Ivy is the first Android and iOS app written completely in Go I got a little bit distracted and haven't been following the Go news lately. Turns out, I missed something big. Ivi (App Store, Google Play) is the first app to be completely written
Death by Indecision Excellent talk by Alexsander Akers on how to handle the fun hell of having a side project, and actually shipping it.
The world's first swim app on the Apple Watch Read here. Incredibly interesting story on how an app to keep track of your swimming data using the Apple Watch is being developed. Unfortunately, the app won't be available until (probably) the next
How Much Does an Experienced Programmer Use Google I often hear people say that "a good programmer doesn't need to Google how to do stuff." I've found that to be completely false (on every professional field). This post got me thinking.
› Go 1.5 will be able to build iOS apps Interesting. I knew support for iOS was comming — didn't know it would be ready by 1.5.
› A summary of what's new in Xcode 7 Head over to this Medium post to get a nice summary of the things that are important to us developers, that Apple didn't mention on its World Wide Developers Conference last monday.
New NSLayoutAnchor class I was reading through iOS 9's API diffs, and found this gem: NSLayoutAnchor. Instead of creating an NSLayoutConstraint objects directly, you start with one of the UIView, NSView, or UILayoutGuide objects you wish
Xcode 7 beta now available, includes Swift 2 Go ahead and download it from here. Read release notes here.
Now you don't need a paid Apple Developer membership to run your apps on your device "Program membership is not required. Read more.
Apple's new Developer Program: OS X, iOS and watchOS, all in one Now, there's only one membership you need to sign up for in order to code for Apple's platform: OS X, iOS and watchOS. Learn more.
› Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. Completely agree. From The Washington Post: As the new space intended, I’ve formed interesting, unexpected bonds with my cohorts. But my personal performance at work has hit an all-time low. Each day,
› Checking for the presence of an optional method in a protocol in Swift Pretty cool. import Foundation @objc protocol Foo { optional func say() -> String } class Doesnt: NSObject, Foo { } class Does: NSObject, Foo { func say() -> String { return "hi" } } let doesnt: Foo = Doesnt() let
Strategy for consuming a horrible API As most of the apps, the one I'm currently working on calls to a web service on a regular basis. The big issue here is that these calls are made to URLs that,
› Why "lazy var" is not "lazy let" in Swift? On the Apple Developer Forums someone asked that very question and got an insightful answer from Chris Lattner: The way to think about it is that "let" in Swift's current implementation is about
› Swift: Increasing Performance by Reducing Dynamic Dispatch Nifty post from the official Apple Swift blog: In performance sensitive code [...] overhead is often undesirable. This blog post showcases three ways to improve performance by eliminating such dynamism: final, private, and Whole
› I quit: what really goes on at Apple For a company that claims to enhance people’s lives through technology – they know nothing about life. Nothing at all. I’m disheartened as I loved Apple. I loved their products and I’
› There's great news for Apple in the negative Apple Watch reviews Matthew Yglesias, writing at Vox.com: For the Apple Watch to be a hit, it needs to clear two similar bars. None of today's reviews seem to dispute the idea that Apple has,
Apple watch reviews appear All mayor publications have published their review of the Apple Watch, to be available for customers to try on in 2 days. So far, from what I've read, the consesus seems to be
› The Secret History of the Apple Watch Great piece from David Pierce at Wired. The business implications are important to Apple, of course, but the problem the Watch aims to solve is legitimately important outside of Cupertino. If the Watch
Google's April Fools day prank This is genius. Generally speaking, I hate April's Fools day on the internet and try to stay out of it (you just cant trust anything there). But Google... wow. Love it: com.google
Self-referencing many-to-many relationships using Gorm in Go(lang) Recently I had to do this, and couldn't figure out how to do it (maybe I need to start reading documentation more closely). But I found the way to do it: type User
Re: React Native I've been reading a lot about React Native. From the latest piece I read: It's early and if you don't have a lot free time or care to be on the bleeding edge,