: Traveling to Chicago for work this week and coming to terms with this chaotic weather. 😅
: This bit from the most recent Upgrade makes me think that we only have Automator and AppleScript in …
: Reflecting on 100 Days of SwiftUI Reflecting on my experience with the “100 Days of SwiftUI” course, with tips on how to make the most …
: Woo hoo! Day 100 is “just” a final exam and I passed (with merit)! Almost hard to believe that I’ve …
: Day 99 included our last quiz and challenge: add a photo credit over the image, fill in some …
: For Day 98, we implemented searching resorts, replaced the facility info with icons, added a button …
: For Day 97 we started actually building a new project using NavigationSplitView, NavigationLink, and …
: Day 96 and we’re looking at iPad-friendly APIs for the first time. I’ll be honest—I had not tried …
: Day 95 was a full challenge day—build an app from scratch based on some requirements!
: Day 94 is a review and challenge day! Graphics code can be a doozy because when you get the wrong …
: Day 93 was a fun walk through of using GeometryReader, including using visualEffect() and …
: For Day 92, we started a new project (our second to last!) and learned about how layout, alignment …
: Picking #100DaysOfSwiftUI back up, and in the home stretch at Day 91! It was a challenge day with a …
: For Day 90, we made a bunch of accessibility fixes and added a view for creating new cards! …
: 2024 iPhone Home Screens /* Container styling */ .side-by-side { text-align: center; max-width: 393px; margin: auto; } …
: I’m so bummed that the macOS “widgets on your desktop” feature is so unreliable for me. I go to the …
: For Day 89, we learned how to detect when our app moves to the background or foreground so we could …
: For Day 88, we built a brand new part of the app with a stack of cards and gestures for swiping them …
: For Day 87, we learned a little bit about the Combine framework, Timer, and three accessibility …
: For Day 86, we started a brand new project and started playing with all the gesture APIs and hit …
: Day 85 is a challenge day! The quiz was easy but the challenge took me about an hour to complete. …
: For Day 84, we learned how to add swipe actions to list items and show local notifications using the …
: Day 83 has this tidbit: The CPU running our code doesn’t care about data types, comments, access …
: Day 82 was much easier—I don’t think there was anything new, we “just” laid the groundwork for the …
: Today was almost smooth sailing, learning about list row swipe actions and local/scheduled …
: Day 80 and we’re learning about Result, image interpolation, and context menus. This stood out to …
: Day 79 and we’re (finally) learning about TabView, my favorite way to keep our example code around! …
: For Day 78, we started saving the user’s current location when they save one of the photos to the …
: Day 77 was a doozy of a challenge: build an entire app from scratch that imported a photo, prompted …
: For Day 76, we had a quiz and challenge: fix accessibility issues in three of our past apps. For …
: I liked Paul’s message on Day 75 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI much better: There’s a New York lawyer called …
: On Day 74 we’ve started learning about accessibility. I‘m not a fan of how this is framed: Tony …
: Day 73 was a challenge day, so I had fun refactoring some of the code from the main View into a …
: Today we refactored our code to use MVVM and added “unlock with FaceID” to this part of the app. …
: For Day 71, we used Wikipedia’s API to fetch places near a set of coordinates. I had no idea this …
: For Day 70 we added the ability to pin locations on a map and edit them. We were supposed to use …
: Day 69 was short: we learned how to 1) add different types of maps and 2) use Face ID to unlock the …
: Day 68 has been some of the most interesting content (from a language-learning perspective) in a …
: Day 67 is the last day for this particular project, so we had a review quiz (got 12/12) and added …
: Back at it after a little Thanksgiving break and we’ve run into our first (I think) need to use …
: Day 65 and this sort of thing still gets me: We can then call that whenever our selectedItem …
: For Day 64 we learned how to use PhotosPicker to… let the user pick photos, use ShareLink to… create …
: For Day 63, we learned about the different Image APIs available: Image, UIImage, CGImage, and …
: For Day 62, I liked that we were shown “Open Quickly” in Xcode and told how to find the definition …
: Nope, today was the hardest challenge. I thought it was weird that yesterday’s challenge didn’t …
: I thought yesterday was our most difficult day so far… now Day 60 has surpassed it. Today we built …
: Wow, I’m impressed with myself for learning and SwiftData/SwiftUI for being easy. For Day 59, we had …
: Day 58: Continuing yesterday’s project and learning about NSPredicate, changing fetch requests …
: Starting a new project for Day 57, so don’t have much to show so far. We’re learning how to edit …
: Day 56 was a review and challenge (on our own) day, so I updated the detail view to handle missing …
: For Day 55 we learned how to delete SwiftData objects, sort queries using SortDescriptor, and add …
: For Day 54, we earnestly started the implementation of a “Bookworm” app and created new SwiftData …
: Day 53 is the start of our first project with SwiftData. So far all the terminology reminds me of my …
: Day 52 is a review quiz and challenge day. I found the challenges pretty easy this time around! …
: It’s our first day using the debugger! I love debuggers so much. I feel like teaching how to use …
: Continuing our new project in Day 50 by using CodingKeys to make @Observable get along with …
: New project day! Day 49 was focused on async/await, URLSession.shared.data(), AsyncImage, and the …
: Day 48 included watching two videos. Paul’s had a fun premise (“What Star Wars Can Teach Us About …
