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We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last […]
Swift 5.5 introduces a new concept called “effectful read-only properties”, which essentially means that computed properties can now utilize control flow mechanisms like errors and async operations when computing their values. Let’s start by taking a look at how computed properties can now throw errors using Swift’s standard error handling mechanism. As an example, let’s […]
For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove themselves, jumping on the code and hacking around. I tried to think about what I learnt the hard way since […]
Apple’s MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineup is seeing all-time low discounts across the board today, including the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 13-inch MacBook Air, and 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a […]
New in Swift 5.5: Property wrappers can now be applied directly to function arguments, just like how they can be used to add additional functionality to a property or local variable. For example, let’s say that an app that we’re working on contains a function that saves a Photo for a given name, and that […]
Originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway Engineering Blog. Overview In this article, we’ll discuss the way our mobile teams have evolved the Continuous Integration (CI) stack over the recent years. We don’t have DevOps engineers in our team and, until recently, we had adopted a singular approach in which CI belongs to the whole […]
23 Jul 2021 • 7 min read Kotlin build times are often slow, this is a laundry list of common issues and what you can or can’t do about them. An actual white whale Kotlin, strictly speaking, is awesome. Kotlin build times, strictly speaking, are not awesome. While many developers have weighed these and […]
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 […]
Malin Sundberg joins John to talk about her experiences of using SwiftUI to build and ship the time-tracking and invoicing app Orbit on most of Apple’s platforms, and what sort of things that can be good to keep in mind when using SwiftUI in a cross-platform context. Tower: Take advantage of Git’s powerful feature set […]
I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Article Continues Below Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design#section2 When I first started designing websites, […]