Software Engineer | iOS | macOS | Swift | SwiftUI | Previously SwiftUI at Apple | Author of books for Swift developers: https://books.nilcoalescing.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mkozsc2dvs2eThe April issue of the Nil Coalescing newsletter has been sent out and is now available online 📬 I shared links to talks from try! Swift Tokyo, the reception of 'The SwiftUI Way' book, and new content this month: https://nilcoalescing.com/newsletter/2026-04-29 #iOSDev #SwiftLang #SwiftUI https://nilcoalescing.com/newsletter/2026-04-29/30 Apr 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkozsc2dvs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mkmrlksttk2gJust noticed that my talk from try! Swift Tokyo got featured in Tech Talks Weekly 🙌 https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-101-i-hate-ai-software-dev29 Apr 2026 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmrlksttk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mkjzwvrch22yThe onChange() modifier in SwiftUI has gone through some API changes since it was introduced. I wrote an overview of the modern variants, including how to access old and new values, and trigger the action on initial appearance: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/OverviewOfonChangeInSwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftUI https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/OverviewOfonChangeInSwiftUI/28 Apr 2026 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjzwvrch22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mkextupwu22qList in #SwiftUI is only lazy when it can determine how many views a ForEach element resolves to without evaluating the closure. Using an `if` statement inside ForEach, or wrapping rows in AnyView makes SwiftUI evaluate the ForEach closure for every element before any rows are displayed.26 Apr 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkextupwu22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mjygtdfsts2kIt's my birthday 🎊 To celebrate and to continue the tradition I'm doing a special book sale just for today! You can get any of my Swift and SwiftUI books and bundles with a 20% discount using the coupon code BD2026 applied at checkout: books.nilcoalescing.com #iOSDev #SwiftUI #SwiftLang https://books.nilcoalescing.com/21 Apr 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjygtdfsts2khttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mjwb4od3fk25Got home from Japan and try! Swift Tokyo, the trip was amazing! It was so good to meet the local iOS community and explore Tokyo a bit. Thank you so much for having me @tryswift.jp ☺️ #tryswift20 Apr 2026 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwb4od3fk25https://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mjp3smszdc26The recording of my talk from try! Swift Tokyo is already available on YouTube! I shared my perspective on what drives change in SwiftUI, how new APIs come to life, and why we should try to keep up with the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-bn9iC5gw #tryswift #iosdev #swiftui17 Apr 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp3smszdc26https://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mjl7ljxooc2cGot the nicest feedback about my SwiftUI books, it made me really happy 🥰 "... the explanations of view identity and data flow made sense in a way that just hadn’t gotten through to me no matter how many other tutorials or bits of Apple documentation I read."16 Apr 2026 01:02 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl7ljxooc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/natpanferova.bsky.social/post/3mjhjxok4bc2dToday was the last day of the try! Swift Tokyo conference and also the day of my talk. I think it went well 😌 Thank you so much to everyone involved @tryswift.jp for such an amazing experience! #tryswift14 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:ne3b5f4o4vpkgxsv7fgbcaqg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhjxok4bc2d