Swift

Don’t underestimate how slow the disk really is

You should not treat every piece of data the same way. Here’s why

Alright, no additional introductions this time — I’ll just cut straight to the point:

Introducing AppFolder

Folder of your iOS app — friendly and strongly-typed

Turning Swift compile-time safety into safety for your users

Sometimes good coding practices lead to…

Introducing Time

Type safe time calculations for Swift

In Cocoa, TimeInterval (ex NSTimeInterval) is the only thing that defines time. But, actually, it’s just a typealias for Double, and so it doesn’t have any descriptive meaning. Just a number. It’s not that…

Lightweight persistence in iOS shouldn’t be this hard

Introducing Shallows — a reusable, easy-to-use caching library

Introducing Placeholders

Set and animate multiple placeholders on UITextField

Postponing internationalization without feeling guilty

Being lazy isn’t shameful when you’re conscious about it

Detecting the first launch of the iOS application — the wrong and the right way

Another post about “testability matters”

The concept of the “first launch” is crucial for many apps. You may want to show a quick…