Do Androids Dream of Electric Memes?
Memes mutate like cultural viruses, copypastas remix text into absurdity—and now, let's accelerate this using LLMs, blending the Navy Seal, Sherlock Holmes, Tintin, Gru, and Terry Pratchett into endless mashups.
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Unwrapping Any, in Swift
If Any is not nil, except when it is, how do we check it and unwrap the underlying?
The Dog
Stories, as everyone knows, have a way of becoming true—and if there’s one story dogs know how to tell, it’s this one.
Reset a whole range of commits, at once, in a single commit, while preserving your Git history
Recover from (nearly) anything, using Git
Ever faced a disaster with git rebase or reset --hard? Don't panic! Today, you'll learn how to undo most mistakes and recover from nearly anything. Perfect for any developer!Turn Git nightmares into success stories!
There is no such thing as a climate alarmist
Imagine betting everything—your life, your children's future—on the unpredictable odds of climate change. The stakes are unimaginably high, and the danger is impossible to overstate. Yet, some would dismiss these warnings as alarmist.
SPM, Github, internal dependencies & SSH auth
Ever tried using Swift Package Manager with dependencies hosted on Github while using SSH? And resolving subdependencies when adding a SPM package through Xcode? Still having nightmare about it? Dry your tears and cry no more: you've come to the right place.
Types are nice: recursive types, in Swift
What's a recursive type, what is it useful for, and how can we implement and use one in Swift? Let's find out!
Fooling around with masks & shadows in SwiftUI
Dive into the technical world of SwiftUI where masks meet shadows. Learn how to creatively manipulate visual elements for stunning interfaces with our comprehensive tutorial, featuring easy-to-follow examples
Halt and Catch Fire: A SwiftUI @StateObject counterexample
Learn how to avoid some trivial SwiftUI state management pitfalls from a dead-simple counterexample of misusing @ObservedObject in SwiftUI
Types are nice, infinite recursion edition
Playing around on hackerrank to prepare for an interview, I had some fun solving tree problems using recursion.
Going further with ChatGPT
Discover the untapped potential of ChatGPT in our latest blog post, and learn how this tool can transform the way you create diagrams and rephrase text, simplifying tedious tasks and enhancing your content!
Conditionally debounce value updates, in Swift
Improve your iOS app's performance and enhance your users' experience by learning how to conditionally debounce events. Also, it's a panacea that solves everything. Ok, almost everything. Depending on how you look at it.
Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Find out why your Swift CLI tool isn't capable of dealing with relative paths, and how to solve it!
Convert between image (pixels) and scaleAspectFit UIImageView coordinates like a champ!
When working with images in iOS, it's sometimes necessary to convert between an image's pixel coordinates and the coordinates of the UIImageView that displays the image. Here's how to do it.
Life is short, and I am wasting mine away
Making a zoomable Image, in SwiftUI
This should have been simple, but it wasn't. So if you too are having a hard time making a zoomable image in SwiftUI, come on in!
A few awesome useful and nice to have tools
Preserve your images' transparency when saving and sharing them, in Swift
Loosing your rounded corners or transparent background when saving an image to the user's photo library or sharing it with UIActivityViewController? It's because it's be turned into a JPEG. Here's how to solve that.
Everybody's doing it (a Stable Diffusion test post)
From a base64 API Key to a json file, in bash, on macOS
While working on a client's app's CI pipeline, I needed to use an API key. However, it was stored as a base64 environment variable, when the tool I needed to use required it to be plaintext in a JSON file. Fun times.
We aren’t that remarkable
I've heard quite a few times that we, as a species, are terrible, destroying the Earth, ourselves, and that we are, all in all, the worse. That's assuming a lot. First and foremost, that we are as smart and great as we think ourselves to be.
Escape a newline in bash on macOS
While setting up a new step for a client's CI pipeline on a macOS agent, I needed to export an API key containing line breaks to a JSON file. Meaning I had to escape line breaks, in bash, on macOS. Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds. Who would've guessed?
