Using NASA's Swift observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, Indian astronomers have inspected a prominent high synchrotron peaked blazar known as 1ES 1959+650. Results of the study, published May 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the ... (more…)

Let’s take a look at a few techniques that can make it much simpler to propagate runtime errors to our users, and how employing some of those techniques could help us present richer error messages without having to add a ton of complexity within each UI i... (more…)

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Mobile devices nowadays come with a lot of powerful CPUs at their disposal which gives you the ability to makes apps that are highly performant by taking advantage of them. Imagine your app is an… (more…)

Welcome to the third in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. This time we’re going to be talking about type metadata, the re... (more…)