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News
Hummingbird 2
I wrote about Vaporās plans to take better advantage of Swift concurrency last week, and this week hummingbird announced a version 2.0 with a very similar goal. Hereās Adam Fowler with the details.
swift.org
Appleās App Store terms are still not compliant with the DMA
I have no idea if this is true or not, but it sounds like Appleās hassles with the DMA are far from over. No surprise there, and I expect this to drag on for years.
theplatformlaw.blog
Code
Morphology
I liked this little tip from Michael Liberatore about using Morphology in Foundation to format plural strings that donāt include the number. š
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An Xcode Detective Story
I couldn't have predicted an underlying issue as dramatic as āhalf of our app's features duplicated in memoryā, whenever a user re-logged. Or a solution as simple as moving a
[weak self]capture one line up.
I love a good debugging story.
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The weirdest Core Data crash I have seen
Iām sure I have already heard about the situation that Filip NÄmeÄek recently found himself in. I may have even linked to another blog post about this, it certainly rings a bell! Regardless, youāll want to be aware of this restriction if you use Core Data (and presumably SwiftData too!)
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Itās go time for iOS 18, macOS 15, and all their friends! Your app updates that you slaved over throughout the summer are probably already pending release and it all kicks off on Monday!
I've been running the betas recently, and the iPhone Mirroring feature confuses me. It works well when my phone is close by, but I accidentally left it downstairs in the kitchen a few days ago and attempted to use mirroring for a real task for the first time. Unfortunately, it failed to connect because my phone was too far away. š«¤
Now, before you start thinking I live in a mansion and I was trying to connect between my office the east wing to my kitchen in the west wing, I wish I did! my kitchen is at the bottom of the stairs and my office is at the top. Maybe 6 metres away. Iāve not found anyone else complaining about range, but every demo Iāve seen, even Appleās has the phone sitting right next to the Mac.
So, Iāve been thinking about why this feature exists.
Itās part of the Continuity set of features, which have (at least for me) been a tremendous success. Itās possible some of them were a little flaky at first, but they are rock solid now and I couldnāt live without seamless copy and paste between my phone and my Mac. ā¤ļø
The second half of the iPhone Mirroring demo was all about using it for drag and drop between devices. A feature that feels much more a part of the Continuity set of features. I wonder if thatās the true purpose of what Apple built, and all the other parts of it are just what it took to make that work? Certainly if my phone is sitting directly next to me, Iād rather pick it up than use it with my mouse in a window on my Mac.
I do wish it would work from my kitchen for those occasional times I accidentally leave my phone downstairs. That said, a few more flights of stairs every day will do me more good than harm!
Dave Verwer