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I loved this tweet from Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane this week. Yes, she wrote it to be amusing, but it’s also true.

Apple’s documentation gets a lot of criticism. Some deserved, but the “Apple’s documentation is bad” meme is harmful, especially for people starting with Swift.

Most community blog posts come from experience or experimentation. Apple documentation is from the source and verified before being published. There’s no question of what should be your primary resource! Yes, it’s not perfect or as complete as you might want/expect it to be. But, if you only gathered opinions on it from Twitter (which is a terrible idea), you could easily come away thinking it was worthless.

So, why is this newsletter filled with links to community blog posts rather than Apple documentation, then? Partly because this is a community newsletter and partly because it focuses mainly on new content. I have ways and means to keep up with what the community is publishing, but nothing like that exists for the official documentation. I wish it did!

It’s also because this newsletter isn’t about teaching anything specific. It’s just what catches my eye each week. Some of that will be educational, of course, but it mainly exists to tempt you into reading about something you might find interesting rather than solving your problems.

Also, let’s not even get started with this reply from Kathy Tafel to Rebecca’s tweet. There’s so much wisdom in these two tweets! 🚀

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And finally...

Be thankful for code completion when working with the Contacts framework! 😂