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ElFitz

iOS and Serverless freelance software engineer, working remotely since 2018. Core drive? Automation. Some jobs and tasks just shouldn't have to be done by anyone anymore.

We aren’t that remarkable

We aren’t that remarkable

I've heard quite a few times that we, as a species, are terrible, destroying the Earth, ourselves, and that we are, all in all, the worse. That's assuming a lot. First and foremost, that we are as smart and great as we think ourselves to be.

Escape a newline in bash on macOS

Escape a newline in bash on macOS

While setting up a new step for a client's CI pipeline on a macOS agent, I needed to export an API key containing line breaks to a JSON file. Meaning I had to escape line breaks, in bash, on macOS. Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds. Who would've guessed?

Build OpenCV Contrib as a .xcframework, for iOS, on a M1

Build OpenCV Contrib as a .xcframework, for iOS, on a M1

We needed an OpenCV Contrib module in an iOS app, using Swift Package Manager. I thought the hardest part would be using OpenCV. How wrong I was.

Work is a market

Work is a market

With remote work on the rise, I've seen people debating the fairness of companies adjusting pay based on one's location and cost of living. As if there ever was an intrinsic justification to compensation. Spoiler: there isn't.

Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView

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

Prevent TypeORM from eating up all your memory

Prevent TypeORM from eating up all your memory

Recently, a client told me that the code I had written to sync their systems and a new datasource blew up their AWS EC2 instances. Apparently, the synchronisation engine kept getting killed for using up too much memory. More than a few gigabytes, actually. To sync a few tens of

Fixing the "this cannot include CR/LF" error when doing Basic auth in Ruby

Fixing the "this cannot include CR/LF" error when doing Basic auth in Ruby

Sometimes, opting for sensible defaults seems obvious. Yet, sometimes, the default and most obvious option isn't the most sensible.