Showing Debug and Info Logs in the macOS Sierra Console

This is one of those “it’s obvious in hindsight” problems I ran into recently.

At the day job, we have been migrating all of our logging code from Aspen to Apple’s new Unified Logging System. This has been a…

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Justin Williams

Dec 20, 2016

The Conference Circus

I want to quote this entire article by Pedro Piñera, but I’ll just highlight my favorite part.

By tagging the elite as “experts” in different areas we put them under pressure. Pressure to keep that label and keep being active. I have to be at more conferences, I…

Justin Williams

Sep 29, 2016

Advanced iOS Application Architecture

I am mostly retired from the public speaking circuit. I do still make a point to try and do 360iDev in Denver each year, considering the proprietor is a friend and I can sleep in my bed every night of the conference. This year I did a talk that was a departure…

What Old Is New Again in Auto Layout on iOS 10

Achieving Zen With Autoresizing Masks

The “What’s New in Auto Layout” talk seems to be becoming an annual tradition at WWDC. I didn’t attend in person this year, because I couldn’t get out of San…

Picking your Swift toolchain from xcodebuild

With Xcode 8 xcodebuild uses Swift 3 to build by default. This will be great in about six months, but right now it’s somewhat of a pain. I am using Carthage as my dependency manager and all of those are using Swift 2.x still.

When Good Apps Crash Unexpectedly

I had a fun Friday evening. I received a Slack notification sent to everyone in our group stating that the iOS app was crashing on launch. This came as a surprise to me, because our most recent release had been out for several weeks at this point. It also was the most…

GoogleCast, GitHub, Git-LFS, and You

My main project these days bundles Google’s GoogleCast / Chromecast framework in it to allow users to stream video content from their iOS devices to Google’s little streaming sticks. Overall, I like the Chromecast devices. They seem to work a bit more reliably than…