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You are building the next best thing. You are scoping out some amazing features. But now you have to add a way for someone running your software to configure things. So, you break out the JSON parser and start coding the interpretation of your new-fangled config file format.
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Apple tends to bring improvements to the UI on each major platform release. One of these nice improvements is the new Action Menu List. The Action Menu List is a nicely animated menu, typically under a button at the bottom left of an app’s message entry screen. When building for iOS 17 and beyond, you’ll want to build a UI that takes the best of what Apple shows us.
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This is an excerpt from an article about Vale I wrote for the Stream Blog.
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Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the process of actively organising and creating connections between the information and ideas that you encounter in your life. PKM helps you to better understand, remember, and use this information, ultimately leading to increased productivity and creativity.[^1]
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To give myself some perspective, I tend to list a few of the things I did in 2022. If I don't write what I did on a regular basis, I tend to get the idea I cruise along career-wise, which makes me increase my efforts to a rate I can not sustain. The funny thing is, in hindsight, I always see and think I did get many things done.
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Of course, you can isolate things by running a tool like NVM, RBEnv, or PyEnv. But there is still a risk of doing something to your system that will break things, causing you to spend loads of time fixing your setup for your current main project.
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Do iOS is a conference in Amsterdam. It is the 4th edition. Previous editions were organized in 2015, 2016, and 2018. The event itself has quite an interesting history. The best part is I have been involved with each edition.
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On October 4, 2022 I took delivery of a KeyboardIO Model-100 keyboard.
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On September 15, 2022 I took delivery of a BenQ Screenbar.
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I've read a tweet the other day with someone asking wether or not doing no coding at all besides your dayjob is a problem or not. This person was clearly someone not doing much coding besides his own dayjob and was curious to learn if that's ok or not.
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On august 11, 2021 I took delivery of a KeyboardIO Atreus keyboard. And I have been using the Atreus for over 10 months now and I just love this keyboard. Sometimes I still need to look keys on the reference card. But I am mostly able to just write and program with it and my typing speed is on the same level as it was on a regular keyboard.
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Choosing between UIKit or SwiftUI to be your main implementation framework is a big decision. We will explore some of the characteristics of both frameworks and list their pros and cons.
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On august 11, 2021 I took delivery of a KeyboardIO Atreus keyboard.
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As a mindful exercise I kept track of things I do in Xcode that might not seem obvious to a new user. Maybe all things are known. But who knows maybe there is a little gem in here. I use more shortcuts, but these I use most often by far.
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Recently we I needed to implement an API in an app requiring a TLS client certificate.
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When building an iOS project, you probably want to have some form of continuous integration working on your codebase.
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