Build OpenCV Contrib as a .xcframework, for iOS, on a M1
We needed an OpenCV Contrib module in an iOS app, using Swift Package Manager. I thought the hardest part would be using OpenCV. How wrong I was.
Work is a market
With remote work on the rise, I've seen people debating the fairness of companies adjusting pay based on one's location and cost of living. As if there ever was an intrinsic justification to compensation. Spoiler: there isn't.
Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView
Prevent TypeORM from eating up all your memory
Fixing the "this cannot include CR/LF" error when doing Basic auth in Ruby
Sometimes, opting for sensible defaults seems obvious. Yet, sometimes, the default and most obvious option isn't the most sensible.
Failing to install Windows on your Mac, after Bootcamp let you down, part 1
Where we take the world down with us, and burn it all to the ground. All to play Portal 2. Seems oddly fitting.
Complex-ish SQL queries in Typescript using TypeORM
I have, as a teenager, fiddled around with phpMyAdmin when fooling around with WordPress and OGSpy, back when OGSTeam still relied on SVN for versioning, and I didn't know crap about development, let alone architecture.
Print class-validator validation errors in NestJS
A simple way to print any and all errors in Nest.js, for people who aren't experienced with it.
Validate a nested array of objects GET query parameter using a DTO & class-validator in NestJS
Sometimes, the smallest things take up quite a bit of time. This time, it was a simple serialisation issue.
It comes down to people buy-in
The thought came down onto me as I was leaving a job interview. I don't know where it came from. I didn't care. It was here now. And it was obvious. Whatever the idea. Whatever the project. It all comes down to people buy-in.
Everything to be said has already been said…
There’s a quote by André Gide, a French author, that goes along those lines: "Everything to be said has already been said. But since nobody was listening, it has to be said all over again" ...
How to retrieve a nested relationship using TypeORM
You have a TypeORM entity. It has a relationship. The relationship entity has a nested relationship to a third. And you need that third entity to save the world and crack the bank vault open. How the hell do we get it?
The dog and the dragon
On blanks and "hum"s…
When we don't know, when we need to take some time to consider our answer, to build it. We own it. We own it, we shut up, and we take the time it will take. It's not an issue. On the contrary!
How to export one of those pesky weird PDF forms as a regular PDF
Failing to open a PDF form using Preview? Want to export a PDF form to a regular PDF (on macOS)? Here's the solution you weren't looking for.
Make your UIButtons come to life
After giving our UIViews' both shadows AND rounded corners, today we will learn how to animate UIButtons and make them visually respond to our users' touch!
Covid vaccines reticence is a trust issue
No space left on your Cloud9 environment? Here's how to solve that
While using Cloud9, and installing node dependencies, my instance ran out of space. I couldn't finish setting up my project, and the terminal's autocompletion was dead in the water.
Getting the last two values from an RxSwift Observable
I really can't remember why, but at some point I needed to get a RxSwift Observable's last two values, to compare them and decide what to do next.
A world of waste
Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?
Solve most of your Xcode problems through Cargo Cult
If you are an iOS or macOS developper, you probably work with Xcode. And if you work with Xcode, you've most probably had some weird times where, suddenly, things just stopped working. Here's how to solve that
Separate concerns and optimize client performances with CQRS using Firestore & Firebase Cloud Functions
Optimize your mobile app's performances and run "big" and "complex" queries in NoSQL, using CQRS & Serverless! (in our case, Firestore & Firebase Cloud Functions)
Add a bottom divider to your SwiftUI view!
Where we learn to look around thoroughly before blindly trusting strangers.
Give your UIViews and UIButtons some rounded edges and a shadow!
Somehow, making a button rounded, and then adding a shadow to it, seems to be more difficult than it should. Here's how to do it in Swift!
Life Over The Air
Ever heard of the School of the Air? It's an Australian thing, from deep within the Australian outback. A peculiar and quite unusual one at that, until recently.
Make your Firebase Storage files available on upload
Ever uploaded a file to Firebase Storage, only to be hit with a 403 error when trying to access it? Here's how to get a publicly accessible URL for the file you just uploaded.
Memoize your API calls in Swift using functions' scopes!
