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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.

Always handle your table & collection view cell selection properly, using functions

Always handle your table & collection view cell selection properly, using functions

When writing iOS, you will always end up using UITableView or UICollectionView. With them come cells, delegates, datasources, cellForRow(at indexPath:), didSelect,... I've often seen it become (and inherited) an ugly mess. Not anymore.

Preventing distractions on macOS

Preventing distractions on macOS

If you're like me, notifications, alerts and boucing things when working is at least annoying, and down right distracting when you're having a hard time focusing. Like I am right now, which is why I'm writing this post instead of actually working on my side project.

Add an Apple App Site Association (AASA) to your Wix, Squarespace or whatever website, using Cloudflare Workers

Add an Apple App Site Association (AASA) to your Wix, Squarespace or whatever website, using Cloudflare Workers

I currently work at Spotr [https://spotr.app], a company building a mobile app. We rely on Wix for the landing page, for the simple reason that it's simple enough to use for the rest of team to update it and design it themselves, letting me focus on

How to debug your JSON in Xcode when JSONDecoder fails

How to debug your JSON in Xcode when JSONDecoder fails

Sometimes, JSONDecoder fails. And when that happens, it can be difficult to figure out what went wrong. Not if you can print Data instances!

How to elegantly make sure you only setup your ViewController's UI on viewDidLoad

How to elegantly make sure you only setup your ViewController's UI on viewDidLoad

When handling navigation, we often end up having to pass some sort of state to our view controllers, wether directly or indirectly. Setting endless optional publicly exposed properties feels dirty and is a pain, while setting @IBOutlets before viewDidLoad is crash prone. Let's solve that together.

Dynamize (aka variablize) your AWS deployment account using the Serverless framework

Dynamize (aka variablize) your AWS deployment account using the Serverless framework

Last time we dynamized your serverless resources based on your deployment stage. Now we'll dynamize your AWS deployment account! Yes, that's right, automation all the way!

Setup CORS in Serverless AWS

Setup CORS in Serverless AWS

Struggling with CORS? Wondering how to get rid of those 'the preflight request has failed' or that 'origin https://whatever.com is not allowed' errors? Let's sort this together.