The Model-View-VievModel pattern has recently become of fashion in the iOS development community. But it’s not without its controversies. I, for one, I have my reservations about some of the implementations of MVVM. But I also think that some of its ideas... (more…)

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…)

I’m excited to announce a new open-source package and an enhancement to the Swift Evolution process: the Standard Library Preview package! The preview package provides access to functionality that has been accepted into the Swift standard library through ... (more…)

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Algebraic types… seems like the kind of math-y work Haskell programmers would use. But in reality you don’t need to know type theory or have a PhD in mathematics to understand them. Algebraic types arent new types. They are simply a new way of thinking ab... (more…)