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SE Radio 669: Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces

Published 2025-05-21 669 tui mcgugan

Will McGugan , the CEO and founder of Textualize, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about how to use packages such as Rich and Textual to build text-based …

Wesley Beary on API Design

Published 2025-07-30 beary wesley abstractions

Wesley Beary of Anchor speaks with host Sam Taggart about designing APIs with a particular emphasis on user experience. Wesley discusses what it means to be an …

167: Desktop User Interfaces

Published 2023-10-24 godot unity interfaces

Patrick and Jason survey the landscape of desktop user-interface development and compare common toolkit choices. They cover Qt, wxWidgets, Electron, notebooks, …

Using the MainActor attribute to automatically dispatch UI updates on the main queue

Published 2021-06-14 mainactor queue concurrency

How the MainActor attribute eliminates the need for us to manually dispatch UI updates on the main queue when using Swift 5.5’s new concurrency system.

Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve?

Published 2021-11-25 userstorage await private

Let’s explore Swift’s version of actors, and what kind of problems that we could solve by defining custom actor types within our code bases.

What role do Tasks play within Swift’s concurrency system?

Published 2021-12-03 loadingtask viewwillappear within

How Swift’s new Task type works, and how it enables us to encapsulate, observe, and control the way that our asynchronous code is executed.

Combining opaque return types with primary associated types

Published 2022-11-13 withid types type

How Swift’s opaque return types can be combined with primary associated types in order to create powerful abstractions without the need for any type erasure.

Tips and tricks for when using SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder

Published 2025-05-31 viewbuilder swiftui header

Let’s explore how we can use SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder within our own code, and a few things that can be good to keep in mind when doing so.

Decoding Swift types that require additional data

Published 2025-07-01 favorites decoding configuration

How Swift’s CodableWithConfiguration API can be used to inject additional, required data into a type’s decoding process, without having to use optionals or decl…

Deciding between ‘let’ and ‘var’ for Swift struct properties

Published 2025-07-24 imageurl struct properties

Does marking a given Swift struct property as either ‘let’ or ‘var’ simply determine its mutability, or is there more to it? Let’s explore!