Swift Rockies 2026
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How I Bought My Way Into Tech: Rethinking Who Gets In | Abbey Jackson | 26m |
Took a private loan 9X her income to pay roughly $10,000 for Lighthouse Labs plus laptop, phone and living costs in a neighbourhood where one in five made it… | ||
| My Slow Return to a Swift Career | Ash Furrow | 30m |
Starts as a native iOS career, moves to React Native in 2017, then returns to Swift work at Wealthsimple in 2025 to fix real app problems. Patches a… | ||
| Breathe | Daniel H Steinberg | 26m |
A reflective case for slowing down and practicing simple breath work to improve focus and resilience for developers: a guided one‑minute breathing exercise, a… | ||
| Instruments: Profiling Your App in Practice | James Dempsey | 41m |
Instruments 27 exposes 63 instruments and the demo profiles a command‑line Swift package (Swift Evolution Metadata Extractor) to show real results: Swift 62… | ||
| Scaling Swift Development | Marek Fořt | 33m |
Walks through concrete levers: use Tuist for modularization, measure with Hyperfine, and cut a 22 minute clean build to about 4 minutes and tests from 40 to ~5… | ||
| CloudKit Public Database as a Backend | Danijela Vrzan | 29m |
Uses CloudKit public database as the app backend to serve barcode nutrition lookup, ingesting Open Food Facts raw TSV and filtering 4.2M rows down to 2.7… | ||
| Swift Concurrency's Pit of Success | Matt Massicotte | 20m |
Argues that the real “pit of success” in Swift Concurrency is non-Sendable types and shows why they become useful once Swift 6.2 adds non-isolated non-sending… | ||
| More AI, More Human: Why the New Tools Demand More Care, Not Less | Krish Satya | 19m |
Boom is a native macOS video app that renders 30 fps frames through a real‑time core image pipeline and shipped a recording feature that unexpectedly ballooned… | ||
| Keynote Karaoke | Philippe Casgrain | 30m |
A live improv format built around an app that shows first slide then seven random slides then the last slide and auto-advances every 30-second auto-advance… | ||
| Engineering Culture: A Shared Build | Ines Rosales | 21m |
Argues culture is something teams deliberately build, not a buzzword: measure team health by measure time to resolve problems, use code reviews as coaching not… | ||
| Accessibility for the App You're About to Ship | Adrian Eves | 31m |
Argues that accessibility belongs in 1.0 and shows a repeatable checklist: implement VoiceOver labels/actions/hints/values, expose native SwiftUI and UIKit… | ||
| Swift beyond Apple: Making Software for the Physical World | Joannis Orlandos | 26m |
Shows Swift running beyond Apple with concrete tooling and deployments: Wendy OS for cross‑compiling and flashing Swift to robots and Raspberry Pi, remote… | ||
| Faster Builds With Xcode Compilation Cache | Francis Chary | 25m |
Explains how Xcode 26 adds a compilation cache backed by LLVM CAS that keys compiler inputs by content so the front end can skip work; clean local builds on a… | ||
| Custom Styleable Containers in SwiftUI | Dave DeLong | 30m |
Claims two simple tricks let developers build fully styleable SwiftUI containers: use subviews collection to get a resilient array of child views (handles… | ||
| Opening Remarks | 04m | |
Retreat-style iOS conference launches at the Calgary Zoo July 22–23, 2026 for intermediate to senior Swift developers, billed as the inaugural Swift Rockies… | ||
| Custom Styleable Containers in SwiftUI | Dave DeLong | 29m |
Shows how to build true styleable containers using iOS 18 APIs: subviews collection to safely enumerate and expand conditionals/ForEach, container values to… | ||
| Opening Remarks | 04m | |
Inaugural Swift Rockies opens at the Calgary Zoo on July 22–23, 2026 as a retreat-style, intermediate-to-senior iOS and Swift conference; speakers pause their… | ||
| Commuting to the Calgary Zoo: SwiftRockies Transit & Walkthrough Guide | 04m | |
From downtown catch the eastbound C‑Train to Saddletowne and exit at Calgary Zoo station; a ramp leads directly into the zoo and reception admits Swift Rockies… | ||
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