Step by step guide. I’m going to teach you how to make a simple habit tracker. Let’s start! Create a new project The most important thing when creating a new app is a clever app name. Spend hours coming up with one if necessary. After 6 hours I came up with “Habit and the…

This Kata is a fun and easy one. See the boxes above? Imagine them falling to the left or right when you tilt them. Just like the image above, if you tilt the boxes to the left they should all fall in that direction. Represent the columns as an array…

I made my first MVVM app following the course by Swiftful Thinking / Nick Sarno. Here is what you will learn. What is MVVM MVVM stands for Model — View — View Model. It is very similar to the MVC model with one huge exception. MVC (Model — View — Controller) is…

I wanted to have a selectable gird of all the SF Symbols in my app. Couldn’t find it, so I made one. Copy below.

Here’s a problem. I made a simple multiplication table practice game in swift ui. I have some images of letters that I want to turn into words.

Just watched the awesome tutorial from Paul Hudson on inner shadows, a new feature coming with iOS 16. His youtube tutorial is excellent, please check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIs3Gco-lrw I really wanted to add inner shadows to my app Kanji Aid. I researched for hours but found nothing a few weeks…

This is where I lived during 2012’s super storm, Hurricane Sandy. I watched the city of Far Rockaway, NY burn to the ground from the window of my tenement apartment building in a pitch black power outage. All I was thinking was, “Damn, they better not have that f**king parade…

Code Kata 型 かた：kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); form How do you get good at something? I mean really good. How does a musician, a surgeon, a basketball player get good? I’ve never “practiced” programming. I always simply had and idea and…

Or how I added mnemonic hints to the app. Trello said, “Get animated stroke orders” so I found this great api for kanji (https://app.kanjialive.com/api/docs) and I dove right in, trying to get api requests / video play back working in the app.