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I'll add a few of my favourites:

- iOS Dev Weekly (https://iosdevweekly.com/)

- Little Bites of Cocoa (https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/)

- objc (https://www.objc.io/)

- NSHipster (http://nshipster.com/)

- NSBlog / Friday Q&A from Mike Ash (https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/)

- This Week in Swift (https://swiftnews.curated.co/)

- Erica Sadun (http://ericasadun.com/)

- Quality Coding (http://qualitycoding.org/)

- Use Your Loaf (http://useyourloaf.com/)

- Swift Monthly (http://swiftmonthly.com/)

- Cocoa, Objective-C and Swift programming News aggregator (https://twitter.com/cocoadevblogs)

objc.io and nshipster were my two favorite iOS dev blogs. It's a bummer there haven't been new posts for a while. They still have years worth of really high quality content though

Edit: Another blog worth following is the Swift Blog (https://swift.org/blog/) and the old Swift Blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/) by Apple/Swift engineers

The author of NSHipster works for Apple now and typically, Apple employees don't blog about work - possibly a policy?

I was surprised to see the mention of Rollout which I hadn't heard of which claims to allow you to push hot fixes to native iOS apps. Although I've been out of the iOS game for a while, I recalled this being against Apple's ToS. Apparently this is is still true to some degree, but they have an interesting blog post about how they can work around these restrictions.

https://blog.rollout.io/2016/01/updating-apps-without-app-st...

TLDR; it's because they're not pushing new features but rather bug fixing through the proper channels (Webkit framework or JavascriptCore).

The interesting bit being that they can patch native methods using JS. You have to write a specific patch in JS though and still fix the original native code before pushing out the next version.

More Favorites:

- iOS Cookies (http://www.ioscookies.com/)

- iOS Goodies (http://ios-goodies.com/)

- NSHipster (http://nshipster.com/)

- Cocoa With Love (http://www.cocoawithlove.com/)

Cool, the cocoawithlove blog is active again

On a slightly related note, my list of favourite non-development blogs which I follow as an iOS developer:

- Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net/)

- The Loop (http://www.loopinsight.com/)

- Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com/)

- Marco Arment (https://marco.org/)

- Mac Rumors (http://www.macrumors.com/)

Marco did an interview with Computerphile today: http://youtu.be/yVRtJbXQsL8

I'm collecting everything that might help a Swift developer.

I try to tag urls to keep them organized. If you want to learn about Core Image or SpriteKit, for example:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=CoreIma...

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=SpriteKit&age=100...

I also provide a weekly view that ends on Saturdays:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?week=0

All the raw data is on Github: https://github.com/melling/SwiftResources

If you work in in any sort of time-sheets based model: WakaTime (https://wakatime.com/) is indispensable.

I'm biased, but I also like http://www.cocoacontrols.com :)

Shameless plug.. I think our app hyperPad fits the list https://www.hyperpad.com

Great for mobile games and other interactive apps. Also awesome for prototyping UI and animations. :)

Looks useful, reminds me of Swift Toolbox and Cocoa Controls.

I would add two resources to the blogs list: NatashaTheRobot and Dave Verwer's NewsLetters. Both are excellent newsletters for iOS devs.

Wow, really extensive site (I sent you a suggestion btw).

Something you could improve: Screenshots (where applicable). The lists have that "wall of text" feeling without any graphics.

Another worth checking out, esp if you're a coder who wants to learn design>

* http://designcode.io/

Shameless plug for the weekly Swift newsletter I put together: http://www.swiftnews.co

Which SDKs are being used by what mobile apps. So devs can get a sense of what SDKs to use and also what SDKs major apps use.

- AppSight.co (http://www.appsight.co/)

BTW, what is the best Git GUI on Mac? I don't care about price. I have always used the command line, but many operations would be faster with a mouse.

Came across gitup today, looks interesting

http://gitup.co/

I personally like Github Desktop for basic operations, it supports any GIT repo, not just GitHub. https://desktop.github.com

Tower is excellent.

SourceTree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) is pretty good and free.

In case you don't mind going for a paid alternative, Git Tower is good too (https://www.git-tower.com/). Comes with 30 days trial.

You may also like to check out a list of GUI clients here:

https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

If you just want a very simple and opensource one, I use GitX: https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/

Tower (https://www.git-tower.com/)

I like SourceTree.

My favorite tool, really simple one:

http://gitboxapp.com

GitKraken looks pretty. I haven't used it enough to provide a full on recommendation yet though.

https://www.gitkraken.com/

GitX is my favorite, despite being quite buggy, because the others I've seen are all way too complicated.

I really just want visual log and visual add -p and GitX nails that.

not mac specific, but magit[1] is just extremely useful and fast/easy to use. Some times even if I'm not using emacs to code, I just open it to commit/work on git.

[1]: https://magit.vc/

vim/vimdiff -- just trolling, but it's what I use :)

Everyone else I work with uses: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com

I've tried most of them and I keep coming back to SmartGit (http://syntevo.com).

A few things on that list which seem useful, but there are a lot more services on that list than actual tools.

great

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