I don’t link to every feature announcement on the Swift Package Index here, but this one feels significant, so I’ll give it a mention. Platform filters especially are a huge step forward in finding the right dependency for your project.
Sad news this week as Kristaps Grinbergs announced he was stepping down from the Swift Weekly Brief. I’ve been a big fan for as long as it’s been around, and it’d be a terrible shame if this valuable resource did finally end. Want to help? Reach out to Kristaps on Twitter if you’d be interested in keeping it going.
You may have read Apple’s advice to use the direct download page to download Xcode 13.2 due to an issue with the Mac App Store version.
Directly downloading Xcode is always the best way to install it, even when the Mac App Store version is working, so I thought I’d link to my tool of choice for automating the download. I can also recommend Xcodes, but I find xcinfo
downloads significantly faster.
Thanks to Ish Shabazz for resurrecting this tweet from Luca Bernardi this week. I can’t believe I missed the introduction of this priceless utility method! There’s no documentation page for it at all on Apple’s developer documentation site, presumably omitted due of the _
prefix, but Paul Hudson has a guide on how to use it, because of course Paul Hudson has a guide on how to use it! 😂
I enjoyed this post from Chris Mash as he realises that less is more, at least when it comes to MFMailComposeViewController
and modern versions of iOS.
I still have a vivid memory of spending several days scrolling my first-edition iPad back and forth between two full-screen images in a scroll view, trying to remove the stutter that happened as the second image loaded. The power of an iPad has come a long way since then, as has the power of UIKit for dealing with images. Nishant Desai has a great guide to the most modern techniques for loading images.
Here’s Ed Sanchez with a great example of why good design is invisible. 😍
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I can’t think of a better way to end this year’s “And finally…” than with this wonderfully silly project! 🎅