode has news, our picks of the week, plus an open ballot where you can share your views on important topics.

And that is about how it goes. In Season One, it’s actually Paul and Sean Allen at the mic, they chat about news and topics related to Swift and iOS development, and each week there’s a Twitter question that people have chipped in on and the hosts go over these different views in some detail.

There’s only two seasons - in 2019 and 2020, but still there’s lots of good content for a beginning developer like me.

Erica-Sadun on blog.iankulin.com

Sean != Erica

Swift Over Coffee