Inception

I came to remind you of what you once knew

Russ Bishop
September 09, 2016

Bar Ziony was asking about using type erasure to create a property that can contain any possible adopter of a protocol, but without using generics. I posted a gist but wanted to go over it in more detail, plus answer some follow-up questions.

Prerequisites

We'll start with a protocol and two types that adopt the . . .

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Apple File System

Ding

Russ Bishop
June 15, 2016

Update

Ars has some updated information, including details about the snapshotUtil apfs_snapshot utility.

Original

The Apple File System is still a slightly mysterious beast. Apple has reason to be cautious: A new file system is always a huge undertaking and the risks couldn't be higher: a serious bug can cause . . .

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Xcode Extensions

A brave new world

Russ Bishop
June 14, 2016

Xcode 8 now supports an official extension API. The first extension type supported is the Source Editor extension (though probably not the last). The flip-side is that Xcode 8 adopts System Integrity Protection. That means it is no longer possible to inject code into the Xcode process. Alcatraz is closed for business.

Basics of . . .

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Packing Bytes in Swift

It's Unsafe Pointers All The Way Down

Russ Bishop
May 12, 2016

Today I want to do a small exercise in packing some Float32s into a SQLite Binary Large Object (BLOB) column. Sure I could use JSON, protobuf, or some other encoding. Yes I could also use NSNumber, NSArray, and NSCoder or plists.

Instead I want to do this purely in Swift and mostly analogous to what you'd do in C because . . .

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Swift: Why Associated Types?

It's rabbit holes all the way down

Russ Bishop
May 03, 2016

Associated Types Series

In my last article I gave an incorrect explanation for why Swift has associated types. It was half-correct in that specific knowledge of the types gives the compiler the ability to optimize but . . .

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Swift Associated Types, cont.

Sure, let's go down this rabbit hole again

Russ Bishop
April 28, 2016

Update: I originally hit publish too soon; this is the updated article.

I don't feel like I fully covered one aspect of protocols with associated types: why can they be such a pain to work with?

Why Associated Types

This rabbit hole just keeps on going; see my third article in the Associated Types series for a . . .

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Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Plain English

This is a no-bullshit zone

Russ Bishop
April 18, 2016

Let's learn what Monads, Applicatives, and Functors are, only instead of relying on obscure functional vocabulary or category theory we'll just, you know, use plain english instead.

Functors

Functors are containers you can call map on. That's it. Seriously.

A million words of category theory and Haskell . . .

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