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• UIKit DiffableDataSource API inconsistencies with Swift Concurrency annotations explained Dec 19

• Diffing in ReactiveCollectionsKit Oct 23
• Introducing ReactiveCollectionsKit Oct 18
• Kintsugi Oct 16

• SwiftUI's Observable macro is not a drop-in replacement for ObservableObject Sep 09

• UI testing improvements in Xcode 16 Jul 09
• Our App Store screenshot nightmare is (almost) over Jul 04

• SwiftUI app lifecycle: issues with ScenePhase and using AppDelegate adaptors Jun 29
• Swift concurrency hack for passing non-sendable closures Jun 05 Updated

• Workaround: Xcode deletes Package.resolved file and produces 'missing package product' errors May 29 Updated

• The curious case of Apple's third-party SDK list for privacy manifests Apr 29 Updated

• Workaround: Swift scripts importing Cocoa frameworks broken on macOS 14 Jan 22
• A simple fastlane setup for solo indie developers Jan 22
• Mac menu bar apps for sale Jan 18
• Swift protocol requirement quirks Jan 17
• App Store screenshot requirements need to change Jan 16
• Workaround: Xcode simctl status_bar is still broken for iOS 17 simulators Jan 04
• Another frivolous and frustrating App Store rejection Jan 03

• A list of books I read in 2023 Dec 29
• Top posts of 2023 Dec 29
• How to fix Mac menu bar icons hidden by the MacBook notch Dec 16 Updated
• Find me on Mastodon Dec 15
• Going Indie: bookkeeping and invoicing Dec 07
• Xcode does not have access to your shell environment Dec 06 Updated
• M3 Max Performance Dec 05
• Setting up a new M3 MacBook Pro Dec 04

• How to fix malfunctioning AirPods Nov 14

• GitHub Tip: using the involves filter Oct 30

• Swift URL absoluteString versus path Aug 17
• Going indie: business structure, taxes, and retirement Aug 16 Updated

• How to customize NavigationLink accessory views in SwiftUI Jul 18
• Stop prefixing your UserDefaults keys Jul 17 Updated
• Where are Xcode bookmarks stored? Jul 11
• Creating dynamic colors in SwiftUI Jul 11

• Going Indie: building a foundation, finding clients, and negotiating rates May 08

• Estimating RSS subscribers on NearlyFreeSpeech.net Apr 26
• How to prevent orphan words in text views on iOS and macOS Apr 25
• Introducing Taxatio Apr 24
• Going Independent Apr 10
• Exploring a new iOS codebase Apr 04
• Love for hardcore, and a taste of karma Apr 02

• Improving multiplatform SwiftUI code Mar 23
• Xcode Tip: filter to show modified files only Mar 22
• Xcode Tip: filtering debugger output Mar 02
• How to fix iCloud Safari tabs syncing bug Mar 02

• Make your terminal tell you when it's done Feb 22
• Xcode tip: sharing breakpoints across projects Feb 21
• How to find and fix premature view controller loading on iOS Feb 20
• Goodbye, Twitter Feb 06 Updated

• Mac OS X vs macOS Jan 23
• Fix: eventmachine gem failed to build on macOS Ventura with Ruby 2.7.6 Jan 18
• Upgrading to macOS Ventura Jan 18

• A powerful UINavigationController API that you might not know about Dec 15
• Publishing an RSS feed to Mastodon Dec 15
• Hello, Mastodon Dec 14
• Workaround: simctl status_bar broken for iOS 16 simulators Dec 14 Updated

• Sharing cross-platform code in SwiftUI apps Aug 19
• Implementing a main thread watchdog on iOS Aug 11
• Automatically assign milestones with GitHub Actions Aug 04

• My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo, Part 2 Jul 25
• Disconnected Jul 25

• May 16 dreams May 16

• Nimble 10.0 released Apr 27
• Using DocC on GitHub Pages Apr 22 Updated
• GitHub suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests Apr 19 Updated
• DuckDuckGo removing other sites Apr 17 Updated
• Quick 5.0 released Apr 17

