Whenever I’m programming, I have a goal in mind, generally a problem to solve. I want my solutions to be simple, yet elegant and reliable. Thankfully, Swift is a great language for this. The language is safe, its syntax is beautiful with great readability. The way Swift handles nullability contributes Read more…
No app is truly complete without some subtle shadows. Especially now that Google’s Material Design is showing us that shadows are cool again we need a way to properly add them in our apps. In my previous post I wrote about a way to create a custom UICollectionView layout. There was one Read more…
If you’ve ever built an iOS app that uses some kind of grid layout or displays a list in a way that doesn’t fit a UITableView you have probably used a UICollectionView. This components allows for very simple grid layout creation and it even allows you to dynamically change layouts. Read more…
The other day somebody asked how they could retrieve every other element in an array using Swift. The solution they had tried was to use a for loop to go through all of the elements and then they would pop those elements off the array. This seemed to work okay Read more…
When Apple announced Protocol extensions at this year’s WWDC and went on to explain the idea of Protocol Oriented Programming (video here), I think every iOS developer got really exited. Especially with Protocol extensions it seems that everything we will ever build can and will be protocol based instead of Read more…
We can all agree that using png sprites for icons is not the most modern (or best) way to present icons on the web. Png is a rasterized format which means that if you try to make the image (or icon) larger, the quality will become worse. When browsers started Read more…
A few days ago I found this article that argues for using rem units when defining font sizes. Generally speaking this is good advice. The rem comes with great predictable behavior, just like pixels do. But the rem also comes with accessibility advantages. When a user changes the font size in their browser Read more…
One of the beautiful things about being a developer is that many of us actually have the opportunity to take an activity we enjoy, and make it our job. Many developers are happy to do some extra work or learn something when they’re at home or in the weekend just Read more…
The Flexbox module for css was built with the intent to make a more robust, less hacky way to layout elements on pages. When you’re building a webpage you often don’t know how high or wide every element could or should be. This can cause problems in certain layouts which Read more…
In the war between native and web apps there’s a few aspects that make a native app superior to a web app. Among these are features like push notifications and offline caching. A native app, once installed, is capable of providing the user with a cache of older content (possibly updated Read more…