Ash Furrow will assess the current health of the iOS developer community and prescribe any necessary remedies. Come hear him discuss a variety of topics, from continuous integration to community management. Eat your vegetables!

1. Dependency Mana
Unit Testing☑︎
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Accessibility
Continuous Integr

3. Let’s talk about where we were,
where we are now, and where we’re going

4. Really Important Things
Empathy is essential
Be mindful
Let’s do Community-Driven Development

5. Empathy

6. Empathy for yourself

7. Past → Present → Future

8. Past → Present → Future
🙄

9. Past → Present → Future
→🙄 😇

10. Past → Present → Future
🤓→ →🙄 😇

11. Empathy for others

12. Everyone has similar fears
and similar doubts

13. We have science'd empathy,
and the results are awesome

14. –Me, about depression, 2013
“I wish that I had something more substantial to add to the
dialogue than ‘me too’, but sometimes it’s worth knowing that
you’re not alone, and that it can get better.”

15. Communication

16. –Harold Abelson, SICP
“Programs must be written for people to read,
and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

17. Good Programmer → Good Communicator

18. Good Programmer → Good Communicator
Good Communicator → Good Programmer

19. So, communication is important

20. Text-based communication is
really bad at conveying empathy

21. Move to hangouts early and often

22. Empathy for ourselves
→ Empathy for others
→ Better communication
→ Better programming skills

23. Mindfulness

25. Look for better ways to solve
familiar problems

27. Examples
• Dependency managers
• Fastlane
• Jazzy
• Swiftlint
• Swiftcheck
• chswift
• CocoaDocs
• nsdateformatter.com
• Quick & Nimble
• Inclusive Toolkit
• FBSnapshotTestCase
• swift-compiler-crashes

28. Mindful communication

29. Think ahead

30. Listen
Affirm
Respond
Add

31. Automation

35. Look for opportunities
to automate

36. I wrote unit tests
→ I want tests to run on pull requests
→ I set up Continuous Integration
→ I can use CI to automate code coverage analysis
→ I can use CI to automate deploys with Fastlane
→ I can use CI to automate common PR responses

37. Danger

39. Automate team invitations

40. Community-Driven
Development

41. Sharing an idea is the easiest
way to validate it

43. Sharing an idea is the easiest
way to improve it

45. iOS has become more
community-focused

46. iOS circa 2013
…

47. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident
…

48. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incidentiOS today
…

49. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incidentiOS today
…
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Good middle ground

50. “If you’re the smartest person in the room,
find a new room.”

51. This is really easy in open source

52. This is really easy in open source
… because we’re all in several
rooms at once

53. Open Source by Default

54. Really Important Things
Empathy is essential
Be mindful
Let’s do Community-Driven Development

55. –Buckminster Fuller, 1969
“So, planners, architects, and engineers take the initiative. Go to
work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one
another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in
such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.”