Swift on akos.ma

Bestseller Talk

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day.

Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.

Objective-C and Cocoa in 2025

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Back in 2015 I gave a talk titled “Cocoa is the new Carbon: the Future of Apple’s Beloved Framework”, whose presentation has a slide that said “Cocoa should remain for backwards compatibility during 10 years at least, until 2025”.

Memories of WWDC 2008

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Exactly 15 years ago, on Monday, June 9th, 2008, I published a blog post with a picture taken in the big room of the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, waiting for Steve Jobs to introduce the iPhone 3G to the world at the annual Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference 2008.

Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every Year

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

Killer Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

Fortune Apps

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

As part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.

Polyglot Conway

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

Removing Singletons

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Problem: your code has a big badass manager class with a singleton interface, and you would like to have more flexible, testable code.

The Next Big Thing

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Looking backwards, the migration from Objective-C to Swift as main programming language for the Apple galaxy was quite an event.