general stuff All Things Version Controlled These are some things, articles and thoughts about version control. You are already using it, of course you are, aren't you? Recently, we recorded an episode for our German podcast. For nearly 50
Buildings from the 19th Century In my new job I'm dealing with a lot of legacy code and from time to time, I want to set it all on fire and burn it to the ground and nuke
objectivec Bordered Slicing in Xcode This is another small blogpost about how I solved a little issue. This time it's about borded buttons, rounded corners and slicing. First things first: I got a new job as — surprise 🎉 — iOS
objectivec SecItemDelete without limits Together with a friend I'm working on a small app for iOS written in good ol' Objective-C. It's a (another) small timetracking application with an optional backend. The credentials for the backend are
No SwiftConf this year More than one month ago — one day after I published the last story — I got fired. That's one reason why I haven't written any blogposts since then. I'm still getting paid until the
swift isActive = true vs. NSLayoutConstraint.activate The whole UI of the app, I helped to develop, is written in code. No Storyboards, no XIBs, just Swift. Someone made this decision looooong ago. Nevertheless, we're using AutoLayout, just like every
Dear recruiter In April 2018, I wrote an article and published it on my personal blog. This is an updated version of the original post. A few weeks ago I wrote a thread on twitter.
swift Me, my future self and self A colleague of mine complained, that I use self too much. In Objective-C, it was everywhere, but he sent me this blogpost and recommended me to use self in Swift sparingly and only
swift preconditionFailure One of my goals for May 2018 was to finally read The Pragmatic Programmer. I haven't succeeded yet, that's why this year, June was May, Extended Edition and July is June, Extended Edition.