It’s been a long time without an update. Peawell is coming along and I’m reworking all the assets. Still some stubs for now but now that I’ve properly implemented CoreData, it’s mostly UI work ahead.
The biggest problem is deciding on implementations
British Swift Syntax 🇬🇧
If you’ve ever winced at the sight of Color instead of Colour, or felt despair reading try…catch when a good old “Would you mind…?” would be spot on, then this one’s for you. I’ve put together a small, but fit and proper set of Swift tidbits that clean up the more questionable Americanisms in our lovely codebases. It’s a tiny rebellion. A syntax protest. A quiet sip of tea in the face of UIColor. You can find the code featured in this article in full on GitHub […]https://blog.koloten.co/2025/05/british-swift-syntax-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7/
#xcode tip:
If you have big JSON files in your xcodeproj that you always accidentally click on and cause Xcode to beachball for 30 seconds...
Right click a json file, Open As -> Always Use -> Hex
Xcode can load json as hex instantaneously.
Time Profiler instrument tip: look for functions with a high Self Weight value in the call tree view. Those functions are the ones where your app spends the most time.
My Xcode 16 autocomplete is totally broken. Restarting did nothing.
I am using the plain old one, not the "fancy AI" they added recently
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At today’s weekly Swift Dev Chat “office hours”, @is and I conducted a successful problem investigation.
I had been experiencing significantly slower build times recently, and hadn’t gotten around to digging into it. But talking today we decided to do it as a pair in the session.
In brief, the “Enable Module Verifier” build setting was adding large delays to build times for Framework targets in an Xcode project.
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Yes, Xcode, that's exactly what I was looking for, I wanted to print the CSSM_CERT_X_509v1'th timer in the timers array 🫠
British Swift Syntax 🇬🇧
If you’ve ever winced at the sight of Color instead of Colour, or felt despair reading try…catch when a good old “Would you mind…?” would be spot on, then this one’s for you. I’ve put together a small, but fit and proper set of Swift tidbits that clean up the more questionable Americanisms in our lovely codebases. It’s a tiny rebellion. A syntax protest. A quiet sip of tea in the face of UIColor. You can find the code featured in this article in full on GitHub […]https://blog.koloten.co/2025/05/british-swift-syntax-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7/
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