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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 […]
…or, how to accidentally break Swift initialization rules. Today I’m going to talk about optionals. Swift optionals. And also another kind of optional. And how you might break the ironclad rules of Swift without realizing it until it’s too late. What is an “optional” anyway? It depends who you ask. Swift will give you one […]
SwiftUI offers several different ways for us to create stacks of overlapping views that can be arranged along the Z axis, which in turn enables us to define various kinds of overlays and backgrounds for the views that we build. Let’s explore some of those built-in stacking methods and what sort of UIs that they […]
One of the more famous crash reporting tools used in Android development is probably Crashlytics. It offers up a lot of insight into an app’s performance – from device characteristics to insights on issue commonalities. If, like my current project, obfuscation is enabled in an app, Crashlytics has a Gradle plugin that uploads the mapping […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. When Harry Reis was in middle school, he cared what his classmates thought of him. Now, […]
Recipe Notes: – If you don’t like aubergine, you could use mushrooms or tofu instead. – Soba noodles are made from buckwheat which is naturally gluten-free. But always check the package if you are intolerant as there are many brands who mix wheat and buckwheat. – The marinade doesn’t have any acidic ingredient, which I […]
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Swift offers many different built-in ways to iterate over collections (such as arrays, sets, and dictionaries) — the most basic of which being for loops, which let us run a piece of code for each element that was found within a given collection. For example, here we’re looping through an array of names, and we’re […]
BOOKWORM NEWS: Juniper Hill by Devney Perry is now live!! — “Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life. She needs a shower. She needs a snack. She needs some sanity. Because moving across the country with her newborn baby is by far the craziest thing she’s ever done. […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain, I’m Shankar Vedantam. Early in the morning on August 17th, 1999, an earthquake struck Northwestern Turkey. It was a […]