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Software Dev

Scroll Views in Interface Builder

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There are a couple of tricks to getting your scroll view working in an Xcode storyboard. The great fluffy.es blog carefully walks you through it. 👍

👉 How to use scroll view in Interface Builder / Storyboard (Xcode 11)

This site also has some really helpful notes on intrinsic size. And a great series on Making Sense of Auto Layout. Who knew? This guy is good. He’s giving Ray Wenderlich a run for his money. 😲

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Software Dev

All the Public APIs

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First off, it’s cool that there is a list of free, public APIs you can use on your own project. IMHO, this is the way to get started on writing an interesting app because you don’t have to host anything or write a backend.

👉 Public APIs: A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development

And the funny thing as that the Public APIs has its own public API. 🤯😆

👉 Public API for Public APIs

Is the Public APIs API in the Public APIs list? I dare you to check.

You can also check this blog for my own humble collection of APIs. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The World

Why the Universe Contains Something Rather Than Nothing ✨🤷🏻‍♂️

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Who would have thought that answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything lies in giant tank of water 3000 feet under Japan? And the answer is not 42.

Scientists on Wednesday announced that they were perhaps one step closer to understanding why the universe contains something rather than nothing.

👉 Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing (New York Times)

This story is not just about speculation or a cool idea. This story is about scientists working at an underground laboratory in Japan, trying to catch neutrinos, sent from 180 miles away. This experiment helps them understand why matter won over anti-matter at the beginning of time, and thus why the universe is full of, well, stuff (this was apparently not a foregone conclusion 🤷🏻‍♂️).

As a result, a universe that started out with a clean balance sheet — equal amounts of matter and antimatter — wound up with an excess of matter: stars, black holes, oceans and us.

This article is full of mind-blowing quotes.

These ghostly subatomic particles stream from the Big Bang, the sun, exploding stars and other cosmic catastrophes, flooding the universe and slipping through walls and our bodies by the billions every second, like moonlight through a screen door.

I love the balanced excitement / skepticism of the scientists, calling this news “undeniably exciting.”

There are further plans to send neutrinos from a lab in Illinois 800 miles underground to a giant underground detector at an old gold mine in South Dakota. 🇺🇸