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Adding DocC to an existing swift package

During WWDC 21, Apple announced that they would be open sourcing documentation tooling (DocC) that’s used to build and provide documentation within Apple. At the tail end of October 2021, the initial version of DocC was released — available on Github, scattered through multiple repositories: swift-docc swift-docc-render swift-docc-symbolkit Apple hosts documentation about DocC (presumably writtenContinue reading “Adding DocC to an existing swift package”

A time for change

For some reason, the fall seems to match the most with the inflection points in my life where I’ve made notable changes. This fall is no different, as today is the last day of a contract position that I started just before the COVID lockdown. The 18 month gig was wonderful – sometimes a bitContinue reading “A time for change”

Kubernetes and Developers

Three years ago (April, 2018) Packt published my book Kubernetes for Developers. There weren’t many books related to Kubernetes on the market, and the implementation of Kubernetes was still early – solid, but early. Looking back, I’m pleased with the content I created. It’s still useful today, and for technical content that is pretty darnedContinue reading “Kubernetes and Developers”

Concurrency, Combine, and Swift 5.5

I started a post that brings together all the moving parts that have been discussed in the various concurrency proposals that are going into Swift 5.5. They’re all accessible through GitHub, and the discussions in the public forums. The combined view of all the moving parts is complex. I was aiming to post something thisContinue reading “Concurrency, Combine, and Swift 5.5”

Why I don’t want Xcode on the iPad — macOS and iPadOS

With the impressive announcement of the latest iPad Pro’s now being available with the M1 chip, seems like a whole lot of people (in the communities I follow) are talking about the announcement with a general theme of “WTF are we going to do with that chip in there?” Often they’re Apple-platform developers and sayingContinue reading “Why I don’t want Xcode on the iPad — macOS and iPadOS”

Second Guessing Yourself

I’m working through the book: Crafting Interpreters. The author — Bob Nystrom — used Java for the first half of the book, a lovely choice, but I wanted to try it using the Swift programming language. Translating it on the fly was a means to exercise my programming and language knowledge muscles, and that doesContinue reading “Second Guessing Yourself”

Translating Java Into Swift

I’m working through the online book Crafting Interpreters, (which I highly recommend, if you’re curious about how such things are built). While going through it, I’m making a stab at translating the example code in the book (which is in Java) into Swift. This is not something I’m very familiar with, so I’m trying aContinue reading “Translating Java Into Swift”

Iterating through Strings in Swift

I recently decided to dive into a new bit of learning – creating my own software language interpreter. No, I’ve not gone stark raving mad due to COVID isolation, it is an interesting challenge that I wanted to understand better. Over a year ago, I remember Gus mentioning the process of creating an online bookContinue reading “Iterating through Strings in Swift”

Nested Observable Objects in SwiftUI

This one often starts with the phrase: Hey, why isn’t my view updating? It shows the initial data, but it doesn’t update when that data gets changed! … more than one person, including me … When you get into seeing the code for the view, how it’s formed, and what the models look like, youContinue reading “Nested Observable Objects in SwiftUI”

Integrating SwiftUI Bindings and Combine

A misconception I had when first learning SwiftUI and Combine was that SwiftUI relied on Combine alone for updating data. There was a throw-away comment in one of the 2019 WWDC presentations (Data Flow through SwiftUI) relating the two, and I over-interpreted it to mean that SwiftUI solely used Combine. To be very clear –Continue reading “Integrating SwiftUI Bindings and Combine”