So you want to build a new social media service that improves on what we’ve been using all these years. What would be the essential features? How would it stay out of all of the traps which have been such a problem for other services? Why would a new service…

There’s been so much talk about Web3 and everything it is going to be which will be so much better than whatever Web2 was. But we’re really not there yet. There is a lot more work left to do. When the World Wide Web took off in the 90’s with…

As a long time consumer of content on YouTube and being involved in marketing for much of my career I have had some thoughts which I have not written down to share in this way before. These are simply my thoughts on the topic as someone who wants creators of…

The rise of AMC stock is something everyone should be studying. AMC has become a meme stock this year and millions of people have bought a small number of shares and are interested in AMC evolving and adapting to the current market conditions. What makes this situation worth study is…

TL;DR: StringsAndPaths.playground A snippet of code that I have seen pop up multiple times comes from an answer on StackOverflow which cannot be down voted enough. This snippet is the result of a method on NSString being deprecated and unavailable to Swift. The method is stringByAppendingPathComponent and while it is…

TL;DR: EnumsAndPatternMatching.playground The deeper you dig into Swift the more you realize that enums are a central feature of the language. Optionals is what dominates most of the discussion when it comes to Swift and many may be surprised that a property declared as Int? can be expanded to Optional<Int>…

The conversation of working on Open Source as a way of improving the chances of getting hired has been coming up a lot this past year. The argument against using Open Source work to evaluate a candidate’s ability is that many people have families and other responsibilities which makes it…

While Uncle Bob warns about The Dark Path with a lot of criticism for relying too much on strongly typed compilers I think there are many more concerns to consider. Beyond using a programming language which makes us feel safe and protected from exceptions caused null values, there are a…

TL;DR: UnownedProperties.playground We’ve looked at various kinds of properties from strong to weak to lazy and how to observe them. Next up is unowned properties. It is one type of property you may be able to avoid using for a long time without any trouble. In the past year I…