A book update and the weekly links

Welcome to my third weekly newsletter.

These are the curated links from this week's regular episode:

• New Formatters in iOS 15: Why do we need another formatter | Sarunw
  Sarun has a nice article on the new formatter goodness in iOS 15. Read this article to update yourself on formatters. Rest assured, it is mostly some great additions to the tools you already have available.
• How Swift runs an async executable – Ole Begemann
  Ole does a nice little deep dive into how swift actually executes all those nice new async tasks. Not something you need to look at at all, but knowing how some of the internals of async/await work will never hurt.
• Requiring min code coverage in Swift packages with GitHub actions – Augmented Code
  If you want some inspiration on how you could implement CI/CD for a Swift package, follow this link. Do check out the base articles linked from this article. It is in fact a set of articles that showcase how you could use GitHub Actions for you codebase.
• Structured Concurrency in Swift: Using async let • Andy Ibanez
  If you are still trying to wrap your head around what all this async/await stuff means… Take a look at Andy's article on the very topic of Async/Await.
• Batch Delete And Delete Everything In Core Data
  Robert has some nice advice on deleting data in Core Data. Especially pay attention to his approach to resetting an entire Core Data stack. Just rm the whole thing.

This week I also pushed out a nice update on my Lead Developer book. Do check it out. I added some content called "Minimum supported platform versions", "Process your notes each day" and "How to run a knowledge sharing session?"

Someone new will start at my project as well and I am the assigned onboarding partner of this new person. Looking forward to this. What are some of the best experiences you had when being onboarded on a new codebase? I plan on sticking mostly to what my book says and it feels great to be able to reference back to something for this topic.

• So we already got the MacBook shipped and arrived.
• Accounts should all be arranged.
• The onboarding guide was checked earlier today by me for any clear errors
• Reminded myself of the product's business goals and what this means for the project, team and individual working in our context.
• A list of links and must read resources is on our wiki. And all links work.
• I wrote down a plan of attack sort of pattern through our codebase to highlight where certain bits are. All high level, cause I'm not out to fry someone's brain.

I am also typing this newsletter on my new keyboard and it is just great. Best part were some public and private conversations I had with a few people on keyboard preferences and tastes. I personally like a keyboard which is kinda chunky. No low profile for me, it helps me keep my wrists raised from the table.

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