Beware the cancelled interactive dismiss of SwiftUI popovers
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Nov 16, 2020, 1:18 PMSwiftUI 2 popovers don't properly update if one was already displayed and you trigger another. Read more →SwiftUI adaptive Popover swipe-to-dismiss is broken
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Feb 25, 2019, 11:58 AMLast week I tweeted something that got a lot more interest than I imagined, regarding Dynamic Type, custom transitions and the like. Sadly, a lot of people misunderstood aspects of this. Read more →A theory of Mac future
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Sep 23, 2018, 10:25 AMThis year I experienced my first [iOSDevUK conference](https://iosdevuk.com) — a conference that takes place by the sea in Aberystwyth in Wales. I really enjoyed myself and the team who put the conference on do a great job. As someone with...My interview on iDeveloper podcast, and the new Flint site
Jun 29, 2018, 8:38 AMThis week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by [Scotty](https://twitter.com/macdevnet) on his and [John's](https://twitter.com/djembe) excellent [iDeveloper podcast](http://ideveloper.co/podcast187/). This means I also had to get the...Cool new things the WWDC 2018 Keynote could bring to the Flint framework
Jun 5, 2018, 6:21 PMI’ll be honest, at first I felt there were not many exciting things at this WWDC. Personally I am very happy to see the new notifications improvements and Siri shortcuts, and I can verify after running … Read more →Hacking my shell prompt so I make fewer mistakes working with Xcode projects
May 30, 2018, 7:44 AMMaking mistakes is how we learn. But not all mistakes are equal, and making the same one over and over is not learning. Often I run two or more different Xcode builds on the same … Read more →Using conditional conformances to improve API ergonomics in Flint
Apr 27, 2018, 12:22 PMBy the magic of Swift 4 conditional conformances I managed to improve the experience when performing Flint actions when your action does not need an input or a presenter. Here’s how. Read more →You’ll never believe what held up Soundproof development for months
Oct 1, 2017, 6:13 PMBack in Spring of 2015 I started doing some work for a new release of Soundproof, my iOS app for music practice. We’d just been through launch in Autumn 2014 having gone through a rapid … Read more →AirPods are great but… could be smarter
Jun 30, 2017, 6:51 AMI love Apple's AirPods but when you stop to think beyond the improvements Bluetooth experience, they're still not doing what they should... Read more →
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