Types are nice, infinite recursion edition
Playing around on hackerrank to prepare for an interview, I had some fun solving tree problems using recursion.
Latest
Going further with ChatGPT
Conditionally debounce value updates, in Swift
Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Convert between image (pixels) and scaleAspectFit UIImageView coordinates like a champ!
Making a zoomable Image, in SwiftUI
A few awesome useful and nice to have tools
Serverless
A few awesome useful and nice to have tools
Homebrew
My go-to tool to install pretty much anything on my Mac, Homebrew is a nearly ubiquitous tool in the Mac-using developer community. Don't believe me? It can be used to install every single macOS app listed here. And that includes the awesome screensaver listed at the end.
HomebrewThe Missing
Separate concerns and optimize client performances with CQRS using Firestore & Firebase Cloud Functions
Make your Firebase Storage files available on upload
Upload a remote file to Firebase Storage (in Node.js)
Add an Apple App Site Association (AASA) to your Wix, Squarespace or whatever website, using Cloudflare Workers
Dynamize (aka variablize) your AWS deployment account using the Serverless framework
Setup CORS in Serverless AWS
Swift Programming
Conditionally debounce value updates, in Swift
Improve your iOS app's performance and enhance your users' experience by learning how to conditionally debounce events.
Also, it's a panacea that solves everything. Ok, almost everything. Depending on how you look at it.
Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Convert between image (pixels) and scaleAspectFit UIImageView coordinates like a champ!
Making a zoomable Image, in SwiftUI
Preserve your images' transparency when saving and sharing them, in Swift
Build OpenCV Contrib as a .xcframework, for iOS, on a M1
Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView
Thoughts
Everybody's doing it (a Stable Diffusion test post)
A few years back, in February 2019, I, like quite a handful of people, heard for the first time of OpenAI's GPT-2. And while it sure was impressive, it only gave us a glimpse of what GPT-3 would be able to do a year later. Impressive wouldn't start to describe
We aren’t that remarkable
Work is a market
It comes down to people buy-in
Everything to be said has already been said…
The dog and the dragon
On blanks and "hum"s…
User Interface
Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView
Once you have tasted SwiftUI, this kind of UIKit lacking makes you wish you could refactor a client's whole codebase at a snap from your fingers. At least the UI side of it. But, alas, there is no magic spell for that. Yet.
What kind of lacking? UITextView doesn't have
Make your UIButtons come to life
Add a bottom divider to your SwiftUI view!
Give your UIViews and UIButtons some rounded edges and a shadow!
