I have been calling and treating AI/LLM tools as bullshit generators. It helps to test your own assumptions from time to time, head-first.
Solving backward-compatibility issues in Swift 6 language mode.
I recently had to tackle uploading somewhat larger files from an iOS app to a backend service. It’s not a type of functionality that’s often needed thus every time I have to do it I end up re-discovering some gotchas. Best way to remember is to write it down hence this blog post.
Core Data is often dunked on for its performance, especially involving large quantities of objects. Let’s dig into this.
Unstucking SPM resolver graph.
It was a good run, though.
There is no silver bullet when it comes to importing large sets of data into a complex Core Data graph. But it's not impossible to do. This is common sense approach that worked very well in my apps, for several years now.
Explanation of the serious bug in sections order when sectionNameKeyPath is not the first item in the FRC’ sortDescriptors.
If your Swift struct supports Codable, you can save and restore it through Core Data persistance layer.
How to recognize links and other stuff (normally available only on UITextView) and make them interact-able.
A look into the intricate details of Core Data NSFetchedResultsController’s new delegate method to work with diffable data sources driving a collection view.
Swift’s OptionSet is great type. Here’s how you save and read such values in Core Data.
Recommended way to seamlessly gel UITabBarController with Coordinator pattern, where each tab has its own Coordinator.
Apple listened to me and created perfect workstation for app developers.
Old-school way of handling async tasks using Operation
With respect to Samuel L. Jackson’s perfection
From naive to delusional to insulting.
These are the apps and utilities I installed to get my machine ready for daily work (almost exclusively iOS development in Xcode).
It flies.
I present several changes Apple could do, to nurture honest competition on the App Store and make it more viable for small developers.
3 configs to buy which will last you half a decade.
KVO is often an example of something you should not use if you want to avoid crashes. But what if you need to use it?
It's not all roses, I can tell you that.
First let’s see how it was done before iOS 13. Then we’ll take a look how scenes changed this setup. Spoiler: quite a bit.
Recent versions of Xcode and Interface Builder are great visual tools to build auto layout UIs.
I’ve built myself a PC. Last time I did this was almost 20 years ago. Some things are drastically different. Some are remarkably the same (mostly the bad parts).
ACPI hardware remaps, custom kexts and all that jazz.
USB is far more complicated than I expected it to be.
In almost all cases, getting proper WiFi & Bluetooth in Hackintosh requires hardware mods.
This article lists my steps as I prepared OC setup on my MacBook Pro. If you doing this on Windows 10, you’ll need to research what tools and steps are needed for it.
A whole new (hardware) world awaits.
For the last month or so, I tried to wear the DIY hardware hat. It's pretty cool.
It’s a funny title, eh? Born out of half-a-day of head-scratching.
A short treatise on the proper behavior of macOS window management.
Even with the release of Mac Pro, the question of developer-oriented Mac does not go away. I think it became far more glaring than it ever was. What’s happening here?
It’s not yet another networking library.
If you need to run Windows on Mac, if BootCamp or VMs are not an option, this is the post for you. With some 3rd party tools and access to someone’s Windows PC, you can do this fairly easily.
Interface Builder is an amazing tool, which allows you to declaratively build your UI. Same as SwiftUI — so why all the hate and ridicule over the years instead of unconditional love?
Transcript of my talk from PragmaConf 2019, presented on Oct 11th in Bologna.
First step in building a form on iOS, which is going to be used inside a collection view is to make up your mind on the design. Second step, implement the design of the cell. Third step – create an appropriate model object for the given cell.
It’s dead heat what’s more annoying: for customers to input data or for developers to validate and accept that input. It simply can’t be escaped in some cases.
I am trying to wrap my head around essential SwiftUI concepts. This is where I am today. Something I wrote here may be wrong but that’s ok, it’s a learning process. Do tell me if I’m wrong on anything here.
One small trick to make creation of self-sizing layouts easier.
Short conference report on the talks I heard and one I gave.
UIViewController containment APIs are very old by now. They can still cause headache if you don’t pay attention to view loading process.
A lot of grief would’ve been saved if particular support/guidance article was published before scaring 10000s of developers.
Learn how to get the main benefit of my Coordinator implementation without actually using the library or the pattern.
I am having so much benefit from using this pattern in last few years, I can’t help myself. I have to try and persuade all of you to use it too.
iOS 11 Music app features a lovely sliding cards UI for stuff that modally pop over the existing content. Here's how to replicate it in your app.
Sorry Doug.
My approach to starting up new city, up to Level 16
Command-line scripts to smartly download WWDC, Tech Talks and other videos from Apple's developer portal
How to implement true, tell-when-download-finishes Operation subclass
reduce, used properly, can be lightning fast. Here's where it yielded 200x improvement over nested for-in loop.
A good idea, but way too finicky to actually be usable
I went thoroughly through the great new book by objc.io authors. Given its topic, you can expect I have lots to say.
Core Data is large and powerful framework. Learn how to use it properly and efficiently in iOS app of any complexity.
Replicating UITabBarController behavior using Coordinators flattens your UI hierarchy and thus considerably simplifies controller transitions
Even with Codable available in Swift 4, I still prefer using Marshal library. Here’s how to extend it to properly handle JSON representations of Date
A bug in Apple’s code that appears only in 10.3 and only on device
“This is the peak laptop. For now.“
I have an opinion. Yes, I know that joke.
I hope I got it wrong here, I really do. Because it’s driving me bananas how convoluted this API is.
I dislike these ‘one-really-weird-trick...’ titles but this one is really useful in so many cases. Understand it and apply it diligently.
Expanded transcript from my talk at NSSpain 2017
One more step on the path to hide Core Data‘s Objective-C details
“Avoid notification.object and userInfo”
Let the language work for you
Voodoo called @NSManaged is not always your friend
Chasing compiler‘s own tail
Taking the first step towards clean and minimal app architecture in iOS app means freeing your view controllers from the burden of dealing with other controllers.
Long live the swizzle!
puttin’ the grumpy hat on, full Crusty mode