Swift Handling routes from an API in a type-safe way with Swift In this post, I explain how to extend Swift to make our own type-safe way of handling data coming from an API.
work Available for work I'm now available to take on new iOS and Elixir projects. I have experience working with distributed teams, fast-paced projects, and leading teams. If you want to ship a 1.0, please do
elixir guards in Elixir 1.6 Elixir 1.6 has been released with a lot of nice additions to the language, but without a doubt, what I'm most pumped about is real `guard` support in the language.
ecto Experimenting with inherited tables in Ecto This is me trying to implement table inheritance with Ecto, and what I learned from it.
Swift Becoming a Better iOS Developer Through Tooling: My AltConf 2017 talk The fine folks at Realm have now uploaded the remaining videos from AltConf 2017 — including the presentation that I gave there. You can watch it a Realm Academy, here. Presenting in the US
On iOS interview exercises Today I saw this Tweet: If you're hiring an iOS developer, please, for the love of god, don't do "fetch this API and show a table view with results" task.— Michał Kałużny (@justMaku)
Apple Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features This thread from Apple's Developer Forums is making some waves on the internets today. Apparently, they're now rejecting apps that include code that can modify your app after it's released to the store.
phoenix1.3 action_fallback and contexts in Phoenix 1.3 made my controllers tiny! Yesterday I posted about how Phoenix 1.3 was pure love for API development. In that post, I mentioned that one of my favorites features in this new release is the action_fallback
elixir Phoenix 1.3 is pure love for API development Phoenix 1.3-rc.0 was just released, and while it's still not a final release, it already feels solid as h*ck. I've been doing a personal project on the side for a
The Algorithms Of Discrimination Go read this. If you prefer you can listen too. I posted a blog post a few weeks ago about an experience I had interviewing at a rather large and well known company
Facebook announces Yarn, a new package manager for JavaScript From Facebook's announcement: In the JavaScript community, engineers share hundreds of thousands of pieces of code so we can avoid rewriting basic components, libraries, or frameworks of our own. Each piece of code
elixir ElixirConf 2016 videos are starting to get posted Looks like the wait is over. Some of the videos from ElixirConf 2016 are starting to get posted over at confreaks.tv. I know what I'll be doing with my evenings for the
Is the open source culture hurting new developers? That’s a bold question to ask. But I’ve been thinking about it. As a member of the iOS developer community, I see people interested in learning how to create iOS apps
Swift Bringing piping syntax from Elixir to Swift I've been writing Elixir for my main backend needs for the past few months and I've really liked it — specially its syntax. In fact, I've gotten so into its syntax that I've often
Singletons in Swift If you come from the Objective-C world, you're probably familiar with the singleton pattern. @implementation MyClass + (id)sharedInstance { static MyClass *__instance = nil static dispatch_once_t token; dispatch_once(&token, ^{ __instance = [[MyClass
swift blog On Apple's take on how to handle JSON with Swift 3 A couple of days ago, Apple published this post in which they describe some ways one can parse JSON using core languages of Swift 3. Weird thing, they suggest that it is OK
Introducing my new book, Best Practices for Developing iOS Apps with Swift Hey there! That's right, I'm launching the first book in what I expect will be a long list of titles that I'll be publishing in the following months. Best Practices for Developing iOS
› Tesla, the new HTTP client for Elixir As I've written before in this blog, I've been playing with Elixir/Phoenix for the past few months — I even have a couple of production applications running right now! Just learned about Tesla,
› Impressions From My First ElixirConf Just read this summary of Nate Taylor's experience attending ElixirConf for the first time. So many details ring a bell on me, and I didn't even attend the conference — but I sure wish
elixir Filtering has_many relationships in Ecto This is sot-of a follow up to my last post, about self-referencing many_to_many relationships using Ecto. I find myself in a scenario where I have a User: # User model defmodule MyApp.
Self-referencing many-to-many relationships using Ecto EDIT: I've changed the last section of this article to reflect my findings in actually using this in production. I've decided to do the backend for a new app I'm creating myself, using
Developer Insights, from Apple With all the chatter around making a living on the App Store, and the recent changes to the App Store subscription model for apps, it seems that Apple is now trying to tell
Swift 3 Migration issues This is a post that I'll be updating continuously with all the bumps that I find on the way while developing with Swift 3 and iOS 10. CloudKit's database fetchAll methods are missing
Updating my codebases to Swift 3 Apple officially released the first beta of Xcode 8 this past Monday, which includes Swift 2.3 (an updated version of the language to work with the new APIs on iOS 10 and
› Rewrite from Scratch - Autopsy of a Failed Software Project This post brought a ton of memories back to mind. I've wanted to start a project from scratch far too many times more than I'd care to admit. What I've found in my