SwiftUI for UIKit developers - Part 2

An introduction to SwiftUI for experienced UIKit developers

SwiftUI for UIKit developers - Part 1

Learn how to use and distribute build-time actions with SPM plugins

Build-time actions with SPM plugins

The fundamentals of all the important concepts in the new Swift concurrency model.

Modern Swift Concurrency

Use this small gem to access the enclosing self and create more expressive context-aware property wrappers.

Accessing the enclosing self inside a property wrapper

You should instead use @Binding, @ObservedObject, or a combination between @Binding and @State.

How to (not) initialize @State inside the View's init

Explicit and implicit animations, transactions, timing functions, the mass-spring-damper model, and gesture-driven updates

Interactive animations in SwiftUI

Learn how to fully control SwiftUI animations using transactions, transitions and the Animatable protocol.

A short introduction to SwiftUI animations

I made a list of curated Xcode shortcuts to keep you away from the trackpad

Xcode shortcuts for a keyboard-only workflow

SwiftUI animations are great until something goes south. When that happens, most of the time the trouble lies in one of the five items listed here

SwiftUI animation debug checklist

If you struggle to remember which state property wrapper to use, this is for you.

A mnemonic for SwiftUI's state property wrappers

This week I've been building a router for SwiftUI and it turned out to be 🔥

Graph-based routing for SwiftUI

How can you trust a data store distributed among an arbitrary number of independent peers? Since each peer has control over its own version of the data, how can you reach a consensus? In a nutshell, these are the main problems blockchain solves.

Let's build a blockchain

Conducting interviews is hard. Hard enough to make large companies fail. In fact, so many are bad at it that failure is somehow expected, and finding one that does it well makes you wanna hop on board without asking much else.

Are tech interviews are broken?

Running a Rust HTTP server using Rocket is really easy and well documented, however, if you plan to go serverless, there's still a lot of uncharted territories.

AWS Lambda + Rust

From the helpful syntax error to the dreaded null pointer exception, errors are part of our everyday experience. Although sometimes misunderstood or mistreated, each with its own quirks and perks, they can become trustworthy companions when handled correctly.

How to stop worrying and love the error

Microservices are the natural evolution of monolithic systems in an increasingly demanding, modular, and distributed industry. The strongest argument against them is usually the implied complexity, debugging, and deployment challenges coupled with the poor development experience for small teams/projects.

A practical guide to microservices

I should warn the reader, this article might be a bit opinionated. It shouldn't be, but since so many, otherwise great, devs I've worked with still think unit tests are a waste of time, I'll treat it as such.