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Reorder some rows but not all

I'm still writing iOS-apps using Swift and UIKit instead of SwiftUI — I've never been one of those cool kids using the latest tech, and my 100 days of SwiftUI lasted for 33 days or so. Maybe I should give it another chance. But today I found some nice things in

It's self again

Nearly two years ago, I wrote a short piece about self [https://zeitschlag.net/me-my-future-self-and-self/]. Since then, a lot has changed: I got fired, found a new job, quit, and found another new job. I'm working from home now as employee of a fully distributed company. To reflect on that,

Customizing UISlider — Either color or image

We're working on a pretty useful — at least we hope so — feature right now. Part of this feature is a slightly customized UISlider [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uislider?language=objc]. In the end, it should look pretty similar to the narrow Scollbar you know from UIScrollView: As this

Variable declaration in switch-case

Welcome back to Objective C-land! Last week, I doubted my own sanity more than once. One day, for example, I refactored some code to use an enum and I nearly dispaired on a simple switch-case, until I reminded myself that I've stumbled over this issue quite a while ago. But