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Building with nightly Swift toolchains on macOS

The Swift website provides nightly builds of the Swift compiler (called toolchains) for download. Building with a nightly compiler can be useful if you want to check if a bug has already been fixed on main, or if you want to experiment with upcoming language features such as Embedded Swift, as I’ve been doing lately. […]

Steve Blank Is a $100 Million Enough?

This article first appeared in Inc. Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build […]

Building a macOS screen saver in Kotlin

This article documents how I created my own custom screen saver for macOS, built almost entirely in Kotlin, using the powers of Kotlin Multiplatform to target macOS. The inspiration for this project was the KotlinConf 2023 idle video, which had Kotlin’s logos through the ages bouncing around the screen, in the style of classic DVD […]

Software engineering book recommendations

Software engineering book recommendations The following is a list of software engineering books I’ve read that I felt had a strong and lasting positive impact on my career. It’s not a list of everything I enjoyed (that would be impossible to list down), but rather a special list of resources that taught/helped me so much […]

slf4j-timber | Android-Arsenal.com

This is a library that allows pure Java / Kotlin modules or libraries using SLF4J as their logging framework to bridge on the Google Android platform in combination with Jake Wharton’s Timber logging utility. It’s based on the patrickfav/slf4j-timber project with a modern take using Kotlin and the latest version of SLF4J (currently v2.0.6). Usage […]