Embracing the AppKit Ways

After starting the day with a pro-SwiftUI rant, to my surprise I end it with an embrace of traditional, tested and true AppKit patterns.

Not Quite 100% SwiftUI – Time Makes Perfect

Marin Todorov's “A 100% SwiftUI App” talk from this year's Swift Heroes went life (and it's really worth the half hour!)

TableFlip v1.5.0 Released

This update brings HTML export, more LaTeX export options, and much improved performance!

Sparkle v2.5 Adds Relevant Version Highlighting to Release Notes

With Sparkle v2.5, you can ship release notes for multiple versions, and then use CSS to hide outdated information from the user.

Portable Painter Micro Palette

As a birthday gift, I got the Portable Painter Micro watercolor palette with some new colors. Here’s my first sketch with it.

UserDefaults.register(defaults:) Is a Bit Like Nil-Coalescing

Mental model: registering fallback values for UserDefaults is like Optional coalescing in Swift.

Year 36, a 🎂 Retrospective

Some bullet points (and stats) about my previous year in life.