Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Find out why your Swift CLI tool isn't capable of dealing with relative paths, and how to solve it!
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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
Preserve your images' transparency when saving and sharing them, in Swift
Everybody's doing it (a Stable Diffusion test post)
From a base64 API Key to a json file, in bash, on macOS
Serverless
A few awesome useful and nice to have tools
Intro. Mainly Mac-oriented
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
Separate concerns and optimize client performances with CQRS using Firestore & Firebase Cloud Functions
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
Dynamize (aka "variabilize") your serverless resources' parameters with the Serverless Framework!
Use Cognito Federated Identities to authorize API Gateway access... and test it without an SDK!
Swift Programming
Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Find out why your Swift CLI tool isn't capable of dealing with relative paths, and how to solve it!
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
Make your UIButtons come to life
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!
