This case study describes the refactoring of Wikipedia’s WMFLocationManager class from Objective-C to Swift. — This case study describes the refactoring of Wikipedia’s WMFLocationManager class from Objective-C to Swift. The Wikipedia native iOS app project was launched in 2013. Almost 7 years and 30,000 commits later, the project consists of more than 180,000 lines of code in various languages. …

When working on a project recently, I needed an easy solution for testing and debugging push notifications. So I wrote a Swift… — When working on a project recently, I needed an easy solution for testing and debugging push notifications. So I wrote a Swift command-line tool allowing me to send notifications directly from the terminal: Lola. I’d like to share what I learned. I’ll explain how to create a token for APNs…