The story I recently spent a few hours helping a friend of mine investigate a weird issue in their Continuous Development infrastructure. Builds were failing with different fatal errors mostly related to SDK paths and .platform directory locations. …

Grammarly is a lovely writing assistant. Twenty million people use the tool across the globe according to the statistics available on the site. I use it too. No complaints, it does its job quite well, and I am a happy user. The only thing that always worried me is the…

xed is a command-line tool that launches the Xcode application and opens the given documents ( xcodeproj, xcworkspace, etc.), or opens a new document, optionally with the contents of standard input. If you work from the command line, this tool is a better option than open (which can open Xcode…

Overview I am a bit late to the party, but still. Robert C. Martin, colloquially known as “Uncle Bob”, gave an exciting talk in May 2016 about the future of programming. …

Recently, I noticed that one of the emojis on iOS has changed between iOS updates. It was enough to make me curious about recent changes, and now I have all the diffs for emojis between iOS 13.0 and iOS 13.3. In the article below, I will explain how I collected…

(Updated. Xcode 10.2 Beta) — Swift Package Manager doesn’t work with iOS. That’s probably all you can say about the current state of SPM, but insomnia forced me to expand on the issue and compile the following essay. TL;DR Yes, you can build iOS frameworks with Swift Package Manager; Yes, you can adjust settings via .xcconfig…

New betas are here and these are some of the most important things that I have learned about them. Swift 5 for Xcode 10.2 beta Swift Firstly, the latest Xcode beta is bundled with the following Swift version: Apple Swift version 5.0 (swiftlang-1001.0.45.7 clang-1001.0.37.7) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0 ABI version: 0.6 Let’s start with the most exciting news: Swift…