Songs

And finally, SoundCloud ☁️

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A few months ago, I knocked off a bucket list item by recording a song with a friend who can sing.

The actual bucket list item was “Make a song that I can play in my car using Siri that I actually enjoy.” 😉 So I made sure to get it out on all the streaming sites.

I followed this up by taking a shot at singing and got that out to there too.

But the one streaming service I missed, and probably the most helpful as a musician, was SoundCloud. This site is a little more artist-oriented. You can upload songs instantly, give and get feedback, and basically do whatever you want without going through a distributor.

So here’s my new SoundCloud account.

I have a couple new songs in the works, but none good enough yet to post here even by show-your-work standards. When I do post something, it’ll go SoundCloud first.

Software Dev

At a glance: stack views

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Next up in iOS at a glance series, where I give you a quick visual about an iOS development concept, we’ll jump into stack views.

Sticking with old-school UIKit concepts a little conger, stack views give us a simple way (pre-SwiftUI) to lay out a screen without a bunch of constraints, which can quickly become ungainly.

Stack views just organize subviews in a row, either vertically or horizontally. Stack views can be combined with each other as well to create complex layouts, such as below.

Stack views are typically invisible and only used to contain other views, so what we actuality see is this.

So there it is: stack views boiled down to a quick visual. Of course, the topic goes much deeper, including options for distribution, alignment, and spacing.