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In this post, I would like to discuss several ways how to create onboarding/introduction screens for your app. Let me keep aside the discussion if such screens are good UX pattern, but let me rather examine SwiftUI capabilities for such task instead. The task The task for today’s SwiftUI exercise is simple. We would like […]
Seeing as no one is doing much traveling these days, I thought it’d be fun to pay a visit with a Strobist reader photographing somewhere far away. Up for a little Lighting Cookbook field trip to Indonesia? Yeah? Then let’s go… __________ Our local guide and guest photographer for this trip is Mr. Tommy Soebagjo. […]
The Don’t Repeat Yourself Wikipedia article states: Violations of DRY are typically referred to as WET solutions, which is commonly taken to stand for “write every time”, “write everything twice”, “we enjoy typing” or “waste everyone’s time”. But as any Phish fan can tell you, wasting time is actually good! A year ago, I gave […]
Thousands of people from far and wide can confirm that mobile signal boosters are a godsend when it comes to improving their cellular communication experience. These devices are pretty easy to use, you don’t need to attach anything to your phone, and, most importantly, they do the job well. With that being said, you need […]
The majority of phone calls are made from home. A phone, in fact, is a link between us and the world outside. If your home has a poor cellular signal, it’s going to be a huge problem. Weak reception can adversely affect both personal and professional life. This leads us to the question: “Is there […]
About a month ago, it became possible to run Swift code on AWS Lambda. I was really interesting to try and see how easy it would be to deploy small Swift functions as serverless application. Let’s see how. If you missed the news, Swift code running on AWS Lambda is available under couple conditions, but […]
There is more to say on this subject, and this will be clunky and too much and not enough but I need to start somewhere, even just for me. I started this blog over 11 years ago as of writing this post, and if I look at my past writing, both the personal parts and […]
The .reduce() method was also there in ES5, but I’d never used or seen someone using it in production at that time. Even today, I see people not aware of this method. I’ve also seen people only giving the same shopping cart example while explaining this method and, that’s why I think people don’t completely […]
Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider’s look at the cosmetic industry. This is Episode 226.Hosts Perry Romanowski, and Valerie George Is glycerin bad for curly hair?Are encapsulated ingredients better?Do scalp exfoliators help?Can beauty companies hide allergens in their products?What’s the […]
A bad cellular signal isn’t something you can ignore. If you can’t call your loved ones whenever you want, let alone if you use a phone for work purposes, then you should be actively looking for ways to make your reception better. You can flood your network operator with requests to install more cell sites […]