Four years ago I blogged about the oddities of leap days. (more…)

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Unidirectional, transactional, operation-based Store implementation. - alexdrone/Store... (more…)

Swift's error handling is a unique feature of the language. It looks a lot like exceptions in other languages, but the syntax is not quite the same, and it doesn't quite work the same either. Today I'm going to take a look at how Swift errors work on the ... (more…)

There has been a ton of debate on the swift-evolution mailing lists about access control in Swift. A couple of days ago, the proposal SE-0159: Fix Private Access Levels was rejected. I want to share my thoughts on this, as well as thoughts on the larger s... (more…)