Swift 4 KeyPaths and You
Swift 4 is almost upon us, and I thought I would explore one of its features that I haven’t had the opportunity to that much: KeyPaths. There’s a lot of inte...
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swift
Notifying many delegates at once with Multicast Delegates
At work, we’re investigating new architectures to use in our app that should make it easier to develop and test our code across the many teams who work on ou...
CopyOnWrite now available as a framework
I decided this week to release the CopyOnWrite type I finished up in the last post I wrote on the subject. You can get at it via all the popular ways to inte...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 3
In my last post on this topic, we built up a small struct named CopyOnWrite that abstracts away the need to manually check whether or not a reference needs t...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 2
In my previous post in this series, I gave a brief overview of how value semantics work along with a couple of good resources for more in-depth details on ho...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 1
I watched a couple of really good videos on value semantics recently. One was by Alexis Gallagher, named Value SEMANTICS (not value types!), which does a goo...
Fun With Optionals, Part 1 - Basics
Optionals are another one of my favorite features of Swift. When I started learning Objective-C, I was so happy that sending messages to nil was basically a ...
Weakify now available as a framework
Yesterday I decided to collect my weakify functions (that i’ve been tweaking since that post a bit for some new use cases I’ve discovered) into a framework t...
Swift 2 and @available properties
I haven’t played around with Swift 2 too much yet as I’ve been busy with other things in the past couple of months. However today I fired up Xcode 7 (beta 4)...
Making ‘weakify’ better with metatype values
My first major blog post here was on crafting the weakify function and how you could use it to weakly bind a method reference to an instance of the class the...
Swift Protocols And Handling Mutable State
I recently ran into a curious problem on one of my side projects that I didn’t understand at first. I was using a swift protocol to provide a uniform interfa...
Capturing Objects Weakly In Instance Method References In Swift
One of my favorite features of Swift is the fact that functions are first class values: they can be assigned to variables, passed around as arguments to othe...
blog
HTTPS Support
I just added HTTPS support to this site 😄
I’m going to Try Swift!
I’ll be at the try! swift conference today through Wednesday! I’m super excited for the presentations and workshop, and for the chance to meet new people and...
Micro.blog test
I backed the micro.blog Kickstarter back in January, and I set it up to read from this blog once invites came in. You can find me there at https://micro.blog...
Important Blog Changes!
I’ve made a couple tweaks this site that I think warrant a post so that everyone is aware.
Hello Again!
Well, it’s been a year since my last post, and what a year it’s been. 2016 has been a whirlwind of unexpected events, many of them incredibly disheartening a...
Jekyll frustrations
It’s been awhile since I wrote a blog post, and upon wanting to come back and do another I noticed that jekyll had been updated to 3.0 (jekyll is what genera...
Hello!
Welcome to my site. In the coming weeks I plan to post about various programming topics related to things I’m working on and learning. I’ll likely focus a lo...
value-semantics
CopyOnWrite now available as a framework
I decided this week to release the CopyOnWrite type I finished up in the last post I wrote on the subject. You can get at it via all the popular ways to inte...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 3
In my last post on this topic, we built up a small struct named CopyOnWrite that abstracts away the need to manually check whether or not a reference needs t...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 2
In my previous post in this series, I gave a brief overview of how value semantics work along with a couple of good resources for more in-depth details on ho...
Encapsulating Value Semantics, Part 1
I watched a couple of really good videos on value semantics recently. One was by Alexis Gallagher, named Value SEMANTICS (not value types!), which does a goo...
functional-programming
Making ‘weakify’ better with metatype values
My first major blog post here was on crafting the weakify function and how you could use it to weakly bind a method reference to an instance of the class the...
Capturing Objects Weakly In Instance Method References In Swift
One of my favorite features of Swift is the fact that functions are first class values: they can be assigned to variables, passed around as arguments to othe...
cocoapods
CopyOnWrite now available as a framework
I decided this week to release the CopyOnWrite type I finished up in the last post I wrote on the subject. You can get at it via all the popular ways to inte...
Weakify now available as a framework
Yesterday I decided to collect my weakify functions (that i’ve been tweaking since that post a bit for some new use cases I’ve discovered) into a framework t...
carthage
CopyOnWrite now available as a framework
I decided this week to release the CopyOnWrite type I finished up in the last post I wrote on the subject. You can get at it via all the popular ways to inte...
Weakify now available as a framework
Yesterday I decided to collect my weakify functions (that i’ve been tweaking since that post a bit for some new use cases I’ve discovered) into a framework t...
swift-package-manager
CopyOnWrite now available as a framework
I decided this week to release the CopyOnWrite type I finished up in the last post I wrote on the subject. You can get at it via all the popular ways to inte...
Weakify now available as a framework
Yesterday I decided to collect my weakify functions (that i’ve been tweaking since that post a bit for some new use cases I’ve discovered) into a framework t...
apple
WWDC 2017 Keynote Wishlist Followup
The WWDC keynote came and went, and I thought I’d review here which of my wishes came true:
My WWDC Wishlist
WWDC 2017 starts in a few days. I’m excited at the potential new toys Apple will be announcing for developers, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t have specific th...
WWDC
WWDC 2017 Keynote Wishlist Followup
The WWDC keynote came and went, and I thought I’d review here which of my wishes came true:
My WWDC Wishlist
WWDC 2017 starts in a few days. I’m excited at the potential new toys Apple will be announcing for developers, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t have specific th...
jekyll
Jekyll frustrations
It’s been awhile since I wrote a blog post, and upon wanting to come back and do another I noticed that jekyll had been updated to 3.0 (jekyll is what genera...
optionals
Fun With Optionals, Part 1 - Basics
Optionals are another one of my favorite features of Swift. When I started learning Objective-C, I was so happy that sending messages to nil was basically a ...
app-store
Apple Delays App Transport Security Deadline
Apple is delaying their previously announced enforcement of App Transport Security until further notice:
app-transport-security
Apple Delays App Transport Security Deadline
Apple is delaying their previously announced enforcement of App Transport Security until further notice:
objective-c
Notifying many delegates at once with Multicast Delegates
At work, we’re investigating new architectures to use in our app that should make it easier to develop and test our code across the many teams who work on ou...
delegate-pattern
Notifying many delegates at once with Multicast Delegates
At work, we’re investigating new architectures to use in our app that should make it easier to develop and test our code across the many teams who work on ou...
pokemon
Pokemon Yellow Arbitrary Code Execution Reference
Update: I corrected an error in the last item setup to change it from 199 pokeballs to 119 pokeballs, which was an oversight on my part. Using 199 instead co...
glitches
Pokemon Yellow Arbitrary Code Execution Reference
Update: I corrected an error in the last item setup to change it from 199 pokeballs to 119 pokeballs, which was an oversight on my part. Using 199 instead co...
minecraft
Creating a custom trader npc in Minecraft
My spouse wanted me to write down what I learned for creating custom shop NPCs in Minecraft so she could learn how as well, so I thought I’d do a blog post s...