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Writing backend code – like web services or anything else really – with AWS Lambda functions is amazingly easy, in […]
For the longest time, regular expressions have remained something of an enigma to me. Despite the many, many learning opportunities, across […]
Yes! There appears to be such a thing, and it was silently shipped alongside Xcode 10’s first point-release, 10.1. Contrary […]
We’ve all seen them [Apple] do it: nonchalantly defining @IBOutlets as implicitly unwrapped optionals, by appending a ! to their […]
SwiftLint was developed by the nice folks @realm. It’s a great open-source tool for establishing and enforcing a formal coding style in Swift. It runs on the command-line, but it can be hooked into Xcode directly too. It also boasts an “autocorrect” feature, which sweeps through your code and automatically fixes the most trivial violations (e.g., colon positioning, double white spaces, etc.). I created a Git commit hook which does exactly this, every time a team member makes changes.
Can’t believe we’re still dealing with this in 2017? Well, that makes two of us. While retain cycles are easy to fix, they’re also hard to spot while eyeballing a codebase. Recently, I’ve found that a single unit test can provide solace. With just a few lines of code, it runs continuously as you make changes, all the while verifying you haven’t introduced any new memory leaks.
How do you include custom fonts in your application, if they don’t reside in the main bundle? In this case, […]
How do you do Key-Value Observing in Swift? Can you? And what about just using Objective-C’s native KVO mechanism? What […]
I’m just about blue in the face complaining about it, too. So bear with me if you’ve heard all this […]
ReactiveCocoa, and functional programming frameworks in general, are sometimes frowned upon for their steep learning curve. This is an undeniable, […]