Category Archives: Ranting and Reflections

RealityKit on macOS

Guessing which frameworks are going to be updated, and which aren’t, is — I think — a part of developing software on Apple platforms. Sometimes it’s clear based on what’s been updated over the past three or fours, as is the case with RealityKit. I started my experiments with SceneKit, another lovely high-level API toContinue reading “RealityKit on macOS”

Tips for getting the most out of DocC

1 – Start by adding doc comments to your types. The starting point is adding a single short summary sentence as comment (using the ///) for each public type in your library or app. Feel free to add more: if you add a “blank line” (meaning include another line with /// but nothing else inContinue reading “Tips for getting the most out of DocC”

Hosting your Swift Library Docs on Github Pages

The beta for Xcode 13.3 dropped yesterday. With it came a released version of Swift 5.6 and a bunch of neat additions that the 5.6 release enables. A feature I was watching closely was two-fold: the capability for plugins to extend the commands available within swift’s package manager, and a static hosting option that wasContinue reading “Hosting your Swift Library Docs on Github Pages”

API Design decisions behind Lindenmayer in Swift

Procedural generation of art is fascinating to me. The scope of efforts that fall into the bucket of procedural generation is huge. Quite a lot of what you find is either focused on art or video games. Within procedural generation, there is a topic that really caught my eye, I think primarily because it wasn’tContinue reading “API Design decisions behind Lindenmayer in Swift”

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”

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”