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Video 355 • Feb 23, 2026

It’s time to go beyond the basics with a deep exploration of isolation, noncopyable, and nonescapable types. But before we get into all the nitty gritty details we will demonstrate why understanding these topics matters, starting with a preview of isolation in Composable Architecture 2.0.

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Video 354 • Feb 9, 2026

We celebrate 8 years of Point-Free with a live stream! We take our brand new “Point-Free Way” skill documents for a spin by building a Flashcards app powered by SQLiteData, and we give a sneak peek at “Composable Architecture 2.0,” a reimagining of our popular library.

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Video 353 • Feb 2, 2026

We clean up our test suite and make use of the expectDifference helper, for precisely describing changes to state in an exhaustive fashion. We will then rapidly add test coverage using the forthcoming “Point-Free Way” skills documents. Finally, we will achieve the seemingly impossible by writing a test against iCloud sharing!

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We dissect some of the most important and interesting topics in Swift programming frequently, and deliver them straight to your inbox.

Wide variety of topics

We cover both abstract ideas and practical concepts you can start using in your code base immediately.

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Back to basics

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The Swift language has grown over the years and become more and more powerful. It now boosts a comprehensive static type system (generics, existentials…), a suite of concurrency tools (actors, dynamic isolation…), and most recently even ownership capabilities (consuming, borrowing, non-copyable types…). In “Back to basics” we will focus on just one part of the language in order to uncover the deep theory behind that feature as well as provide concrete advice for writing real-world code.

8 videos 4 hr 46 min

SwiftUI

Collection

SwiftUI is Apple’s declarative successor to UIKit and AppKit, and provides a wonderful set of tools for building applications quickly and effectively. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to explore problems around architecture and composition.

37 videos 23 hr 50 min

SQLite

Collection

SQLite is one of the most well-crafted, battle-tested, widely-deployed pieces of software in history, and it’s a great fit for apps with more complex persistence needs than user defaults or a JSON file. This collection serves as an introduction to the basics of SQLite, as well as an exploration into more advanced topics and techniques for integrating SQLite into your applications.

17 videos 11 hr 3 min
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A better way to create SwiftUI bindings

If you have ever created a binding using the get:set: initializer, you may want to reconsider. Doing so can hurt SwiftUI’s ability to animate your view. Luckily there is a better way. You can leverage @dynamicMemberLookup and subscripts to derive new bindings in a way that allows SwiftUI to propertly track where the binding came from.

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Why you can't use enums in SwiftData

SwiftData is not capable of filtering and sorting by raw representable enum properties in models. Predicates and sort descriptors will compile just fine when referencing enum properties, but it will crash at runtime.

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Why you can't use booleans in SwiftData

SwiftData is not capable of sorting by boolean properties in models. And if you try to trick SwiftData to allow it, you will encounter runtime crashes.

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Nico Passo
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Please stop releasing one amazing video after the other! I'm still at Episode 15! #pointfreemarathon #androiddevhere

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The best thing, that happened to me for a while. @mbrandonw and @stephencelis really provide a lot of new information according to #ios development and #functionalprogramming. All info could be used in real production without boring academics.

Meghan Kane
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Really love this episode - thanks @mbrandonw + @stephencelis! Understanding Swift types in terms of algebraic data types is such an elegant way of seeing the # of possible values your Swift types will represent 🤯 #Simplifyallthethings #GoodbyeComplexity

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I really love the dynamics of @pointfreeco. The dance of “this is super nice because…” “yes, BUT….”. they clearly show what’s good, what’s not so good and keep continuously improving.

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So many concepts presented at #WWDC19 reminded me of @pointfreeco video series. 👏👏 So happy I watched it before coming to San Jose.

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Mike Abidakun
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Every episode has been amazing on Pointfree, yet somehow, you've managed to make these Parser combinator episodes even better!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ferran Pujol Camins
@ferranpujolca

Through videos you constantly introduce ideas and patterns only to later reformulate them into more general ideas. This is awesome and helped me understand a lot of programming concepts. Well done!

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