Improve your iOS app's performance and battery usage by not repeating expensive computation and network calls, using memoization, in Swift!
Stop hard coding your cells identifiers
Tired of having your app crash on runtime because of a misspelled a tableView's or collectionView's cell identifier? Learn here how to stop that from happening, today!
What do to when your Node.js code crashes because of a circular JSON
You're trying to figure out what some object looks like, and since you're not running your code locally you don't have access to a proper debugger. So you print it. And your whole Node.js app crashes. What do you do?
Scrap an Instagram’s post’s author; a gentle introduction to web scraping in Node.js
Want a 'soft' introduction to web scraping? Need to get some data from an Instagram post? Here's how to get it done, in Node.js, using cheerio!
Swiftly deal with pagination in Swift
Not satisfied with how you're handling pagination in your Swift iOS app? Pretty sure there has to be a better way to paginate your UICollectionView or UITableView? So did I, and here's how I did it!
Localize your push notifications in Node.js
Being a backend developer, there's an unusual thing with push notifications. Devices display what we send. The clients don't have a say in it; they can't remodel and transform them. Meaning, we basically have to do some UI (User Interface), and localize it.
Upload a remote file to Firebase Storage (in Node.js)
Struggling to upload remote files to Firebase Storage? Running on Node.js? You're in luck!
Always handle your table & collection view cell selection properly, using functions
When writing iOS, you will always end up using UITableView or UICollectionView. With them come cells, delegates, datasources, cellForRow(at indexPath:), didSelect,... I've often seen it become (and inherited) an ugly mess. Not anymore.
Preventing distractions on macOS
If you're like me, notifications, alerts and boucing things when working is at least annoying, and down right distracting when you're having a hard time focusing. Like I am right now, which is why I'm writing this post instead of actually working on my side project.
Add an Apple App Site Association (AASA) to your Wix, Squarespace or whatever website, using Cloudflare Workers
How to debug your JSON in Xcode when JSONDecoder fails
Sometimes, JSONDecoder fails. And when that happens, it can be difficult to figure out what went wrong. Not if you can print Data instances!
How to elegantly make sure you only setup your ViewController's UI on viewDidLoad
When handling navigation, we often end up having to pass some sort of state to our view controllers, wether directly or indirectly. Setting endless optional publicly exposed properties feels dirty and is a pain, while setting @IBOutlets before viewDidLoad is crash prone. Let's solve that together.
Dynamize (aka variablize) your AWS deployment account using the Serverless framework
Last time we dynamized your serverless resources based on your deployment stage. Now we'll dynamize your AWS deployment account! Yes, that's right, automation all the way!
Setup CORS in Serverless AWS
Struggling with CORS? Wondering how to get rid of those 'the preflight request has failed' or that 'origin https://whatever.com is not allowed' errors? Let's sort this together.
Dynamize (aka "variabilize") your serverless resources' parameters with the Serverless Framework!
Do some proper namespacing for your DynamoDB tables and kinesis streams, avoid collisions between your features in ci and automatically clean up after you!
Block ads and trackers on your Mac with Little Snitch
Can't figure out which ad-blocker you can trust? Tired of seeing these mattress ads just after you bought one online? Look no further and adopt LittleSnitch!
Use Cognito Federated Identities to authorize API Gateway access... and test it without an SDK!
You're building a Serverless microservice on AWS, authenticated via Cognito Federated Identity, and would like to test it? Read along!
Don't think twice: Caching AWS Lambda behind a custom domain with CloudFront
Cache your AWS Lambda functions results and make your life easier with a custom domain using Cloudfront!
␛the serverless vendor lock-in
You've learned about serverless but want to avoid getting locked-in? Already got burned and promised to yourself it wouldn't happen again? Come aboard!
Using rewire with Jest in Typescript
Want to test some private methods or mock unexposed functions? Having trouble using rewire in Typescript Land? You are in the right place.
Thrice blessed, Oh Core Data !
I was told to stay as far away as I could from Core Data. Some hate the poor thing, and others... don't really dislike him? Let's add my own story to this.
