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Together with iOS 13, Apple announced a new feature called Low Data Mode. This feature allows users to limit the amount of data that’s used by apps on their phone. The low data mode setting is available in the settings app. Whenever a user is on a slow network, a very busy network or on […]

Often when we write code, we have to initialize objects. Sometimes the object’s initializer doesn’t take any arguments and a simple let object = MyObject() call suffices to create your object, other times things aren’t so simple and you need to supply multiple arguments to an object’s initializer. If you have read my previous post, […]

If you’re into writing clean, testable and maintainable code you must have come across the term “Dependency Injection” at some point. If you’re not sure what dependency injection is, that’s okay. I will explain it briefly so we’re all on the same page before we get to the main point of this post. Dependency Injection […]

It’s been almost two years since I blogged on this page. I know, two years is a long break for a person that claims to love “Writing about my everyday coding problems and solutions”. Well, there is a very valid reason for my absence because I have been working on a book! Two actually, but […]

Every iOS developer I know dreams of writing code that’s DRY, modular, testable and reusable. While this is a great goal to strive for it’s often quite hard to write code that is completely modular. It just takes one oversight to blow most of the modularity you have achieved right out the window. One technique […]

On a Tuesday almost two months ago, near the end of april, me and my coworkers received an email about an important meeting the next. We knew that something was going on, the look and feel of this email wasn’t the same as usual. This one seemed a bit darker, a bit more serious. On […]

One of the hardest things a programmer has to do on a daily basis is naming things. Anything that we name will stay with us for a while and it’s very likely that other programmers will have to use the thing we just named as well. So naming something properly is very important. It’s often […]

For a long time web developers have been complaining about the lack of updates (and modern features / APIs) for Safari. With the current release cycle for Safari we get a major updated version with every major OS release (which only happens once a year). This release cycle, and the lack of new features in […]

Recently I released my first personal iOS app into the wild. The app is called unit guide for Starcraft 2 and it provides Starcraft 2 player with up to date and accurate information for every unit in the game. Instead of manually creating a huge JSON file I wrote a web scraper in node.js that […]

Update for Xcode 11: Unfortunately, it appears that this method of cleaning derived data no longer works😕. Looks like we’re stuck purging ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ by hand again. If you do know of a workaround similar to the one described here, send me a tweet and I’ll update this post! Any iOS developer that has spent significant […]