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In our Black Friday Sale blog post (30% off!) we teased some things coming to Point-Free 2026, including Composable Architecture 2.0. It is the best way to build robust features with value types instead of reference types in a 100% unit-testable way. www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

One of the best things about working on our episodes and open source is the community that has gathered around it! It’s a welcoming space with many folks eager to discuss, learn, and help one another. Don’t hesitate to join a GitHub discussion, or our Slack, today: www.pointfree.co/slack-invite

Tired of your editor suggesting code that uses old versions of our libraries or just plain wrong patterns? We are working on a collection of docs with the most up-to-date and modern techniques so that you can utilize our libraries to the best of their abilities.

One of our favorite series is “Back to basics: Equatable and Hashable.” We explain the mathematical foundations of these protocols, and show that deviating from their semantics will introduce subtle bugs in our apps. Unlock this series (and more!): www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Our most popular series this year is “Modern Persistence”, where we use a SwiftData alternative based on SQLite to build a complex app with: * Advanced querying * Full-text search * Assets * iCloud sync+sharing You can now unlock access for a discount! www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Move over "to view model or not", the next great debate of our community is slowly becoming "to default main actor isolation or not"… github.com/pointfreeco/...

No episode this week, but we are running our BLACK FRIDAY 30% OFF sale! Sneak peek of what's in store for 2026: * Composable Architecture, 2.0 * Basic to basics: Concurrency * Modern dependencies * Back to basics: Generics * Cross-platform Swift www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Many have asked us why we don't provide automatic migration tools for SQLiteData like what SwiftData offers, and we've explained why those tools are dangerous and why plain SQL is far better. But that doesn't mean you can't get a little help writing your migrations!

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This week we register a Swift function in SQLite so that we can query for the permission settings on records shared in iCloud! 🫨 This allows us to craft complex and nuanced queries in SQL rather than munging data in Swift. Learn all about it here: www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

We’re working on a fun new project! A collection of hyper-focused docs on the most up-to-date and modern techniques for using our libraries, perfect for seeding your editor with all the context it needs to help you build features! Just a taste of what's to come:

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This week we conclude our iCloud sync series, and it's a doozy! We don't shy away from the messy details of what it takes to bring sync to an app, while showing that if approached the right way it can be surprisingly simple! Everything's here: www.pointfree.co/collections/...

This week we concluded our iCloud sync series, and it's a doozy! We paint a complete picture of what it means to bring iCloud sync to an app's persistence, and show that when approached the right way it can be surprisingly easy! www.pointfree.co/collections/...

This week we show how to make use of a feature of SQLiteData that we added thanks to feedback from the community. When we detect an iCloud account has logged out we can ask the user what they want to do with their local data. Just a few lines of code: www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

A big topic for 2026 is "isolation". When approached naively you are led to superfluous thread hops due to suspension points, but it doesn't have to be that way! A surprising amount of code can be synchronous even when isolation domains are involved. 👉 www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

iCloud has full support for permissions so that your users can share records with write or read-only access. That's great, but we still need to do the work to hide UI users can't use to make it a nicer user experience. This week we go into the details: www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

Topics for 2026: • The Composable Architecture, 2.0 • Basic to basics: Concurrency • Modern dependencies • Back to basics: Generics • Cross-platform: Android • and more! Subscribe today to get 30% off the next year of your subscription: www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Swift apps can be built with many settings: * Concurrency checking: minimal/targeted/complete * Language mode: 5/6 * Approachable concurrency: yes/no * Default isolation: main/none Never been a better time for us to discuss concurrency on Point-Free! 😅 github.com/pointfreeco/...

This week we should how to observe permissions in shared iCloud records so that we can prevent our users from attempting to edit things they don't really have access to. We employ custom database functions and cross-database joins to accomplish it! www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

Point-Free offers the most advanced and original Swift content out there, and we maintain open source libraries used by tens of thousands of developers. And now you can unlock access to everything we have to offer for 30% off! www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

In our Black Friday announcement (30% off!) we teased some things coming to Point-Free 2026, including Composable Architecture 2.0. It is the best way to build robust features with value types instead of reference types, and all 100% unit testable. www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/1...

