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Fold code for functions you don’t mutate

Something I’ve found very helpful for my busy mind is to fold the code within functions I’ll rarely mutate. Folding/Unfolding code is as easy as tapping option-command-leftarrow to fold and option-command-rightarrow to unfold. So take the following code: Place the cursor anywhere within the function brackets and tap option-command-leftarrow, and this is what you have:… Continue reading Fold code for functions you don’t mutate

WTF Auto Layout?

Deciphering auto layout errors can be a real pain. johnpatrickmorgan created a nifty website to help: WTF Auto Layout?

SwiftUI – NSAttributedString

While it’s true SwiftUI doesn’t currently provide easy access to NSAttributedString, you can concatenate string literals assigning attributes to each literal individually: Text(“Regular, “) + Text(“Italic, “).italic() + Text(“Bold, “).bold() + Text(“Blue”).foreground(.blue) Not pretty, but it works

Static frameworks for pods

Excellent tool from leavez for enabling static frameworks for all your pods. Kudos to @mfcollins3 for the link: https://github.com/leavez/cocoapods-static-swift-framework

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ABControls

I wanted to learn more about @IBDesignable and @IBInspectable, so I thought why not throw together a quick Custom UI Control project – contains such things as dropdown boxes, list boxes, barcode scanner, creater. https://github.com/albebaubles/ABControls

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Xcode & Terminal

While I’d really like Xcode to provide an internal window for terminal, this is a nice piece of work from Damjan Dimovski on an integration shortcut that fires up terminal (of your choice) in the project folder: https://medium.com/@damjandimovski/open-terminal-from-xcode-9e4c10f7ace1