Author: patmcg
CoreData Lab
This looks like a great debugging tool if you’re doing some serious CoreData work.
👉 Core Data Lab – View, analyze and track your Core Data app’s data
Core Data Lab offers everything to view and analyze the Core Data database of your app, like a predicate editor, data editor, data change tracker and a built-in web and image content viewer.
Barber: Fast Build Times for Big Swift Projects
An interesting way to speed up your build/run/test cycle on big Swift projects.
👉 Barber: Fast build times for big Swift projects
Why compile your whole app and run the same steps to navigate to it every time you run when you’re just working on a single view controller or a smaller section of your app?
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Point West (instrumental demo)
I had been playing around for a while with this bit on my acoustic guitar. It came to me naturally while I was strumming. I liked the way the chords and the timing felt.
The song reminded me of the ocean, so I started calling it “Beyond the Sea”. Then after a stay at Pointe West Resort on Galveston Island, I renamed it to “Pointe West” because the vibe matched. The guitar was probably inspired by Gordon Calcotte’s version of Galveston in the first place.
Erin and I practiced this on drums (Erin) and guitar (me) for a few hours at her house, although I can’t find a recording that session here.
I ended up recording a very Gordon Calcotte, beachy take on the song using GarageBand on my iPad. It’s just the first verse and chorus, and no vocals. But it’s basically how I wanted the song to sound and proof that I could make it happen.
Using Type Erasure to Build a Dependency Injecting Routing Framework in Swift
This post is just as weird and abstract as it sounds. 🤯 On first pass, I don’t get it. But I’m saving it here because I always like anything that promises easier dependency injection.
We’ll take an exciting look at how the treatment of methods/closures as properties can be used in this context to bypass one of the Swift Compiler’s most annoying compilation errors.
👉 Using Type Erasure to Build a Dependency Injecting Routing Framework in Swift
Type Erasure is the process of abstracting constrained, generic types inside an unconstrained non-generic type that can be passed around freely
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Mental Break Town 