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👋 In Case You Missed It (Community Edition) 🙆‍♂️ This week, I didn't have the chance to focus on the upcoming series I have been preparing, but I still wanted to share a few articles and updates that caught my attention.

iOS Coffee Break, issue #60 is live! 💪

Have a great week ahead 🤎

⭐ Special thanks to @screenshotbot.bsky.social for sponsoring this issue!

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Microsoft Teams integration We're super excited to support to Microsoft Teams

Screenshotbot now support Microsoft Teams! screenshotbot.io/blog/microso...

SwiftUI #Previews and Prefire: Easy Snapshot Tests! If you are an iOS engineer, you probably are already using SwiftUI Preview's for development, why not use them as snapshot tests for free?

Did you know your SwiftUI Previews are essentially snapshot tests? But you're not taking full advantage of it!

In this blog post we use an open-source library called Prefire to convert all your Previews to snapshot tests: screenshotbot.io/blog/swiftui...

Can Git LFS scale for snapshot tests?

We answer this question in our latest blog post: screenshotbot.io/blog/can-git...

We also show you how you can build an optimized flow using Amazon S3.

GitHub - screenshotbot/pixel-diff: PixelDiff is a desktop and command line tool to visualize differences between images, designed for use with screenshot tests. PixelDiff is a desktop and command line tool to visualize differences between images, designed for use with screenshot tests. - screenshotbot/pixel-diff

PixelDiff is now open-source: github.com/screenshotbo...

The absolute best tool for image-diffing

Link your Figma designs in Screenshotbot Screenshotbot now lets you attach Figma designs directly to your screenshots! No more alt-tabbing between tools to figure out if your button is supposed to be 12px or 16px from the edge. The Proble…

We now have a way to link your Figma designs to your screenshot tests in Screenshotbot! Anybody updating your screens (either directly or via shared components) will now have the original context from your designer without any extra work.

blog.screenshotbot.io/2025/06/24/l...

Super excited to be featured in The Dispatch! Thanks @vinaygaba.bsky.social for the wonderful conversations!

If you've been putting off getting started with snapshot tests, this might be the time to get your team on board. Talk to us about how to make the adoption easier, we can get you set up by the end of the week.

When Apple makes a big design system change, how do you test your UI?

The answer is snapshot tests! This seems to be even more important with liquid glass because you now have more variants to verify your app against (backgrounds can affect how your components look!).

That's the one slide everyone doing snapshot tests should see! Thanks @swiftcraft.bsky.social!

Scaling up your Snapshot tests, without the friction Scaling up your Snapshot tests, without the friction - Download as a PDF or view online for free

I talked about how to scale up your snapshot testing at @swiftcraft.bsky.social last week, and had a super fun time.

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/sc...

Building a highly-available web service without a database If you’ve ever built a web service or a web app, you know the drill: pick a database, pick a web service framework (and in today’s day and age, pick a front-end framework, but let&#8217…

Ever wondered how Git works under the hood when you do a `git pull`?

We use this same protocol to get the Git graph in shallow repositories:

blog.screenshotbot.io/2025/05/09/u...

Launched the first snapshot testing initiative at Sky nearly 7 years ago… | 👨‍💻 James Sherlock Launched the first snapshot testing initiative at Sky nearly 7 years ago, ScreenshotBot has been one of the biggest improvements to QoL as both engineers but also designers, product leads and managers...

"Screenshotbot has been one of the biggest improvements to QoL as both engineers but also designers, product leads and managers."

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Plot of the CCDF of function lengths showing a clear power law distribution

How Long Should Functions Be?
Hint: The Answer's a Distribution, Not a Number

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/how-long-s...

I'd love to be contradicted with data.

We are super grateful to @screenshotbot.bsky.social for sponsoring SwiftLeeds again this year as a Start-Up Sponsor 🪐

Attendees loved speaking with these last year discussing all things UI Testing ⚡️

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Comparing screenshots between releases and more Screenshotbot is designed over the developer experience, each of the decisions we make are focused on developers. However, today we’re adding an important feature that will make it much more …

We've made it easy to use your screenshots tests to compare screenshots between releases. This increases the impact of your screenshot tests, by also using it as a critical part of your release process.

blog.screenshotbot.io/2025/02/17/c...

iOS CI Newsletter - Issue #59 Issue 59 of the iOS CI Newsletter, a fortnightly publication containing the latest iOS CI/CD news from the community.

📬 Issue #59 of the iOS CI Newsletter went out to 2,075 subscribers featuring content from Alex Guretzki, Adyen, @nowham.dev, Paul Toffoloni and David Smith.

🌟 This issue was kindly sponsored by @screenshotbot.bsky.social 📸

Sorting screenshot changes for easier reviews Occasionally, you have to update Xcode in your project, or perhaps you need to upgrade a low level library, or your snapshot testing library. Usually these updates result in many minor snapshot cha…

We've just made it easier to review snapshot tests when you're doing an Xcode upgrade, or a low level library upgrade that might affect rendering across thousands of snapshots.

blog.screenshotbot.io/2024/12/12/s...