This GitHub merge strategy will help you make sense of how code changed | Continue reading
With his famous pipe wrench lecture, Vannevar Bush taught young MIT engineers the value of precision. The same teaching holds true for software developers. | Continue reading
iOS 14 introduces Widgets, a feature that makes it incredibly easy to get distracted. | Continue reading
In Xcode 12, the default branch name is main instead of master. This little language change has deeper implications and stirred up an hornets' nest. | Continue reading
A look at the practical benefits of writing descriptive commits | Continue reading
A collection of ways to run a single test or a subset of tests using Xcode. | Continue reading
"You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you." | Continue reading
Professional chefs keep their benches clean because clutter will get in the way of their work. Software developers should do the same. | Continue reading
An overview of the different kind of doubles we can use in our tests, and how to write them in Swift. | Continue reading
Using the terminal might seem slow and cumbersome because every command needs to be typed. Learn how to drastically reduce the amount of typing you have to do by configuring aliases for your most used commands, making them only a few keystrokes long. | Continue reading
There is a subtle way to overload software components, by making them both take decision and act on them. We can simplify these bloated components by separating the responsibility of taking decisions from the one action on them. This will result in leaner and easier to maintain s … | Continue reading
Some code ends up requiring a lot of duplication to be tested. You can remove it by using helper functions encapsulating the shared assertion logic. | Continue reading
In "On Writing" Stephen King shares invaluable lessons for aspiring novelists which can be applied to software development too. | Continue reading
One of the best things you could do to improve as a software developer is constantly investing in your terminal setup and skills. | Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci's life as told by Walter Isaacson in his biography is a source of inspiration for anyone working in a technical and creative field. | Continue reading
A look at the benefits of writing unit tests before production code, in other words TDD. | Continue reading