When designing APIs, using default arguments can often let us strike a nice balance between flexibility and ease of use — as they let us add solid, intuitive defaults to many of the configuration options that we’ll end up providing. Let’s take a look at a... (more…)

Lockdown has inspired a lot of unexpected releases so far, but the biggest surprise comes Taylor Swift. In direct contrast to the exuberant vengeful pop beats and brighter aesthetic of her last album, ‘Folkore’ makes for much tamer listening, circling bac... (more…)

Links: 1. Get length of String 2. Split String into Array 3. Enumerate enum 4. Convert Int to String 5. Convert String to Int 6. Sort object array by value 7. Sort dictionary by value 8. Sort dictionary by key 9. Check if array contains ... (more…)

DNA Hacking with Swift 4 | Xcode 9 : An Introduction to Bioinformatics starts the student off with a crash course on DNA. The student will then learn how to preprocess and save datasets from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) like th... (more…)

I typed up some quotes from Chris Lattner on a recent panel discussion about Swift. (more…)