The latest iOS Dev Weekly had some great links to Combine resources.
This looks really useful as I get into Combine and reactive iOS programming.
👉Profiling and debugging your Combine code with Timelane
Also, this for, well, understanding Combine.
Thanks as always, iOS Dev Weekly!
Vapor is a web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use foundation for your next website, API, or cloud project.
👉Vapor | on GitHub | examples, libraries, tools
I came across the phrase “Mac-assed Mac apps” 😆 in this short post about Proxyman. Proxyman is a “Modern and Delightful Web Debugging Proxy” for the Mac.
Proxyman looks like a really nice alternative to Charles Proxy, which is very functional but drearily cross-platform app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Other examples are Mac-assed Mac apps are the Paw REST client as an alternative to the cumbersome Postman and Things as a true Mac-first app. And I’ll add Mail as an alternative to the crusty Outlook, which is slow to load and I just cannot use because it doesn’t support the standard Mac keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Clrt-A, Crtl-E).
What can I say, I just love these true Mac-assed Mac apps because they’re fun and easy to use. 🤷🏻♂️
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Here is a funny and relatable perspective on being an app developer wanting to just make your own goddamn app. Via iOS Dev Weekly.
👉 Going indie, step 5: Suffer from crippling imposter syndrome
You want to build something that belongs to you, you want to pour your heart into it, and frankly, you’d like to find some success doing it. “It’s time,” you proclaim boldly, “for me to build an app.”
The post does spend a lot of time talking about social media stress and imposter syndrome, which doesn’t bother me too much. Personally, I have long let go of any dream of having a big, important Twitter or Instagram account. Or even making any money off of an app. I just want to make my own apps.
A big part of you still feels that, as someone who can competently design and build software, you are uniquely positioned to create your own life’s work… Wouldn’t it be a shame not to try? You’re tired of deferring your dreams to your future self; it’s time to act!
My own situation is further complicated by my additional dreams of writing a book and making some songs. I’ve actually made some progress on those dreams already. Can I really fit another dream into the rotation?
Stay tuned and see. Give me like a year. Baby, I want everything!
Time is really confusing when you think about it, especially when you are programming around it. And especially in a mobile app, where the time on the device could be in any timezone and is not guaranteed to be reliable.
I have seen plenty of “time” bugs in my days. I’ve seen time beat some amazing programmers, even leading one of them to question aloud, “What is time?”
This new Swift “Time” library looks like a good shot at simplifying time and restoring sanity.
I love that the basic classes in this library are Clock and TimeZone. Yesss, that is some simple SOLID goodness!
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Mental Break Town 