Not only Swift Issue 92 went out to subscribers earlier today! Read it on the web: peterfriese.dev/newsletter/...

How does @todoist stay profitable and productive? 🤔 Luca Rossi interviews CTO Gonçalo Silva about their async-first culture and bootstrapped journey. refactoring.fm/p/how-todoi...

Love Git worktrees but hate the CLI friction? 🌳 Check out Trees by Daniel Bernal - a macOS menu bar app to manage your worktrees effortlessly. github.com/afterxleep/...

Think `AsyncStream` is foolproof? Think again. Michael Long reveals why the default patterns might lead to concurrency bugs in your Swift code. 🐛 medium.com/the-swift-c...

Running AI agents in parallel? 👯‍♂️ Mete Atamel explains how Antigravity's Agent Manager orchestrates multiple workspaces for faster coding tasks. medium.com/google-clou...

Vibe coding a automatic tagging system in four stages: Reviewing the implementation plan www.youtube.com/live/t3CgMs...

Apple's on-device models are fast and private, but the context window is tight! 📏 Artem Mirzabekian shares a survival guide for prompting Apple's Foundation Models effectively. livsycode.com/best-practi...

Function Calling is the missing link for Agentic AI. 🔗 In this video, I explain how it works and how to use it with Firebase AI Logic. Warning: Contains parmigiana content! 🧀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d69...

I’m tired of manually tagging links in my second brain app So I built a hybrid AI feature to do it for me. It uses on-device models when possible and falls back to Gemini in the cloud when needed. Here’s how I architected it using Firebase and Swift 👇

Initializing `@Observable` objects in SwiftUI views isn't as simple as it looks. 🧐 @natpanferova.bsky.social explains why you need `@State` and how to handle the lifecycle correctly. nilcoalescing.com/blog/Initia...

Ever finish a coding session and wish you could save that "skill" for later? Jediah Katz has a handy utility for Cursor that lets you capture learnings on the fly. 🧠 gist.github.com/jediahkatz/...

Teach your AI agent SwiftUI best practices! 🎓 Antoine van der Lee and Omar Elsayed released an Agent Skill to help AI tools review and write better SwiftUI code. github.com/AvdLee/Swif...

"Vibe coding" a todo app is one thing... using GitHub Issues as the database is another level! 🤯 Check out Martin Woodward's wild experiment with the Copilot CLI. github.com/martinwoodw...

Grab the code for our AI-powered meal planning app while it's hot! github.com/FirebaseExt...

Google's Jules agent gets a native home on macOS! 🖥️ Kathy Korevec built a companion app for better session control and desktop integration. github.com/simpsoka/ju...

Live Coding: Building "Smart Tagging" for my knowledge app. 🧠 Cloud Functions or On-Device AI? See which one I chose and why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3C...

We recently sat down with Jack Wotherspoon to chat about skills in Gemini CLI, and he showed us a bunch of really cool tips and tricks. Bookmark this!

Who needs a database when you have GitHub Issues? 🤷‍♂️ Martin Woodward shows us how it's done. Plus, Luca Rossi takes us inside Todoist, and Michael Long saves us from AsyncStream bugs. Grab a coffee ☕️ and read Issue 91: peterfriese.dev/newsletter/...

Issue 91 of Not only Swift is out! 🚀 This week: • GitHub Issues as a Database? 🤯 w/ @martinwoodward • Inside @todoist's work culture w/ @lucaronin • AsyncStream pitfalls w/ Michael Long • Agent Skills & Conferences Read now: peterfriese.dev/newsletter/...

Antigravity built an entire AI-powered feature for my #secondbrain app! youtube.com/clip/UgkxE-...

Let's check the poll and see who guessed it right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3C... x.com/peterfriese...

Join me as I implement auto-tagging for my second brain app, Sofia. I'll use one of the following to implement this: 1) Firestore trigger + Genkit + Gemini 2) Cloud Function + Genkit + Gemini 3) Firebase AI Logic 4) Apple's Foundation Models www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3C...

The dream of replacing developers is as old as COBOL—and it usually fails because software is about thinking, not typing. Stephan Schwab traces the history of this recurring dream. www.caimito.net/en/blog/202... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

We sat down with Jack Wotherspoon to talk about using Skills in Gemini CLI. This was a super fun livestream - we built a skill to generate security rules for Cloud Firestore, and learned A TON of tips and tricks! Check out the recording: youtube.com/live/9CwXD9...

