A series of articles on SwiftUI application development — SwiftUI was introduced at WWDC 19 and launched with iOS 13. Since its introduction SwiftUI has generated a ton of interest, a bit of controversy, and a lot of articles. Including my own. I’ve written rather extensively on SwiftUI, on SwiftUI application architectures, and on issues and hidden gotchas that…

You want your articles and writing to stand out… so why are you blending in? — Back in the day when we had actual paper magazines, publishers usually had a “slush” pile of stories that came in from hopeful authors. But many of those articles and stories were automatically rejected by editors as being in the “everyone in the known universe has already submitted one of…

AnyView’s “performance problems”… and solutions. — AnyView has problems. Really. Ask any seasoned iOS developer and they’ll tell you that AnyView has problems. Problems so significant, in fact, that the majority of SwiftUI developers completely ignore it and some shops prohibit its use altogether. It’s that bad. Ask why it’s bad, however, and most developers will…

I improved Factory’s dictionary lookup performance by over 500%! Can you do the same in your app? — This article is an in-depth exploration of how to create dictionary keys that are fast and performant under all circumstances, and why String-based keys often fail in that regard. It includes actual examples and performance data taken from Factory, my open-source dependency injection library. Ready? Let’s get into it.

A dedication and approach to lifelong learning… — I was challenged by Carlo Sales on LinkedIn to provide my backstory and approach to learning. I did, but then thought that discussion might be appropriate here as well. The Backstory Both the backstory and my approach to learning are pretty much based on the fact that as I kid I started…

Saturday Night Live first aired on October 11, 1975, and this Emmy award-winning show has been running on NBC ever since. It’s widely considered to be an American late-night institution and continues to this day to earn critical praise and attention. Initially, however, things were quite a bit different. SNL’s…

If Apple will not lead, then someone else will do so. — “The Kotlin Multiplatform technology is designed to simplify the development of cross-platform projects. It reduces time spent writing and maintaining the same code for different platforms while retaining the flexibility and benefits of native programming.” ~ Kotlin.org It’s the Holy Grail of mobile application developers — and management — everywhere.

The announcement has finally been made, and now most of us are aware of Apple’s new Vision Pro; it’s initial entry into the augmented reality space. We’ve seen the device. Seen the demos. And, somewhat shockingly, we’ve also seen the device’s starting price of $3,500. Which immediately left many people…

And no, I’m NOT talking about Vision Pro. — Maybe I just need to take the same, exact article that I’ve written each and every year for the past three years and run it through ChatGPT. That way I wouldn’t be writing this by hand and making myself even angrier than I already am. I’m speaking, of course, of…