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Much of the buzz at WWDC2020 was given over to SwiftUI 2.0 …

I was playing around with SpriteKit, and it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to remind myself of how many different ways I could link my SwiftUI code with my SpriteKit scene/class. …

It is easy to say in hindsight, but I do feel that SwiftUI would have had a better start had Apple launched the matchedGeomtryEffect primitive as part of release 1.0.

Since the greatest challenge that UIKit seasoned programmers face with SwiftUI, is I think the layout.

A paradigm that makes…

Two principal industries use random numbers regularly. The games industry and the cryptographic one. So I thought it might make an interesting article to put together a collection of random number routines —

Now, I spare you the code to generate a random number, because you surely already know that…

Many of you I am sure have watched the T2 movie in which Sarah Conner describes how “Skynet became self-aware on the 29th August 1997 having had humans are taken out of the loop a few weeks earlier”, an event in the movie that was the beginning of the end…

The first true IDE came out in 1991. It was part of Microsoft’s Visual Basic platform. It took more than a decade for Apple to catch up with Xcode in 2003. IDE of course, standards for Intergraded Development Environment or some would argue Intergraded Debugging Environment. Debugging being, something programmers…

In 1993 Apple launched a product that I am sure was a precursor to the iPad. With the technology they needed to make it really work, sadly still a little too young. The product in question was the Apple Newton.

It was marketed as a personal digital assistant with handwriting…

When SwiftUI came out, one of the areas Apple decided to cut corners, if you will, was with the alertViews. Sure they added it, but the SwiftUI version wasn’t as powerful as its UIKit counterpart. …