2024-04-22 23:50
Because of habits ingrained in me, by default I tend to reach for synchronous, blocking APIs when reading and writing data to and from disk. This causes problems with Swift’s cooperati… Read More
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Personal blog of a Mac software engineer; musings on religion, programming, Apple, and other random things.
2024-04-14 21:35
Alternative title: A concurrency limiter for Swift async/await
This post is really for me and my future self to help clarify my thinking about modeling asynchronous operations in Swift async… Read More
2024-04-14 19:56
In the brave new world of Swift async/await, a problem I sometimes encounter is how to communicate between Tasks. More specifically, if I need one Task to wait on a condition to be true as a… Read More
2020-11-14 19:47
I’ve pushed a small update to NativeMarkKit, my native Markdown rendering framework. It adds some SwiftUI wrappers that incorporate workarounds for the UIKit-SwiftUI interop bugs. It a… Read More
2020-08-29 14:15
I’d like to announce the release of one of my side projects: NativeMarkKit. NativeMarkKit is a Swift package implementing the rendering of NativeMark. What’s NativeMark? Well, it… Read More
2020-08-22 16:07
This is a quick write-up of an unexpected SwiftUI limitation I encountered recently. In my own searching, I couldn’t find it documented anywhere so I’m hoping this post will help… Read More
2019-01-21 16:23
I’ve been building a macOS/iOS front for my Swift Vapor side project. When I first started I simply duplicated the API HTTP request and response information between the client and serv… Read More
2019-01-13 15:13
In my Swift Vapor side project, there have been a couple of instances where I wanted to run some periodic tasks. My needs were pretty simple: every X amount of time, I wanted to run a closur… Read More
2019-01-06 15:59
As I’ve been using Swift Vapor 3, one of the things that I felt could be better was the way routes were declared. So I built a framework to meet my Vapor routing needs. If you’d… Read More
2018-12-30 14:37
Like most services these days, my Vapor side project needs to send welcome emails when a user signs up for the service. While I could write my own SMTP client, it would still require a lot o… Read More
2018-12-21 20:11
For my little Vapor side project, I need to have some visibility into what’s going on when it’s deployed. There are lots of solutions for this sort of thing, but since this is si… Read More
2018-12-16 14:46
As I’m getting further into my Vapor side project, I’m learning how writing Swift iOS/macOS apps is different from writing Swift server apps. One of the ways they are different i… Read More
2018-12-09 15:48
When I started this post, I was planning on talking about Vapor integration testing. But in the thick of that, I found myself on a substantial rabbit trail talking about environment configur… Read More
2018-12-02 15:42
The last time I got to yammering on, I mentioned I was building a side project in Vapor 3. When I got to setting up authentication for this project, I decided to use JWTs for reasons that ar… Read More
2018-11-25 17:30
Recently, I’ve been dabbling in server-side Swift with a side project. Currently I’m using Vapor 3, which has its own ORM called Fluent. With my little side project I had the des… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I’m happy to announce another round of bug fixes and performance enhancements for VectorBoolean, my library for implementing boolean operations on vector graphics.
These fixes were pos… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
At the end of a software release it’s common to do a postmortem to determine what went right and what went wrong. It’s a serious time of reflection, important for learning how to… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I went through all the sample code projects on this blog and moved them to Mercurial repositories on my BitBucket account. I did this so the code would be searchable and so I can accept pull… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I regretfully announce that most of Fortunate Bear’s products have been discontinued and support ended effective immediately. Specifically the products terminated are Illuminate, Skysc… Read More
2016-01-31 15:22
Last time I said I’d be writing about kalerl, my Kaleidoscope implementation targeting BEAM. However, I’ve decided I’d rather build a new language targeting BEAM, and docum… Read More
2013-08-19 22:10
I am now available for doing Mac and iOS contracting through my company, Fortunate Bear. Email me at andy at fortunatebear if you’re interested Read More
2013-06-04 00:34
I’m doing a soft release of my new product, Newsline Pro. It’s an RSS reader, fetcher, and store-er thingie similar in concept to Google Reader. It stores full feeds (individual… Read More
2013-05-09 00:56
I’m looking for beta testers for my RSS news reader. Right now the only client is a web app (mobile and retina ready) so that’s what you would be testing. If you are interested… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Like most developers I suspect, I enjoy having a side project to work on during vacations. Almost always it’s something completely different from the day job; something I’m inter… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Almost two weeks ago I started my new full time position at Walmart Labs. I’ve been contracting with them for about the past seven months, working on the iOS app for ASDA. It’s b… Read More
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