Mikaela is joined by the most English-sounding Irishman you've ever heard for an intensive therapy session. We're talking paper cuts in Swift, those tiny annoyances that, sure, don't stop you in your tracks, but wouldn't it be nice if instead of having to cover ourselves in the coding equivalent of a hundred Band-Aids, Apple just… fixed? Please? Empathise, sympathise, and have a nice little scream into the void with us.

Plus there's a roundup of conferences (running one? let us know!) and other Swift news, and we reveal Mikaela's One Weird Trick to actually shipping an app.

Essential links from the episode:

• Fruitful: https://getfruitful.app
• Black Friday deals I: https://github.com/mRs-/Black-Friday-Deals
• Black Friday deals II: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/black-friday-2024/
• Black Friday deals III: https://indieappsales.com
• Improving the approachability of data-race safety: https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-improving-the-approachability-of-data-race-safety/76183
• James Dempsey’s Swift Virtuoso course: https://swift-virtuoso.com/
• iOS Conf SG: https://www.iosconf.sg
• FOSDEM25: https://swiftlang.github.io/event-fosdem/
• Mazie Conference: https://maize.dk/
• Let’s visionOS: https://letsvisionos.swiftgg.team/page/
• ARCtic Conference: https://arcticonference.com
• WebKit for SwiftUI: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/36760
• TelemetryDeck: https://dashboard.telemetrydeck.com/registration/organization?referralCode=MYYXAFU3ZWQHM2CJ (Mikaela’s affiliate link, to get 100k extra signals of the free plan)
• Write Great Accessibility Labels WWDC 19: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/254
• WebKit: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/36760