Staring In My Face, But I Ain’t Looking: Simplifying RxSwift Subscriptions

Feb 1st, 2025

When I addressed the second-to-last RxSwift reentrancy warning this week, I already cut my teeth on very simple state updates and refactored a them in a way that like much better now. I left the gnarly text editing component, the most involved piece of UI in a text editor, for last.

My Declarative Breakthrough: Wherein I Stop Thinking in Terms of Object Collaboration

Oct 12th, 2016

I just grokked how value transformations can not be a pain in tests. I’m writing a simple export module which takes a table from TableFlip and renders it as LaTeX. So the input is a Table and the output a String. But the module is not just a single function, mind you. That’d be a huge function, and not very open for configuration changes later. I factored it into a few sub-components, of course.