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New in Swift 5.4: It’s now possible to create a local variable that’s assigned to an expression that has the same name, without having to manually disambiguate with self. For example, the following ItemListViewController has a method that lets us retrieve an Item for a given IndexPath, which we’ve chosen to simply call item(at:): class […]
“For the curious mind, there is more free content available on the internet than ever, and yet as internet users, we run into paywalls more often than ever before. So we built the FreeInternetPlugin.com to give people the option to choose what type of content is allowed and not allowed in their search results.” Source […]
In Stockton, there are competing narratives: the 209 Times camp believes the city establishment and its institutions have failed the people. The other side insists they are battling a dangerous source of misinformation that makes it harder for them to serve their city. In the final installment of “The Chaos Machine” series, co-host Yowei Shaw […]
Today I’m launching a huge update to my suite of Swift static site generation tools — specifically a brand new version of Plot, the library that’s used to generate all of this website’s HTML, which adds a new API for building HTML components in a very SwiftUI-like way. This new version has been in the […]
The PIT Show: Reflections and Interviews in the Tech World | Developing Microskills with Tiny Experiments with Sam Julien 40 ? 30 : 10)” @keyup.document.left=”seekBySeconds(-10)” @keyup.document.m=”toggleMute” @keyup.document.s=”toggleSpeed” @play=”play(false, true)” @loadedmetadata=”handleLoadedMetadata” @pause=”pause(true)” preload=”none” @timejump.window=”seekToSeconds($event.detail.timestamp); shareTimeFormatted = formatTime($event.detail.timestamp)” > 10 40 ? 30 : 10)” class=”seek-seconds-button” > Episode Details Sam Julien talks with Jay about his journey […]
Thanks a lot to Matteo Manferdini for sponsoring Swift by Sundell last week to promote his SwiftUI guide “Architecting SwiftUI apps with MVC and MVVM”. The guide is completely free to download, and contains lots of practical tips and examples on how to setup robust architectures for SwiftUI-based apps. Rather than just promoting a single […]
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]
I know you are here for the cake. But there are few things we wanted to share first. You see there is a lot happening in our lives at the moment. We have mentioned it on instagram but not here yet. So here goes. We are moving to Denmark! Luise has taken up a lifelong […]
It’s one of the biggest beefs in our country these days: Who gets to own the truth? What happens when someone spots bias in the mainstream news and decides to revolt? In Part 2 of “The Chaos Machine” series, Yowei meets the man behind 209 Times, talks to Stockton’s very own “deep throat,” and encounters […]
When it comes to calling completion handlers for asynchronous operations, the established convention within the Apple developer community has for long been to simply continue executing on whatever DispatchQueue that the operation itself (or at least its final part) was performed on. For example, when using the built-in URLSession API to perform a data task-based […]