I was sad to hear John Conway had recently died of COVID-19. Conway was a mathematician who contributed much to his field, but for me as a computer scientist, I knew of him for his Game of Life (aka just Life). (more…)

The Package Manager in Swift 4 includes the redesigned Package.swift manifest... (more…)

AWS Amplify has great support for Querying and Mutating the offline cache. Here, I outline the quickest way to get set up with offline persistence for your iOS app. (more…)

Since we moved parts of our codebase to swift, our compile times have effectively quadrupled. Trying to combat this, we've used the function and expression debug time flags to figure out if there's something to be saved by simplifying expressions. Apart ... (more…)

Swift development lead Ted Kremenek has announced a preliminary vision of what Swift 6 could include and how the community will get there on Swift's mailing list. Swift 6 will bring significant improvements to the language, including better concurrency su... (more…)