• Using fastlane to increment version numbers in xcconfig files Mar 28
• Comparing release branch strategies Mar 27
• Automate merging release branches into your main branch with GitHub Actions Mar 26
• My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo Mar 25 Updated
• Quickly displaying the Swift version that ships with Xcode Mar 04 Updated

• The MacBook sigh of death Feb 15 Updated
• When should you use Decimal instead of Double? Feb 01

• How to more gracefully handle non-optional Core Data properties in Swift Jan 26
• iCloud failures, developer relations, and the 30 percent Jan 26
• Reading Notes: Thich Nhat Hanh Jan 24
• Screen Time is drunk Jan 16 Updated
• The best and the worst Jan 16
• NFTs and web3 Jan 16
• Users, Privacy, and Consent Jan 14
• iMessage spam and reporting abuse Jan 13 Updated
• iOS App Library is drunk Jan 11
• On third-party Apple Watch apps Jan 11
• Time Machine error 35 in macOS Monterey Jan 11 Updated

• Top posts of 2021 Dec 31
• A list of books I read in 2021 Dec 30
• My Apple Watch thinks I'm dead Dec 29
• My first Apple Watch: thoughts and reflections Dec 29
• Please don't copy my site. Here's a template! Dec 03
• My worst tech interview experience Dec 01

• Yo, where's my Juicero? A survey of talent in Silicon Valley Nov 30
• Reading Notes: The Abolition of Work Nov 24
• Xcode LLDB RPC server crash Nov 22
• Reading Notes: The Wage System Nov 21
• SwiftUI tips for organizing multiplatform projects Nov 19
• Industrial Sabotage Nov 18
• The obscure solution to using an AppDelegate in SwiftUI Nov 13
• Xcode 13 device orientation options bug Nov 13
• First impressions of SwiftUI Nov 12
• Deprecating PresenterKit Nov 06
• Workaround: Xcode 13 failure after running framework project tests Nov 03
• How to test an iOS Swift package without an Xcode project Nov 03 Updated
• How to start a blog or portfolio website, for developers Nov 01 Updated

• Deleting your app from the iOS simulator during UI tests Oct 25
• Don't let them loot, they said, as their streets became rivers Oct 25
• Git aliases to improve productivity Oct 24
• Recently updated posts Oct 22
• GitHub Actions workflows for automatic rebasing and merging Oct 17 Updated

• An iOS shortcut to show proof of vaccine Sep 12 Updated

• Useful label-based GitHub Actions workflows Aug 24 Updated
• Caching Bundler on GitHub Actions Aug 23
• Different ways to observe properties in Swift Aug 08

• Fixing a hard-to-find bug in Dark Mode Jul 15
• Debugging a DiffableDataSource CellProvider Jul 11
• Diffable data source behavior changes and reconfiguring cells in iOS 15 Jul 08
• Is SwiftUI ready? Jul 01 Updated

• What is a rent strike? Jun 29
• Apple's DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects Jun 29 Updated
• RSS feeds, Jekyll, and absolute versus relative URLs Jun 06 Updated
• To distribute in the Mac App Store, or not Jun 02
• iOS 14 App Library Jun 01
• Three months of Big Sur Jun 01 Updated

• Time Machine error 45 is fixed in Big Sur Apr 07
• Resources for learning SwiftUI Apr 07
• Why Swift closures are not Equatable Apr 05 Updated

• Migrating OmniFocus to a new Mac Mar 31
• Apple's cooperation with authoritarian governments Mar 30 Updated
• A better approach to writing a UserDefaults Property Wrapper Mar 26
• Returning to normal, Part 3 Mar 23 Updated
• Xcode tips for everyone Mar 22
• How to test your Mac app (or not) and decide which versions of macOS to support (or not) Mar 19 Updated
• Using pipes in Swift scripts Mar 18 Updated
• Xcode UI testing reliability tips for iOS Mar 17 Updated
• Returning to normal, Part 2 Mar 17
• Deleting tweets and other social media content Mar 16
• Returning to normal Mar 16
• Fixing macOS Big Sur search bugs Mar 09
• How to reboot the Touch Bar without rebooting your MacBook Mar 02
• A web host worth using Mar 02

