It’s October 1st, and it means that the biggest event of the open source community called Hacktoberfest starts today 🎃🌍🖥 For those of you who haven’t heard about Hacktoberfest challenge, here is a short description from the official website: Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by…

If you create a Cocoa macOS app in Xcode, import Core Bluetooth and try to use this framework, you’ll run into an error: [CoreBluetooth] XPC connection invalid Here is a quick guide on how to set up your macOS project to work with Core Bluetooth: Go to Project Settings -> Capabilities -> App Sandbox Check in Bluetooth option under “Hardware” heading Then, go to Info.plist Add “Privacy — Bluetooth Peripheral Usage Description” property, and add a description of how your app is going to use Bluetooth.

I’m working on a side project, which is an iOS app, and it is going to communicate with a database. I had to select a technology for my back-end, and I chose an interesting and rare at the same time tech stack for the back-end. I decided to give a…

When I had one of my internships, I developed with React a lot. One time, I needed a complicated component for a project, and I looked for a ready-to-use component in favor of time. I came across an article on Medium about top React component libraries. React component library is…

It’s Friday, and it’s time for another story about my Open Source journey. I continue working on Lona, and I’ve fixed another bug earlier this week. Let’s take a look at the issue: Bug 🐞 The interface of Lona is really similar to Xcode’s interface, and it has three panels. One on…

Last September, I registered for OSD600 as part of my studies at my school (Seneca College, Toronto), and my journey to the world of Open Source Software began. OSD stands for Open Source Development. This course introduces students to the technological, social, and pragmatic aspects of developing open source software…

As you might know, I’ve decided to proceed with making more contributions to Lona, and earlier this week I had an opportunity to add a new feature to this app. Here is an overview of my contribution: Feature request ⚙️ Users often create new components based on the existing ones, and the only…

I continue exploring and working on Lona as well as learning Swift and macOS development along the way. Let me walk you through the bug I was fixing earlier this week. Bug 🐛 First of all, let me remind you how UI looks like in Lona:

Last week, I made my first contribution to Lona. If you haven’t read my previous post, you can find it here: Contribution to Lona + How to set up Ruby environment on macOS In this post, I’ll tell you about my contribution to Airbnb’s open source project called Lona and show you how to set…medium.com I really liked the experience of contributing to this project, and I decided to work on it until the end of the semester. …