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Dan worked as a freelance sign language interpreter for nearly two decades. He has always had an affinity for visual learning and languages in particular. And in high school, he remembers observing that sign language itself was a visual language.

Once in college, he finally took a sign language class and discovered how incredible it is to express something in three dimensions. He soon began his freelancing business and quickly turned that into a full-time thing!

In 2008, he bought his first Apple computer and began building small Python scripts to automate some of his freelancing processes. That sort of tinkering piqued his interest and he began to start playing with other learning platforms as he and his kids began learning coding concepts together. Eventually, he enrolled in the Lambda School on the iOS track and has since joined Nordstrom as a mobile application engineer!

Today we tackle what it’s like to join tech as someone older than the industry average and Dan gives the advice to just own it and to not let it define you. Dan speaks to the power of community and the importance of giving back to the communities you care about - as you never know how they might impact your future and your life. This episode is packed with great advice for those curious to break into tech. It is not one to miss!

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What’s in a Swift runtime?

• Swift on Mac OS 9
• Heap Objects
• Type Layout
• Type Metadata
• Uniquing Caches
• Class Metadata
• Class Metadata Initialization

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• Layout guarantees
• Steve Troughton-Smith’s BitPaint
• @ksherlock’s mpw
• An explainer on Swift weak references

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• 5.3 release process
• Swift for Linux distros
• AWS lambda Runtime
• Swift Service Lifecycle
• Swift Cluster membership
• Proposals accepted/implemented in 5.3
• Commit history for Swift 5.3 branch
• Mike Ash's perf PR
• Hacking with Swift What’s New in Swift 5.3

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• Swift Package Index
  • Intro
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  • Dave
  • Sven
  • CocoaPods website
• Swift Package Registry
  • Swift Package Registry Service Pitch
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  • Mattt Thompson

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SE-0282 Tuples conform to Equatable, Comparable, and Hashable

• Acceptance: https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0283-tuples-conform-to-equatable-comparable-and-hashable/36658
• Review: https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0283-tuples-conform-to-equatable-comparable-and-hashable/36140
• Proposal: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0283-tuples-are-equatable-comparable-hashable.md

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• Foundation on Windows: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-soars-ever-higher/34036
• Interoperability between Swift and C++: https://forums.swift.org/t/manifesto-interoperability-between-swift-and-c/33874
• Swift playgrounds for mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playgrounds/id1496833156?mt=12
• Swift crypto: https://swift.org/blog/crypto/
• Standard Library Preview Package: https://swift.org/blog/preview-package/
• Update on SE-0110 and SE-0155: https://forums.swift.org/t/update-on-se-0110-and-se-0155/33948

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• Magic file names: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0274-magic-file.md
• Multi-pattern catch clauses
  • https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0276-multi-pattern-catch-clauses.md
  • https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0276-multi-pattern-catch-clauses/32620
• Road to Swift 6: https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862

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• Forum post
• Functional Swift conference talk
• Coroutine explanation by John McCall

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The way Swift reports compilation diagnostics like errors, warnings and fixits is about to improve in Swift 5.2.

• Blog post
• Forum discussion

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Would you like some Swift in your Swift? The compiler driver is getting a shiny new implementation in Swift and there's no shortage of opportunities to contribute.

• Forum discussion
• Project on GitHub

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The Swift of tomorrow... today! The Standard Library Preview Package would allow you to try out upcoming Swift features before they officially ship with new language versions.

• Proposal: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0264-stdlib-preview-package.md
• Forum: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-standard-library-preview-package/27202
• Babeljs: https://babeljs.io
• SE-0220: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0220-count-where.md
• How to Read the Swift Standard Library Source: https://oleb.net/blog/2016/10/swift-stdlib-source/

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• Burritos: https://github.com/guillermomuntaner/Burritos
• SE-0260 Library Evolution: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0260-library-evolution.md
• SE-0030 Property Behaviors: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0030-property-behavior-decls.md
• SE-0258 Property Wrappers: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0258-property-wrappers.md
• Function Builders: https://forums.swift.org/t/function-builders/25167
• SE-0244 Opaque Result Types: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0244-opaque-result-types.md
• SE-0255 Implicit returns from single-expression functions: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0255-omit-return.md
• SwiftUI: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/swiftui/

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• Forum pitch: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-support-for-binary-dependencies/27620
• Swift ABI Stability: https://swift.org/blog/abi-stability-and-more/
• Library Evolution for Stable ABIs: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0260-library-evolution.md

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• Proposal SE-0246
• Exploring Swift's Numeric Types and Protocols
• Proposal SE-0259
• Proposal SE-0233

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• Proposal SE-0258
• Review threads:
  • First review
  • Second review
  • Third review
• Blog post by Vincent Padreilles on using property wrappers
• Blog post by John Sundell on The Swift 5.1 features that power SwiftUI’s API
• Originally pitched in the Swift forums as "Property Behaviors" in 2015-2016
• NSHipster article

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