I think it is safe to say that almost all developers, at one point or another in their career, will entertain the idea of starting their own tech blog. …

Property Wrappers are one of Swift hottest new additions. In previous articles, we’ve already covered their basic usage along with more involved use case. In this article we’re taking it a bit further to find out just how far Property Wrappers can take us. It’s always enlightening to take a…

If you’re keeping up with the new features of Swift, you’ve probably heard of Property Wrappers. They have introduced a few months ago as part of Swift 5.1 and we’ve covered their basics in a previous article. Property Wrappers & Functions Today, we’re going to take things a bit further by exploring an unexpected…

During WWDC 2019, Apple has unveiled an incredible amount of exciting new pieces of technology. Among them was a new release of the Swift language: Swift 5.1. Don’t be fooled by its minor version number: this increment is actually packed with new features that will enable a whole new range…

With each iteration of the iOS SDK, apps become increasingly complex. A few years ago, your standard app had –at most– to deal with networking calls, and maybe some GPS or accelerometer data. …

Swift is a language used in good part on mobile devices, some of which operate with a (very) limited amount of computational power — think of older iPhones or Apple Watches, for instance. In such contexts, every CPU cycle counts and well-crafted apps will be expected to make the most…

This article is a detailed introduction to the ideas behind the framework KeyPathKit. If you like what you’re about to read, I urge you to have a look at all the features the library has to offer 😉 Many thanks to Jérôme Alves for showing me one of the approach…

Back in the days of Objective-C, there was a class called NSSortDescriptor that would allow to declaratively write a sorting criterion, and would later be fed to a generic sorting function. This system had the great advantage of easily allowing to perform a multi-attribute sort. The drawback lied in the…

When used correctly, debugging tools can help developers save a massive amount of time. Consider, for instance, the most basic breakpoint: it enables us to halt the execution of a program in order to analyze it step-by-step. Now just think how long that process would take if you had…