Posts tagged "tips"
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Handy git customizations
Git is complicated, and it seems like everyone has a set of customizations they use to try and make it easier to use. Sometimes it aliases for clarifying what exactly
git checkoutwill do. Sometimes it’s a pre-built~/.gitconfigfile that has lots of tweaks and display customizations and options configured. -
Simplifying Backwards Compatibility in Swift
Every year as new OS and Swift versions are released, the question comes up over and over again: “how do I use this new thing while also supporting older versions?”. While we have a bunch of “availability” tools at our disposal (and I’ll be using them in this post), they always come across as somewhat cumbersome: we need to do inline checks, or we have conditional logic flow that obfuscates the intent of some of our code, and so on.
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Simplifying Swift framework development
I’ve developed a handy trick when writing frameworks in Swift that makes the overall process a little bit nicer, and it’s just adding a single file to your framework.
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Level up your debugging skills
Finding the root cause of an error in your app can often feel very intimidating, whether you’re brand-new to programming or you’ve been building coding for decades. Debugging problems can be extremely time consuming. Where do you start looking? How do you know if what you think is the problem is actually the problem?
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Incrementing Build Numbers in Xcode
(This was originally posted in April of 2009 and has been reposted here for posterity)