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In this blog I talk about all things Apple and Swift development but my main area of focus is on tooling and automation.
Launch arguments provide a way to configure the behaviour of an app before running UI tests
Exploring the new Swift AWS lambda runtime API and how it enables the use of async/await.
Creating a command line tool using Swift and async/await to collect metrics on GitHub Action workflows.
Some processes, such as a release pipeline, are very important but do not get run frequently. In this article, I go through how scheduled CI runs can help you spot failures early and gain confidence in your important and infrequent processes, such as release pipelines.
How to setup a menu bar only macOS app using AppKit.
A set of examples showing how useful compiler directives can become when building cross-platform Swift programs.
A whistle stop tour through my git configuration, showing how to effectively deal with two different git users and SSH keys.
Building a command plugin to execute Sourcery from scratch and explaining the challenges faced while doing so.
In this article I briefly introduce my new open source Swift Package called ReadingTime. It allows clients to get an estimate reading time from markdown text.
An example of the new SwiftRegex API by refactoring code using NSRegularExpression using the new RegexBuilder framework.
Taking a look at the latest Swift 5.7 development snapshot to try the new explicit-target-dependency-import-check flag, which provides improvements to the dependency system within SPM.
A few tips that work for me when I need to localise a modular application.