I’m a digit head. I love learning about new things, exploring technologies, and solving complex tasks so that later I could haughtily look at people who aren’t as tech-savvy as I am. Don’t even get me started on how much I enjoy criticizing the amazing solutions that were created by anyone but me. I look … Continued
Hello there, my sweet fellow developers, Several days ago I had a wonderful discussion with another “senior” dev on LinkedIn about the team management and coding practices. I requested a code sample in order to assess, if i want to spend time on him. Well, what can I say, the code was horrible. Later on … Continued
Hello there, my sweet fellow developers, Disclaimer: I must be honest with you. I’ve just named the post like that to try and make it a clickbait on Medium. But, if you’ve been reading me, I don’t actually give a shit, if anyone reads me, I just want to share the knowledge I have in … Continued
Coding practices at their worst. A rant about retain loops that appear when instance methods are used as callbacks. Hello there, my sweet fellow developers, Recently one of LA-based startups I am acquainted with approached me to ask for the code assessment. They had terrible problems with code instability, random crashes and stuff like that. … Continued
Optional is far more than just a simple conditional statement. It’s a great type, that has a lot up its sleeve. Lets take a look at how you could actually use Optionals without using conditionals.
Any and Any? in Swift are weird. We venture forth into the depth of unknown using Swift Reflection API as the basis for our research and find out some inconsistent behaviors for Swift casting API, when working with Any. Recently, when playing around with Swift Reflection API, I stumbled upon a painful problem. Basically, when … Continued
Coding practices at their worst. Rant about why force in Swift should never be used.
Simplify your life by imposing additional conventions in Swift.
Swift iflet and guard haters, you are welcome. I have an extension to the topic for you.