Deep Dish Swift 🍕 2026

🍕It’s almost time to signup for the most highly requested event…

The Deep Dish Swift Happy Hour hosted by @revenuecat@mastodon.social 🎉

It’s after sessions on Monday, April 13 from 6pm-9pm

The invite link will be going out via email and Discord tomorrow so… GET YOUR TICKET BEFORE THEN 🎟️

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome Jon Shier 🎉

25 years on Apple platforms, Alamofire maintainer for over a decade, and board member of the Alamofire Foundation 🔥

Mistakes I Made In Alamofire 5 🍕

🚨 Super Cool Ticket Alert

If you haven't gotten a 2026 ticket yet, go check out the Appfigures newsletter 👀

Theres a special link in there that'll get you a free private ASO teardown by Ariel Michaeli 📈

Only 5 available (for now)

🎟️ Go sub to https://appfigures.com/newsletter now

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @atow@mastodon.social 🎉

Three decades of building on Apple platforms and now a full-time indie shipping MixEffect, ActionPhrase, and more 🛠️

Playing the Long Game 🍕

Have you seen... er... heard this yet?!

"Slices: The Deep Dish Swift Podcast" is back 🎉

Listen to some episodes and get to know the speakers before the event!

And huuggeee thanks to @malinsundberg and @kaidombrowski@mastodon.social for the hours/days they put into these 🫶

https://deepdishswift.com/slices/

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome Ben Rosen 🎉

Ben will show how SongShift went from cooking everything on-device to running a fully serverless Swift backend in the cloud ☁️

From Food Truck to Deep-Dish Kitchen 🍕

Extra Saucy Swift Audio APIs is coming to Deep Dish Swift 2026!

Carlos Mbendera — former Apple engineer, WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winner, and indie dev — is bringing a practical tour of the latest audio and speech ML APIs on Apple platforms.

Transcription, diarization, on-device models... this one's going to be good.

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @peterfriese@iosdev.space 🎉

Peter will take us on a deep dive into AsyncStream and how async APIs have evolved — from callback delegates to closures to modern Swift concurrency 🔄

Don't call us - we'll call you 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @ProjectEmbers@mastodon.social 🎉

Raj will explore why the most meaningful projects are sometimes the ones that never get published — and how hobbies make us better developers ✈️

Slices of Life: How Hobbies Make Us Better Developers 🍕

📣 Speaker Announcement

We're thrilled to welcome @ioloro@mastodon.social 🎉

John Marc will share how to validate your indie app idea before writing production code — taste the sauce before you serve the pizza 🧑‍🍳

Before the Code: Testing & Building a Business 🍕