Swift in a sense is very much like C++, and when I say C++ I mean C++11 and beyond. One could also say that Swift is cleaner C++, or C++ without the backwards compatibility baggage from the 80s. To give an idea here’s a minimal modern C++ code: (more…)

When writing iOS apps, we regularly run into code that is asynchronous. Sometimes you know you're writing something that will run asynchronously and other times you're passing a completion handler to… (more…)

An experimental tool for testing Swift example code in documentation. - GitHub - SwiftDocOrg/DocTest: An experimental tool for testing Swift example code in documentation. (more…)

Over the last few months I’ve dabbled in two new languages. Swift and Kotlin. These two languages have a number of similarities. Indeed, the similarities are so stark that I wonder if this isn’t a new trend in our language churn. If so, it is a da...

UISearchBarFontKit - An extension for UISearchBar that makes it effortless to set the font, which is otherwise convoluted. (more…)