Ale Lanza (he/him/his)
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Ale Lanza (he/him/his)
@alejandrolanza.bsky.social
Learning swift with a focus on VisionOS
@alejandrolanza@mas.to
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What's new in SwiftUI for iOS 26? I'm glad you asked! www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/278...
What's new in SwiftUI for iOS 26
WebView, rich text editing for TextEditor, section index list titles, and more
www.hackingwithswift.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.
June 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
xcode 26 VisionOS canvas camera now auto resets (ie takes a step back) after each code change. This makes careful moving of components very difficult. Anyone knows how to disable the behavior? #wwdc25 #xcode26 #visionos
June 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Step Into Newsletter - May 30, 2025

Happy Friday! Here is your weekly recap from Step Into Vision. I hope to see you at Office Hours later today.

#visionOS #RealityKit #SwiftUI

stepinto.vision/articles/ste...
Step Into Newsletter – May 30, 2025
Starting the Spatial Interfaces series, a WWDC Wishlist, and an upcoming community event.
stepinto.vision
May 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Apple has released FastVLM, an efficient Vision Language Model (VLM) designed for rapid high-resolution image processing. It can run directly on iPhones using MLX. This is highly beneficial for apps requiring real-time performance on the device.
May 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Documenting your code becomes more important in the era of modularized apps. Whenever different parts of your app live in multiple Swift Packages, it becomes crucial to provide proper documentation. Apple provides us with the documentation compiler called DocC.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/04/01/d...
May 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Hey everyone, would you do me a favor?

Can you help me spread the word about Step Into Vision? A few hundred visionOS developers find it super useful but I haven't broken out into the rest of the Apple Dev world.

Can you help put a spotlight on this project?
You know how I love to celebrate milestones. Today is a big one. I just published my 200th post on Step Into Vision 🎉

My goal is to create the best resource for #visionOS developers. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm well on my way!

stepinto.vision
April 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Having fun with VisionOS hinges and anchors. I learned that anchored entities will not interact in the physics simulation, so a second object needs to be following the anchor on my finger tip, which then can be used to push things around #visionos #swiftui
May 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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What's new in Swift 6.1? Trailing commas in lists, metatype key paths, Swift Testing scopes, and more! Apologies for being late to write this up, but as usual I've given it the full treatment, including an interactive Xcode Playground: www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/276...
What's new in Swift 6.1?
Trailing commas in lists, metatype key paths, diagnostic groups, and more.
www.hackingwithswift.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Hi everyone! 👋🏻

Our client had cutbacks and I was one of the casualties. So, I'm back on the job market, looking for a remote iOS developer position.

Let me know if you or someone you know might have something. 😊

#iOSDev #SwiftUI #iOSDevJobs #iOSJobs #AppleDev
April 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Tired of bloated SwiftUI views? 🔥
Learn to craft killer custom ViewModifiers that clean up your code & level up your UI game.
You’ll walk away with 3 you’ll want to use right away. 💥
🎥 youtu.be/XU7wdjPCXLw
#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang
Crafting Effective SwiftUI ViewModifiers
YouTube video by Stewart Lynch
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Collisions & Physics: Generating Collision Shapes

RealityKit provides a few methods to generate complex collision shapes, with one notable omission.

#visionOS #RealityKit #SpatialComputing

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March 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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A couple of #lino prints of walking in winter. #art #printmaking #blackandwhite
February 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Revisit Lab 012

I combined some gestures, a hand anchor, and an entity with an occlusion material. This lab don't aim to teach anything, It was just fun to build and play with.
stepinto.vision/labs/lab-012...
January 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Just finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. What more could you want out of a novel than this
December 12, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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We're meeting this evening to discuss #VisionPro development.
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Anthem backtracks on the anesthesiology cap

www.wfsb.com/2024/12/05/a...
Anthem backtracks on anesthesiology cap policy in CT
An unpopular move to cap anesthesiology coverage by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield drew criticism from patients and state officials.
www.wfsb.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Fantastic resource if you’re working on visionOS
I just published the Step Into Newsletter for November 24, 2024 🚀

Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!

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Step Into Newsletter – November 24, 2024
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision
November 25, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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The one is fun:
Playing with scene phase and a hand-anchored attachment to show a means to reopen a main window while in an immersive space!

stepinto.vision/example-code...
November 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM