Besher Al Maleh
Besher Al Maleh

Besher Al Maleh

Self-taught iOS developer interested in all things iOS www.besher.ca

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The Nested Closure Trap

Revisiting [weak self] to avoid retain cycles with this common scenario that involves nested closures in Swift

Mar 12 · 3 min read

Concurrency Visualized — Part 3: Pitfalls and Conclusion

This last part of the series covers some common challenges that you might encounter with Grand Central Dispatch

Jan 29 · 8 min read

Concurrency Visualized — Part 2: Serial vs Concurrent

A detailed look at serial and concurrent queues in Grand Central Dispatch

Jan 29 · 5 min read

Concurrency Visualized — Part 1: Sync vs Async

An in-depth comparison of synchronous and asynchronous execution in Grand Central Dispatch

Jan 29 · 10 min read

Fireworks — A visual particles editor for Swift

Sep 16, 2019 · 4 min read

You don’t (always) need [weak self]

Jun 17, 2019 · 13 min read

My first Swift project

I mentioned in my earlier posts how personal projects helped me stay motivated while I was learning programming. In this post I will talk…

Mar 27, 2019 · 8 min read

High performance drawing on iOS — Part 2

This article covers two different ways to perform 2D drawing while leveraging the GPU hardware

Jan 19, 2019 · 7 min read

High performance drawing on iOS  — Part 1

How I optimized 2D drawing for my game, including what worked and what didn’t work

Jan 17, 2019 · 8 min read

How I built my first open source library

Last week I published my first open source library, QuickTicker. It’s a Swift library that lets you create simple ticker animations using…

Nov 1, 2018 · 14 min read

Personal Projects

(this article was originally posted here on Oct 15, 2018)

Nov 1, 2018 · 4 min read

Now, where was I?

(this article was originally posted here on Oct 2, 2018)

Nov 1, 2018 · 3 min read

Swift vs iOS programming

(this article was originally posted here on Jan 17, 2018)

Nov 1, 2018 · 3 min read

The early days

I’ve been wanting to get into iOS development for a few years. Back in 2014, I didn’t have any programming experience besides a couple…

Nov 1, 2018 · 2 min read

print(“Hello, world!”)

(this article was originally posted here on Jan 13, 2018)

Nov 1, 2018 · 2 min read