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In this episode, I've included a bunch of articles about PDFs and other files, and you might be wondering what's the reason for this.

If you've been following along my livestream series Building a Second Brain app, you might recall that I mentioned at various points throughout the series that I am planning to support adding all kinds of knowledge to our second brain app. And that obviously includes PDF files.

So now that Genkit has officially launched and is ready for production, I started looking more deeply into how to work with PDF files and how to interact with them. The result is a bunch of little demos that show how easy it is to parse PDF files using LLMs, and how little code it takes to extract structured data or how to implement text-based text adventures based on the contents of a PDF. I had a lot of fun building these, I hope you enjoy watching the videos I created and the posts and blogs I wrote about this.

In other news, I've updated the list of Swift conferences, as some conferences just recently announced their dates. I also got confirmation from two conferences that I will be speaking at, and I hope to see many of you at iOSKonf25 and SwiftHeroes 2025!

Peter  

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iOS Conferences 2025 - Update

A bunch of conferences already took place, and a few others have published the dates they will take place on.

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If you run a conference that's not on this list, but should be - reply to this email to let me know!

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