Development – AlbeBaubles

Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica

Great lesson on how to booger up a software rollout. Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica: The app situation has become a headwind to existing product sales, and we believe our focus needs to be addressing the app ahead of everything else. This means delaying the two… Continue reading Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica

Proposal: Swift Extension Naming Convention

Proposal: Standardizing Naming Conventions for Extension Files Introduction As a consultant with extensive experience in software development, I have observed a wide range of naming methodologies employed across various projects and organizations. One area that often lacks standardization is the naming convention for extension files. The inconsistency in naming conventions can lead to confusion, reduced… Continue reading Proposal: Swift Extension Naming Convention

Finding unused Swift variables

Nifty little script (from Paul Taykalo) to find unused variables in swift code. PaulTaykalo/swift-scripts:

Michael Tsai – Blog – Pkl Programming Language

Pickle! Love the name! I haven’t had a chance to put this in action, but I expect this to be big. Michael Tsai – Blog – Pkl Programming Language: We created Pkl because we think that configuration is best expressed as a blend between a static language and a general-purpose programming language. We want to… Continue reading Michael Tsai – Blog – Pkl Programming Language

Milracks – AlbeBaubles

Check out our newest app on the App Store! 100% SwiftUI. Milracks – AlbeBaubles:

Too easy

A great example of how simple it is to construct a user interface in swiftUI

Extending UIColor

I use this so often I’ve added it to my global utilities class. Seriously considering taking all my extensions open source – since I use in my utilities class at all clients.

Utility – JSON Formatter

The other day I was bringing up a browser to search for a website to format some raw JSON I was looking at. It occurred to me I do this often enough that I should create my own and it it to the site. Developers, I give you: JSON Formatter

Full-screen development with Xcode and the Simulator

Big shout out to @twannl for this awesome tip detailing how to use the simulator and Xcode in a single fullscreen. Very helpful. https://www.avanderlee.com/workflow/full-screen-xcode-simulator/

Michael Tsai – Blog – Funneling Into Apple News+

This is getting out of hand. Apple is starting to act like Microsoft in the late 90’s. Michael Tsai – Blog – Funneling Into Apple News+: I wonder how many publishers in Apple News+ realize that the new iOS14 and MacOS Big Sur are by default intercepting traffic to their sites and sending it to… Continue reading Michael Tsai – Blog – Funneling Into Apple News+

SF Symbols

I was asking Michael Collins about using .otf fonts in open source projects and he pointed me to SF Symbols. This is the best place to go for text/glyphs/symbols/svgs for your Xcode projects. Symbols supports OpenType, multicolor and supports iOS, iPad OS and macOS Big Sur. Be sure to download the SF Symbols Beta… Continue reading SF Symbols

JetBrains Mono Font -A Typeface for Developers

Checkout the new free font from JetBrains created just for developers. Im using it in Xcode. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Ad block – AlbeBlocksAnnoyances

[UPDATED TO SUPPORT iOS] I quit using Facebook well over a year ago, yet anytime my browser takes me there it shows me logged in. I DO connect to FB on my oculus – no choice. I don’t know how, but it sure seems using the oculus somehow communicates with my Mac and logs me… Continue reading Ad block – AlbeBlocksAnnoyances

WTF Auto Layout?

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