• Top posts of 2020 Jan 03

• A list of books I read in 2020 Dec 30
• Resources for learning about compilers and LLVM Dec 28
• The different types of self in Swift Dec 28
• What type is self in a Swift self-executing anonymous closure used to initialize a stored property? Dec 22 Updated
• Obscure bridgeOS crash Dec 22
• The largest strike in history Dec 20
• Useful Danger rules for Bitrise Dec 20
• Running multiple instances of Danger Dec 15

• How to fix Ruby/Bundler error 'No such file or directory' on NearlyFreeSpeech.net Nov 28 Updated
• Radical readings for the Tech Worker Nov 26
• Seasons Greetings from your CEO at TECH COMPANY Nov 24

• Swift Unwrapped with Jordan Rose Oct 12
• Swift deinit is (sometimes) not called for throwing or failable initializers Oct 08

• Don't forget the keyboards Sep 15
• Why is Apple acting like an Asshole? Sep 15

• Unpropertied Aug 30
• zsh could not find CocoaPods Aug 26 Updated

• GitHub Tip: watching releases Jul 30
• How to fix the incomprehensible tabs in Xcode 12 Jul 24 Updated
• Xcode 12 drops support for iOS 8 and how to fix deployment target warnings in CocoaPods Jul 20
• Time Machine error 45 Jul 17
• Swift globals and static members are atomic and lazily computed Jul 16
• The best Touch Bar configuration for people who hate the Touch Bar: Or, how I finally upgraded my 6-year-old MacBook Jul 08
• Quickly switching between Xcodes Jul 07 Updated

• Swift tip: marking unused required initializers as unavailable May 20
• Who do they protect? May 17
• On non-native apps: JavaScript doesn't suck but your app might May 16
• Simple, private, and open source analytics with GoatCounter May 08

• Approved for GitHub sponsors Apr 16
• Updating permalinks and adding redirects for Jekyll sites Apr 15
• Deprecating JSQDataSourcesKit Apr 14
• Fully automating perfect status bar overrides for iOS simulators with Nine41 Apr 13
• All we have is each other: Bay Area mutual aid resources for COVID-19 Apr 11 Updated
• Previously previously previously relocated items in macOS Catalina Apr 11
• Running Danger on GitHub Actions Apr 10 Updated
• Open source libraries for building menu bar Mac apps Apr 07

• Implementing Dark Mode and using CGColor Mar 23
• Another issue with SwiftPM Xcode integration Mar 04

• JetBrains Mono and disabling font ligatures Feb 25 Updated
• My experience replacing CocoaPods with SwiftPM Feb 24
• Mac app tests fail with hardened runtime enabled Feb 23

• Setting up default community health files on GitHub and crafting a thorough Contributing Guide for any open-source project Jan 24
• Xcode tip: Using breakpoints as bookmarks Jan 21 Updated
• AppleScript to export open Safari tabs to OmniFocus Jan 14
• Time Machine failing on macOS Catalina Jan 10
• Observing appearance changes on iOS and macOS Jan 08
• Selecting an Xcode version on GitHub Actions CI Jan 06
• A list of books I read in 2019 Jan 04

• A script to automate overriding iOS simulator status bar values Sep 30 Updated
• Reading Notes: Bay Area Homelessness report Sep 29
• Reading Notes: The Fire Next Time Sep 29
• Backing up your iCloud Drive files using rsync Sep 27 Updated
• Overriding status bar display settings in the iOS simulator Sep 26 Updated
• The ACA and your credit report Sep 19
• Swift 5.1 with Doug Gregor Sep 16
• New iMessage sticker pack: plurals and noun Sep 13
• Introducing Red Eye Sep 03

• The impossible Aug 19
• An update to Lucifer Aug 16
• Workaround for highlight bug in NSStatusItem Aug 16
• Implementing right-click for NSButton Aug 15
• Linked Out Aug 13 Updated
• Reading Notes: Relationship Anarchy Aug 07

• Summoning Lucifer: on making my first Mac app as an iOS developer Mar 26
• Reading Notes: The Individual, Society, and the State Mar 22

