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The 1-hour Swift Concurrency course

The 1-hour Swift Concurrency course

“What’s the best way to learn modern Swift concurrency?” is one of the most common questions in the iOS community. Perhaps the most common question after “should I start with SwiftUI or UIKit?”

The Swift Apple doesn't want you to know

The Swift Apple doesn't want you to know

I’ve been writing Swift daily for nearly 10 years. I’m impostor syndrome-proof. I’ve seen it all. But every so often… I don’t know.
Maybe I make a typo in Xcode that unearths forgotten creatures from the Mariana Trench of autocomplete. Perhaps I’m buying pet chimps on the darkweb and accidentally stumble upon a blog post containing arcane syntax.

The Secret to Intuitively Understanding Swift Concurrency

The Secret to Intuitively Understanding Swift Concurrency

My first brush with Swift concurrency was in 2022, inheriting a small startup codebase as a 1-man-iOS-team. This project had everything: detached tasks in a web-scraping system, async streams listening to repositories, and a central actor that handled authentication.

Solving The SwiftUI Interview

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December 10, 2024
Solving The SwiftUI Interview

This is a companion article to my piece A Tech Interview That Doesn’t Suck. If you enjoyed following along with the interview we designed, but you were left wanting to understand how you might ace the interview yourself, look no further!

How to Learn the Swift Source Code

How to Learn the Swift Source Code

Today I’m selling shovels. A treasure map. The equipment you need to tunnel through the Swift source code and mine out the nuggets of arcane knowledge reserved for C++ and compiler geeks.

Apple Tried To Kill My Startup

Apple Tried To Kill My Startup

I’ve had a combative relationship with Apple in my writing career. Frankly, as the richest company in the world (erm, I think they’re still up there), they can probably cope with me taking a few potshots.


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