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In a previous post, I explained how you can make your NSManagedObject subclasses codable. This was a somewhat tedious process that involves a bunch of manual work. Specifically because the most convenient way I've found wasn't all that convenient. It's easy to forget to set your managed object context on your decoder's user info dictionary which would result in failed saves in Core Data. With SwiftData it's so much easier to define model objects so it makes sense to take...

WIth the introduction of Xcode 15 beta and its corresponding beta OSses (I would say iOS 17 beta, but of course we also get macOS, iPadOS, and other betas...) Apple has introduced new state mangement tools for SwiftUI. One of these new tools is the @Bindable property wrapper. In an earlier post I explained that @Binding and @Bindable do not solve the same problem, and that they will co-exist in your applications. In this post, I would like to clarify...

With iOS 17, macOS Sonoma and the other OSses from this year's generation, Apple has made a couple of changes to how we work with data in SwiftUI. Mainly, Apple has introduced a Combine-free version of @ObservableObject and @StateObject which takes the shape of the @Observable macro which is part of a new package called Observation. One interesting addition is the @Bindable property wrapper. This property wrapper co-exists with @Binding in SwiftUI, and they cooperate to allow developers to create...

With Swift 5.9 and Xcode 15, we have the ability to leverage Macros in Swift. Macros can either be written with at @ prefix or with a # prefix, depending on where they're being used. If you want to see some examples of Macros in Swift, you can take a look at this repository that sheds some light on both usage and structure of Macros. When we look at Macros in action, they can look a lot like property wrappers:...

As a developer, joining a new project or company is often a daunting and scary task. You have to get aquatinted with not just a whole new team of people, but you also have to familiarize yourself with an entirely new codebase that might use new naming conventions, follows patterns that you’re not familiar with, or even uses tooling that you’ve never seen before. There are plenty of reasons to be overwhelmed when you’re a new member of any engineering...

When you just start out with learning Swift Concurrency you’ll find that there are several ways to create new tasks. One approach creates a parent / child relationship between tasks, another creates tasks that are unstructured but do inherit some context and there’s an approach that creates tasks that are completely detached from all context. In this post, I will focus on unstructured and detached tasks. If you’re interested in learning more about child tasks, I highly recommend that you...