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At Topology, we make every pair of glasses from scratch, sculpting the frame to fit the customer based on a detailed 3D model of their face. One of the delights of working here is all the technology this requires – Swift, JavaScript,...

Last week, Agnes gave a talk on how we use–and love!–Auto Layout here at Topology. The talk was at NSMeetup, the local San Francisco meetup for iOS development, and someone in the audience asked if you can use Auto Layout in Xcode...

After a massive multi-day effort, our team found one of those rare bugs that turned out to be an issue deep in the compiler. My colleague Agnes took the lead to track down the issue and wrote up her findings about her adventures. Now that...

A while back, we noticed an increase in crashes in our app. The crashes were marked as heap corruption, which makes them hard to debug — the location given in the stack trace (if any) can be far away in both code and time to where the...

Ever since I put the effort into understanding Auto Layout, I’m significantly faster at writing correct UI code, sometimes even on the first try. Auto layout also saves me from potential errors from dealing with multiple size classes and...

I first heard about background transfer when I was giving a ⚡️ talk at Realm back in 2015. Gwendolyn Weston gave an excellent presentation on background transfer services later that day. Her talk was the first resource that I looked up a...