Empower Apps
by Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit
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About this podcast
An exploration of Apple business news and technology. We talk about how businesses can use new technology to empower their business and employees, from Leo Dion, founder of BrightDigit.
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- Do the Wrong Thing Much Faster with Graham Lee · 1 h 12 min · Episode 216Graham Lee returns to chat about what it takes to become a software centaur: using AI to get better at the craft, not just faster. We get into why the job was never about typing…
- Then 20 Years Later with Georg Tuparev · 43 min · Episode 215Georg Tuparev stops by to chat about software that outlives its plans: projects scoped for a few months that are still in development 20 years later. We get into running a small…
- We Don’t Have Any Futures or Promises Anymore with Tim Condon · 47 min · Episode 214Tim Condon stops by to chat about Vapor 5, the biggest Vapor release in six and a half years. We get into dropping futures and promises for Swift concurrency all the way down the…
- The More You Know with Stewart Lynch · 44 min · Episode 213Stewart Lynch stops by to chat about using AI to learn faster instead of just letting it write your code. We get into planning in stages before you build, why Markdown is the…
- Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge · 54 min · Episode 212Jared Sorge stops by to chat about Arborist, his native Mac command center for Git work trees. We get into running agents in parallel with work trees, when to drop from SwiftUI…
- Swift on Windows with Saleem Abdulrasool · 49 min · Episode 211Saleem Abdulrasool joins us to chat about bringing Swift to Windows. We get into server-side Swift, SwiftWin32, Swift's C++ interop, and how to get started yourself. Guest •…
- Practical Agents with Donny Wals · 51 min · Episode 210Donny Wals returns to talk through a year of agentic coding. We go through how it's changed his architecture decisions, reviewing PRs he didn't write himself, managing tasks and…
- Independence Update · 8 min · Episode 209After almost 250 episodes, Leo gives an update on what he's working on and what he's interested in. From passive timer apps, static site generation, to sub repos and RSS feeds…
- Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich · 1 h 28 min · Episode 208Software development has changed a lot. On today's episode, Joe Fabisevich talks about building with AI without falling into the trap of "work slop," why prompting is a…
- 120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz · 60 min · Episode 207Cihat Gündüz returns to break down everything from WWDC 2026. We go through Swift 6.4's quality-of-life wins, Apple turning Foundation Models into a full agentic harness, Xcode…
- Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham · 40 min · Episode 206Peter Witham joins us to talk about today's Platforms State of the Union. Is Apple Intelligence here? Is Liquid Glass here? Where's John Ternus? Guest • Peter Witham…
- Who's Wendy with Joannis Orlandos · 48 min · Episode 205Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and…
- Actually Really Useful · 16 min · Episode 204After ten months away, Leo's back. He covers Swift Craft 2026, the rest of his speaking year (Beer City Code, iOSDevUK), and his honest take on AI dev tooling. Plus updates on…
- Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas · 34 min · Episode 203Kaya Thomas (kayathomas.is) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary (milkdiary.com). She talks about using new APIs like…
- Swift Testing with Rachel Brindle · 39 min · Episode 202Rachel Brindle, maintainer of Nimble and Quick, comes on to talk about what's new in Swift Testing and what the future of Swift Testing may hold. Guest • Rachel Brindle • Rachel…
- Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai · 41 min · Episode 201Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps. Guest • Kabir Oberai • Kabir Oberai…
- Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte · 26 min · Episode 200Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025. Guest • Matt Massicotte - @[email protected] • massicotte.org…
- v26.0 with Peter Witham · 52 min · Episode 199Before Leo heads to California, Peter joins to discuss Apple's crazy year and what we expect from WWDC 2025. Guest • Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer • CompileSwift…
- Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko · 49 min · Episode 198Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko from Cultured Code talk about their migration of Things Cloud to Server Side with Swift and what they learned along the way. Guest • Things…
- SwiftUI Fundamentals with Natalia Panferova · 25 min · Episode 197Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals. Guest • Nil Coalescing • Natalia Panferova (@natpanferova) / X •…
