Wiki and Website Updates
I’ve added a couple of “hidden pages” to the website:
10 Year Indieversary: AMA On Sep 6th
I realized that my official 10th “company” anniversary is just around the corner! To celebrate and hang out with people online, I’d like to party with all of you in a live chat and video. To round things up, I’m doing this Ask Me Anything style. No agenda from my part, but I’m open to any questions and inquiries.
SwiftUI Isn’t Easy to Get Into: My Road From Headache Towards Mastery
How long does it take to become a true SwiftUI master? How far am I on my own way to mastery? 🤔 Let’s quantify and have a wild guess! I start this introspective journey by looking at another topic I feel like I could become quite the expert, even though I am painfully aware of how much I still don’t know – Text Kit.
Drawing Studies: Tonal Values
This time I remembered to record our weekly sketch-together over Discord. Here’s a 4x speed version with narration of this evening’s sketches. The focus was on tonal values, so no colors, just pen and ink, then ink washes on watercolor paper. The paper I used here is the Moleskine watercolor pocket book (Affiliate link). I don’t like that paper for watercolor paintings, but it’s great for ink washes, because it absorbs the ink quite rapidly (unlike regular drawing paper).
Rely on @Published Property Wrapper Events, Not the Observed Object
Pop quiz! What is the output of this program, e.g. when run in a playground or an autoclosure block? The documentation indicates as much, but it can still be a surprise in your programs when you treat the @Published event as a mere signal to read multiple values from the observed object.
Schedule End of the Work Day Using Org
To get more structure into my day so I get work stuff done in time and have free time in the evenings to tackle other things, I’m now experimenting with notifications to end the work day. The following is a translated version of the current data. I am using the German term "Feierabend" (which you can shout well); “end of work” is a bit clumsy, and it doesn’t sound like an exclamation.
Output Port Adapter for Single Point of Configuration in Complex UI
When you have nested and complex UI components with multiple sub-view controllers, passing an optional output port (event handler or delegate) down the tree is cumbersome. There are two straight-forward approaches: The second option is “cleaner”, but for a two or three object component might also feel a bit too much.