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Refactoring is the process of re-writing code with the intent of improving its quality without changing its external behavior. It is a constant effort that an engineering team has to make to keep or improve code quality. This post...

Enumerations is one of Swift's coolest features for its versatility in representing a group of related values. They can become even more versatile and expressive combined with protocols such as `Equatable`. This short article shows some...

Even after some years of experience in Swift, I still find ranges a little bit tricky and have to take a look in the docs or make a playground to test things out, before using them at work. This post is a cheat sheet with examples on how...

Swift's type-safety is one of the language's main features, and it is extremely powerful to harness the compiler type-check to your code. In this short article, I'll give some tips to improve readability and clearness of intent using some...

Naming is one of the most underrated and overlooked skills that a good programmer should have, yet is a skill that we use every day by giving names to variables, functions, services, and so on. Good names make messy code easier to...

Writing unit tests is one of the key responsibilities of a developer. Although writing a test is not that hard, setting up a controlled environment where you can unit test one component might be challenging, especially if your component is...

We want our software to be error-proof, but in reality, error scenarios will always exist.So this article's objective is to explain why you should handle errors on your app, give you a rule of thumb on when treating errors, and give some...

When you are starting out on testing your code, you might find asynchronous methods a little bit tricky to test. But do not worry, *XCTestExpectation* got you covered if you want to assert that an async block *will* execute, or even...

I'm on a quest to study data structures in Swift, and one really cool feature that Swift arrays implement is copy-on-write!

Recently, I discovered [Publish](https://github.com/johnsundell/publish), a static website generator that uses Swift, written by [John Sundell](https://swiftbysundell.com). The main idea is to declare all the pieces of your website like a...