Massive agent files are a problem for AI coding agents. Matt Pocock explains how to use Progressive Disclosure to organize your AGENTS.md files. www.aihero.dev/a-complete-... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

3,667 sessions from 27 events! NonStrict has released an unofficial index of WWDC sessions from 2000 to 2025—a treasure trove for Apple developers. nonstrict.eu/wwdcindex/ Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

MCP servers are key for connecting LLMs to local tools. William McLean walks through setting up a local MCP environment and building a Swift-based server for Gemini CLI. dev.to/gde/local-m... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

I love it when advanced language features are built on top of first principles. Natalia Panferova (natpanferova.bsky.social) shows how to extend Swift's string interpolation for custom formatting and safety. nilcoalescing.com/blog/Defini... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

What happens when your live demo crashes? You let the AI debug it. 🤖💥 In my latest stream, I move from an unexpected app crash to a full demo of Google's Antigravity agentic IDE. www.youtube.com/live/O-XbrE...

We just built a skill for writing and testing @firebase.com security rules live on stream! Got any questions? Come join us - we're still live now! www.youtube.com/live/9CwXD9...

Did you know that Gemini CLI supports Skills? Jack Wotherspoon is here to show how it works: www.youtube.com/live/9CwXD9...

We're going live with Jack Wotherspoon in 5 minutes - come join us to learn about Gemini CLI and Skills! www.youtube.com/live/9CwXD9...

Demystifying the terminology around coding agents: Lee Robinson explains the difference between Rules, Commands, and Skills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_p... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

SwiftUI's .interactiveDismissDisabled() is great, but sometimes you want to intercept the dismissal attempt. Artem Mirzabekian demonstrates a clever "tripwire" technique using presentation detents. livsycode.com/swiftui/int... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

Learn how to build your own Skills for the Gemini CLI and Antigravity. Romin Irani provides a comprehensive tutorial on creating specialized, deterministic tools for your AI agents. medium.com/google-clou... Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

Kevin Roose built a Pocket clone called "Stash" in less than half a day using Claude Code. An interesting experiment in how AI tools are lowering the barrier to entry for app development. github.com/kbroose/stash Curated in this week's #NotOnlySwift

Why software is about thinking, not typing. From the dream of replacing developers in 1969 to AI agents today - plus SwiftUI tricks and Swift interpolation. Read Issue 90 of #NotOnlySwift: peterfriese.dev/newsletter/...

Antigravity + Cloud Functions = 😍? Let's find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-X...

Last week, I used Antigravity and Gemini CLI to build a Firestore-powered tagging system for Sofia, my second brain app. This week, I'm revamping the data layer. Tune into the livestream to witness Antigravity tackle Cloud Functions like a pro! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-X...

If you’ve interviewed at Apple and didn’t get the job, you’re in good company. Insightful write-up by Oskar Groth on the experience and lessons learned: oskargroth.com/blog/swift-... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Did you know that Swift projects on GitHub can be opened directly with Xcode? Great tip from Fangjunyu: bsky.app/profile/fan... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

An interesting read on how Oxide is using LLMs. 'The dog ate my homework' never was a good excuse, and 'I used LLMs' isn't any better: rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

If you’re not yet using worktrees - you should! Marco Haber explains why they make it super easy to switch between branches without stashing: www.marcohaber.dev/blog/git-wo... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Gemini CLI now supports Skills, compatible with Claude Code skills! Check out this guide by Joe Njenga: medium.com/ai-software... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Swift Concurrency is hard, but @avanderlee.com is here to help! 🚀 Antoine released a new AI Agent Skill for Swift Concurrency - an open format for coding agents. Check it out: github.com/AvdLee/Swif... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Textual is a lightweight, flexible, and powerful Markdown rendering library for SwiftUI by Guille Gonzalez. Ideal for apps that need to display formatted content: github.com/gonzalezrea... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Finally understand async/await, actors, and Sendable. Clear mental models, no jargon. Great guide by @pepicrft: fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/ Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Ever cooked something your friends / family didn't like? In this @firebase.com tutorial I show you how to fix this - and a lot more! youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9G...

People have been asking for a PDF version of the Swift book, so I finally decided to give it a try. I created a Tufte-style PDF version using my Typst template: github.com/peterfriese... Curated in this week's #not-only-swift

Google's Antigravity built a tagging system for my Second Brain app! youtube.com/clip/UgkxGy...