Deep Dish Swift issued a call for papers, and since speaking at a conference was on my list of goals for 2025 I applied to speak. As a first time presenter I didn't expect my talk to get selected, but it was! In this article I'll give you the run down on what the process was like; from application, to preparation, and rehearsals… all the way to after the talk.
May 01 2025
Did you know that SwiftUI has Markdown support and you can put links in your text… and they work? Well that's old news now, in this article I'll show you how to hijack the SwiftUI Markdown link and treat it like a button to run any code you want!
December 23 2024
Managing localized strings can be difficult. But, there are some tools on how to manage localized strings in iOS to make sure we don't royally mess things up. In this article, we'll cover how to utilize compile time checks and prevent errors with localized strings.
December 17 2024
One thing I've learned is to **just freaking** let the compiler prevent me from making mistakes. Sometimes that's hard to do, then I learned about something called a Domain Primitive and I decided to give it a try in Swift.
August 21 2024
At WWDC 2022, Apple announced a new navigation paradigm that simplifies managing a user's navigation stack immensely! Take a look at the new Navigation Stack, available on iOS 16 and macOS 13
August 07 2022
Set up deep linking in your SwiftUI app with ease! In this article we'll cover the apple-app-site-association file, associated domains, receiving the deep link, and parsing information off of it.
July 30 2022
Swift Stack Traces are not very useful in most logs because they're obfuscated. In this article, we'll learn how to determine the call site in a usable way using Swift's #file, #line, & #function
July 28 2022
Learn how to use Codable enum's in Swift to handle Polymorphic Serialization.
November 20 2021
Now that you understand Mocking and Stubbing, I'll show you how to avoid writing hand-rolled mocks using Mockingbird; an amazing framework that makes unit testing a breeze.
March 04 2021
What are Mocking and Stubbing and how do those concepts help write write cleaner, more effective unit tests in Swift. We'll explore Protocol Oriented Programming and hand-rolled mocks.
March 03 2021
Unwrap or Throw - Make Swift's equivalent to Kotlin's Elvis Operator! A Tutorial for adding Custom Operators in Swift.
January 04 2021