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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.

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Composable Architecture

Collection

Architecture is a tough problem and there’s no shortage of articles, videos and open source projects attempting to solve the problem once and for all. In this collection we systematically develop an architecture from first principles, with an eye on building something that is composable, modular, testable, and more.

92 videos 58 hr 30 min

Concurrency

Collection

Swift has many tools for concurrency, including threads, operation queues, dispatch queues, Combine and now first class tools built directly into the language. We start from the beginning to understand what the past tools excelled at and where they faultered in order to see why the new tools are so incredible.

12 videos 9 hr 3 min

Back to basics

Collection

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
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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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What people are saying

Meghan Kane
@meghafon

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

Mike Abidakun
@mabidakun

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

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After diving into @pointfreeco series reading Real World Haskell doesn’t seem all that intimidating after all. Major takeaway: the lesser is word “monad” is mentioned the better 😅

David Piper
@HeyDaveTheDev

Just finished the mini-series on enum properties by @pointfreeco! They pointed out what’s missing from enums in Swift and used SwiftSyntax to generate code to add the missing parts. Thanks for your work @stephencelis and @mbrandonw! #pointfree

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I bought the annual subscription and after I watched all videos and played with the sample code and libraries I can say it was the best money I spent in the last 12 months.

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