Here we are at the end of another year of iOS Dev Weekly. As always, I remain tremendously grateful that you all continue to read it, and I’ll do my best to keep things that way in 2025!

As is the tradition around here, this last issue of the year is a “Best of And Finally…”. My method for picking the links you’ll find below remains completely unscientific. I open every issue of the newsletter over the past year and see which And Finally… links either still make me smile or catch my interest.

So here they are, in chronological order. I hope they bring a smile to you as we wrap up this year. I’ll be back on January 3rd with a regular issue.

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From Issue 644:

“… such that an unscrupulous person could technically modify them.”

From Issue 666:

WatchPad 941 ⌚

From Issue 668:

Tell me you’re a Swift developer without telling me you’re a Swift developer. 😂

From Issue 671:

“They paid me sixty dollars, so I wore a tie”

From Issue 676:

What’s that in your expansion slot? Is it a Macintosh Plus? 🤷‍♂️

From Issue 679:

I didn’t link to this when I first saw it as it was hitting a download limit, but the mad rush of traffic should be over now, and these should not be lost to time. 📖

From Issue 681:

Sosumi or Sonumi? 🎶

From Issue 682:

“A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I'd been hacked. What was that doing in my database?”

From Issue 683:

I was left with a series of “What if’s” ❤️

From Issue 688:

iPhone for sale. One previous, careful owner. Some light cosmetic damage. 😂

Seriously, though, I love the look of this. ❤️

Thanks for reading, everyone. See you next year!