Posts from June 2020
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HTTP in Swift, Part 3: Request Bodies
Before moving on to sending our
HTTPRequestvalues, let’s make an improvement to our struct. Last time, we ended up with this basic definition: -
HTTP in Swift, Part 2: Basic Structures
In the previous post, we took a look at the structure of HTTP requests and responses. In this post, we’ll transform that information into the types we need to model them in Swift.
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HTTP in Swift, Part 1: An Intro to HTTP
For a while now I’ve had a series of blog posts floating around in my head on how to build an HTTP stack in Swift. The idea started last spring with Rob Napier’s blog posts on protocols, and matured last summer and fall while I was working at WeWork on an internal Swift framework.
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The Missing Accessory
I’ve got a bag of accessories that I cart around that meets about 95% of all the tech needs I tend to have these days, but there’s one accessory I’ve wanted in there that doesn’t exist: the perfect Apple Watch charger.
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Anything worth doing...
I’ve been wanting to blog more, but it’s always seemed like such a hassle. I appreciate the speed and flexibility of statically-generated sites, but the authoring experience around them isn’t that great. On the other hand, the authoring experience on hosted solutions (like Wordpress or Medium) is fantastic, but you lose a lot of the speed of a static site, and the ownership becomes more murky.