I had some of the fondest memories for Visual Basic in 1998. In January, I enlisted myself to a project to revive the fun part of programming. There are certain regrets in today’s software engineering culture where we put heavy facades to enforce discipli... (more…)

I was sad to hear John Conway had recently died of COVID-19. Conway was a mathematician who contributed much to his field, but for me as a computer scientist, I knew of him for his Game of Life (aka just Life). (more…)

Swift Clips is a new series of shorter videos showcasing interesting and useful Swift tips and techniques. In this first episode we'll take a look at first c... (more…)

During the process of building our applications, we are often faced with the need of persisting and querying model objects in some form of store. The store can be a remote server, a local CoreData... (more…)

This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 5.3. (more…)