: Day 47 was a review and challenge day, with an entire app we had to build from scratch on our own. …
: Day 46 was a review quiz and a challenge! Today is the first day I’ve run into this error (that I’ve …
: Adding a tab bar wasn’t part of Day 45, but I wanted to keep my other view and start “fresh” with …
: For Day 44 I made this abomination while learning the ins and outs of NavigationPath. …
: I had been wondering about how to only load detail views when they’re navigated to, and in Day 43 I …
: Day 42 (hey!) is a challenge day and I am taking it easy with just a refactoring of some views and …
: Day 41 was our last day of adding pre-made #100DaysOfSwiftUI code to this Moonshot project. …
: For Day 40 we put into practice what we learned yesterday by starting the implementation of the …
: We’re starting a new “Moonshot” project for Day 39 and learning about Image resizing, LazyVStack, …
: Day 38 included a quiz and some prompts for us to add features on our own to the app, which included …
: I got my flu shot and COVID booster yesterday morning and paid for it with fever dreams last night. …
: Day 37, using the APIs we learned yesterday in a new app, but this stood out to me (emphasis mine): …
: Day 36 is the start of a new project, and thus a day of learning new APIs: @Observable with class, …
: I finished the Day 35 challenge today. It’s been a while since I’ve been “challenged” when …
: Yesterday I looked at the Day 35 challenge (build a new app from just a description, no code) and I …
: Day 34 was a quiz and challenge day where we went back to one of our previous projects and added …
: Day 33… continuing with animations and I swear this is more fun than it looks from a single …
: Yes, I do embrace absolute chaos when I’m first trying the provided sample code so I can keep …
: Day 31 was a challenge day where we took a test and had to update our app with only some …
: Back on it after being sick the last couple days… for day 30, we mostly copied code from the …
: Day 29 is bringing me back to my Objective-C days: let range = checker.rangeOfMisspelledWord(in: …
: Day 28 was straightforward—a review quiz and some challenges for us to modify our most recent app. …
: I realize that you might have thought “wow, we’re looking at machine learning already?” After all, …
: I was not expecting “Training a model with Create ML” to be a part of the Day 26 content! As someone …
: Haha this looks so awful, but day 25’s challenge was fun: to build a rock/paper/scissors game from …
: Day 24 was straightforward—a test and a few little changes to make on our own to our recent …
: Today I learned that the order of modifiers does matter: Text("Hello, world!") .padding() …
: Day 22 was really easy—added the score counter and a different alert for when the game is “over.” …
: Day 21 had us building a mini flag-guessing game, but without the score implemented. I will be …
: Day 20 is all about stacks, gradients, buttons, and images. I find it more fun to keep all the …
: Uh oh… lbpost.com/news/boil…
: Oh macOS Preview’s signature feature, I love you but this is not acceptable. 😅
: What does the Swift community use for code formatting/linting? Ideally I’d like to have something …
: Day 19, very fun to have a day focused on building a new app from scratch! This was my take on the …
: Day 18 is a short quiz and adding some new code on our own without any guidance—it took so little …
: This definitely trips me up: Tip: It’s tempting to think that modifier should be attached to the …
: I have a lot to learn about what enables this syntax for two-way binding (note the $): struct …
: Day 16, starting off with creating a new iOS app in Xcode and seeing everything that’s changed since …
: I might not do day 16 tomorrow, we’ll see… running the Long Beach half-marathon in the morning. 😃
: Day 15 is a review of the last two weeks of material! #100DaysOfSwiftUI I kept on going back to the …
: Day 14 is optionals, guards, nil coalescing, optional chaining, and optional try. Guards are new to …
: My Series 10 has had really inconsistent battery life (it died on me 8 miles into a run last week 🙃) …
: Prototypes, opaque return types, extensions, and protocol extensions don’t have equivalents in …
: copies of the same class share their underlying data, meaning that changing one changes them all, …
: Structs (part two) with a checkpoint… day 11 was pretty straightforward! #100DaysOfSwiftUI
: Structs, mutating on methods, computed properties, property observers, custom initializers… it’s a …
: Dropping the parenthesis when calling functions with a closure blows my mind: team.filter { …
: Really interesting that Swift has do, but it’s not what you think! do { try throwingFunction1() …
: Awesome to me that this is valid: func record(age: Int) { } func record(year: Int) { } Naming …
: Day 6 is all about for and while loops. I’ll be excited to learn the .map and .filter equivalents. I …
: My comment about no === in Swift was incorrect, thanks Matt! I should know that a beginner course …
: No === in Swift (just ==) is nice! Enums being comparable is pretty cool too. And switch statements… …
: This is really interesting: let name: String // … name = "Chasen" // Allowed once In …
: Coming from JS, there are some small differences in array and dictionary syntax. This really stood …
: This has a bug… can you spot it? let temperature = 29 let converted = (temperature * 9 / 5) + 32 …
: The Verge’s article on the iPhone 16 Pro made me realize that the “rich contrast” photographic style …
: It feels like some apps (like Passwords) get a lot of love and attention at Apple, while others …
: I’m going to compare Swift to JavaScript a lot as I get up to speed. Seems like Swift’s var == let …
: Is it cheating to do Day 1 on the same day as Day 0? 🙈 #100DaysOfSwiftUI
: Cute that there’s a Day 0 to kick things off, with this as reading material: …
: I’m stoked to start my Swift journey by following the 100 Days of Swift UI course: …