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A fellow developer, trying to debug a complex problem. Credit: UnsplashFor many years of having our App in the App Store, a particular bug alluded us most mischievously. Various reports would come in that distilled down to a simple...

Photo by Andrew Pons on UnsplashDetecting changes to a folder in iOS using SwiftIn this post, you will learn how you can observe a specific folder for new/deleted/updated files. Some of this code is adapted from Apple sample code that is...

Delivering code is how developers present their hard work to the world and this makes it, in my opinion, one of the most important parts of our job. However, knowing when code will be ready to deliver can be hard. That’s why our team...

The platform team at workA while ago we wrote about starting an iOS platform team at Over (read it here). From the start, we decided to tackle various tasks that the iOS team doesn’t always have time to look at. We thought, now would be a...

Photo by boostinjay on UnsplashThe challenge that all scaling teams face is in dealing with the growing pile of technical debt and performance problems. With a few people in a team, it is easier to coordinate on refactoring and knowledge...

Background timers are a very usefool tool in one’s developer toolbox. Most of the time when we want to schedule a repeating unit of work we consult NSTimer . Problem is, NSTimer requires an active run loop which is not always readily...

Using the power of generics to improve cell registration and reuse 🤓The problem we are trying to solveWhenever we have to deal withUICollectionView or UITableView, we need to register a cell before we use it,...

A problem many developer teams face is an increasing number of pull requests. Have you ever heard yourself say “The work is done, it just needs to be reviewed”, only to have it merged days (or weeks 😱) later?Seem familiar?Believe it or...