• Agile by degrees: How to estimate engineering project timelines Feb 25

• A list of books I read in 2018 Jan 05

• Executing AppleScript in a Mac app on macOS Mojave and dealing with AppleEvent sandboxing Nov 17
• Debugging a subtle Swift bug that will make you facepalm Nov 07

• Lars And The Basket Of Apples Oct 08

• 15 years later: it was summer and we were free Sep 26

• The Four Agreements Jul 30
• Swift tip: Building arrays with compactMap Jul 29
• Hold it! Or, how to blame homelessness on the homeless in San Francisco Jul 19 Updated
• Swift's new calling convention Jul 05
• Xcode tip: Using behaviors to improve debugging Jul 01

• The Tor Browser Jun 27
• Choosing a VPN service Jun 24 Updated
• Reading Adichie Jun 16
• Swift Unwrapped at WWDC 2018 Jun 13
• Xcode tip: Improving the assistant editor Jun 12
• Thoughts on WWDC 2018 Jun 11
• Why optional closures in Swift are escaping Jun 10

• Removing Google Analytics, too Apr 22
• Upgrading to Bootstrap 4 Apr 16

• Replacing Google Search with DuckDuckGo Feb 25 Updated
• How to run sysdiagnose on iOS Feb 08 Updated

• Ending the Swift Weekly Brief Dec 28 Updated

• Floating-point Swift, ulp, and epsilon Oct 01 Updated

• When your app is used in unexpected ways Sep 24
• Measuring Swift compile times in Xcode 9 Sep 18
• Building a site with Jekyll on NearlyFreeSpeech Sep 10 Updated
• Supporting JSON feed Sep 03

• Data & Society: Media Manipulation and Disinformation online Aug 13
• Customizing git-log Aug 08

• A story about Swift source compatibility Jul 17
• Officially deprecating JSQMessagesViewController Jul 16 Updated

• Protocol composition in Swift and Objective-C Jun 05
• Writing better singletons in Swift Jun 04

• A Fair Hotel May 28

• Thoughts on Swift access control Apr 05

• Swift Unwrapped Mar 07

• Adapting to change Feb 15
• Refactoring singleton usage in Swift Feb 10
• Sleazy recruiting Feb 09
• Prioritization Feb 08

• Pushing the limits of protocol-oriented programming Jan 23
• Testing and mocking without OCMock Jan 16
• Swift documentation, Part 2 Jan 08

• 140 proposals in 30 minutes Nov 05

• Contributing to Swift Weekly Brief Oct 06
• Understanding Swift Evolution Oct 03
• Shipping Swift 3.0 Oct 01

• Speaking at FrenchKit Sep 30

• Enums as configuration: the anti-pattern Jul 31
• Migrating to Swift 3 Jul 25
• Swift 3 sherlocked my library Jul 03

• The A5 is dead (almost) Jun 14
• Avoiding the overuse of @objc in Swift Jun 04

• Open source everything May 22
• Swift documentation May 20 Updated

• Contributing to open source Swift Mar 21

• Swifty view controller presenters Feb 19
• Call for contributors Feb 06

• The new weekly brief Jan 14
• Open source Swift: weekly brief #4 Jan 07

• Open source Swift: weekly brief #3 Dec 24
• Open source Swift: weekly brief #2 Dec 17
• Open source Swift: weekly brief Dec 10
• Swift open source Dec 06

• Building type-safe, composable data sources in Swift Oct 25
• UIKit changes in iOS 9 Oct 14

• Swift enumerations and equatable Jul 26 Updated
• Namespaced constants in Swift Jul 19 Updated

• Using Core Data in Swift May 25

• Failable initializers, revisited Apr 06

• Functional notifications Mar 31

• Better Core Data models in Swift Feb 17

• Swift, Core Data, and unit testing Jan 05

• Introducing JSQMessagesVC 6.0 Dec 08
• Rosetta Stone contributes Dec 05

• Swift failable initializers Oct 22
• Adaptive user interfaces Oct 01

• Apples to apples, Part III Aug 21
• On the value of benchmarks Aug 19
• Apples to apples, Part II Aug 06
• Status bars matter Aug 03 Updated

• Apples to apples Jun 25 Updated
• Built with open-source Jun 09