Our “Modern Persistence” series has been a big hit! This series goes into great detail to demonstrate modern techniques for persistence, domain modeling, iCloud sync, assets, data sharing, and more! 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

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Our “Modern Persistence” series has been a big hit! Be sure to check out the modern way to handle persistence in your app, including domain modeling, iCloud sync, assets, data sharing, and a lot more! 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

We round out are synchronization series with a grab bag finale. We’ll explore explicit synchronization, custom logout behavior, how the library handles read-only permissions, and how you can incorporate theses permissions in your app’s behavior. www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

SQL “views” allow you to package up a complex query into an entity that can then be queried as if it were a table in its own right. This is an amazing tool for hiding complex queries behind simple interfaces. www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

This week we display participant information in shared records, all without touching iCloud and instead by leveraging SQLiteData’s metadata. Along the way we will explore two powerful tools to simplify our app: database “views” and the @‌DatabaseFunction macro. www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

We are near the end of our iCloud synchronization series. This collection covers: 🫂 Conflict resolution 🔑 Foreign keys 🏞️ Assets 🤝 iCloud sharing ⛈️ iCloud metadata 🤌 And more! Start syncing your SQLite app to iCloud today! www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Once you configure SQLiteData to synchronize to iCloud, you never have to think about it again. You can build new features and let SQLiteData worry about making sure all data is properly synchronized across your users’ devices. Learn how in-depth here: 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

We are nearing the end of our iCloud synchronization series 😢. This collection covers: 🫂 Conflict resolution 🔑 Foreign keys 🏞️ Assets 🤝 iCloud sharing ⛈️ iCloud metadata 🤌 And more! Get it all here: www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Once you configure SQLiteData to synchronize to iCloud, you never have to think about it again. You can build new features and let SQLiteData worry about making sure all data is properly synchronized across your users’ devices. Learn how in-depth here: 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Once you configure SQLiteData to synchronize to iCloud, you never have to think about it again. You can build new features and let SQLiteData worry about making sure all data is properly synchronized across your users’ devices. Learn how in-depth here: 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Our SQLiteData library comes with a ton of documentation that explains everything from getting started to advanced use cases. We reference this documentation throughout our episodes. 👉 swiftpackageindex.com/pointfreeco/...

We spend a lot of time writing docs so that it is clear how to use our libraries. During our iCloud sync series we even repeatedly referenced our docs to figure out what to do. Here's everything you need to know to sync your SQLite app to iCloud! 👉 swiftpackageindex.com/pointfreeco/...

No matter how much love you put into your app, if you store data only locally, the first feedback you will get from users is wanting their data sync'd to all devices, and wanting to share data with friends and family. SQLiteData makes this possible in just a few lines of code.

During our iCloud sync series we repeatedly referenced our docs to figure out what to do. We spend a lot of time writing docs so that it is clear how to use our libraries. Here's everything you need to know to sync your SQLite app to iCloud! 👉 swiftpackageindex.com/pointfreeco/...

No matter how much love you put into your app, if you store data only locally, the first feedback you will get from users is wanting their data sync'd to all devices, and wanting to share data with friends and family. SQLiteData makes this possible in just a few lines of code.

CloudKit's APIs are not built on SQLite, but we store its metadata in a SQLite database so it's possible to query for your data and iCloud metadata at the same time. This brings extraordinary powers to your app and we show it off in this week's episode: 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

In SQLiteData we store iCloud metadata in a database along side your own database, and we make it public to you. It’s even possible to construct a SQL query that joins your tables to the iCloud metadata so that can you select all lists that are shared! 👉 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

This generic property transforms a Binding<T?> into a Binding<Bool> so that you can drive navigation with optional state instead of booleans. This fixes a flawed SwiftUI API for displaying alerts. More info in this week's episode @ 22:43 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

SQLiteData stores metadata associated with iCloud sync and sharing right along side your database, and it's all made public to you! We don't want to hide any of this data from you or abstract it away. Learn more in this week's episode: 👉 www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

This generic property can transform a Binding<T?> into a Binding<Bool> so that you can drive navigation with optional state instead of booleans. This fixes a flawed SwiftUI API for displaying alerts. More info in this week's episode @ 22:43 www.pointfree.co/collections/...

Have you noticed that SwiftUI’s alert API is strange? It takes a Binding<Bool> *and* an optional value. What happens when true and nil are provided? Or false and some data?? Luckily it's easy to derive a Binding<Bool> from a Binding<T?> to keep your domain concisely modeled. 👇

This week we showed that secretly SQLiteData manages a database right next to your database for storing metadata associated with iCloud synchronization. And the best part? It’s made publicly available to you so that you can even query it from SQLite! www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

We want SQLiteData to work seamlessly behind the scenes without you having to worry about how it works, but we also wanted to make sure you had full access to everything happening under the hood. Learn about the powerful 'SyncMetadata' table this week: www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep3...

Our CloudKit synchronization series is cooking! In a little under 3 hours we cover: 1️⃣ Converting an app that was not built with sync in mind 2️⃣ Adding sync 3️⃣ Syncing assets 4️⃣ Collaborative sharing And more! Catch up today: www.pointfree.co/collections/...