Composition Over Inheritance in NSViews

I noticed that I’m writing some AppKit/UIKit view components in a composable way that reminds me of the opaque nature of SwiftUI.View-conforming types: hiding away the actual 1st party APIs, providing very little surface area.

Alex Ozun: Type-Driven Design with Swift (SwiftCraft 2024)

The talk “Type-Driven Design with Swift” by Alex Ozun covers interesting topics and presents type-based solutions to software development problems in an easy-to-grasp way.

Checklists Appreciated Under Stress

Giving birth to a child includes managing stressed-out hospital staff, too. Checklists would’ve helped along the way at every turn. And they still help me to get stuff done in an otherwise unorganized daily routine.

Typed Filters and callAsFunction

Combining three Swift features for the sake of expressivitiy: sum types aka enums, callAsFunction to introduce “callable” semantics, and type extensions to beautify call sites.

Fairphone Fairbuds Are a Great Idea (Only)

I tried to get the Fairphone Fairbuds to work, but failed. I still like the idea. But the UX and execution is terrible.

Expecting a Child

A formal request for tips and tricks.

Pretty-Printing Variables, Objects, and Functions in JavaScriptCore

A JavaScript function for debugging that stringifies an object including its functions so you can evaluate the result again.