I found this among my notes from 2013, and think it’s a fun little tool for analog productivity – the portable Kanban board! It’s a foldable personal Kanban board, suitable as an Every Day Carry in either A3 or A4 size (or US Letter or whatever). This produces four quadrants and the folded size is ideal to stuff it into a backpack, book, or maybe even your pants. Thus, it’s convenient to transport to university, school, or work.
Here’s an anecdote for you: Imagine a dev team that performs task estimates expressed in “story points”, Agile style, and encounters a large estimate. Large, in this team, means “13 or more.” Then in one of these sessions, a specific task initially received an estimation of 13 story points. This marks the team’s threshold for considering the division of tasks into more manageable pieces by convention.
Chris Eidhof and team launched the SwiftUI Field Guide website today.
I noticed that Chris fiddled with JavaScript animations and layout representations to mimick SwiftUI as close as possible and wondered what kind of e-book could be upcoming, but it turns out it’s a website!
As a resource to learn, the approximations are more than good enough. They are excellent and by virtue of being interactive, they are also much better to get a feeling for everything than the SwiftUI documentation’s images can ever be. There’s only so much an API documentation can teach you before you need to observe how it really behaves.
Since it’s in a browser, the preview is of course even faster than Xcode Previews would be, and without the crashes. (Oh, the crashes …)
I wish the SwiftUI Field Guide had been available a year ago when I had to figure out so many things through trial and error!
Some sections apparently aren’t finished yet (they’re greyed-out), but you can learn a lot about the reverse-engineered layout system’s inner workings.
I’m looking for testers for my macOS apps TableFlip and WordCounter to get an opinion on Reach out if that’s you! hi@christiantietze.de
Went through some old notes this week (I’m doing this AppKit/UIKit stuff for surprisingly many years!) and found a problem with the tags I used in one of my notes. Let’s dive right in with an example: It’s a how-to note with a code snippet. Its tags are: #appkit, #image, #screenshot.
In this fourth and probably still not final part of my series on NSToolbarItems with segmented controls, I just want to share a problem and a quick fix that Nathan Manceaux-Panot brought up today. The series spans 8 years and is this: Nathan recently went through the series to implement segmented controls in toolbars but discovered that the overflow menu items would not enable (a validation problem) and when they enable, they don’t fire the action. When he brought this up today, I investigated.