Leo Dion
Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids
Appears in 211 Episodes
Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge
Jared 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 fro...
Swift on Windows with Saleem Abdulrasool
Saleem 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. G...
Practical Agents with Donny Wals
Donny 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...
Independence Update
After 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 R...
Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich
Software 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 ...
120% Likely with Cihat Gündüz
Cihat 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 harne...
Platforms State of the Union 2026 with Peter Witham
Peter 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
Joannis 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...
Actually Really Useful
After 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 up...
Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas
Kaya 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 A...
Swift Testing with Rachel Brindle
Rachel 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 BrindleR...
Deconstructing Xcode with xTool with Kabir Oberai
Kabir 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 (@kabirob...
Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte
Live from CommunityKit, Leo is joined by Matt Massicotte to discuss everything announced today at WWDC 2025. Guest Matt Massicotte - @mattiem@mastodon.socialmassicotte...
v26.0 with Peter Witham
Before 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 Compil...
Full Stack Things with Werner Jainek and Vojtěch Rylko
Werner 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 Thin...
SwiftUI Fundamentals with Natalia Panferova
Natalia Panferova former Apple engineer of Nil Coalescing comes on to talk her new book SwiftUI Fundamentals. Guest Nil CoalescingNatalia Panferova (@natpanferova) / X...
Swift on Android with Marc Prud'hommeaux
Marc Prud'hommeaux explains how you can get started building Android apps in Swift, what's the future of the Swift on Android working group, and what's FOSDEM. Guest M...
Moving Forward 2025
What a wild ride 2024 was - from big life changes to surprising shifts in Apple development, I'm sharing the story of what went down this year. After navigating job hu...
Fear of the Main Thread with Matt Masicotte
Matt Masicotte comes on the show to clear up all our misconceptions about concurrency in Swift 6. 😑 Guest Matt Massicotte - @mattiem@mastodon.socialmassicotte.org | I ...
Practical Year - Part 2 with Donny Wals
Part 2 of our chat with Donny - we discuss the job market, AI, Vision Pro, and of course Swift UI. Guest Donny WalsDonny Wals 👾 (@donnywals.bsky.social) — Bluesky Donn...
